Hello, friends, this is long, but the ideas are fun. Read on.
I find myself compelled to share this with you, since those of us already involved (we are only 2 or 3 haha) want help from those interested. You should contribute only if you are interested, so don't make promises you cant keep. Once this thing gets rolling, then we can afford people promising things and backing out :)
Enough of that. We need help developing what I call (and just made up for no apparent reason) a CEE, A Collective Expansionary Effort. The first of its kind in the Inflation Community (and the world, didn't you see I made it up? lol). Think the Marvel universe, but with Inflation. That's it, in layman's terms.
Some of us in the community feel there aren't enough Super Heroine Inflation stories for some awkward reason we cant figure out. So, we've decided to promote the existence of this kind of story by creating a universe where super heroines (and villainesses) can inflate like balloons for the enjoyment of all! To do this, we need people to contribute.
As of now, those of us seriously involved, are Fukureru Shogun, Carnatic and yours truly.
It will consist of a series of stories (and comics and/or single drawings if you are interested), all featuring this city called Pneumatica City. What I mean is that those interested, would create charcaters and stories set in Pneumatica City. But, there will be a sort of canon, and rules that could be somewhat flexible, but we wont be making like episodic series or anything, so you wont be obligated to follow ANY type of storyline (although you must stay true to characters that are not yours, IF you are using them, UNDER THE CONSENT OF THEIR CREATOR).
The specifics for these rules and or canon are going to be discussed here by those interested. So in this preliminary, Ill give you an idea of what we are looking for, and you can expand on it. This is preliminary, and not really definite, so feel free to share. These aren't set rules, just general ideas.
1 - Those of us involved mainly work in the field of full Body Inflation, but partial inflation is gonna be accepted IF its not the only type of expansion in the story.
2 - Relating to this, is the idea that our world is somewhat cartoony. If you stick a hose in someone's mouth, or butt, or nose, whatever, they inflate. Its not cuz they have inflation powers, or because someone experimented with them, or magic (though all these factors are welcome in your particular story). But, we won't refrain from traditionally, "cliched inflations", since part of the main idea is that the inflations may be gags, or weird happenings, like a cartoon. This still doesn;t mean that somone inflating like a balloon is not a shocking thing. Its not like people go around inflating each other lol Thats not the point. For example, the villainess of my heroine uses, as her trademark, inflating people with her high tech helium tank. Its just helium, not helium made with a substance that makes flesh rubbery. (you can do this if you like. Think of it as a cartoon: people dont know a piano falling in their head doesnt kill em, they still avoid it anyway. Dont take this to mean people cant die on Pneumatica lol)
In short, this guideline means that whatever comes to your head relating inflation, you can do it. INflating them using a tire inflater on a gas station, or a villain that injects something that makes the heroine iflatable...all its possible. Dont think about realisms or physics.
3- There can definitely be popping, but not gory. You can do it dramatic even (think of caffienexaddict's Battle of the Bulge...if you've read it), just not gory.
4- I feel that, even if thats not our cup of tea, male inflation shouldn't be excluded, just not exclusive. This will be predominantly female inflation universe, but feel free to inflate male heroes, or bystanders. You can dwell on it even, just no exclusive male inflation as the center of a story. Its still Female Inflation.
5- Because of the idea of the inflations being like gags, or ways a villainess or villain just came up with desperately to get rid of the heroine, dont go mad creating Inflation related super powers for your heroes. Sure, they can exist, but we dont want them to be the norm. You can exclusively make your characters like that, but we dont want everyone to do it, making it the exclusive thing.
6- I also want Pneumatica City, Pneuma to its friends (other cities I guess), to be special, to have something that defines it. SOmething that can be present in every story. Maybe having places or things happen that are conmemorative to the inflation classics (Inflate 123, Kane, Wren, all these guys), or maybe a type of theme or story structure that might be a rule every one would follow. Give ideas.
Expand on these ideas, and say if you wanna participate. Lets crack these guidelines as quickly as possible so people can start making their Pneumatica City stories!
EDIT: On the fifth paragraph, I emphasized that what we want is people to write stories set in Pneuma; this is not a comission project.
Sounds interesting.Im going to move there as soon as possible.^_-
I want to see if I get it,So,this is going to be like a "world" that has superheroes etc.its just that the physics are a bit(or a lot) different.
Sort of like the idea of say a Myst genre world where people are susceptible to a entirely different physics or whatnot.
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