Blue 2

I'll write this now because I just had the idea and I need to write it down so I don't forget. I've always had trouble with defining concepts that are sort of undefined in stories. When I introduce something mysterious I like it if I personally don't know the answer to it either. Which I really should otherwise I can't tell the proper mystery story.

So I've always had troubles with coming up with the macguffins. The stuff that everyone's after. The secret book of secrets, the necronomicon. What happens when they get it? What is it really? These are all things I almost don't want to find out because it'll spoil the mystery for me.

But now I came up with a macguffin for this game. The information that is stolen from the big corp. Obviously it has to be a vaccine or cure! And when I came up with that I also started to come up with some backstory.

The Brain Rot. The brain rot is a disease for the modern man. The first instances of it happening was on Iceland. It's a disease that slowly deteriorates the brain and has been connected to overuse of virtual reality. Though it is actually a potential side-effect of a vr-enhancing drug. (hence the original connection). Symptoms vary but at later stages it is signified by a total loss of short term memory, with people being perpetually stuck in a certain time in their life unable to notice that time has moved on. One treatment (that most medical professionals sneer at) is to reduce the information intake to the sick person. Often starting with disconnecting oneself from the high-information world. Anecdotal evidence (oxymoron) suggests that it's not entirely impossible that it would work.

So the macguffin. It's a cure. Developed by a medical company. There's big money in such a thing and now someone's stolen it. Maybe to release it openly. Or maybe to sell it to the highest bidder. And if those anarchists are really nasty they might do both.

There should probably be some bad stuff in there too. Maybe something bad in the cure itself and maybe some data on test subjects. Just to make it more sinister. But overall this seems like a decent macguffin.

One step closer to a plot.