DH3 plot idea

Creator: Willow

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Oh im thinking for a dh3 jazz age sequel you're kind of an average joe, grandchild of morelyan immigrants. You get marked the night before you're 18th birthday and you're worried abt it bc your grandparents still support the abbey, and you wake up on your birthday with the mark still there.

"The people of the isles have a saying that the Morleyans are known for their bravery despite whether the circumstances favor them or not. I guess you make a fine example, Devan. Years ago at the beginning of Empress Emily Kaldwin’s reign, her father Lord Protector Corvo Attano carried most of the burden. The court claimed a new age was about to begin, one of progress and prosperity. And it was, until Delilah Copperspoon cast Corvo in cold marble and Emily fled to Karnaca to set things right once more. Then this golden age continued, up until her death. Now, history repeats itself and Victor Crawford sits on the throne while the chosen heirs cower in fear, imprisoned in a secret room inside the tower, watching it all come crashing down. Although the outsider is no more, I will take his place for now. I present a companion to assist you on your quest: An entity of the void, which is bound to you. Use it to find me."

I posted earlier in here that em and wyman gave morley some sort of self autonomy and morley went hmmm invention time! They made submarines first (my dad came up with this), then the zeppelin, and then the airplane. People are both in awe that morley is inventing all sorts of cool things and bouncing back, and others, especially the abbey, think that they were all made using heretical magic disguised as science. Your father worked on a submarine that was vibing near tyvia and morley. He says that submarines use brand new-ish invention: electricity! So do zeppelins and airplanes as well. When a morleyan inventor made actual electricity a thing with the help of a serkonan inventor, they were both eventually appointed royal inventor and natural philosopher.

Back to story stuff: The Player immediately tries to fuck up their hands so they have an excuse to bandadge them. They go out that day and buy fingerless gloves.

You accidentally blink because your mom tells you to go upstairs and get the dirty laundry in your room and your parents are like :eye: :eye: are you a heretic??? And they remember the gloves and hand injuries and are like :eyes: "ok don't tell grandma and grandpa, they'll get ur ass" your dad is interested in the occult but only regards them as stories and superstition and your mom is like "what about school" and you reply with pretending that hand got fucked up in a freak accident. Thank the empress of the void that the mark isn't on your writing hand.

Eventually at school some asshole kid calls you sus and rips the bandages off, and is like "So you ARE a heretic!!!" and all the other students are like:YOU: :whore: and the dh version of nuns are like ugh this better not be some prank and they actually see the mark, and the one dh nun you DESPISE is like quick get the overseers!!! You panic, and use far reach/blink to get away and get back home. The overseers come knocking and you frantically explain what happened, you didn't ask to be marked, you thought the void was just a myth like in the books your father collects, you thought it was just a dream! The overseers grab you and your parents are like :knife~1: :gun~1: as you struggle, you manage to grab a knife one of them had and shank them both.

Your dad tells you to get in the shower then get in the car, we got bodies to dispose of. You dump the overseers in the wrenhaven near the old hound pits pub where a statue of the masked felon is. Your mother is a fan of the masked felon, the old gangs, the crown killer murders, and the whalers. The submarine your dad worked on was called the HIMS Daud. You go out that night with your gloves on, and you run into a weird old man who claims they used to be a god and gives you the gutter feast bonecharm. You stuff in your jacket and keep walking, feeling for the knife your father got you after your encounter with the overseers. You see some dude getting picked on by some thugs, and while your dad would say to keep walking in case you get involved with some gang shit, your brain screams at you to do the right thing. You pull out your knife and tell the thugs to fuck off and leave the dude alone, they tease and taunt you, but once you get into a fighting position they start attacking you, and you stab one of them, the other runs off. You help the dude they were attacking to their feet and ask if they're alright. They say they're just a little scraped up, they were just on their way back from dunwall tower as an apprentice of the by now very crusty royal inventor.

You return home that night with someone else's blood on you. Your parents tell you that today just seemed to be your day for murder, and that to not make too much of a mess. You change clothes and take a bath, then go to bed. You're back in the void, and you experiment with your powers there. But where is Jessamine? Hold on is that Corvo Attano of all people??? He's been dead for 60 years, no way it's him. Oh, wait, he's a void avatar too??? Weird, but the void is the void. On to the next island! Hey, there's Jess! Clown to clown convo with jess, smth smth "Shit's gonna go down in the very near future", clown to clown with corvo bc you show him the bonecharm and he's like "oh yeah i used to have that one it allows you to eat white rats to get more mana in case you're low on remedies" uhhh more void fuckery ig. You get an arcane tattoo that looks like corvo's mask on your shoulder.

You wake up, loudspeakers blaring. Turning on the radio, it's revealed that both em and wyman kicked the bucket in their sleep last night, can we get a giant f in the chat?

Uhhhh big parade/funeral/procession, then uhh hey where did the heir go??? They were supposed to give this big speech???

The abbey comes out and is like hey bitch remember us??? Well, guess what we have proof that the morleyans were using heretical magic and disguising at science, we have the heir hostage. Oh shit. That isn't good, what happened to their royal protector? Your head screams at you to break into dunwall tower. You do so, but with out any weapons. You disarm and kill an overseer with his own weapon and frantically search the palace, and you find the dead body of the heir's royal protector. Augh! No time to mourn, you gotta keep going. The coat does help though, it being made of thick leather, yet still easy to move in. You need to find and free the heir. You stab an sneak your way through the tower, and find the heir tied up in a locked room. (Well, at least by them screaming for help) you throw the entirety of your somewhat scrawny frame against the door, and it gives. An overseer has a gun pressed to the heirs head. Corvo's voice is in your head like here let me take the wheel. Time seems to stop, your mark and tattoo glows and smokes, and you kill that overseer dead. Corvo's voice leaves your head and time continues as normal. Heir freed, they ask you what the fuck just happened.

we've figured that humansider would be 63. em kicks the bucket in 1901 dh timeline wise, so seeing as thats a major event for the story we have going on. He gives you bonecharms and runes and monologues about the lore of the world of dh and devan (protag) is just ok thanks weird old dude who claims he used to be a god

He might kick the bucket during the main story. I feel like he might, or that the void still affects him and and he lives longer than a normal human but since he was technically cut off he does die eventually. Maybe he journals all that has happened, or at least the important bits before he goes. Yeah and he's like here have these to the protag when he kicks the bucket

instead of robbing dr galvani, you rob his descendant. Damn now i want galvani's descendant as an interactable npc. Galvani's descendant is the one who sells you gear. They need the money for their medical school tuition because their grandfather lost all his money from being robbed 54 times.

So they didn't inherit shit. It could be the royal inventor's apprentice that devan saves from being merced!!!! But yeah devan finds them holed up in a shitty apartment once the main big bad takes over and they're like "rob me like my grandpa, take anything you want" and devan is like "chill fam i'm here to help you" and bam. Galvani descendant recruited

after the credits the screen fades to black, then two watch members can be heard speaking

"This is the end huh?"

"Indeed i believe so"

"By the way, should we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?"

"Never doubt it"

Screen then opens back up to the main menu

Also we reworked the beginning and scrapped the void jess concept. We can have funky ghost jess instead. they're babies as low-mana!!

but yes so THE REPLACEMENT FOR THE OUTSIDER IS A LOAD OF SICK-ASS VOID ENTITIES like a load of them that the void made to maintain control within the void after mr sider's descent. BUT HERE'S THE OTHER THING -- RATHER THAN GETTING MARKED, an entity tethers itself to you and that works pretty much the same EXCEPT you get a free friend (: They're there to make sure things go as planned and they dont like you if you do high chaos. yeah and they tether themselves to those who need to carry out certain events -- they're a bit more messy with time than the outsider is as they're all entitities of pure void so they're more closely connected. they act as both the outsider and the one that's tethered to you acts as your mark and the heart (primarily the latter).

Archives:

"I used to be a god ya know"

"ok Mr. Jenkins"