Overall Plot

The Domain of Thren, now a wasteland stripped of its features by constant
winds and electrical storms, was once the head of a powerful empire. A centre
for progress, Thren brought enlightenment to the surrounding lands. Technology,
trade, magic, rituals to call the gods, Thren brought deep advances in each to
the world. Your home, the Kruss Forest, is to the southeast of Thren, and is a
midsized kingdom striving to reignite trade and recreate the common Thren
currency. As of recent years, the strange weather over Thren has grown more
menacing and has begun to spread towards Kruss. The merchant's guild in Thren
has financed a call to many adventurers, asking them to find the source of the
problems of Thren and either prevent it from growing or stop it. As a member of
one of the large families (provided you count the dead members) of adventurers,
you have decided to test your skills with this quest.

(put player in large guild room with plenty of other adventurers, in middle
of conference, let them walk around and chat with other players for a few
turns, and then return them to their seat and..)

You are in the merchant hall of your sponsors. *Ahem* An announcement is being
made. "Hello all. As you may know, the desert of Thren, to the northwest, has
been plagued by strange weather. Recently, our outposts in that area have
noticed that the weather has been expanding and worsening, and we worry that
unless something is done soon, it may enter Kruss and destroy our home. Your
mission is to try to find the source of the weather and either prevent it from
spreading or eliminate it. One problem you will likely have is that the strange
weather in the region is very hostile to life. We have heard legends that to
the west there may be found potent <SOMETHING OR ANOTHER> that may protect you
from all sorts of weather. You might be well advised, unless you are very sure
of your skills at this point, to do some training around the town. We believe
that it will be another 20 years before our town is directly in danger of the
weather, but we at the guild would prefer to be safe than sorry. To get your
spirits up for this adventure, we're doing a raffle over some of the best of
the items left by *ahem* previous adventurers. 

	[Raffle off a few okay randomly generated items]

(Show main map. Map should be moderately random, with just vague relation
between the major landmarks kept constant. Maybe later have almost completely
random map, and use variables in game text whenever directionality between
landmarks is used?)

(Player will not be able to enter the desert without protection -- they'll
be killed by the weather fairly rapidly if they try)

Anyhow, later, after they enter the desert, they will find the remains of
Thren as well as a small hut protected by a mystical shield. In Thren, after
enough searching around (preferably with some sort of danger at the same time),
they'll find the research centre, which is curiously absent of whatever threat
exists in Thren proper. In the centre, they'll find numerous areas where they
can't enter, along with cryptic scraps of paper that describe aspects of
various experiments. One of the rooms will be full of paper that describes
the experiment related to the hut, essentially filling out the Living
Dungeon Scenario. It will also describe some later notes that the current seal
would not hold for very long, and their efforts to create a new seal, with
problems acquiring the right materials. Finally, it will hint that the
Living Dungeon cannot be properly killed until sometime in the future (works
out to be about 90 years in the future of the current time), and that they
had hoped that the second seal would last that long. It then will provide the
character with the hint that the research outpost of Rekasi has a partially
constructed new seal, and list the components needed to complete it.

(At this point, the heart of the first part of the game starts, as the player
moves around to get the necessary components to complete the seal. The
tower of Rehkasi is somewhere near the fringes of the desert, and is probably
too dangerous to enter right away)

Blah blah...

Now that the player has all the parts of the new great seal, and has broken
the old seal with the divine emblem found in the tower, the player ventures
into the Living Dungeon, and needs to go down and defeat Transcendant Thoughts
at the bottom level of the dungeon. Player will ideally be close to maximum
level at this point. 

After winning, player will realize that they cannot themselves be present to
actually defeat Transcendant Thoughts for good, as it'll be 80 years in the
future. Player will be left with one of two options, having a child or
transcending (for ghosts, stabilizing their essence instead). Either way, it
is suggested that they go on some useful side quests now in order to make the
future a better place. In order to transcend, the player will need to go on
additional quests according to which transcendance they seek.


Beginning of Part II
The second half of the game starts with what is essentially a new character,
either a child of the original character or a transcended (stabilized) version
of the original character. Either way, all the original equipment is gone,
and the character is reduced to a very low level (transcendants have both
a penalty gaining experience and start at the lowest level, children start
at a fairly low level).

{Transcendant}
	You have finally mastered your new form, after only having a slim grasp
	on reality for the last years. You appear to be ready just in time --
	the time is almost ripe for your final victory over the dangerous
	Transcendant Thought.
{Ghost}
	After adapting to the <STABILIZING THINGY> in the nether realm for
	considerable time, you are finally ready to emerge back to the material
	realm and take on Transcendant Thought.
{Child}
	You have always known when you were growing up that you were the one
	fated to take on a strange creature that your grand{father/mother/sire}
	sealed. This creature, called Transcendant Thought, is very difficult
	for you to imagine, but you are sure that you will live up to your
	family name.

As the character leaves the initial village, a strange earthquake happens, and
a large set of explosions is seen coming from the desert. The player is then
*SUMMONED* to the home of a sage living in the wilderness, who explains that
reality appears to be unraveling near the desert and the seal is broken.
In order to actually kill Transcendant Thought, the player will need to
acquire the temporal matrix, as well as close up gateways into alternative
realities that have been opened by the curse. Once all these gateways are
closed, and Transcendant Thought is dispersed again, the temporal matrix will
unleash waves of order and chaos into the world in the price amounts needed
to restabilize reality and undo the damage caused by the living dungeon.

In these alternate realities, well, I'll get to parody a few other roguelikes
as well as some other genres. Each other reality will have a main quest that
will permit the closing of the gate, as well as one or more side quests that
might just be fun to do (and offer some nifty items). There also will probably
be a number of sidequests in the main reality to help a character build their
levels back up. Maybe in order to advance beyond certain levels in this part,
a player will need to be blessed or otherwise gifted or they'll only
gain a max of 1 XP per monster.

Finally, the character will be ready to return to the living dungeon, but it'll
be at least a bit more dangerous this time. After defeating it this time,
the player will use the temporal matrix, reality will be reshaped, and the
player will win. The End.