RPG.Net Thread of the Week

Posted by Bryant on September 8, 2004 at 01:21 PM

RPG.Net thread of the week: Toonpunk.

Yeah, we already discussed amongst ourselves Popeye long having sold himself to mercenary work for his next hit of spinach. Generally we believed that since the Toon World became pretty unevenly one with the Real World in the 1950's, that the timeline is pretty different from modern earth. No Internet, not as many video games as such, everyone likes to hearken back to an older age since the "classics" are played constantly on gigantic building wide videoscreens.

Wile E Coyote bought at Acme from Warner Brothers, turned it into his own corporation, amassed enough of an army to finally capture the Roadrunner. It's head hang aboves his massive oaken desk. Since then, Acme is an arms-dealer world renknowned for it's cruel effectiveness, and Wile E has become one of the richest Toons on Earth.

Bugs Bunny, one of the most powerful Toons on Earth at the time, was finally killed, under very mysterious circumstances. As one of the largest dangers to mankind as we knew it, Bugs had made enemies of practically anyone, and anyone who was Bug's enemy had a world of hurt coming. Reality just sort of molded to his own cartoons around him for the most part, everyone became seven grades of stupid around him when he needed to trick them, and his powers of item-creation and trickery were awe-inspiring. He had to go. Who did it is unknown, but his hole was pumped with 10,000 gallons of the world's highest concentration Dip, and not a drip of grey paint's been found.

Mickey, of course, became president in 1999, and was in office two years before a major assault from a militant wing of Japanese cartoons blew up the White House with a massive Spirit Bomb attack that leveled Washington. Since then the government of America has been split between the Animationcorps, who practically rule the world.

Animators are a rare commodity, and are heavily regimented by the government. Every time a picture is drawn, animated, and viewed, it appears somewhere out there in the world. The bigger corps have a heavily defined method of drawing important marketable items, and tracking where they will appear. As such, Acme Rocket Boots, Warner Brothers Portable Holes, and Disney Mallets have become standardized commodities for vending.

Rogue animators are rare, and are heavily hunted by the organized forces of both the Animationcorps who hate them for undermining their stranglehold on that side of creation, and the Toons who want to destroy the monopoly humans have on creating new Toons. They can breed amongst themselves, and they prefer that to rogue animators pulling badly hashed out characters from their minds that quickly degrade.