- Your character wakes up in a vat of goo. The setting is mildly sci-fi, kind of like a mad scientists lab. Your character (we’ll call him Jimmy, cause that’s a funny name), Jimmy, is in his prime, 20’s or something. He’s nekkid, strong, and totally confused [brackets indicate explanations or developer's notes or something: a confused character is a perfect proxy for the player. He doesn't understand the world, doesn't know anybody, etc. Maybe we'll make him mute also. That'll eliminate the need for dialogue trees and thingz].

Jimmy has to find/fight his way out of this underground lab/labryinth. Inanimate objects are attacking him for some reason.

He exits through a hidden door in the study of a mansion. There’s no humans in sight, but random objects continue to attack Jimmy. Throughout the house and lab there are clues to what’s going on. He sees lots of research on cloning and aboveground sees newspapers and things. He can’t leave the house, because it keeps saying “You have a strong feeling that there are still clues to your existence in the house.” Jimmy sees a huge TV/Theater thingy. When he turns it on, its on the news and he starts to find out a little about what’s going on.

On the screen he sees… Himself. [At this point, I'm just coming up with stuff] There’s a news report about Jimmy #2 being the leader of this huge cult. They’re currently in a standoff with police in some compound. They’re live webcasting some arcane ritual that they’re performing that will… do something bad. [on second thought, this might be way too much this early. Maybe the player should find out that Jimmy is a clone later on in the game].

Jimmy leaves the house and is fairly in the middle of nowhere. Still, trees and bushes and rocks and things are attacking him. There are several different paths that he can take through the wilderness, but only one direction.

He finally arrives in a town. The police see him and instantly arrest him, “We’ve been looking for you.” etc… [they're mistaking him for the dude he's cloned from].

They dump him in a jail cell. In the adjacent cell is your first party member [no details yet]. You guys escape. [that's it so far]

GAME MECHANICS aka TRICKS:

- The player doesn’t level up, he levels down. Something about the cloning method has him rapidly aging, and almost detoriorating. Maybe he becomes wiser, so he can use skills [hereon called tricks]. Jimmy has to rely on his party members, who do level up, to have a powerful party.

- Enemies are visible before fighting, they wander around and chase after you when close. Also, most battles are story related, there are small areas that you have to walk through that have things that are dangerous.