Creeper World Plot Summaries

[Ebon Heart]

This is kind of a plot summary for creeper world 1, that's nearly turned into a fanfic. This should be helpful for anyone looking to play creeper world 2 that has not played creeper world 1 yet. It should also be a good story, let me know if I'm going to need to post this somewhere else or as one chunk, or what, and I will. Thanks to Nemoricus for helping with this.


Day one, The First Encounter.

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It all began in the year 13,271. Mankind had colonized thousands of worlds, and continued to stretch its reach to the limits of space, and beyond. We found none our equal as we enjoyed the wonders of our bountiful empire. We walked among the stars as though we were gods! But sadly, gods we were not... It fell from the sky without purpose of reason, the creeper, as it was later known. I'll never forget the day.

We got a transmission in one day from Ara, saying that some strange meteorites had landed on their planet, and were oozing some sort of blue stuff. We never heard from the people of Ara again, and an alarm was sounded. The people of all of the worlds were to meet on a planet called hope, where a hero later known as "the old man" was attempting to gather what was left of humanity. Similar reports came from all over, humanity descended into anarchy as everyone tried to flee their home planets. 50 worlds were lost on the first day, and the entire human population nearly followed soon after. 50 thousand managed to make it to Hope, where we have started construction on Odin City, a great structure designed to house and support the last remnants of the human race. It is here that we shall fight off the creeper. Odin City will travel from world to world, never staying longer than it must. Humanity must not end today!

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Day two, Hope.

Spoiler

Odin City was finally finished, and I took my first glance off the project to see the wonders of hope, and it looked promising. We were located on top of a mountain, with a large field of collectors around us. To our North-East were the three totems we would need to get off the planet, surrounded by walls. We had three blasters ready to go, with a fourth sitting just behind the city to replace damaged ones.

"Alright, listen up! We don't have much time." said a surprisingly gruff voice. "you need to learn how to control Odin City before the creeper gets here if we're gonna any hope of surviving here."

Standing there was an old, fragile man, with white hair and an authentic wooden waIking stick. I presumed this must be the revered "Old Man"

"It's an honor to meet you. I'm very... very pleased to-"

but he was already gone, out the door and off to... only the gods know where. I won't bore you with the little details of training, but in a nutshell, collectors harvest energy from an area around themselves. Based on your collection, you can create so many packets per second, which can be sent out along wires created between buildings that are close enough to build unbuilt buildings, or power turrets connected to the system. I had to control all this and more to get us off a planet safely.

All of humanity was resting on my shoulders. When the system is connected to rift totems, we're able to get off the planet and move farther into the galaxy, out of the clutches of the creeper, which is the ultimate goal. Glancing around though, I started to wonder something. "We seem to have a pretty good setup here," I said. "Why don't we just stay here to fend off the creeper?" Bill, our OPS turned to me with an evil intensity in his eyes and said, "We're being hunted son. Every second we stay here, the creeper gets closer. If we stay too long, it'll catch us. The sky will blacken the world over. And soon, a tsunami of creeper will surround us from all angles, a great wave of death and destruction that could be held back by nothing. It would eat away at the last of our kind like it was nothing. One of the most painful ways to die... If you want to see that, be my guest. You can stay, but me and everyone else with any common sense are leaving as soon as you can stop jabbering, and fly us over there." I followed his gesturing arm to where a few relays were already build behind some walls, connecting to 3 totems that would get us off of hope, the one place I thought we could be safe... but for how long?

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Day three - Taurus

Spoiler

Once the world stopped spinning, I got my first look at our next world, only to see that our next world was approaching fast. We were falling faster than we should have been. I tried to remember what had happened... I remembered what I took to be the gates of hell, then a feeling of ultimate nothingness, like floating in an endless void. And now this.

"What's going on?!" I shouted over the rushing wind.

The one corner of my part of my consciousness that was still reasoning heard Bill shout back, "There's a problem with the new rift engines, something went-"

THUD

We landed with a bone jarring impact. I was thrown from where I was standing, and hit my head on the control board. I heard the other passengers screaming through my brief daze.

"Report!"  I shouted "what's the damage?"

"There seems to be a problem with our new rift engines" said the 'Old Man', as he attempted to regain his footing. "It'll be fixed in a jiff, nothing to worry about."

"I wouldn't say that." Said Bill as he climbed back into his chair. "That first rift has erased our data banks! We've lost valuable nano schematics, blueprints for buildings that could potentially be a huge asset to our survival!"

"Is there any good news?" I asked with a great sigh.

"Actually, yes!" Bill said, perking up a little. "It seems our nano schematic for the relay tech is close by... and it doesn't seem like there's any creeper here yet."

Just as he said that, I heard two loud pops, a simple sound really, but one that reminded me of awful things. It took me back to that fateful day... watching my friends and family being eaten away, hearing their screams, reminded me of that feeling of supreme helplessness. The sound of emitters activating.

"That's just great. Just lovely." Bill mumbled under his breath.

Close to panic, I asked, "What just happened?"

"Our rift engines must have activated what creeper forces were left behind here."

"That can't be good... no time to waste then, I'd best get started!"

I sat at the control panel, and looked around. We were surrounded by an erodible wall, on the top of a small hill, two emitters at the bottom, one of them near our nano schematic. I watched as a small amount of opaque blue liquid squeezed from each of them, not enough to be threatening, but enough to warn me of what could potentially happen. I decided to get a move on. After glancing at the controls for a brief moment, I ordered a line of collectors to be built to attach to the relay schematic, carefully maneuvering around the slowly forming pool of creeper. After that I build relays around the scattered walls to attach to the totems. Looking to the sky the entire time, hoping that I wasn't too late. Just as I powered up the totems and got ready to take off again, I heard a small voice.

"Don't leave Mister!" said a little boy.
I looked over to see him and the rest of his family rush into the control room, looking devastated.

"This is our home!" said a woman I presumed to be his mom. "I've lived my whole life here, I can't bear to have to leave it again, this time for good..."
"That was our house." chimed in the father, gesturing to one of what I had originally presumed to be walls. "After we heard of the creeper coming, we and several others fortified our homes, but after realizing that the creeper wouldn't be stopped, we fled, just in time. There are so many memories in that place, please, you have to save it!"

"I'm sorry, I really am." I said, my heart feeling heavy. "But we can't risk it. Much of our race's history will be lost, and we need to save what's left of it. Every second we spend here, the creeper gets closer. We can't let it catch us. And on top of that, every bit of energy we use to save your house could be used to feed the other 49,997 people in this city."

With that, I forcefully pressed the button. As we flew over the world, I watched as the first of many emitters fell, and instantly started oozing out creeper. I shuddered when I thoguht of what would have happened if we had stayed any longer. As we once again approached the gates of hell, many thoughts filled my mind, but the sounds were clearer. I heard the family screaming as they watched their house being destroyed,  I heard the popping of the dreaded emitters, but even more clearly than that, I heard Bill shouting,

"Wait! the rift engines aren't completely - "

But then all was nothing. This time I remained coherent enough to think, "Is this what will become of our world if the creeper is not stopped?" And on that note, me, and many of the other survivors steeled our resolve, and prepared for the next challenge, hoping for a miracle.

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Day four - Fitch

Spoiler

We landed smoothly on the surface of Fitch, after rifting close to the ground. The rift engines must have been fixed after all. As glad as I was for the small bit of fortune, I couldn't bring myself to feel happy. My conversation with that family from Taurus kept circling through my head. The little boy and his mom crying as we took off, their screams as their house was destroyed... I looked around Fitch and saw several more of the green walls, and couldn't help but wonder what kinds of memories might be in there. I wanted to save them all, wanted to save other families from that same grief I had watched unfold back on Taurus. But I knew I couldn't. Even if I kept them safe while on Fitch, as soon as we left, the creeper would regain its grip on the world, and go back to eating everything away to nothingness. Erasing every memory it crossed on its quest for... Only the gods know. Power? Control? A Universe populated only by them? The end of all intelligent life? Whatever their goal, I knew I had to stop them. Not only for me, but for everyone with precious memories.

The first thing I noticed were several of the green squares. I couldn't help but wonder how they came to be, what stories may be associated with them. Were these replaceable walls, or homes that held precious memories to many people? Of course, I had to wonder, were there even people left to cherish these memories? I shook the distracting thoughts out of my head and got a good look around. There were several weak emitters that I knew would be separated from Odin City for quite a while. It appeared as though they'd landed in a valley with... what may have been a city. If it was, only a few buildings remained. I wanted to save them all, but I knew it would be pointless. The creeper would only devour them as soon as we left. It would all be for nothing.
   
Just then, the door opened, shattering my terrain of thought.
   
"We've got a problem, sir."  I  turned around to see Bill come in, looking exhausted.

"What's that?" I asked, a bit baffled. The creeper on this world wasn't at all threatening yet, and though we had less food than we started with, we were in no way running low.

"The Old Man has gone missing!"

"Oh my gods! Do you have any idea where he might be? Do you think he's still on the ship?"

"No to both, but I did find this note."

I've guided you far enough, the rest of this journey is yours to make alone. Follow these coordinates and the truth will reveal itself. Farewell young ones, and good luck. The future of all the world may be resting on your shoulders.
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"That's all it says... These coordinates don't seem to follow any pattern, I wonder what they could mean." Said Bill, studying the note.

"I'm not sure, but I know that we should follow them. The Old Man has proved himself time and time again, this may be his parting favor to mankind." I said, my resolution growing with each passing second.

I won't bore you with all the details of fighting through the creeper on fitch. There was no real threat. I had the totems connected in no time, and we were headed to the first set of coordinates on the list, finally feeling as though we had a goal. There might finally be hope.

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[Ebon Heart]

This post is reserved for more story segments. (my first post is about out of room)

[Ebon Heart]

this post reserved for more space.

[Ebon Heart]

Day three's up. They won't all be that long, this one has a lot of dialogue. And many of the days will likely be skipped over.
EDIT: moved day 3.

[UpperKEES]

Ehm, can't you just post all of them in one topic? It's no use filling the entire CW1 gameplay board with this....

[Grauniad]

Done. :)

[Ebon Heart]

Done. :)

Thank you.
EDIT: and I moved all three parts up top.

[Michionlion]

yeah... i think 1 topic is enough.  you might want to sort it too by putting each day in spoilers.  then you can find the new one easily, or find a certain day.  (like i did with my cw guide)

[Grauniad]

I should warn you that there is a limit to the size of each post. Not exactly sure what it is, but it exists.

[Michionlion]

you should see some of KEES's posts....

EDIT: wait... you probably already have.  ;)

[Ebon Heart]

I should warn you that there is a limit to the size of each post. Not exactly sure what it is, but it exists.

I'm sure i'll find out soon enough...

[thepenguin]

I should warn you that there is a limit to the size of each post. Not exactly sure what it is, but it exists.

I'm sure i'll find out soon enough...

20000 characters

[Ebon Heart]

and I'm only at 8,888 characters so far.

[Ranakastrasz]

This is excelent already.

Also, I think i understand why people have to reserve the first few posts in their new threads. Shame the thread owner cannot use an insert option...

[Ebon Heart]

Ya, I may have to ask Mich to delete his first two posts so I'll have room.