05-28-2019, 12:01 AM
I am a new member to MFGG (I just signed up today) and have wanted to share an idea for a "Mario & Luigi" game that had been developing slowly in my mind for the past 6 months or so. Recently, I got it all written down on paper in a storybook mode. I started out with a 91 page hand-written draft and then put together a 169 page Word document going into much greater detail. Here's a basic outline:
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It starts off with the Mushroom Kingdom preparing for a total solar eclipse. I plan to reintroduce the Mushroom King, as he gets abducted by a race of toad men known as the Sapians on Yoshi's Island when Mario and company went there to attend the Yoshi's Island Annual Fruit Festival. The Princess joins the Bros to Yoshi's Peak and they find the creatures interrogating her father. The toads escape into the Dream World, taking the King with them, but before they do, he conveys a crucial piece of information to the Princess as to why they were interrogating him. Peach figures it out after a minute or two, and she tells the Bros that they need to go into her father's study back at the Castle to retrieve an heirloom chest which must convey this piece of information.
As they were heading back to the Castle through the Toadwood Forest (with Toadette joining their team back at the Island), a group of Bandits ambush them and abduct the Princess. Following them, they soon encounter, to their great surprise, a benevolent Shroob. He assists the Bros in rescuing Peach and returns to the castle with them. They open the chest and find an ancient parchment with strange characters on it. The group now concludes that they have to go to Pi'illo Island to explain the situation to Prince Dreambert. They do so using the Odyssey as transportation. Dreambert agrees to join them to provide the means to enter the Dream World. But before they can return to the Castle, Bowser shoots them down from the sky in his Cruiser.
They wash up on the Kingdom's southern seashore and find that the Odyssey's Harnessphere, which contains all the ship's Power Moons, is shot. They go to nearby Dire Dire Docks, a bustling seaport, to find a replacement. While they were there, they happened to obtain King Boo's Crown (from Luigi's Mansion) as well! When they do obtain one, they return to the crash site to find that most of their Power Moons had been stolen by Boos, who retreat into Boo Woods to the north. The quartet soon arrive at a clearing in the woods where they encounter King Boo, who tells them that he had told the Boos to take them. He offers them a ransom saying that he'd give them back if they can find his Bejeweled Crown. When they produce it, King Boo betrays them by snatching it from them. However, Bowser appears moments later and bathes the entire clearing in a power searchlight, which weakens the monarch and scares away all the Boos nearby, dropping their Power Moons. Bowser takes the crown and leaves.
Mario then remembers hearing that Bowser had thought that the party was going to Star Hill and shot them down as a result. The group then decides to go to Star Hill and ask the Star Spirits what's going on. There they find them entrapped in nightmare chunks to Dreambert's horror. When they had all been freed, the Star Spirits tell the group that Bowser had taken the Star Rod, and that he may be going after a group of powerful entities known as the "Legendary Seven." Mario and company were already familiar with five of them: the Star Rod, the Dream Stone, the Dark Stone, King Boo's Crown, and the Beanstar. The other two were the Toadstool Gem and the Chinstar. Hearing this, Peach suspects that it might have been the location of the Toadstool Gem that the Sapians had been trying to get out of her father. The group decides to go get the Chinstar first, which was located in Sarasaland, as they still hadn't deciphered the parchment and Peach was going to be needed to awaken the Beanstar.
Arriving at Calicon, Sarasaland's capital city, Daisy comes out to greet them. They explain the situation to her, and Daisy tells them where they will find it - inside the Inverted Pyramid. The Sand Kingdom was really a subdivision of the Birabuto Kingdom, and the Pyramid was seen as one of the safest places to store it. Inside the Pyramid, Daisy explains to them that teamwork will be needed to reach the Legendary, since the door to it has to be opened by flipping four switches together at the same time, and they were all scattered throughout the structure. Along the way, the quartet encounters the Broodals, who were out for revenge - but knew nothing of Bowser's present schemes. But the four soon take possession of the Chinstar.
Before they leave, they explain to Daisy that they were looking for the Toadstool Gem and show her the parchment. To their surprise, Daisy recognizes it! She then tells the quartet about a young Toad named Nerr T, who works as in intern for the Palace and had become good friends with her, and is studying computer science at the Sarasacademy. She said that he also had an interest in ancient manuscripts and had actually deciphered that writing on their parchment, since he also had some manuscripts with it. They go to the Toad, and he tells them that it is a message by Peach's ancestor from many centuries ago. It said that the Gem could be found inside the Yoshi Sphinx in Gritzy Desert. Nerr T wants to join their group after hearing that they were going to head to the Beanbean Kingdom, as he wanted to see if they had some old manuscripts with that writing system on it. He soon got the okay from his professors (and Princess Daisy) and joins them.
At the Yoshi Sphinx, Princess Peach enters alone into its chambers and soon finds the Gem. When she takes it, it teleports her back to the Odyssey. They then head to the Beanbean Kingdom, where they are told that the Beanstar has been relocated to a security vault in Risus Grove to the west. After traversing the vault, they encounter the Beanstar and collect it. They then exit the complex through a Warp Pipe just outside the vault and find themselves at the Beanbean Kingdom Museum. There they find a Beanstar exhibit with a life-size replica in the center. As Peach is marveling on how real it looks, she finds that that was actually the real Beanstar! It was awake! Someone had done the old switcharoo. Bowser suddenly crashes through the ceiling in an attempt to take it before they could do anything, but Peach is quick to grab it. The group now has three Legendary in its possession. Bowser Jr attacks them with a Legendary-enhanced contraption, but the quartet destroy it. Explaining everything to Queen Bean on what had happened, several guards enter bringing with them three Sapian prisoners, who were most likely the ones that had implemented the exchange. All this time, the quartet had assumed that these toad men had been Bowser's newest minions, but after interrogating them, they find that Bowser never was their Master! In the next minutes, they behold a Dream Portal open up before them. From it emerged a Pi'illo, who had been investigating where the Mushroom King might be, and an eerily familiar fairy. He tells them that he found out where the King was being held. Seeing the fairy, Peach then figures out who the Sapians' Master really was . . . it was Wart!!
Feeling prepared, the group heads back to Peach's Castle, where they find Professor E. Gadd there talking with the friendly Shroob. Dreambert finally positions himself for Luigi to sleep on, and soon the Portal appears, though it took significantly longer than on Pi'illo Island. Mario enters the portal along with the Shroob, who expressed an interest to see what the dimension was like. There they find the realm of Subcon, and its citizens all remember Mario. Reaching the capital, they find the King of Subcon, Osama - who is human, there to greet the two. He brings them to the main entrance to Subspace - the only permanent entrance, and tells them that their Mushroom King was trapped there. He also explains that he and his people had to exile Wart to Subspace after Mario and company defeated him and erect a barrier using the Legendary Seven. They find to their dismay as they try to enter Subspace that Dreamy Luigi was also subject to the effects of the barrier and couldn't enter. This means that, in order to stay together, the real Luigi would have to go into the Dream World, as the barrier only kept out dreamy beings since Mario could enter the portal. The Shroob then tells Osama that his people had been working on finding a way to enter the Dream World themselves, and that all the research was back at the Vim Factory.
Returning to the Castle and explaining the situation, the quartet heads back to the Toadwood Forest to find this research - led by the Shroob. They soon do find themselves inside the Vim Factory, specifically the basement. Before they start working on a Dream Portal generator, they have to research how to extract vim nonlethally, since most of the machinery is vim-powered. They soon figure it out, with Nerr T programming most of it. Soon they have an entire tank full of vim, and with both Nerr T and Toadette just fine (the Professor having created plenty of baby's tears formula for them). In due time, Dreambert is astonished to see a fully-functioning Dream Portal there in the lab! The quartet jumps in along with Nerr T and Prince Dreambert.
The King of Subcon greets the party and again brings them to the portal to Subspace. They all enter and make their way through the dark dimension. Dreambert becomes an asset to them when the door to a small fortress closes on the quartet and are trapped. He returns to Subcon to find the equivalent fortress and opens the door there (it is this that makes Prince Dreambert a semi-playable character). They traverse several fortresses in the same manner. Before reaching the great fortress at the end of the road, Wart confronts them and summons a trio of giant Birdos. The Birdos take the four heroes out, but Nerr T escapes with the Legendary and soon frees them (making him semi-playable as well). They all finally find Wart as well as Bowser at the top of a great tower in the center of the large fortress complex and engages them in battle. Despite the odds, the quartet finally puts an end to Wart and eliminates him permanently. The barrier is taken down, and his operatives are rendered harmless. They then return to the real world and enjoy the eclipse.
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Please keep in mind, there are a lot of other things that happen in this story, but it would be way too much for a starting post. I get the feeling that this is a very unique story and have been itching to hear what others have to say about it. As you can probably tell, I have tried to weave together as much of the Super Mario Series as possible into a single plot. I have also tried as much as I could to avoid inconsistencies. I feel that the final battle is very powerful, there is plenty of humor worthy of a "Mario & Luigi" title scattered through the document, and I have even added a significant amount of mild romance - striving as hard as I could to keep it at an appropriate level. And no, it is not between Mario and Peach. Sorry.
Hopefully, this isn't too much for you to read. Please tell me if you're interested in reading my full Word document. I look forward to your feedback!
JaberandCamgar
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It starts off with the Mushroom Kingdom preparing for a total solar eclipse. I plan to reintroduce the Mushroom King, as he gets abducted by a race of toad men known as the Sapians on Yoshi's Island when Mario and company went there to attend the Yoshi's Island Annual Fruit Festival. The Princess joins the Bros to Yoshi's Peak and they find the creatures interrogating her father. The toads escape into the Dream World, taking the King with them, but before they do, he conveys a crucial piece of information to the Princess as to why they were interrogating him. Peach figures it out after a minute or two, and she tells the Bros that they need to go into her father's study back at the Castle to retrieve an heirloom chest which must convey this piece of information.
As they were heading back to the Castle through the Toadwood Forest (with Toadette joining their team back at the Island), a group of Bandits ambush them and abduct the Princess. Following them, they soon encounter, to their great surprise, a benevolent Shroob. He assists the Bros in rescuing Peach and returns to the castle with them. They open the chest and find an ancient parchment with strange characters on it. The group now concludes that they have to go to Pi'illo Island to explain the situation to Prince Dreambert. They do so using the Odyssey as transportation. Dreambert agrees to join them to provide the means to enter the Dream World. But before they can return to the Castle, Bowser shoots them down from the sky in his Cruiser.
They wash up on the Kingdom's southern seashore and find that the Odyssey's Harnessphere, which contains all the ship's Power Moons, is shot. They go to nearby Dire Dire Docks, a bustling seaport, to find a replacement. While they were there, they happened to obtain King Boo's Crown (from Luigi's Mansion) as well! When they do obtain one, they return to the crash site to find that most of their Power Moons had been stolen by Boos, who retreat into Boo Woods to the north. The quartet soon arrive at a clearing in the woods where they encounter King Boo, who tells them that he had told the Boos to take them. He offers them a ransom saying that he'd give them back if they can find his Bejeweled Crown. When they produce it, King Boo betrays them by snatching it from them. However, Bowser appears moments later and bathes the entire clearing in a power searchlight, which weakens the monarch and scares away all the Boos nearby, dropping their Power Moons. Bowser takes the crown and leaves.
Mario then remembers hearing that Bowser had thought that the party was going to Star Hill and shot them down as a result. The group then decides to go to Star Hill and ask the Star Spirits what's going on. There they find them entrapped in nightmare chunks to Dreambert's horror. When they had all been freed, the Star Spirits tell the group that Bowser had taken the Star Rod, and that he may be going after a group of powerful entities known as the "Legendary Seven." Mario and company were already familiar with five of them: the Star Rod, the Dream Stone, the Dark Stone, King Boo's Crown, and the Beanstar. The other two were the Toadstool Gem and the Chinstar. Hearing this, Peach suspects that it might have been the location of the Toadstool Gem that the Sapians had been trying to get out of her father. The group decides to go get the Chinstar first, which was located in Sarasaland, as they still hadn't deciphered the parchment and Peach was going to be needed to awaken the Beanstar.
Arriving at Calicon, Sarasaland's capital city, Daisy comes out to greet them. They explain the situation to her, and Daisy tells them where they will find it - inside the Inverted Pyramid. The Sand Kingdom was really a subdivision of the Birabuto Kingdom, and the Pyramid was seen as one of the safest places to store it. Inside the Pyramid, Daisy explains to them that teamwork will be needed to reach the Legendary, since the door to it has to be opened by flipping four switches together at the same time, and they were all scattered throughout the structure. Along the way, the quartet encounters the Broodals, who were out for revenge - but knew nothing of Bowser's present schemes. But the four soon take possession of the Chinstar.
Before they leave, they explain to Daisy that they were looking for the Toadstool Gem and show her the parchment. To their surprise, Daisy recognizes it! She then tells the quartet about a young Toad named Nerr T, who works as in intern for the Palace and had become good friends with her, and is studying computer science at the Sarasacademy. She said that he also had an interest in ancient manuscripts and had actually deciphered that writing on their parchment, since he also had some manuscripts with it. They go to the Toad, and he tells them that it is a message by Peach's ancestor from many centuries ago. It said that the Gem could be found inside the Yoshi Sphinx in Gritzy Desert. Nerr T wants to join their group after hearing that they were going to head to the Beanbean Kingdom, as he wanted to see if they had some old manuscripts with that writing system on it. He soon got the okay from his professors (and Princess Daisy) and joins them.
At the Yoshi Sphinx, Princess Peach enters alone into its chambers and soon finds the Gem. When she takes it, it teleports her back to the Odyssey. They then head to the Beanbean Kingdom, where they are told that the Beanstar has been relocated to a security vault in Risus Grove to the west. After traversing the vault, they encounter the Beanstar and collect it. They then exit the complex through a Warp Pipe just outside the vault and find themselves at the Beanbean Kingdom Museum. There they find a Beanstar exhibit with a life-size replica in the center. As Peach is marveling on how real it looks, she finds that that was actually the real Beanstar! It was awake! Someone had done the old switcharoo. Bowser suddenly crashes through the ceiling in an attempt to take it before they could do anything, but Peach is quick to grab it. The group now has three Legendary in its possession. Bowser Jr attacks them with a Legendary-enhanced contraption, but the quartet destroy it. Explaining everything to Queen Bean on what had happened, several guards enter bringing with them three Sapian prisoners, who were most likely the ones that had implemented the exchange. All this time, the quartet had assumed that these toad men had been Bowser's newest minions, but after interrogating them, they find that Bowser never was their Master! In the next minutes, they behold a Dream Portal open up before them. From it emerged a Pi'illo, who had been investigating where the Mushroom King might be, and an eerily familiar fairy. He tells them that he found out where the King was being held. Seeing the fairy, Peach then figures out who the Sapians' Master really was . . . it was Wart!!
Feeling prepared, the group heads back to Peach's Castle, where they find Professor E. Gadd there talking with the friendly Shroob. Dreambert finally positions himself for Luigi to sleep on, and soon the Portal appears, though it took significantly longer than on Pi'illo Island. Mario enters the portal along with the Shroob, who expressed an interest to see what the dimension was like. There they find the realm of Subcon, and its citizens all remember Mario. Reaching the capital, they find the King of Subcon, Osama - who is human, there to greet the two. He brings them to the main entrance to Subspace - the only permanent entrance, and tells them that their Mushroom King was trapped there. He also explains that he and his people had to exile Wart to Subspace after Mario and company defeated him and erect a barrier using the Legendary Seven. They find to their dismay as they try to enter Subspace that Dreamy Luigi was also subject to the effects of the barrier and couldn't enter. This means that, in order to stay together, the real Luigi would have to go into the Dream World, as the barrier only kept out dreamy beings since Mario could enter the portal. The Shroob then tells Osama that his people had been working on finding a way to enter the Dream World themselves, and that all the research was back at the Vim Factory.
Returning to the Castle and explaining the situation, the quartet heads back to the Toadwood Forest to find this research - led by the Shroob. They soon do find themselves inside the Vim Factory, specifically the basement. Before they start working on a Dream Portal generator, they have to research how to extract vim nonlethally, since most of the machinery is vim-powered. They soon figure it out, with Nerr T programming most of it. Soon they have an entire tank full of vim, and with both Nerr T and Toadette just fine (the Professor having created plenty of baby's tears formula for them). In due time, Dreambert is astonished to see a fully-functioning Dream Portal there in the lab! The quartet jumps in along with Nerr T and Prince Dreambert.
The King of Subcon greets the party and again brings them to the portal to Subspace. They all enter and make their way through the dark dimension. Dreambert becomes an asset to them when the door to a small fortress closes on the quartet and are trapped. He returns to Subcon to find the equivalent fortress and opens the door there (it is this that makes Prince Dreambert a semi-playable character). They traverse several fortresses in the same manner. Before reaching the great fortress at the end of the road, Wart confronts them and summons a trio of giant Birdos. The Birdos take the four heroes out, but Nerr T escapes with the Legendary and soon frees them (making him semi-playable as well). They all finally find Wart as well as Bowser at the top of a great tower in the center of the large fortress complex and engages them in battle. Despite the odds, the quartet finally puts an end to Wart and eliminates him permanently. The barrier is taken down, and his operatives are rendered harmless. They then return to the real world and enjoy the eclipse.
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Please keep in mind, there are a lot of other things that happen in this story, but it would be way too much for a starting post. I get the feeling that this is a very unique story and have been itching to hear what others have to say about it. As you can probably tell, I have tried to weave together as much of the Super Mario Series as possible into a single plot. I have also tried as much as I could to avoid inconsistencies. I feel that the final battle is very powerful, there is plenty of humor worthy of a "Mario & Luigi" title scattered through the document, and I have even added a significant amount of mild romance - striving as hard as I could to keep it at an appropriate level. And no, it is not between Mario and Peach. Sorry.
Hopefully, this isn't too much for you to read. Please tell me if you're interested in reading my full Word document. I look forward to your feedback!
JaberandCamgar