How to Write a Story with no Enemies?

If You cannot Kill it

  • Patience
  • How does one implement Patience?
  • How does one develop Deference?
  • How does one develop Empathy?
  • In which situations is one’s Resilience tested?
  • Understanding
  • Can you distinguish Guilt from Responsibility?
  • Can the character understand the Responsible’s motives?
  • Was this person left in charge of the situation?
  • Was it done rightfully?
  • Was it left to this person?
  • Preserve Humanity
  • How can one Preserve One’s Humanity?
  • Through which situations is it possible?
  • What is left to do when there’s none to blame?
  • Die a human or live as a beast?

Collaboration

  • Cooperation
  • Can you cooperate with someone you despise?
  • Can you collaborate with someone you consider useless?
  • How do we organize task rotation?
  • How do we distribute tasks?
  • Should everyone interact with everyone else?
  • How do we implement cohesion?
  • Who is needed?
  • Who’s skills are required?
  • Which skills are required?
  • What type of behavior is necessary?
  • How Reliable one must be?
  • How Composed one needs to be?
  • Who is not needed?
  • What type of behavior is unfitting of the situation?
  • What type of individual is detrimental to the group?
  • How Contrarian can one be?
  • How Clumsy can one be?
  • Antagonism
  • Which Antagonistic behaviors are needed?
  • Can we conserve competition?
  • Is Rivalry still adapted to the context?
  • How do we motivate people?
  • Does emulation work in a dire situation?

Catastrophes

  • Scale
  • How is the Aftermath?
  • Can we determine the origin of the phenomenon?
  • Can we prevent further damages?
  • Can we infer another occurrence of the event?
  • Cities & Settlements
  • What is the impact on Roads?
  • Which zones are still Accessible?
  • Are certain zones inaccessible?
  • Are certain zones forbidden?
  • Can you quit the zone affected?
  • Are you forced to stay in a certain zone?
  • Landscape
  • How are they transformed?
  • Did a part of the landscape disappear?
  • Was a Forest burned?
  • How did the geography changed?
  • What measures can be taken to reshape to landscape?

World-scale Hazard

  • Industrial Hazard
  • How is the Device?
  • What is its Structure?
  • What Energy does it use?
  • What were the extent of the Damages?
  • What is the origin of the Damages?
  • Experiments were conduced
  • Who conduced them?
  • What was their goal?
  • Was it benevolent?
  • Do they wanted a challenge?
  • Do they aim some form of progress?
  • When did it fail?
  • Post War
  • When did the war occur?
  • Who was involved in it?
  • Who benefit from it?
  • Who suffered from it?
  • Was there a Truce?
  • How much resent is left?
  • Which groups display their xenophobia publicly?
  • Did an Organization benefit from it?
  • Were they responsible for the stability of a certain device?
  • Were they negligent?
  • How was the outcome beneficial to them?
  • Can Confidence still be maintained?
  • Can her leaders still be Trusted?
  • Are employees defecting?
  • Are they forbidden to resign?

Pandemics

  • Origins of the Illness
  • When did it breakout?
  • What were the Symptoms?
  • What were the Effects?
  • What was the degree of Propagation?
  • Catalysts
  • What was the speed of Propagation?
  • How do Human Activities affect it?
  • Are some species predisposed to it?
  • Are some species immune to it?
  • Are there Asymptomatic carriers?
  • Are there Healthy carriers?
  • Which Mesures are taken to inhibit it?
  • Solution
  • Are Vaccines elaborated?
  • Can they be?
  • Is there already a remedy?
  • Is it distributed?
  • Is it sold?
  • To whom?

Randomness & Accidents

  • Fatality
  • How does the accident occur?
  • Who’s been struck by it?
  • Does the victim have relatives left?
  • When does it become Unfair?
  • Can 1 Grieve the lost one?
  • Small-Scale
  • What if the accident only Affects 1 person?
  • What if it only Affects a small group?
  • What sympathy is there for this group?
  • What if the victim was Dangerous?
  • What if the victim was Despised?
  • Causality
  • How Unpredictable is the accident?
  • Does it break Coherence?
  • Does it break Continuity?
  • How can the relatives recover from the loss?
  • Rebuilt
  • What do the characters gain access to after this crisis?
  • How do they try to cope?
  • How do they attempt to change?
  • Which solutions do they find?
  • How successful are they?

Survival

  • Resource management
  • What are the Essential Resources?
  • What are the Privileged Resources?
  • Is Energy available?
  • Is Water available?
  • What type of Food is available?
  • How is the quality of Sheltering?
  • How is the quality of Housing?
  • Who Lives?
  • Who can you help?
  • Who will access to the resources?
  • Who can use them freely?
  • Who is entitled to survival?
  • Who is supposed to die?
  • Opposing Groups
  • How many groups are form after the Crisis?
  • How much disparity is there between the groups?
  • How were they polarized?
  • How can you display the polarity?
  • Is it only a question of material resources?
  • Does every group possess the same resources?
  • Do they prioritize trade?
  • Accomplishment
  • Does the survival situation sustain?
  • Are there evolutions?
  • Are more lives saved?
  • Are more people trying to find solutions?
  • Is Unity progressively developing?
  • Is there a sense of Belonging?
  • Do people feel safe?

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