Mindwarp story
In post-apocalyptic 2037, a young woman is banished from the comfortable confines of a sealed biosphere and must navigate her way in a desolate wasteland.
17 total · 8 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cannibalism | major | The Seer and his mutant followers were consuming human flesh. |
| escape from reality | major | The people of Inworld spent all their time plugged in via implants in their necks, living through virtual reality fantasies. |
| father and daughter | major | In a surprise twist, the Seer turned out to be Judy's father, and moreover, he insisted that he must impregnate her to save the human race. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Judy and Stover were held captive by the Seer and his mutant followers. |
| humanoid mutant | major | Much of the human population has been reduced to Crawlers, mutated cannibalistic underground dwellers who have lost their intelligence and speak only in grunts and mine garbage dumps. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The story takes place in the year 2037, after the loss of the ozone layer has left most of the planet a desolate wasteland scattered with highly radioactive "Death Zones", except for several areas that still flourish. |
| speculative virtual reality | major | The people of Inworld spent all their time plugged in via implants in their necks, living through virtual reality fantasies. |
| subterranean civilization | major | The mutant people lived underground because the Earth's surface was largely uninhabitable. |
| brain-computer interface | minor | The people of Inworld spent all their time plugged in via implants in their necks, living through virtual reality fantasies. |
| human sacrifice | minor | The Seer plucked out young Claude's eye, hurled her into an industrial meat grinder, and then everyone ritually drank her blood from human skulls. |