infinite tower story ideas

DSericYo: ok so its the guitar playing turtle skeleton, the mexican dude vocalist, and the 3rd member of the band is a trumpet playing ghost. the ghost can possess bodies for short periods of time so he needs a fresh body when they go to play a gig
(09:48:01) psyonicrutabaga2: Nice
(09:48:24) DSericYo: also the problem is that they were smuggling *something* across the border for a big $score
(09:48:40) DSericYo: and the fuzz busted them so they had to ditch the cargo
(09:49:03) DSericYo: and the mobster that hired them needs the money or he's gonna kill them all
(09:49:23) DSericYo: he takes a vaccuum and vacuums the ghost and sticks him in a glass bottle as a hostage
(09:49:43) DSericYo: threatening to toss him off the side of the infinite tower if he doesn't get the gold in 3 days
(09:50:39) DSericYo: this is a secret but the infinite tower is the tower the little odd men (cyrocade's minions) are building down the bottomless pit
(09:51:05) DSericYo: and theya re like 1000 stories down
(09:51:23) DSericYo: no one there had seen the sun or stars for hundreds of years
(09:52:06) DSericYo: there's like a whole world with different societies as you travel down the tower
(09:53:51) DSericYo: oh and the turtle is an alcoholic asshole
(09:54:05) DSericYo: but damn can he play the guitar
(09:54:36) DSericYo: i need some help working out the details of how the story goes though
(09:57:20) psyonicrutabaga2: Yeah?
(09:57:34) DSericYo: yeah like what do they do to get the money?
(09:57:43) DSericYo: i was thinking there's some battle of the bands type thing
(09:58:28) DSericYo: with the mobster attending with the jar
(10:02:59) psyonicrutabaga2: They play "el sabor de la corazon del fuego"
(10:04:02) psyonicrutabaga2: A song that makes women get all gooey
(10:04:34) psyonicrutabaga2: Sanchos secret song
(10:04:42) psyonicrutabaga2: Taught to their singer
(10:05:40) psyonicrutabaga2: If the mobster was a huge fat bitch
(10:07:03) psyonicrutabaga2: It melts her frozen heart

(11:25:52) DSericYo: well i kinda see it as old comrades, like they aren't new to the tower, they've been kicking it around getting in trouble and going on little adventures for a couple hundred years
(11:27:03) psyonicrutabaga2: K
(11:29:52) psyonicrutabaga2: Once I get a good footing with the characters and setting I'm golden
(11:30:06) psyonicrutabaga2: Tugs will be easy
(11:30:26) psyonicrutabaga2: Mort is harder
(11:30:42) psyonicrutabaga2: For lack of a better name
(11:30:48) DSericYo: sounds good to me
(11:31:02) psyonicrutabaga2: Like
(11:31:11) psyonicrutabaga2: A simple bandito
(11:31:43) psyonicrutabaga2: And mariachi
(11:31:53) psyonicrutabaga2: The ghost
(11:31:59) psyonicrutabaga2: Orozco
(11:32:21) psyonicrutabaga2: Odele pinchi muertos!!!
(11:33:43) DSericYo: lol
(11:34:01) DSericYo: orozco i picture as like
(11:34:04) psyonicrutabaga2: Dude
(11:34:15) DSericYo: a big goofy bastard
(11:34:21) psyonicrutabaga2: I'm gonna donate some side characters
(11:34:28) psyonicrutabaga2: Dead esses
(11:34:39) psyonicrutabaga2: vatos
(11:34:40) DSericYo: we can have living people too
(11:34:50) DSericYo: and it doesnt have to stick to only mexican themed
(11:34:50) DSericYo: like
(11:35:00) DSericYo: ok lemme give the backstory to the tower
(11:35:02) DSericYo: so it can make sense
(11:35:08) DSericYo: have we talked about it before?
(11:35:10) psyonicrutabaga2: K
(11:35:19) psyonicrutabaga2: Maybe
(11:35:26) DSericYo: ok basically
(11:37:38) DSericYo: there's a bottomless pit somewhere in the universe
(11:37:55) DSericYo: for intents and purposes, lets call it hell, but its not really hell
(11:38:05) DSericYo: you die, you get tossed into the pit
(11:38:19) DSericYo: lost for eternity
(11:38:23) DSericYo: until
(11:38:35) DSericYo: the odd little men from cyrocade lore stumble upon it
(11:38:43) DSericYo: and are like
(11:38:45) DSericYo: hmmmmm
(11:39:00) DSericYo: and begin building a structure
(11:39:02) DSericYo: downwards
(11:39:14) DSericYo: they are trying to build to the bottom
(11:39:48) DSericYo: so imagine like a massive shanty town built down a bottomless pit
(11:39:57) DSericYo: and its been under construction
(11:39:58) DSericYo: for
(11:40:06) psyonicrutabaga2: So further down the tower is all scaffolding
(11:40:08) DSericYo: 10,000 years
(11:40:18) psyonicrutabaga2: Nice
(11:40:36) DSericYo: and people that have been thrown down the pit
(11:40:41) psyonicrutabaga2: Up towards the top its more civilized or what
(11:40:44) DSericYo: have been caught in nets, etc
(11:41:01) psyonicrutabaga2: Maybe that's how mort gets out
(11:41:05) DSericYo: and now populate the cities that have developed over the decades and centuries
(11:41:11) DSericYo: yeah
(11:41:22) DSericYo: towards the top is like old europe
(11:41:32) psyonicrutabaga2: He's in a side chamber when they break through
(11:41:33) DSericYo: century long dynasties
(11:41:52) DSericYo: kings, rules, etc.
(11:41:55) DSericYo: as you go further down
(11:41:57) DSericYo: its more like
(11:42:00) DSericYo: the "new world"
(11:42:01) DSericYo: mexico
(11:42:03) DSericYo: pirates
(11:42:05) DSericYo: old west
(11:42:20) psyonicrutabaga2: Car
(11:42:25) psyonicrutabaga2: Brb
(11:42:40) DSericYo: there's gonna be various elevators and lifts in various states of disrepair
(11:42:58) DSericYo: and the genres of the different levels are going to be very distinct and contrasting in styles
(11:44:29) DSericYo: we dont necessarily have to have the band go through them all
(11:44:38) DSericYo: but thats just for reference to you
(11:44:48) DSericYo: cause we can tell multiple stories about this tower
(11:45:33) DSericYo: i think the cyrocade will be known as the architech of the tower
(11:45:45) DSericYo: like a legendary mythological figure
(11:45:52) DSericYo: he will probably never actually show up