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[Zelnor]

Wahrscheinlichkeit is an action series set in the most boring century of them all: the 21st. It follows the life of an Ordinary High School Student (TM) who wakes up one morning to discover that the world is exactly the same as yesterday, only not. As he starts seeing weird people clothes in brilliant white in his dreams and cracks in the very fabric of his reality, he faces the thread of being shot with ridiculously slow laser beams at a daily basis, makes new friends and tries to figure out just what the hell is going on before losing his sanity. And losing his sanity he might: His enemies are armed with the power to alter the probability (german: “Wahrscheinlicheit”) of their surroundings in order to make the most ridiculous and impossible things happen, which prove a serious threat even in low quantities – what was the probability of that elevator falling again ?
The series goes from dark to humorous and dada frequently, and when the heroes aren’t busy pointing out the impossibilities of their foes’ actions and lampoon their own world they’re probably being shot at.

And, since I came up with that idea whilst buying cat food and sliced break and it’s storming outside, every episode will have both items in the background and at least once they will be struck by lightning.

As for the shocking twist, well, the boy doesn’t live in the real world, but is a byproduct of a supercomputer that is used to analyze and predict complex social systems and changes. That computer had been build and programmed to simulate human society and behaviour as closely as possible, with newest psychological discoveries and even brain scans at its core. The world the protagonist lives in is the computer’s simulation matrix, and the subtle yet strong changes everyday are the simulations ordered by its supervisors. Similarly, the angelically white-clothed people he starts seeing in his dreams are the scientists ordering the computer. The boy himself is an alternate avatar of the computers operating AI. As it was programmed not to have emotions – its inventors watched their robot uprising movies carefully – yet had to work so closely with the human mind, it created this persona as a way of bridging that gap. The often uniform, slightly erratic enemies the heroes face (think the G-Man from Half-Life 2 meets the Terminator meets Excel Saga) are representations of the AIs source code forbidding that emotion. Therefore, essentially, the boy is the world.


… It made more sense and was more awesome when I though of it.

Is it too much just “The Matrix” meets “Serial Experiments Lain” and “Excel Saga” ?

[Tails Doll]

Wahrscheinlichkeit? How do you pronounce that?

[Merlink]

Wars-kine-lick-it?

Maybe?

[ohclizlE]

[Paper_Waluigi]

[Zelnor]

No. With the improbability drive, ANYTHING can happen, which is what it does. The enemies alter it surgically, for example making their Frickin' Laser Beams not so slow after all.