In trying to implement Injected stability, I keep missing an important ingredient—the world needs to be chaotic. Not simply disorganized chaos, but in constant flux. Flux that makes people and circumstances unreliable and paralyzes productivity.
I keep missing this because there is little precedent for it. I’m shooting for Wonderland, and Wonderland usually involves stationary actors. Normally it’s the protagonist and the protagonists storyline that is chaotic, ushering them from scene to scene like a theme park ride.
At the time of this writing, not a single one of my listed inspirations exhibit this feature—the craziest cases still have relatively static worlds.
I’m sure I’ve seen some storyline like this somewhere.
In some respects, what I’m envisioning is a post-apocalyptic world where, instead of nuclear fallout or zombies, the world is devastated by extreme weirdness.
The extreme weirdness would effectively be the Manic energy I’ve been wanting to add to the mix.
This chaotic world scenario could be a plot device that provides a continual justification for Manic energy.
Perhaps I can mix the chaos with the dangerous evils of the world I’ve been working toward.
If I did that, this chaotic angle could harmonize with the Cozy horror.
This can be a minor theme, but it would be nice to hint in places that the chaotic state of the world is the inhabitants fault.
Some of the causality could be from the past, where people previously caused some of the chaos.
Some of the causality could be immediate, where the audience witnesses people unwittingly increasing the chaos upon themselves.
Potentially, I can also mix this with Magic mind screw.