User blog comment:Deathwalker 13000/Nebula and the Rejects Script Discussion: 1337 5P4cE/@comment-4467553-20131116211508

missions should parody video-game cliches, starting with the infamous "rat / mouse" quest found in every early RPG game, complete with a cellar full of some sort of weak vermin that just has to be cleared out by the team due to the owner somehow not having the ability / will to do such an easy task.

In fact most early quests should consist of missions that seem so incredibly everyday Nebula and co. question why the mission-givers need them to do it (good example is something like "help! I can't reach the remote!" - which is a few steps away from the NPC). When asked the NPCS outright admit they are lazy but quote something along the lines of "you want xp or not?" ("what's an xp?").

You could also have a very large wall that Nebula breaks apart at some point, which ends up being the Fourth Wall - explaining (a little) why everyone more or less knows they are in a "game" (alternatively the Fourth Wall could shatter during the very beginning of the game and maybe fragments of the Fourth Wall are scattered across varied worlds and Nebula's team are also tasked with collecting them as part of fixing time and space).

In the Directory most information has been defaced and replaced with "Troll Logic" (an actual meme) - with little snippets of text available via books scattered about describing different "Troll Logic" things.. real information can also be found in torn pages (or alternatively in floating "data" (which appear as little orbs of color and must be collected (maybe via a mini-game) ).

Also if the inhabitants speak in text language / "troll humor" you could introduce a Universal Translator or something at some point that makes it easier for users to understand things - also there could be a mission in which their is a small bomb or similar left by Worry as a trap complete with a monitor in which he gloats about how they will face their doom, only for the bomb to note "detonation in 10 hours and counting.." Nebula "ten hours?" Worry: "YOU LEFT THE FACTORY SETTINGS ON!? GIMME THAT REMOTE YOU IDIOTS!" (it's a WoW reference to an equally incompetant villain).