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Fragmaster01

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on: September 28, 2015, 05:44:32 PM
So here's a little creative writing thing I've been doing for a while now, and I figured since you're all such wondrous and strange writers, I'd open it up to you!
The basic idea is to give a short(usually 2-3 sentence) prompt for a setting, and then the next person down fleshes it out and comes up with the details. This generally goes in strange directions that the original poster did not intend, but that's part of the fun! So something like:
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Setting Prompt: In the NEAR FUTURE, sweet VR tech allows people to do all sorts of sweet cyberspace stuff.
However, worrying glitches are causing people to suspect that doing this is actually making them start to escape the matrix, rather than the other way around.
And the next person would respond with a silly extrapolation about two worlds that contain each other as a simulation, as part of a larger one, which deeply worries both earthites and aliens.
Then you'd end with a setting prompt for the next person. Alternately, if lots of people like a single one, we could have a vote on who is the bestest, and they win for giving the next prompt.

Sound swanky? Let's start!
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Setting Prompt: The world is quite aflutter. People have been approached by strange demigods asking them to join their Team, saying that soon the world will be partitioned up for a game of natural selection.
This is pretty tame if Jesus wants you, but Fenrir insists on everyone on his team becoming fluffy(to survive the coming winter). No one is quite sure what the Flying Spaghetti Monster wants. He kinda wiggles.
Go for it! What is Virmir's team like? Why are there not enough foxes in the apocalypse? (Silly question, there are never enough).
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Reply #1 on: September 30, 2015, 01:57:53 PM

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Setting Prompt: The world is quite aflutter. People have been approached by strange demigods asking them to join their Team, saying that soon the world will be partitioned up for a game of natural selection.
This is pretty tame if Jesus wants you, but Fenrir insists on everyone on his team becoming fluffy(to survive the coming winter). No one is quite sure what the Flying Spaghetti Monster wants. He kinda wiggles.
Enter Juliet, self proclaimed master thief who just wants the recognition she feels she deserves. Enter also Radi, trickster god of renown. Not that Juliet has ever heard of him, but he claims to be responsible for big things and Juliet at the least believes him. Together they enter this contest in an attempt to gain influence and recognition. They've got a long way to go however, since no one knows who either one of them is! Radi has a plan though, with Juliet's help, he wants to steal Armageddon itself. The odds are looking and anyone who takes them seriously is against them, but if they can pull this off, they will both become legendary.

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In a world without sunlight, life can be rough. When light suddenly express into this world, life gets rougher.

Of the four elements,
None is predominant.
Of the four seasons,
None lasts forever.


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Reply #2 on: September 30, 2015, 05:18:37 PM
The world without light is actually a lost underground civilization, mostly of kobolds and other scrabblers. This is shattered one day when they dig too deep, revealing light from underneath. Everyone agrees that it's very inappropriate, and they didn't zone for interior lighting, and many meetings are held to figure out how to solve the matter. These meetings usually end in slap fights and unfortunate discussions about people's mothers/fathers/deformed cousins.

Enter the Lizard Wizards! A young, festive group of kobolds(and one slithy tove, by adoption), they explore anywhere and everywhere. Even where they shouldn't. And their mom told them to get out of the house, and go explore Somewhere that Isn't Full of Breakable Stuff. So they choose to explore OUTSIDE. Why not? It's there, and light isn't breakable, unless it's in a fancy lamp. Our "heroes"!
Nippy: The calm, collected lizard. Tries to keep everyone else from being dumb. Fails miserably. Is blue, and bald.
Fizzle: The firey leader of the bunch. Loves to gesticulate while carrying dangerous items and/or explosives. Brash, eager, and foolish. Is reddish-orange, with a mohawk that he prides himself on.
Edison: Once they saw they had a theme going, Eddy was prompted to take up electricity magic. So far, his main talent is being able to chew on wires and cables without dying, and indeed glowing from the process. Bit dim in the head when not charged up.
Gust: A perky green kobold who eggs the others on. She's ostensibly a wind mage, but she mainly uses this to fling herself over large gaps. Jumping is for plebeians. Has goggles, but they don't help.
Fester: A black scaled kobold, from the demolition squad. Not actually related to the others, but they knew he needed a nickname. Makes strange concoctions in his spare time, some of them legal!
Sonar: A slithy tove, meaning she's at least twice the height of the others. She was in communications, until she accidentally told the miners that there was a bad gas leak. It was actually a bad asp, who proceeded to eat everyone on the squad. She hasn't been trusted with anyone since. Greenish-blue, with brown moppy hair.

Upon exploring below the light, the lizards are shocked to discover that they do not actually live underground. They live IN THE SKY, on a floating rock. The locals calmly explain that they were put up there as a time out long ago, and everyone kinda forgot? Their bad. In any case, it has gotten to the point that at least 3 religions speak of what will happen when the aliens come out of the rock in the sky, so could they please just go back up and not tell anyone? It would get really awkward really fast. Thanks.
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Modern society goes bonkers when people are randomly given the power to enact a single wish, so long as it's not consequential. They are encouraged to use the wish for petty, self-serving reasons, especially if the result is Funny.
You couldn't wish to be president, but you could wish for the unbridled charisma needed to get there. Wishing for everyone on your block to be kangaroo people would be feasible, if not entirely nice. Try asking them first? No? Okay, have fun.
The wish-givers are totally within their bounds to add Required Secondary Wishes without being asked. This may or may not cause even more havoc.