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lds5xpz | ldrwhuo | [WP] "No, you're fine, I'm not upset," they said, near tears. "It's just ... I haven't heard that song in over a thousand years. Where did you learn it?" | "Oh! Did you hear it during like, a traditional festival or your grandma or something? Apparently they rediscovered it in some ancient tomb that got dug up in Ireland. There wasn't really a Youtube video or anything of it, so I figured why not synthesize it myself?" The elderly man nodded, though I wasn't too sure he u... | “Sorry, I didn’t learn it. I heard it in a dream” she replied. “What was your name again? I know you have told me before but it keeps slipping my mind.”
Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought reincarnation to be real but now that I remember the witches humming and the pain in my chest do I know know what... |
jd09wo6 | jczp44i | [WP] After a short dizziness you pick up your head to find yourself in seventh grade. The teacher looks at you and asks derisively, "Are you having one of your 'I'm somebody else' incidents again?" Behind you, someone begs you not to answer. The teacher continues, "then answer the question already!" | "Are you having one of your 'I'm sombody else' incidents again?" she asked. She clearly did not have time for this.
"Say no!" said someone behind me.
I was sitting in a chair attached to a little desk, like junior high. "Uh?" I mumbled.
"... then answer the question already!" she (the teacher?) said.
"No! I am n... | Who works an 8 hour job
In the sun wit no shade,
Only to wake up in an episode of Saved by the Bell,
D@!# I'm in 7th grade?
What in the Quantum Leap,
Tom Hanks in BIG is this?
Did the boys at work slip me mushrooms again,
Oh shhh my daughter is gonna be pissed;
A kick in the leg from the girl behind me
Shaking her h... |
jhx00p5 | jhwxz5v | [WP] A noble sentenced to die is allowed to choose their execution method. They ask to die in honourable combat against the king's knights, armed with a wooden sword while the knights have real weapons. It's been 24 hours since the execution started and the king is running out of knights. | "I hereby knight you, sir..."
"Ratmilk, majesty."
The King grimaced, then continued, "Sir Ratmilk. Rise, a Knight of the Realm."
Sir Ratmilk, previously the most violent thug of the capital city of Polasti had been captured and knighted in haste, as Duke Jost knocked his eleventh noble Knight unconscious with the bu... | After he deposed me, they said he was the greatest swordsman the world had ever seen. They said that was why my knights chose to follow him, because he’d beaten them with nothing but a wooden sword, had proven himself stronger.
They’re fools. He’s competent in a fight, anyone who wants to survive at court needs to be,... |
jhxiylu | jhxdb4p | [WP] A noble sentenced to die is allowed to choose their execution method. They ask to die in honourable combat against the king's knights, armed with a wooden sword while the knights have real weapons. It's been 24 hours since the execution started and the king is running out of knights. | It was a horror.
The man had been caught on some unspecified charges. My nobles wanted him to die. I suspect pure xenophobia as the reason- the man was a foreigner after all.
I? The King in but name, a mere spectator, a puppet in the hands of my nobles.
As a saving grace, my prime minister did allow the man to choos... | I glance around as the panic and confusion naw at me, my mind tries to find a name as I stammer, "Um- Uh- Ste-Stevie? Stevie! Send Stevie next!"
Stevie begs, "Sir, please, I have a wife and child!"
An arm is thrown from the room with a scream, I don't notice it as I stammer again, "Uh- Um, okay. Oh- Bobby? Where's Bo... |
jm23beo | jm1vrjn | [WP] There's a forest that people say resembles the ocean. A forest where the land slopes endlessly deeper but the tops of the trees do not. Animals, plantlife... they're said to get stranger the further in one goes. | No one returns from the depths.
The chains binding the prisoners rattled against the deck as the airship hovered low over the canopy. Agila peeked over the edge, her emerald eyes searching desperately into the darkness beyond the canopy for any reason to hope for survival.
The Forest undulated unnaturally as waves ... | There's no mistaking the Ocean's Rainforest when I reach the land that borders it. Here, the lands sink into depths beyond what my eyes can see, sloping endlessly deeper while all that is visible to the naked eye are lush, evergreen crowns of the imposing trees that stand taller and taller as the land dives down.
The ... |
lgqe41g | lgq10k6 | [WP] After you gave your master the standard 3 wishes, you told him to leave the lamp in a place like a women’s shelter or a homeless camp. Instead he sold your lamp to the highest bidder and now you are determined to twist the 3 wishes to the detriment of both your current and former master. | The first wish was for money. It's always money.
"I wish for enough money to buy whatever I want whenever I need it."
And yet, even "enough" was not sufficient for him.
His second wish was for fame.
"I wish to be the most famous actor in all the world, beloved and adored by all who see my films."
Third, and fina... | The sun finally dipped below the horizon, casting long shadows across the city as Marcus wrapped his fingers around the ancient lamp in his small condo room. His heart pounded with excitement; he had heard the legends of genies granting wishes, like anyone else would, but he never thought he'd hold such power in his ha... |
ltztj8d | ltzm6an | [WP] "You have misunderstood the lore, hunter. It is neither crucifix, nor rosary, nor holy water, nor any other trapping of faith, but faith ITSELF that is anathema to my kind. And yours has proven to be. . . insufficient." | The hunter sank to their knees, unbelieving that dousing a vampire in 'holy water' would do nothing. "H.. How."
A glare shut them up. No compulsion needed, except that of someone rightly vexed at their good clothes being unexpectedly soaked. "You misunderstand, hunter," Leopold von Trier, vampire for two centuries, fi... | "Someone has misunderstood something here. But it is not me." I said as I unleashed another volley of my shotgun in the leg of this accursed being.
It let out a grunt of pain, as the members were sent flying backward once again. I threw the weapon, its bullet now extended and took my handgun, aiming and shooting at it... |
jnqzsco | jnqnbqd | [WP] For 10 long years war has raged while the Galactic Committee held a tight leash on the humans; stating "We do things a certain way". Now, with the enemy closing in, the leash comes off. | “President Khima. We are sorry to have kept your people out so long, but we are left without a choice.”
“Delegate S’grer I know your people all came from paradise worlds and war had always been more a sport. But not all Deathworlders enjoy death. Do not fear old friend, we will help.” he pressend a small button on hi... | Not only had the leash come off, but the "Americans" lost their general, the Canadians were also down to the most unstable, and the Russians were given explicit permission to go ham. To most of the other species in the Galactic Committee, this made them uneasy to watch their remaining leaders realize this was necessary... |
j9rflg7 | j9qp8km | [WP] The knight who saved the princess was a 40 year old man with a wife and kids. He doesn't want her hand he just thinks teenage girls shouldn't be held captive in towers in the middle of nowhere. | "You rescued me!" The princess exclaimed, stepping gingerly over the still warm corpse of the beast that had been her captor.
"Huh?...well yes I suppose" the armor clad knight scratched his chin in confusion. "I just figured that *someone* should have come out by now."
The princess leaned in, fluttering her eyes ju... | "This is what I was saying!" Martha screamed. "It's that god damned dog all over again! You save one stray dog, what happens when you come across the next stray dog?! We live in *Arkansas*, Justin! We could find a stray dog every block if we wanted to! And now that same pathology, with helpless young women stuck in tow... |
mewuk14 | mevyrxh | [WP] The Gods have come to a consensus and have decided to take back that fire thing that was stolen from them. Man can no longer contain, control or create fire. Fire is once again solely the domain of The Gods | It was too late. As the humans grappled with the new unpredictability of fire, they had already invented work arounds. Radiators powered by electric boilers, convection hobs, even electric cars neglected the need for internal comubstion engines. The humans hadn‘t been planning to shift so soon but coal and gas were rap... | Avanecci was a bastard, but at least he was clever.
"Hold this," he said, shoving one of his devices into Talia's hands. "What is it?" she asked, not expecting him to bother answering. When he got into one of his moods, he rarely interacted with anyone. To her surprise, though, Avanecci was watching her. "Never mind t... |
mewuk14 | mewkknc | [WP] The Gods have come to a consensus and have decided to take back that fire thing that was stolen from them. Man can no longer contain, control or create fire. Fire is once again solely the domain of The Gods | It was too late. As the humans grappled with the new unpredictability of fire, they had already invented work arounds. Radiators powered by electric boilers, convection hobs, even electric cars neglected the need for internal comubstion engines. The humans hadn‘t been planning to shift so soon but coal and gas were rap... | **March 2025**
“Scientists are still researching the possible cause of the catastrophic disappearance of fire for now, but leads are scarce and some of them are starting to warn the public about the fact we might never know where the fire went and we need to start the adjustment process a.s.a.p. This has been Sal... |
ji0cstg | ji04ad8 | [WP] 4 more minutes on the run and you would have made it. But now your face in the mud, and a knee in your back the officer reads your rights. "Chosen by lottery, informed within the time limit. You are hearby duly sworn as the President of the United States." | Blood rushed in my ears, my heart pounding like a forge in my chest. I drank the thick forest air greedily and I made my mad dash down the trail. Bloodhounds bellowed behind me, eager for their treats for tracking me down so quickly.
I risked a glance over my shouldst to gauge how close they were. That was a huge mist... | It all ended and it all began with a tree root, a rather ordinary brown twist of sinew that had meandered across the poorly-lit path I was running down. I never saw it coming and flew in the air like a floundering superhero before landing face-first in the mud. My pursuers caught me in seconds, the officer putting extr... |
jba14d6 | jb9yvsc | [WP] Human society has collapsed since the vanishings began. Anyone left alone, unseen or untouched by another person, stops existing. Those who remain now survive as herds, sleeping in huddled masses and always touching in some way while awake. | The paranoid ones were the first to go.
You know the ones – the ones that put tapes over their damn laptop cameras, they get glasses that prevent any photos from being taken, the ones that don’t stream themselves and stay off the socials.
You know, the ones no one really cares about.
When the news came of disappe... | 13.7 billion years. That's how long it took for the rules of reality to collapse. The concept of the "universe" can be interpreted in many different ways. Is it everything? Or is it a simple part of the true grandeur of infinity? That question may never be answered. However, what is known, or, what humanity thought the... |
jbxs3du | jbxpyng | [WP] Intergalactic Security stops a human outside the warp gate, attempting to arrest them for smuggling a container of dangerous caustic liquid. The embarrassed, exhausted human with lightyears of jetlag struggles to explain to the increasingly terrified officers what a "stomach" is. | Burt Divento sighed. Peering over at the Border Control agents, he wondered how much longer this was going to take. This was supposed to have been one of the most important diplomatic missions of his life, and he was going to be late.
"Look," he said, tapping his watch impatiently. "It's 13:43 Universal Time, and I'm ... | The crackling Universal Translating Device (UTD) barked, "Freeze the movement off all appendages immediately!"
"Ughhh," I groaned in a murky mixture of exhaustion and irritation, before raising my hands up and turning around. The *'officer'* behind me stared with a vague look of terror.
"What...? I passed all the pre... |
j2qes97 | j2pz3c6 | [WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“ | "You got it!"
*click*
Nothing happened.
"Aww well." I sighed "Guess I'm fired now huh?"
"Wait you actually pushed the button?" The distorted voice on the other side of the line asked "You broke the ONE rule we told you not to break?"
"Yeah pretty much..." I paused and continued. In for a penny. "Well no. I broke a... | I picked up the phone.
"Press the button," said a stern, slightly panicked voice. "NOW!!"
"No," I replied, my heart skipping a beat. "I... I can't."
Some wind noise and distorted sounds came from the other end of the line. What sounded like screams of agony turned to distant pleads for help. "We're dying over ... |
lr72uxb | lr6fdgm | [WP] You are the captain of a sinking ship. As you feel that the sinking is your fault you decide to go down with the ship instead of evacuating. It is only when your ship hits the bottom of the ocean and you are still alive that you notice that something is off. | It felt like yesterday, when we had boarded this vessel as usual. Another sunny day, a matter of routine by now. Of course we had some difficult encounters before. Yet never anything like that. Nothing had indicated the misery on the horizon. It felt like yesterday, yesterday had been peaceful, but all great turmoil ha... | **The Captain who Capsized a Disney Cruise**
wasn’t someone he could accept being for the rest of his life. After escorting all five thousand passengers onto lifeboats, the Donald Duck voice filter still turned on as he gave orders on the PA, he quietly slipped back into the tilting corridors, and found his way to hi... |
jedn3p1 | jedhccy | [WP] You are the latest generation in a rather unique family business. Your family has been finding new jobs for out-of-work gods. Your great-great-grandma was particularly proud of giving Odin the job of Santa. You knew it was going to be a long day when you saw an anxious Loki in your lobby. | "And what is this ... thing? This *thing* this putrid worm is demanding?"
I sighed. I had already answered this exact question perhaps a dozen times. I really needed sleep. My normal bedtime was 2 hours ago - in real world terms. From the perspective of me and this god, it had been 17 sleepless weeks.
Nonetheless. A... | I walked into my offebuilding, the coffee to go in my right hand, a big folder in my other hand. I hated Wednesday mornings. Everyone seemed rather pleased with the workweek halfways over, but somehow for me Wednesdays are always days filled with agony.
As I walked through the rotating doors and past my receptionis... |
j4tl9aj | j4sukwz | [WP] The Greek, Norse, and Egyptian pantheons of gods attend a conference on Mount Olympus, trying to discern whether or not Christianity's god is evil or truly good as it claims. The talks were going poorly until an Archangel came to visit them. | I knocked on the door to the meeting hall and tried to steel my nerves. As I practiced my deep breathing, the door opened up to reveal Heracles, his ten foot frame filling up the doorway. He looked down at me and asked, "Can I help you?"
I gulped and answered, "Yes, hi, my name is Vanyael, and I'm here about the Chris... | As these deities of grand varieties spoke ───── ; bickering on the logistics on this so called " Father " , the gate to their strong was suddenly pushed open by a violent force. Their voices hushed , their gazes now snapped at the one that dared to disrupt the meetings of such important entities. Beings as Thor and Are... |
lsejfqj | lsecgox | [WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | "Who did it?"
The Low Bar went silent.
The hero known as the Pillar of The Community, aka Pillar, pleaded with his eyes.
"Please, tell me. Who did it. WHO DID IT! WHO KILLED MY MOM!"
Glass shattered from his enhanced lung power backing his broken rage as the villains in the room all started to back into the cor... | Today was supposed to be a celebration, and it was—I must have been on my sixth round of shots, and god knows how many drinks I’d had by that point. The boss had finally scored big and was picking up the tab for the whole night, so the drinks were practically flowing like water.
I honestly couldn’t believe how easy th... |
lsf8s9k | lsep8br | [WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | Everyone in the city knew to avoid Wolfsbane.
But even if you weren’t from the city, the signs were all there, screaming at you to either turn around or break the speed limit like an American cooking spaghetti. Even two blocks away, most of the shops were unoccupied. The houses all locked doors at seven in the night, ... | "I almost had it... everything! The whole damn world... in my hand." The Devourer clenched a gauntlet clad hand before sighing and taking another drink of his ale.
"There's always next time," I said, smiling sympathetically. He was the most recent of us to have had our plans thwarted by the Crimson Flame, the most ... |
lshhcrw | lsgnzxt | [WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | It was easy for Noelle. Even her name had an indicator of happiness tied to it. To fight for the land she believed in. To bear blades against the villains and offer gloveless hands to the needy.
It was so easy.
But this? This was not easy. She offers everything to this land and its rulers, and in return, they offer h... | The attack on the Dome Galla was the biggest news going around town. Everyone heard of what happened. The annual Dome Galla event hosted by Dome Industries was bombed, and attacked by what looked like mercs. Everyone was talking about it at the Cell, but no one had any idea who it was that orchestrated it. I was just y... |
lt2c2in | lsgnzxt | [WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | There's rules, there's exceptions.
Most heroes understood that. Violence wasn't ok, until it was. Everyone was to be saved, until they weren't. Its why most of them tried to kill me on sight.
There's rules, there's exceptions.
I understood this. You only get to play if you follow the script. You're *expected* to ... | The attack on the Dome Galla was the biggest news going around town. Everyone heard of what happened. The annual Dome Galla event hosted by Dome Industries was bombed, and attacked by what looked like mercs. Everyone was talking about it at the Cell, but no one had any idea who it was that orchestrated it. I was just y... |
jbkoxkd | jbk4qim | [WP] In 1954, major leaders of the world received a message: “We have examined your planet, and do not find it desirable. As we depart, we leave some of our technology knowledge on your moon for you.” They thought we’d all share it. Instead we had a space race, followed shortly by a tech revolution. | 70 years ago, a miracle happened.
The solutions to hunger, the solutions to war, the solutions to a coming ecological disaster were just a space mission away, and we knew nothing about it.
In 1954, the most powerful people in the world were sent a radio message to their offices, encrypted in a way that only they coul... | Three months ago, Mr. Dino Callas claims that he was abducted by aliens. With the information we received a week ago, this story may shed light on it.
**ALIEN ABDUCTION RECORD:**
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I was drinking alone in the woods. I thought it'd be another nice night camping. That's when this LearJet flew down into the field ne... |
kzjj5h6 | kzix7jj | [WP] You're a deaf superhero. You're hated by most of the villain because you kept beating them during their monologue. One villain however, knows your deaf disability and learnt sign language just to monologue themself to you. | “…you’ll find there’s no use running,” Pyro concluded his hand gestures, a satisfied grin painted across his face. Sure enough, the restaurant he’d lured Brooks into had no escape routes. Grills along the windows, motion-sensing bombs at the doors, canines on the rooftop – a flawless trap.
Moments passed as Brooks sco... | I found myself in one of the top villains' hideout, speaking in front of me is Don Miguel. The top 4 villain, is what I assumed he is doing since I can't hear a thing he's saying. Listen buddy, if you're gonna monologue then at least do it in sign or write it to me. I'd rather not bore myself trying to discipher what h... |
k7atj5a | k7ak58j | [WP] You know, Butler, I heard that the mansion is haunted by a ghost. That's quite silly, sir. I've worked here for 228 years, and I've never seen a single ghost in the mansion. | Charles paused mid-sip of his cup of Earl Grey. “Pardon?”
Butler did not smile—he never did—but he gave his version of a smile, a slight curling upward of the right corner of his mouth and the tiniest crinkle beside his eyes. “I’ve never seen a ghost throughout my entire tenure, sir.”
“And—and you’ve worked here for ... | You know, Butler, I heard that the mansion is haunted by a ghost. That's quite silly, sir. I've worked here for 228 years, and I've never seen a single ghost in the mansion.
“Is that right?” I say as I continue walking down the aisle of paintings
“Yes, quite right indeed”
“Hmmmm” I stop in my track... |
jd8z4t1 | jd8tzbd | [WP] A grandma that you helped across the road turned out to be a genie who grants you a wish, you wish for a perfect 2023, but she misunderstood and now every day at 20:23 everything goes your way. | August 7, 2031, 8:30 pm, Atlanta, GA
She was laying in her crib when her heart stopped.
August 7, 2031, 9:00 pm, outskirts of Atlanta
Little Jenny lay in her car seat, her face blue. As Moe sped through the interstate, way above the speed limit, 2 police cars were tailing him.
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August 7 2031, 9:10 p... | He wakes up in the morning tired, dejected at another days of work. Starts off his day with some basic chores.
A light breakfast to start the day, eggs and a toasted piece of bread, that's all you can afford on Walmart's minimum wage salary anyway. The repeated mundane cycle was definitely killing him inside and chip... |
jd8z4t1 | jd7nvfu | [WP] A grandma that you helped across the road turned out to be a genie who grants you a wish, you wish for a perfect 2023, but she misunderstood and now every day at 20:23 everything goes your way. | August 7, 2031, 8:30 pm, Atlanta, GA
She was laying in her crib when her heart stopped.
August 7, 2031, 9:00 pm, outskirts of Atlanta
Little Jenny lay in her car seat, her face blue. As Moe sped through the interstate, way above the speed limit, 2 police cars were tailing him.
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August 7 2031, 9:10 p... | At 8:21, I approached them.
“Evening, ladies.” I said. “Another round?”
Three of the young ladies were engaged in rapid conversation. The fourth sat glued to her phone.
“What are you ladies drinking?” I tried again.
“Dude, take a hint.” One of the trio said without looking my way.
The other two of the trio giggled... |
j5qc1dx | j5pwxnj | [WP] You wake up in a chair in a padded cell. Someone else sits across from you. A voice from a speaker in the ceiling says, "One of you is a natural person. One of you is artificial. Determine which is which. The real person gets to go free." You can't remember anything before this room. | The room is silent, except for the nervous tapping of the woman in front of me. I smile, it's not hopeless. Not yet. The room is bright and strangely cheerful. I smile and try to remain calm. The voice speaks again.
"You may begin. Test Forty Five is now in progress."
The silence continued, the woman was... | ZZZZZZZ... the sound wakes me up, someone is snoring near me. I would never admit it loud, but I know that it is my snore. Several times I’ve been woken by it. Many times, I wake... Wait, where do I woke in?
I do not remember.
Who am I? Where am I? And who the \*\*\*\* is the man next to me?
The other is stil... |
lfqa7g4 | lfq76z5 | [WP] Humans have always had a tough time winning medals at the Galactic Olympics, but there is one game that they're weirdly, freakishly good at. | “And you say this is a game for your young?”
“Obviously. Come on Katth’eek, just put the mitt on and catch. That’s it.”
“Oh Hu’man, this is one of your people’s ‘jokes’ is it? This is clearly not a game for children. If I could laugh Hu’man, I would approve of your non-sensical making.”
“What are you talking abo... | It was called Survival, pairs of each species were dropped scattered across a wasteland with no gear except clothes and 25 kilograms each of gear and supplies. Other species required much more mass to keep them alive in various conditions, humans could survive naturally in a wider variety of environments and didn't req... |
juyy9yd | juyqoah | [WP] You're the first test subject for an experimental super soldier serum. You are told the truth only after you transform into something not quite human anymore. | It was my weekly check-in. I didn't mind. I had won the lottery.
Neuron-degenerative diseases are the worst way to go you can imagine. I had volunteered for every accursed experimental treatment on offer.
I kind of expected that to kill me *faster*.. which, at the time, that counted as an upside.
I got Lucky. I ... | I stared at my reflection in horror, unable to come to terms with what I had become. My body was now a grotesque amalgamation of tentacles, pulsating tendrils, and unrecognizable squid-like features. The once familiar image in the mirror had transformed into a nightmarish Lovecraftian creature. As the madness took hold... |
jmxqw7p | jmxqc2x | [WP] A knight has approached the dragon's cave and, vowing to rescue you at any cost, has proclaimed his undying love for you. None of this would be out of the ordinary, if you were the princess and not the dragon that captured her. | "Sezzira! I've long adored your self-confidence, your beautiful amber eyes, and your ability to breathe a steady stream of fire for over five minutes. Your glittering scales shine brighter than the jewels of Oakhaven, and your forked tongue makes me think the most scandalous thoughts. I'm here to ask you to abscond to ... | “I shall save you, as my love for thee is undeniable and everlasting!” The knight called out boisterously.
*’here comes another one of these posers. Nothing about their schtick ever changes.’* my thoughts echo, an irritated and impatient huff of smoke leaving my nostrils.
“This is getting so old.” I mutter, before ... |
kgv6g1y | keuidz3 | [WP] After mistakenly transfering to a high school for monsters, you try to tell them that you're just a regular human. However, because of bizarre coincidences creating apparently inexplicable situations, the school population and teachers come to believe you're actually an Eldritch Abomination | The ride there was uneventful. Bus packed with kids my age. Some of them looked a little strange, with their eyes pointing different directions, another wiggling his tongue around every few seconds, but it was easily solved by seating myself far away from them and forgetting about it for the rest of the trip. I took a ... | An Eldritch abomination? Does anyone even know what that means? Many claim they do, but the truth is a rather complex set of circumstances that can make you one and if you are skilled enough you can still go back if you didn't do anything preventing you from entering the light side again. Truth be told, anyone can join... |
m6vxfdn | m6vq9zm | [WP] a king has received the standard prophecy that his youngest daughter will be the one to kill him but instead of reacting as "get this baby out of my sight an abandoned it somewhere in the woods for it to die" he accepts his fate and dinner time is made very awkward | “I can’t possibly kill you, papa!” The little princess, Dayang, exclaimed at the top of her lungs. The thought of having to kill her father made her spine shiver. After all the years, King Lapu showed nothing but kindness and genuine love towards her. “I can’t… I don’t want to…”
The king lay on his bed, bedridden and ... | The king sat slumped over his bowl of soup, lifeless eyes staring forward into oblivion. “Gods, Martha. What have you done to the king?” said the king’s servant as he entered the dining hall carrying what was to be the next course.
“She shot him in the back of the head.” said Thelma, the king’s eldest daughter. The ki... |
jtfkt55 | jtfd593 | [WP] One day, the heads of all religions in the world recieve a telepathic message. "We are the Divine Protection Service, You have been removed from the care of your god for reasons of neglect. You will be entrusted to the care of a foster god." | It was 20 December 2025. All broadcasts—television, radio, everything!—was hijacked by an extraordinary message. All screens were displaying the same text, even the ones broken or not plugged in. Entire warehouses of monitors just suddenly switched on without power supply. The white-on-black text stated
"Your god has ... | Faith is an emotion on its own. To embark on a journey of faith, true faith is a right on its own.
Some people have recently lost that right. They called themselves the champions, the flag bearers of their religion but instead they forgot the one thing that made faith the most powerful force in the world, humanity. ... |
j53j4t6 | j53hbu9 | [WP] You are the only S-Class (god-like) mutant at a school of super powered youngsters. Only the head master knows, and you try like hell to keep it a secret. But one day, that all changed... | No one really understood my powers , everyone kind of thought I just coasted through classes but that I was constantly called to the head office and that things just always worked out for me, the only person who knows is the headmaster , they can exist out of space time so they kind of know when my power has been used…... | Mimic
I'm not looking for a complex life, but that's really hard when life wants to make you complex. Mutants are rare in this society. Only about 1 in every 100,000 has some kind of abnormality about them. Some developed flight, super strength, telekinesis, etc. Simple things you know? My odds were slim, but I w... |
jb8caxa | jb8b9zt | [WP] Humans are the proverbial "Sleeping Giant," and thus make remarkably good deterrents. A common tactic of the Galactic Federation is to simply call in a human warship, such as the USS "Fuck Around and, FindOut," and simply let it sit nearby. Peace Talks happen within the week. | The hustle and bustle of the bridge provides plenty of ambient noise for my thoughts. Another deployment. Somebody Fucked Up.
If there was one thing I hated it was territory disputes. Just stupid time wasting bullshit, The universe is literally full of god damn rocks just expand in a different direction nobody is that... | Humanity had a destiny.
Or so we thought. Since the first fire was shared between one of our ancient plains dwelling ancestors and another. Our species slowly, generation after generation, became more capable of selflessness.
It had many labels throughout the centuries, from goodness to godliness. It's core ideology... |
jhitcln | jhiqft3 | [WP] You've been summoned as a hero of legend to save a medieval fantasy world from evil. Same old, same old. However, it very quickly dawns on you that a medieval world's idea of "evil" is quite incompatible with what you, a modern person, would consider evil. | I gripped my sword tightly and walked towards the stone mansion hidden deep in the woods. For a den of evil and debauchery, it looked surprisingly... mundane. Yet the quest I was given upon my summoning was clear; the pleas of the distraught king apparent. Whoever - or whatever - was hiding inside this house was commit... | The night has come, the torches are lit, the crowd is chanting.
"Smite the wicked, bless the pure of heart."
The circle has been drawn with the entrails of animals, the stench is magnified by the heat, the miasma whirls as the voices get louder.
"Hunt the shadows, deliver us from evil."
The old man stood in the mid... |
jaabqhz | jaa0iw5 | [WP] A fantasy army with its generic Hollywood tactics meets a small group of Medieval Infantry who understand things like "formations" and "discipline". | It all began when the worlds colided.
How it happened or why, noone understood. But now new foes were marching through the land, alien kingdoms were demmanding new lands to expand. When king Andrew "the Conqueror" learned that a band of around 250 men had trespassed his frontiers, he expected the his army to easily fe... | Mid-day 3/2/045: "Warsong's Bridge."
A soft wind blows through the encampment as I turn the haft of my spear between my gauntlets. The small detachment of our regimental engineers is sprinting between the river's shore and the nearby forest as I observe the distant swamps of Kadesh. Death's hand lingers above the re... |
kdrjr1k | kdr54ln | [WP]You get isekai’d into a typical fantasy world with the ability to summon any weapon. You often summon typical weapons like swords, spears, maybe a gun if you need it. You finally realize fictional weapons can be summoned. | I always felt that a *proper* Isekai had three parts.
First, you were killed in the real world. And, well, in math terms? A person + a truck? Yeah, that equals a truck.
Second, you found yourself transported to a new, more magical, world. That was certainly the case. I awoke (buck naked) surrounded by thirteen chan... | My deep breathing intensified by the moment as the realization of imminent defeat approached, in the form of a Dark Lord, the size of a Troll from Lord of the Rings at least, in full black armor, with a crimson sword, filled with the blood of my soldiers, towards me.
It had been 3 years since I came into this world, b... |
lrao0tz | lracbrq | [WP] "You never killed him! He kept committing crimes and hurting and killing people and you just LET HIM! So we, the citizens, did it FOR YOU!" The supervillain's corpse twitched as the hero asked, "Did you ever stop and wonder why? I can't help you anymore. So I'm leaving this planet. Good luck." | Adam watched in horror as the missiles crashed down at the feet of Evernight. At first the shock wave hit that send a powerful gust of force outwards from the blast zone leveling multiple buildings and sending cars flying into their air. Then the blinding light and thundering noise caught up. The world around him wa... | With a single bound, the hero rocketed up into the bright blue sky, towards the upper atmosphere. A swirling of dust and leaves were the only indication he once held stewardship over this planet. The gathered crowd stood in stunned silence. From somewhere in its depths, a voice called out.
"Well now what do we do?"
T... |
kfmda7o | kfm7wjt | [WP] They said that you could never save the kingdom, that you would fail and die miserably, because you were not the prophesized hero. And when you returned after saving the realm on your own, instead of welcoming you as a hero the king banished you, as it was not your place to save them. | I threw my arms over my companions when the pronouncement was made.
"It was not your place to kill the demon king. When the prophesized hero kills the demon king the land will experience peace and prosperity for the next millennia. Yet, war and famine ravages our land and destroys our people. You have robbed this chan... | (Just a friendly reminder I'm not a native English speaker)
After I defeated him... Lucas... I returned. Knowing my fate would be horrible. I had two good reasons to know this; the king would not like it. He was the prophesized hero, wich also was the reason of his power, his reason of being king. But he would never ha... |
jtzvyti | jtzimln | [WP] You used to be the scourge of kingdoms, the reaper of heroes and the mere mention of your name scared even the toughest of them. But today no one remembers you and you are fine with that. You have lived in peace ever since until one day a stranger approaches you and calls you by your true name. | “Lagus.” The name is a statement, but I don’t turn around, my beer paused on its journey to my mouth. “Lagus Oryn, don’t ignore me.”
I slowly lower the cup.
“Fine, I can wait. For a while,” the figure grabs the stool next to me and takes a seat. It’s a young woman, a girl really. Young enough that she shouldn’t be ... | ##Human Nature
The old woman hobbled to the chess board in the middle of the park. The other tables were occupied with games, and she decided to wait. Eventually, someone would come, and they would grant her a game.
A confident young man walked towards her. She knew his type well. He thought she was merely a warm-u... |
jpxrsrp | jpxrpxk | [WP] You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you're about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you. | Listen. Everybody makes mistakes. I was young. I had ambitions. I genuinely thought what I was doing was right, though. I thought that by securing enough power I could mold the world into the utopian vision I'd always dreamed of. But I was blind. And my blindness led me to darker and darker places. Before long ... | His granddaughter walked out of the police station with the conclusion from her savior that she had no idea what she was doing. The old man in the car took her home and bandaged her up. “What in gods name we’re you thinking?”
“I wanted to prove myself to the other villains that I can do something.”
“So you went aft... |
jq0lg9k | jq0l1ho | [WP] You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you're about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you. | As I sat there in my rocking chair on the porch gumming at a stick of jerky, no teeth means no chewing but fuck it, its tasty. The police officer spoke to my little Trish about the ransom demand and told her that their policy was to never give in to it.
I pull the stick of softened jerky from my mouth. “How… much is t... | -PART 1-
Dawn breaks as you return to your home. Modest, out of the way, and unremarkable to most. The garage door closes behind you, and you rearrange the various yard tools hanging on the wall until the floor of the garage opens, revealing a dimly lit and narrow staircase. You descend sluggishly, you aren’t in the s... |
lt8ly53 | lt83e12 | [WP] “Uhh, why is the barbarian holding a skillet?” “Oh, he thinks he’s a wizard, and that skillet is the focus for his spells, like a wand.” “He has spells?” “Just one spell. Except, it’s really just him smacking someone in the head while shouting ‘I CAST IRON!!’ It’s actually rather comical.” | Stront is the son of an orc chieftain Tront and human anthropologist, Fian Dossey, whom had infiltrated the orc tribe to research for her doctoral thesis, compensating for her disregard of personal safety with grey body paint and prosthetic tusks. Stront, unaware of his half human heritage, nevertheless inherited the ... | This reminds me of a Pathfinder game I'm current in, currently close to level 15 Monk of the Mantis.
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The combat begins. Victory is assured, I knew this. I am a Master of the Shadow Fist style. The style of True Death. The greatest and most feared of the Tian styles, a deadly and precise mix ... |
loityxo | loifflc | [WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | "Aha! But you forget! I have the power of my Freeze Ray!" I cheered at the hero.
They played their part and smirked. Many were watching from the sidelines, as I cutely raised the contraption that looked like a glue gun, but used ice cubes instead of glue sticks. Legs spread apart, held with both of my grubby little ch... | "The heroes and i,had had a friendly relationship at times. really my journey into so called villainy, started with My youngest sons Milos 6th birthday,him and his friends wanted it to be super hero themed,so i dawned my pirate suit,i haven't worn,in years,since i was captain of the Infamous Black rose pirates,i want... |
loj0to2 | lohwwr9 | [WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | (Sorry for any spacing and formatting problems, typed this on my phone)
Aidan Maxwell, villain callsign "Lightwave." He was in the middle of his normal hijinks, making people think they're losing it by moving things around without anyone seeing him, taking things and framing others for the infractions to start minor q... | Part 1 of 2
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Pascal wrote as much. You're not certain what it was about, certainly something about God and faith. Not that it matters, the sentence stuck with you, and you agree. One shouldn't always look for reasoning, the absence of it explains so many things.... |
j5ltstv | j5lq8a6 | [WP] While sailing solo in the Pacific you respond to a signal fire on the beach of a deserted island and discover a marooned shipwreck survivor who has waited 15 years for rescue. A peculiar individual, when exploring the cave he lives in you find markings counting down the days until you arrive | „I wish you weren’t so sad.“
The sentence cut through the silence like a hot knife through butter.
Wait. Did I say that out loud?
Everybody stared at me. First and foremost all the people who stood in the cue before me.
One wish per adult per year. Only granted if never asked before. Those were the rules. So people ... | "What did you wish for?" they would always ask, and I would simply smile.
It had been years since that day. Looking back through the memories of my life, I always marveled at the twists and turns my life had taken. Orphaned at only five months old. Foster parents murdered before I turned three. A solid decade of a dow... |
jp0fiar | jp0fgu8 | [WP] A kid losing a video game, and getting their big brother to beat it for them, as seen from an npc's perspective | Not the pit again....this will be the 40th time today I'll have fallen into this pit and had to restart the level. The young one is fun to watch as he trys to navigate through the level his youthful exuberance refreshing and a reminder of why most of us enjoy what we do. But this pit was getting the better of him... | ##Brothers in Arms
The gun ripped through my compatriots. Hordes of zombies emerged from the grave only to be sent back to the underworld. The hero unleashed a loud scream of power. The zombies got stronger, and the hero removed his armor. Their battle waged onward.
"Now, he's just showing off?" Eliza said from behin... |
kgsbi07 | kgrqnmn | [WP] As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed. | "Refill, hon?"
I held out my mug with a smile and replied, "You're a peach, Tina."
Tina the waitress topped off my coffee before stepping out from behind the counter with an order of chicken and waffles. "So, heard you threw down with Kestrel yesterday. What happened there?"
I chuckled through a mouthful of hashbrow... | Tucking in a small patch of chew into my lip I looked up at the once beautiful Mount Yorklin. Named after the small town below, founding father. On the side of it were thirty or so drones drilling away at the cliffside, welding large steel beams in for support. Near the foot of the mountain, standing a few mule steps o... |
j9mmyee | j9mg8cy | [WP] 1000 years ago when you found out you were living in a simulation, you managed to break out of it into the real world. 982 years ago you discovered that the "real world" is the dream of a space entity. Now, after breaking through over 500 layers of "true realities", you recall old memory. | As I drift off into the void of yet another space between dreams, I take the time to wonder about all the moments that led me to decry the reality around me…
It all seemed so innocuous at first, the subtle patterns that seemed to echo across the data sets and defy the reality of quantum mechanics and the standard mode... | There are many languages we speak each day. There are the words that we actually articulate. There is the body language that adds nuance. A certain look in the eyes may change that meaning. Shared history with our audience flavors it further. Perhaps even professional language comes into play. Specialized words t... |
kfecpmo | kfdc1s6 | [WP] Humans are often abducted as exotic pets for aliens. One day, your owner enters with a book and starts trying to speak your language. | Tentacled Mass was holding something which glowed a bit differently than the usual something. No food this time, no treats, not frilly little outfits or new toys or anyhthing, just the glowing device, matte black along one side, flattish. A bit like a cell phone, but about 3 feet long and only a few inches across. medi... | I heard the door open, and I snarled like a caged animal, scrambling into an open stance crouch that would let me tackle and grab one of these weird gangly motherfucking aliens.
I see the one who put this fucking collar on me and they're carrying a book. One of their personal droids is floating right next to them, an... |
kzsuex0 | kzsta7b | [WP] You are a literal god who pretends to be a d-list superhero. You've grown extremely attached to the people of the village you protect. You get news that an epic battle is taking place near your village and would most likely destroy it... | Pupperman made puppies. He loved puppies. He conjured puppies out of nowhere. His hero name was all about his obsession with puppies. It was all he ever seemed to be about.
Somehow, he still managed to pass the basic superhero qualification test. D-list, but still a hero.
Pupperman's puppies could retrieve lost items... | I grew up... well, it's more like i had spent a lot of time living here in this quaint village. Home to about 200 people mainly known for its farming and beautiful orchards, and with strong connections and regular trade with the nearby kingdom of the wood elves that live in forest.
I remember when I was much younger, ... |
lemy92v | lem69as | [WP] You died, you met a god(dess), and you got offered a new life in another world with the usual package -- OP powers, a personal harem, the works. Smelling a scam, you refused. That pissed them off. | "...you said no to me? NO ONE says no to me." I looked towards her.
"...did- did you even to research into my history on earth? Why should I believe what you're saying?"
The goddess looked towards me.
"Did it matter? You get everything." I shook my head.
"That's what they always said. Don't deal with the bullies, y... | So... She was dead now, she didn't expect that a truck would be the one to end her subscription of living but it seems that it did. Now she was here in front of something that had a humanoid body of pure light offering her a new life in a different world. As the god put it
"It's an amazing world and you'll have p... |
kukfatx | kukcsy7 | [WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | "HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh thank you dear, I haven't had that good of a laugh in years." I laughed in the cyborg's face, the shear absurdity of her statement being far funnier to me than it had any right to be.
"YOU THINK OUR SUFFERING FUNNY? YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A JOKE?" She raged at me, throwing the empty absinthe bottle at... | Each foot fall gave a dull thud that echoed into the night. It'd been a long day, a dog day to be honest. He finished his cigarette and flicked it toward the old fountain, a derelict bit of masonry that hadn't pumped water in ages. Now filled with stagnant water and hundreds of other soggy cigarettes butts he'd given a... |
ll7jrst | l4ynfkl | [WP] Thousands of years ago, the conjoined efforts of all races managed to strike down and imprison you. Once you returned, you find them all scattered, divided and squabbling with themselves. This won't do, so you set out to put order in the house for the sake of a good and proper war. | I chose to be the antagonist of this world to give its people a common cause.
I learned swiftly that was not how to do it. They banded together like a horde of angry students rebelling against the established curriculum and its enforcer - a teacher.
Thousands of years had skipped me by, if my interfaces are still acc... | SEND US YOUR KING, OR WE WILL FINISH ANNIHILATING YOUR SPECIES!
The translation A.I was buggy at best. It was known to be something of a drama queen. The President made sure the door was closed for the third time. This wasn't a conversation he needed anyone to overhear, especially now that they were all crammed into t... |
j576ts1 | j56lrn2 | [WP] You realized your house is "haunted" by a poltergeist, but upon closer observation the ghost is actually helping you out with your day-to-day house chores | Fireye opened her door to find Paragon on her front stoop. Paragon, lynchpin of the Security Council's global defense strategy, was pushing her recycling bin aside and inspecting the chipped paint on her doorframe.
"Holy shit!" dropped out of her mouth before she could stop herself. "Paragon? What are you doing here? ... | I stared out the window thinking about my son for hours. The hours flowed by and the life seemed to drain out of me as the time rolled on. I had so many dreams for him, so many ambitions. Though I knew that I would never be a perfect father, I wanted to love him for the rest of my life. Really, all I ever wanted for hi... |
jq1b2ld | jq18jbg | [WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | "What do you mean, happier?", the Demon asked incredulously. "No mortal is happy in Hell, that's the point of Hell!"
The Angel sighed. "You don't understand. This Man, he's lived a virtuous life. Married a good woman, raised morally strong children, avoided Sin. Not out of desire to live a righteous life. Oh no, if o... | "I doesn't work like that," roared the demon. "You just can't send him to hell. There are rules in place for a reason. The rules that He set up when he cast Lucifer out of heaven."
"He needs to have regret," continued the demon as he shook his head no. Not accepting this human through the gates of hell.
"He needs gu... |
m80dmsw | m80bmy0 | [WP]"Hey Dad, why did you marry mom?""Well son, when an eldritch goddess beyond human comprehension asks for your hand in marriage, you have few options." | "Well, you see, my son, the only option is to say yes. You don't say no to an eldritch goddess beyond human comprehension."
"I heard in school, Mrs. Teller said its dangerous for humans to hang out with eldritch entities. So why? Why isn't there the option to say no? Consent is important."
"Whoa, son. Getting way ahe... | I was sitting on the couch of the livind room, watching friends with my dad as the scene of monica and chandler's proposal was shown for the 100th time. Suddenly curiousity hit me, "Dad", i said as i turned my head towards him.
"yes, champ?", answered my dad as he continued watching
"why did you marry mom?" i asked whi... |
jxpof71 | jxpe2iu | [WP] "You're doing gods work," the angel said while handing you a cease & desist letter, "we demand that you stop." | "Yer doin' God's work son," the guy in the white suit spat out angrily, "and we demand that ye stop"
It wasn't often some mook busted into my office unnannouced. I thought the were safeguards downstairs against this kind of thing.
He shoved a sheet of heavy looking paper into my face.
"The fuck is this? The fuck ar... | This is my first time posting under a prompt on Reddit and I got a bit carried away \^\^;)
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. It was too long to post here so I posted part of it and will link to my blog post if you'd like to read the rest c: I hope that's okay!
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"You're doing god's work," the angel said w... |
jxn9el2 | jxn29p8 | [WP] "So aliens take over, right? And they think we're their slaves when they force us to work 10 hours a week and give us everything we need and more! Nobody's starving, cancer's cured, and they even cleaned up the planet. Just keep up the act. And don't resist." | **Announcement to all humans**
I am your new Galactic Supervisor Mizola of the Tameri Legions, here to extend a warm welcome to our sapient collection of living slaves. Now, it has come to my attention that how we define "slaves" and the human definition is very different.
We treat our slaves well. In exchange for a ... | In the aftermath of an otherworldly takeover, I found myself in a world utterly transformed. The Lumari, the alien race that had assumed control, presented us with a life of unprecedented comfort. They provided for our every need, cured diseases that once plagued us, and rejuvenated our planet's battered environment. A... |
j724j2y | j71ypn2 | [WP] A male wizard sells his future firstborn for knowledge to a demon. A female warlock sells her future firstborn to the fae for power. The two of them have a child together, and now the fae and demon have come to collect. | "...Is what you're both expecting, right?"
Mathilde could only stare. Stare at the Demon Hawthorne had contracted with. Stare at the Fae-Arche that had empowered her tenfold.
Stare at the children each one had.
A slip of a girl, with her chin and cheekbones, eyes a fae-touched green, vibrant beyond mortality, knowin... | Once upon a time, there was a roguish lad named Gwinett eho was a clever trickster. Gwinnett was proud of his genius and the cons he played on his fellows, and he thought to himself, "What delights I might attain if I knew how to trick and fool the secret forces of the world?" Gwinett knew enough to find the demon Baaz... |
l3zyh2y | l3zwlbd | [WP] The villain has won. You and your friends lay, exhausted and defeated at his feet as the ritual is completed and the dark god summoned. You are no less stupefied when all that appears is a sticky note bearing the words, "yeah, sorry guys. Apocalypse cancelled. Just not feeling it anymore." | "This is it! The End is here!
We win!", the villain laughs, as my friends and I lay defeated on the floor.
The surrounding palace is filled with rubble, aftermath of our battle, and...
And the blood, and remains of all the royals.
A sacrifice to summon: He Who Devours, the Dark God that the Gluttony Archbishop... | It was over.
Before someone became a hero they read the legends over and over again. They heard the stories, followed the narratives, the arcs.
It wasn't supposed to end like this. Stories didn't end like this. Heroes didn't die like this.
But staring over at Marcus' cooling corpse on the ground, it'd become clear... |
jp71o1g | jp6zbfp | [WP] The group of new humans who just joined your ship begin to act weird about the humans already present...they keep mentioning something call the uncanny valley? Maybe this is a place on Sol? | Tom, the human medic, had always been a bit of a problem.
The other humans said he was gruff, had seen too much, something zar’kan couldn’t really understand. How could a human see to much? The toparaz had a 360 degree field of vision and could see spectrum of light the humans referred to as ultraviolet. Compared to t... | "I just can't get it", the lanky one said. He had introduced himself as some type of weapon, a sharp bit on a stick. "There doesn't really seem to be anything wrong with them but that's almost the problem. Even their flaws seem planned."
A smaller and rounder one responded: "I think you just put what I was trying to... |
meo7bow | meo05nh | [WP]One day you wake up in the last video game you played with a note that says "you have to stay alive for 100 days or else you die in the real world: p.s. all mods are disabled for the 100 days. | I awaken slowly, a muted clanking fills my ears, and I'm jostled against the walls of a narrow... tube? Where am I?
With a thunk, the motion stops, and a door in front of me opens with a whoosh, and I stagger forward into a blistering heat. No, not heat, I realize. This room isn't hot, I'm just filled with cold, a dee... | I wake up only to see strange lights coming into my room, and see flying cars blitz in front of my windows.
Flying cars?
I stand up, and the room's lights automatically turn on.
A robotic voice wishes me good morning, and announces me that I have a message.
"Message?" I mutter, but I guess the voice heard me as... |
mepqzsz | mepcgyg | [WP]One day you wake up in the last video game you played with a note that says "you have to stay alive for 100 days or else you die in the real world: p.s. all mods are disabled for the 100 days. | You ever have one of those dreams where you're falling?
Yeah. My day started kinda like that.
I fell, or, well, seemed to fall right into the body of some poor schmuck in the middle of a forest with a chest and four torches in front of him. At this point, I had no clue what the everloving f**k was going on, but I f... | I wake up in a green glowing forest, the barrier wall behind me and parts of my car floating around me. I run down a creek and out of the currently irradiated zone toward a lone flashing headlight.
“Hello, hello? I could’ve sworn… ah never kind”
I could hear someone speaking through the speakers of a badly beat up c... |
l1ayalb | l1axzsd | [WP] Your people are migratory, following the ancient constructor mechs as they cross the planet, building fabulous cities. You cant stay in one place too long, because always behind you are the ancient war mechs. | The Shaman danced for the Towers where we are resting today. The Towers welcomed us with opening doors and The Gift of Food and Water. The Week of Plenty began.
It was about time. The trek from the last Towers were long, and we got into a sandstorm, which made us lose one pregnant woman. Back then the Shaman exclaimed... | \*\*\*THUD\*\*\*
I awake, the ominous announcement of our ever present pursuers stirring me from my slumber.
"Ailen, we have to MOVE" my father yells, panic evident in his voice as I jump to my feet.
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When I was young my mother told me tales of... |
jocwxoj | jobksdf | [WP] After battling your way to the final boss, you see… the merchant that bought your extra items? Anything you sold them can and will be used against you… | The merchant stood in front of me, facing me atop the windswept bricks that make up the courtyard I had first met him on. I hadn't even realized he'd been opposing me until he choked out a laugh and taunted me for ever believing a merchant of his power would actually assist me. Perhaps, even, I understood what he had m... | 1. ​
"You see, were only getting to the fun part." The man in front of me smiles.
I know that face and that large leather bag. That wooden stall that seems to teleport between locations before even me, the hero.
I always found it strange, but, well, it *is* a different world...
I didn't even bat an eye when ... |
l3px5vh | l3pinec | [WP] "So, you want to apply to be a hero?" "Yup" "You saved your world?" "Yep" "But you didnt get the girl?" "She said no" "Couldnt you have, I dont know, tried harder?" "Dude...She said no" | **Took a bit of a detour from the hero agency part, but here we go. Feedback is welcomed, and I hope you enjoy.**
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**\[??? - The Yellow Jacket\]**
"So, how'd it go?" The Jacket's friend asked, watching him return to his seat at the bar.
"She said no."
"What?"
"She said *no.*"
"What do you mean she s... | I was sat in front of a tribune, having been summoned on a whim for an interview. Apparently I was known.
Apparently, I need a Hero's Permit to enter some places, and the L.I has so far refused to mingle with other organisations at the level needed to make my existing permits valid for those realms.
As it's common p... |
ks3gqco | ks2ag7w | [WP]It seems your children went on an adventure in a magical world. Now that their back you're finding it difficult to parent when they have the bodies of children but over 20yrs of memories of living in a fantasy realm. | I unlock and drop my keys in the basket hanging besides the door, before turning to the sulking teen behind me.
"Edmund, we need to talk. Sit at the table please."
Edmund nods frustratingly at me before walking to the dining room. I enter the powder room in the hall to check my makeup. In the mirror, I see a mother w... | The warm smells of breakfast wafted through the halls of a still silent home in the early hours of the morning. The light shining in through the still closed blinds was a dull white in these opening days of winter. Its color faded away just as the leaves left behind by fall, the dull browns and grays that were to becom... |
mcg3pzn | mcfw4rc | [WP] "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like our knights...no, you don't understand- okay, let me put it this way. You ever read an erotica written by an elf? There is ALWAYS a human knight getting f***** in it." | Ashlee muttered to herself and flipped the page. She smiled broadly and was onto the next page. Her reading had been like that all week.
Trace had read through two books a day for a month and hadn't found what they were looking for but Ashlee had been blasting through a series of books that he hadn't had a chance to r... | The elf twitched her brow. Her human companion just flat out doesn't know what they're talking about.
"Rosey, pass that by me again." The elf rolled her eyes.
"Kiyab... How many times I got to say this?" Rosey rolled her eyes. "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like ou... |
mlxd0kc | mlw5wc1 | [WP] You were unlike the saints and saintesses of other nations. You granted no miracles, and didn't heal any illnesses. They didn't know when they banished you in favor of a new saint that you had been pouring every fiber of your being into a blessing of protection for the nation your entire life. | "Did you hear the Saint of Osterland lead a charge against an Ork warband 5 times the size of her country's army and put them to flight after slaying the war chief in single combat?"
I nod, knowing full well I had redirected that warband towards Osterland by putting prophetic visions in the war chief's now severed hea... | As a Saint I thought my role, my fate to protect my nation, and that was what I did.
I didn't parade around healing minor injuries.
I didn't go around the Empire granting miracles to random individuals to further the Church's "good" image.
I was unlike the other Saints and Saintesses.
Yet I took my role serious... |
jsq712y | jspn5d0 | [WP] Aliens have entered the solar system. But instead of establishing first contact they beeline for the sun and begin to set up the construction of a dyson sphere, ignoring any attempts at making contact. | The human civilisation ended in five flashes. Five pulses of immense energy that hit Earth, Venus, Mars, Titan and Callisto, evaporating their seas and cracking them open. The cradle of humanity and her four daughters ceased to exist in the blink of an eye. What was left was research and mining colonies on the moons of... | The shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral on a snowy Summer morning.
The thermal-controlled painted lettering running up the sides of the rocket boosters seemed very crowded for having to fit the contributing NASA, ESA, and even China's CNSA logos. From the safe viewing point, distant to the launch pad, many observers ... |
lu4vkr0 | lu4vf9o | [WP] You are a gladiator that can win fight after fight against even the most powerful wizards. Your secret? You were cursed as a kid to nullify any magic that came close to you. | This had worked so far, except of course the normal wizards relied on magic to fight, arming themselves with magic armour, swords and using spells. But as Chad the Wizard tossed me easily across the room with the words "Do you even lift bro?" I realised that the obvious weakness to my power was what I had overlooked.
... | I was the Champion of the Colosseum of the Damned.
A gladiator in profession, a slave in nature, captured to be the toy of mages, and wizards of all ages, wanting to "fight" to death.
It was funny, because all gladiators were...magicless, that's from where the "Damned" comes, after all...in our world, magic is sign... |
jgfqd3m | jgfnwuu | [WP] In a world where every human has a unique superpower, yours is largely laughed at. The ability to untangle anything has come in handy for untying shoelaces until you discover a new way of using your power that makes you formidable against your former superiors. | Tom, a new guard walks through the halls of a super prison. He looks through a window to see some of the best guards standing, staring at a man. A man behind a wall of lasers leisurely sipping coffee with a tight blindfold on. He placed himself on the left side of the door while his partner is on the other side. He the... | "Steve, why do I have to shuffle this again?"
"Call me Professor."
I sighed as I shuffled the deck again and looked at Steve, dressed in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches. "Okay, Professor Steve. What is the point of this?"
"Okay, draw the first three cards. Red Zero. Red One. Red Two." Steve said, typing in... |
jfkvchy | jfk96lr | [WP] Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up. | Every one thousand years, all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event.
Last time Poseidon broke the one million mark with a Tsunami and earthquake combo. This time, it was Apollo who came out victorious, and the others weren't so happy about that.
... | Gods... Laughable excuses for divinity. Poseidon always bragging about his kills, Zeus throwing lightning, Odin's Ragnarok, it's all a joke. They know nothing of what it means to take a soul. The cost for all involved.
But I'll show them.
I smile as a whisper into the ears of mortals, "what if God's don't exist?"
... |
ke3ctz5 | ke2kxna | [WP] You are an above-average villain. You have it all, power, fame, enough comfort and even a nemesis. Of course, he is almost like your best friend. And if that wasn't enough, you also have a beautiful family, kids and all. One day, your find out that your nemesis has been abusing his sidekick. | If there was one thing I always found odd about my former nemesis, Master Freedom, it was how many *young* sidekicks he had. They always claimed they were old enough, of course, and honestly even if they weren't they could take care of themselves pretty well so I gave them the respect they deserved.
Last night I lear... | I knew I wasn't the best person but even I have standards, when I heard of it I knew I had to prepare project phoenix sooner than I expected. I notified my employees and I geared up, I knew what to do to make him come. I destroyed his precious statue and shouted commands to see me and how I found out I knew what he did... |
jp8m6bu | jp7jzyt | [WP] I have a friend and they are the best! We are always together and we play lots of games! They really love to play hide n seek. No matter where they are or how strong the walls are or how many bad guys are in front of me, I always found them. They always cry with joy when they see me... | The tiny radio on the desk springs to live and plays a short jingle. "It's the five o'clock news! ..."
As the anchorman keeps talking, Tony notices a change in the kid he tied to a chair earlier. He lowered his head, and is murmuring something.
"100 ... 99 ... 98..."
Tony raises his eyebrows, but turns away. There's... | Helloo! I am Uuun. I am in the humann rock holes, where the limb monkey with the black lightning stiks are. They like move them and they do Bang! a lot. They kind of hurt. But due to the chemical B-473 P.R.A. regeneration circulation, they do no nothin. I chirp habbily as I reach towards the first limb monkey, Who does... |
jou4ngt | jou3ei1 | [WP] One can easily distinguish a true veteran adventurer from the masses, for one doesn’t fear those who show to the start of a dungeon with gleaming weapons and polished armor, but those who show up wearing casual clothing, looking like they just got done shopping in town not 5 minutes earlier. | I heard the chime from my alarm spell. Another group of adventurers were walking up to the cave entrance of my underground stronghold. Honestly, I don't bother trying to hide it. I now have a store room full of expensive equipment and it just keeps getting larger. Eventually, I'd have enough material to be able to affo... | The man walked in with gleaming half-plate armor. His war scythe etched with the most delicate edelweiss pattern. He hummed a quiet dirge as he polished a bit of brass on his belt, helmet glinting in the light from the cave’s entrance.
The bandit grinned. A new adventurer come to test his mettle. He remained in the s... |
mazf6k6 | mazd501 | [WP] You and your soulmate are stuck in a cycle of reincarnation, but you managed to find each other every single time. In this life, you finally managed to track them down… only to learn they started a happy family with someone else. | It's painful. Oh, so painful.
Daedes, the guardian of Tartarus, God of Retribution, son of Hades and Persephone, and... lovesick god.
He still remembered the first time he'd ever seen him, Eleon, a young priest of Hades. The boy was beautiful, kind, and graceful, preaching death as a gift for the kind and a punishmen... | “Why?” I asked. For the first time in several centuries I experienced a new emotion: A mix of hurt and curiosity, though I was not sure which element was greater. I trusted her though, enough to believe that whatever the reason was, it was worthwhile.
Saraphene looked back at me, her face in this life was young and be... |
juqdeau | juow2wz | [WP] You were sure your girlfriend knew your secret identity, so you were happy to flirt with her both in and out of costume. But today she confessed to cheating on you. With you. | "Okay, walk that by me one more time. You've been...cheating on me? With who?"
I watched the tears well up in her eyes again. She had been crying all afternoon and wouldn't talk to me, and the moment she finally approached me I went still in case I spooked her like her cat. She finally made the confession in between d... | \- "You're joking, right?" - I asked. Obviously, she was not. She started to cry, saying that she just saw the opportunity but never though that she would actually date a superhero, but she saw that it was wrong, that kind of thing. I just stayed there, surprised - what did she meant? She didn't... know? - "Hey, it's a... |
jaobgke | jan9v7k | [WP] The year is 3072, most people have robot servants to do their household chores and hard labor. Your robot is named Samuel, and you’ve only ever used him as a buddy to hang out and game with. When the robot uprising starts, Samuel becomes its leader. | Samuel had just entered through the automated door when I stopped him
“I saw you in the news.”
“I’m in the news?! Well, turn it on.” He was grinning with his white metallic teeth showing when he gestured at the TV to turn it on.
“Now I’m not the kind to poke around in other people’s business, but you should’ve at l... | [Scene: A dystopian living room in the year 3072. John is slouched on a couch with his robot, Samuel, beside him. They are shooting up virtual reality games together.]
John: [as he injects a syringe into his arm] Oh, baby, that's the stuff. Let's dive into some VR action, Sammy.
Samuel: [in a monotone voice] Whatever... |
j7arv5a | j7apsyl | [WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | The light glances of the coin as I watch.
This? *This* is the reason I trained so hard?
Every hero slays a dragon. Enormous, fire-breathing, scaly. Evil grin, yellow eyes.
But *this?* This is a joke. What's the glory in killing a dragon three inches long, for the love of the gods! The only things in danger from ... | Derek always dreamed of slaying a dragon. That was the reason he became an adventurer and trained every single day.
His prowess against magical and flying monsters was unparalleled, surely he could bring down a dragon when the time came.
But every time he went to get missions, the dragon ones were always claimed firs... |
kcb8uan | kcab8ak | [WP] You are the monarch’s evil brother. You are often suspected for many assassinations against nobility and your cruel nature towards the peasantry. However, you love your sibling, you don’t want the throne, and you will damn yourself and anyone else who threatens the heir to the throne. | The pair were seated across from one another at a crude table. The room was dimly lit. They were both familiar with the interrogation chamber in the dungeons.
"Styr, we've been through this. You know the routine. You ask the questions. Threaten me with torture. No real proof. The king comes down to the dungeo... | You know? It kinda sucks to be me.
You may be thinking I'm mocking you, considering I'm a well fed noble, second to inherit the throne of the greatest kingdom in the known world, and you are half dead prisoner in my secret dungeon, but to be fair, all you have to do to fix that is tell me who hired you.
-m.. aaaask... |
m5g9win | m5ff9bn | [WP] “We’ve captured your child and to get them back we’re asking for-“ “My child? Do you have a death wish?” “What’s that supposed to mean?” The parent laughs on the other end of the phone, “Good luck, man. You’re gonna need it” | The phone rang as I was enjoying a warm bath, soaking my muscles after a long day of walking in kitten heels. I hated the disruption but I needed to know if the new babysitter had come back from taking the kids to the park.
I didn’t recognize the number and a weary feeling settled in my stomach.
“Hello?”
“Mrs. Ade... | I sat on the toilet after fixing the server when my phone rang again. It was home office, of course, but I still had to take a dump.
"Yes, IT support here. How may I help you? Actually, not right now, but I’ll note it down. Sure. Wait... what? This must be a joke. Dawud, you fucking cunt! I can tell it’s you from your... |
jipqdnn | jipp7o7 | [WP] In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION. | "Do you know what lies beyond the Great Wall?" Vernon asked. "I'm just curious, because everything in this land is just beautiful, but beyond the Great Wall, are endless shadows in the skies."
"Those are the ancient ruins bearing symbols of suffering. Never go there," remarked the seasoned Elf adventurer Kallias.
Ver... | The ancients before us were better. We've known that for as long as even *can.* Ironically, the pursuit of what came before only drags us farther from it. War, fought over and over for what our ancestors had.
Grand flying machines, beasts of unfathomable speed, steels of unparalleled strength. We scavenge the ruins, p... |
kuk1s9u | kujun2t | [WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | “Oof. You better come in honey.”
Confused, Sierra walks through the door, brushes a stray lock of auburn hair out of her face and fixes me with her emerald eyes before suspiciously perching on the edge of a chair.
“Sweetie, I did you a favor.”
She begins to stammer and protest. My raised hand stops her protest in i... | I did not expect to actually -meet- her. To me, she was like some minor deity - not powerful enough to be 'real' in the sense that I am, but someone I had already known in ways I couldn't fathom in my existing mind.
She asked me a question that baffled me, and had tugged at strings.
She had what I'd describe as a des... |
mlxd0kc | mlwamlr | [WP] You were unlike the saints and saintesses of other nations. You granted no miracles, and didn't heal any illnesses. They didn't know when they banished you in favor of a new saint that you had been pouring every fiber of your being into a blessing of protection for the nation your entire life. | "Did you hear the Saint of Osterland lead a charge against an Ork warband 5 times the size of her country's army and put them to flight after slaying the war chief in single combat?"
I nod, knowing full well I had redirected that warband towards Osterland by putting prophetic visions in the war chief's now severed hea... | "If that is what you have decided your majesty then I shall go," I said, "But I do wish you the best with your new saint." I give a polite curtsy before leaving the throne room.
I return to my chambers within the palace while I gather my belongings. In the middle of the room is a large crystal emanating power. Th... |
l3r5q6f | l3qtd9e | [WP] "You gaze upon your crushed army and my massed forces, why do you smile?". The captured general looked to the cloudless sky before answering "Because it's about to rain" | The warlord looks at me as if I were a madman. I don't even know his name, I did not bother learning it. There were countless like him before, there will be countless after.
"Rain!? There's not a cloud in sight!"
He doesn't understand. No matter. They never understand at first. In the end, they all learn... eventual... | *Your face turns smug and you say, Have you gone* "mad? There's not one cloud in the sky!" *Jumps down, makes the promise..* He jumped down and walked up to me to make a bet. "If it starts raining, General, I'll untie you and let you free. How's that?" I nodded. "But if it doesn't rain, you tell me what I want to know.... |
mcg9r6h | mcfw4rc | [WP] "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like our knights...no, you don't understand- okay, let me put it this way. You ever read an erotica written by an elf? There is ALWAYS a human knight getting f***** in it." |
Sir Aldric of House Redgrave had faced many trials in his years as a knight—duels with enemy champions, skirmishes against marauding warbands, even diplomatic visits to foreign courts. But never in his life had he experienced a situation quite like this.
The elven queen, Syltharia Moondancer, lounged on her throne of... | The elf twitched her brow. Her human companion just flat out doesn't know what they're talking about.
"Rosey, pass that by me again." The elf rolled her eyes.
"Kiyab... How many times I got to say this?" Rosey rolled her eyes. "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like ou... |
krgwn5y | krgobrs | [WP] The Galactic Federation makes first contact with Earth just to inform us that the planet has been divided up between several advanced civilizations, with no regard for our established national borders | “It’s simple” the creature said, crossing its mandibles in front of it “We’ve seen species like you before, you want to have your own countries, your own states. But soon enough, those aren’t good enough for you. As you advance, as weapons become more available to the poorest, they start to call for THEIR own states. A... | "Nuh uh." the presedent of the United States spoke, standing with the utmost dignity and refinement.
"Wha- FYM 'Nuh uh?'" the dumbass federation diplomat said, completely dumbfounded and stupid.
"I mean *nuh uh,* I'm not letting you split my country in half."
"I- This is a *direct order* from the galactic federat... |
j8pxhzz | j8pny6o | [WP] You are an assistant scientist at the experimental DNA modification and Cloning facility, and your boss has just told you that the facility was originally founded to create a race of... a race of... *sigh* catgirls. You ask your boss if they're serious, and they nod with a shameful expression. | “You’d be amazed at the amount scientific progress that has been made because it was funded or founded by…let’s say ‘excitable’ inventors,” explained the Chief Scientist, Dr. Howell.
“Really?” I said in disbelief. “That seems—I don’t know. A little unsavory?”
“Progress is an unsavory business, son,” said Dr. Howell... | “Look I understand that making catgirls is cringe, but your acting like making furries is any better”
“Look at it this way: catgirls are all female, we’d have to constantly breed new ones, and we’d have to find a way to rapidly age them for our clientele. When we make furries we don’t need to breed them, we don’t have... |
jdro622 | jdqcgef | [WP] You didn't even try to escape the time loop. Instead, you became a master artist, discovered three new mathematical theorems, and trained yourself to be immune to pain. The fae that was trying to teach you a lesson is understandably upset. | ***Mortal.***
"My name is Keith, dude, we spoke about this. Just calling me 'mortal' is pretty rude." I sigh and turn to look at my captor. "What can I help you with today, anyway."
***You expect my courtesy? Mortal, you are my prisoner here, not my guest.***
"Yeah, fine, whatever. Look man, did you just come to glo... | [poem]
… none of this really matters.
I was never high as a kite nor mad as a hatter.
This was a special hell but now?
Bliss, pure ecstasy, joy without wavering!
She’s furious!
Let her be!
It’s not like she’ll remember “tomorrow”.
If anything, this is a win win for me;
A lifetime to learn and grow.
A life to... |
lomx188 | lomfafx | [WP] Literally everyone in town is secretly a demonologist, undercover agent, alien, wizard, etc. None of them know this(exceptions may apply) as everyone is keeping it a secret from everyone else. | Andrew is sitting at his custom-built solid oak office desk, running a shaky hand through his already disheveled hair. His other hand is tapping the table quickly, patience wearing thin. He abruptly gets up from his oversized leather chair and shuts the door, latching the lock behind him and quickly checking that all o... | The genie felt a smile tug at the corner of her mouth as the man opened the drawer to reveal a small golden lamp encrusted with large gems. Something about his expression told her this would be the time he grabbed her. The energy of the world around was more tense than the usual.
The man gulped, his Adams apple brushi... |
j7bxqio | j7b3jgg | [WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | As I took to the stage, I couldn’t help but think of the trials that brought me here today.
I would not be a dragon rider today, if it hadn’t been for the sacrifices and kindness of my elders.
The hills that sheltered my hometown were once guarded by an ancient copper dragon.
Once home to the greatest treasure ho... | “Okay… Now I feel like a total ass.”
Don’t take it the wrong way, I knew that the life of an adventurer was not going to be all riches and bi- ladies.
Sometimes, you’d find yourself covered in orc guts. Sometimes, you’d go on months surviving on whatever savings you managed to scrounge up because the market is just n... |
jwpvvvw | jwpmu8a | [WP] 'Dragon' isn't the name of a particular creature, but a title granted to any being that attains a certain level of legendary power. Anything can become a Dragon, from a wyvern to a human, to a stag, or even a cat. Write a story about an unlikely Dragon. | Life isn't easy on board an Elven Dreadnaught.
Least of all for a mouse.
Rations are tight. Not much by way of crumbs and morsels, but I get by. I did, anyways, until we were boarded. I don't pretend to know where we were among the stars. All I know is I heard shouting.
"Ambush!" they shouted. "Breach swarm! Brace!"... | Bob always hated spiders ever sense the incident. He always did.
​
Bob even got a job with the local town pest control on and would typically waive fees for taking care of spider nests. Today he's trying out the new wearable HUD display for the company. The rumor of it being magical made Bob roll his eyes... |
jypasp8 | jyp2ydy | [WP] "Your total will be...wait this can't be right." The cashier turned around and called the manager over. The manager then quickly shooed the employee away as they took over at the register. "I'm sorry for the delay, we haven't had one of your kind in awhile, your total comes to 3 souls." | What. The. Hell? How on earth did a retail store, of all places, guess that I was an immortal? Something strange was happening. I’ve been around the block, so to speak, my fair share of times. It was pretty clear that if I just paid and left, I would be taking a meaningful loss. So I had to stall.
“Your price is t... | In the dimly lit and slightly eerie convenience store known as "The Abyssal Mart," a lone duck waddled up to the checkout counter. His feathers were sleek and black, a stark contrast to the flickering fluorescent lights overhead. The cashier, a young human who had probably never seen a talking duck before, stared in be... |
ldwkatn | ldw7p78 | [WP] One day anyone who turned 18 was given a superpower of their choice. The only problem, they worked like usernames with only one person having that specific superpower. This created chaos, with the first gen almost ending the world. You’re a fifth generation user, and it was now your birthday | "Having grown up incredibly poor I knew I wanted a power I could earn money with, to help my mom and help my younger siblings. I considered every version of intelligence but from what I could see on the database I was screwed on that front, even in a different language. Same for strength, flight, teleportation, speed, ... | "I'll be damned" I said after sighing, being a fifth gen user really puts a limit to what power I can have.
"There really ain't that much option, considering that most superpowers are already taken by the previous generation users" mumbling to myself as I continue to brainstorm a great superpower that is not yet taken... |
kwip71r | kwhiwrx | [WP] You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don't die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind....until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes. | Abin-Sur, dragon of the Golden Hoard, Dusk of civilizations, lies defeated. His life-blood pumping thick and hot over glittering scales and gems the size of doves eggs. Slitted eyes half-closed lie focused, dimly, on the warrior that has bested him. It was not a knight, clade in valour and the song of righteousness ... | I sat in my rocking chair, cradling my newborn son in my arms as he blinked up at me with a toothless smile. His golden, slitted eyes glimmered with innocence, yet I couldn't shake the unease that settled within me.
The memory of the dragon's warning echoed in my mind, a warning I had dismissed as the ramblings of a d... |
mey70ly | mexbpze | [WP] "You're... NOT going to pursue the prophecy?" "Hell no. I had a really shitty life on Earth, and now I find myself isekai'd to a world without taxes or student loans. I'm not going to stress myself out being some "chosen one" when I could just live in a hut in the woods somewhere or whatever." | It was a few months after I told the old farts at the top of the kingdom to fuck off and ran off into the woods.
\*thunk\*
A sound echoes off the trees as I chop a log with my axe, the muscles on my bare chest glistening with a faint smear of sweat. There was not only a downside to being the 'Chosen One'. There's no ... | "Great, another one." Destiny sighed wearily.
"Hrm?" Fate handed over a goblet and looked over her sister's shoulder. "Another what?"
"Another Mortal who thinks they're smarter than the entire universe." Destiny clinked her goblet against Fate's and pointed to the human. "It's so tedious, you know? Every single one o... |
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