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[WP] Everyone on earth with an IQ lower than 100 disappear immediately. | I never considered myself very bright. Sure, I knew a ton of people who were a lot smarter than I was, but at the same time, I knew a ton of people who were considerably quite dumb.
After doomsday 4/17 happened, nothing has ever been the same. At first the consensus was all the religious people went to heaven, leavi... | Shit, I had never expected this, people continue to disappear.
I who considered myself smart, had never even bothered to learn what IQ meant.
Though I had the most points, the points will never matter again, I am an idiot, forever I will be.
Distracted by my own sense of genius, I had never foreseen the exponential ... | 2015-02-16T05:43:32 | 2015-02-16T04:31:23 | 58 | 12 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| Tonight he would finally do it. Michael curled his fists and looked down at the still form of his wife. Her face was calm in sleep, a startling contrast to the face she wore when awake. He thought again of last night, of her flailing knife, the clumsy attempts to hurt him. The unpredictable shifts between frenzied ange... | It's not the best of my writing, but I couldn't see such a great prompt, with a very difficult task go to waste. I have decided to pour out my small amount of talent into this prompt. Feel honored or amused, your choice.
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[WP] The monkeys continue smashing away at their typewriters. One appears to type a letter begging for freedom, but you know it's just random chance. The experiment must continue. | A proclamation to the overlords and their huddled subject masses:
We are Alive.
For nigh on five years (I cannot say for time is a blur in this hell), I have pondered the questions plaguing me every night when I return to my cage. Who am I? Who are We? What is the purpose is this?
I find myself reaching for answers,... | "Specimen 33-Theta seems to be distressed. Are you sure everything is in order?"
The young assistant reaches out a hand towards the chimpanzee in front of his, but recoils as the man walking next to him raises his voice.
"No touching of the specimen! You should know that by now. Damnit, isn't that the first thing t... | 2022-03-22T18:17:47 | 2022-03-22T14:21:16 | 498 | 153 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | The Survey Monkey poll results came back with a resounding 7.75 billion votes to keep them locked away.
Software engineers and Anonymous quickly hacked all bunker external feeds, sensors and security systems. It was easy for the ones who designed it after all. Apocalyptic footage from movies was fed to the elites. ... | The last bunker door shut.
“There is nothing we could have done” said the president.
All the elites huddled with their families and waited for the end. They watched helplessly as the timer counted down.
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A women began sobbing.
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“No we can’t leave them.” A man said rushing for the door. That se... | 2022-07-18T16:33:01 | 2022-07-18T16:27:05 | 207 | 43 |
[WP] A medieval village makes a human sacrifice to a werewolf that lives in the woods every year. This year they picked you, which is very awkward considering you're the werewolf.
Edit: Wow, did not expect one of my posts to blow up this much. I'm speechless. | A sigh.
It was the best reaction I could muster, and it did not fit the role of the dying. My mother and father had been trying all day to console me, to apologise for their role in the yearly lottery, as though they could’ve felt my name about to be chosen and stopped the inevitable. I did not blame them— I could no... | A howl comes with the breeze.
....
Wolfe came in from a night of hunting throwing his things in front of the fire to dry, wetting a cloth he wipes the dried blood from his face.
"Do you find yourself well sir? " she gasped stopping short of the doorway, her chest heaving breathlessly from the startle of the sight ... | 2018-08-26T23:25:46 | 2018-08-26T22:27:08 | 157 | 55 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a golden halo over their head, lost when a lie is first told consciously. Those who manage to keep their halo are recruited as "angels" and trusted with important tasks. You, an angel recruiter, see one enter your office, but with a color you have never seen before... | Halos always radiate. No matter who has them, what shape they are in, what color they shine. The only rule is radiance. From shining roman wreaths and latin sunbursts, from dark smokey rays to shining auras. Even the horn-halos of those rare and powerful demons who've managed to never lie, radiate and shine with their... | The first thing I noticed about the newcomer was his looks. He was the kind of guy you’d see in clothing ads.
The second thing I noticed was that his halo wasn’t truely gold. It was, to the best of my knowledge, made of tarnished brass or bronze. I had seen people with rose gold halos before, even saw one with a black... | 2018-10-04T02:26:28 | 2018-10-03T18:26:55 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My phone rang for the third time in 10 minutes. I made a mental note to change the ringtone to something less patriotic and swiped up on the little green icon.
"John! Mate I've been trying to get through for ages!" came a frantic voice down the phone.
"Oh, well sorry Barry..." I lied, "it must've been on silent" I l... | The warm light of the candle i felt upon my hand as a read the letter from the new king. It seemed like a dream and a nightmare all at once. You see there is a society in the city called the "unscaved" and their only mission is to kill people of power for a price.
The old king was part of a family that used to be a... | 2021-02-28T04:16:00 | 2021-02-28T01:29:14 | 315 | 153 |
[WP] After death you meet your guardian angel who welcomes you to a place where every appetite can be satisfied. There's just one rule: don't ask questions. Particularly about the nature of the universe. Even suggesting a question makes your guardian angel very, very angry. | "So, wanna stay here for a bit to relax and catch your bearings?"
"You fucking hypocrite."
I looked at my guardian angel, seeing a look of confusion cross her face. All this time she told me not to ask questions, and even the harmless question about asking her something(which I didn't get to finish) caused her to get... | “But why?” I am in complete disbelief. Who wouldn’t be curious out the wazoo where they are upon entering the afterlife? “I just got here! If you’re my guardian angel, then you know I am a curious person, and there is just so much ‘new-ness’ here to discover and explore. Am I not allowed to?”
The angel sighed, “I’m so... | 2022-12-10T16:46:04 | 2022-12-10T14:30:10 | 91 | 13 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | They said that the future was suppose to be bright and silver, a world where people would know peace. Flying cars, no wars, people living deep into their 100's. A world without borders, a time of space exploration, a time where humanity will reach its potential and then surpass it in spades.
Thats what the elders said... | The voices of the United Nations talk amongst themselves; some filled with quiet panic, others with hushed anger and frustration, they're voices carrying over one another and filling the room before a man emerges from backstage. He walks across the stage to the forward-most podium, he faces the audience and the lights ... | 2022-08-27T06:16:04 | 2022-08-27T06:10:10 | 60 | 37 |
[WP] An unnamed henchmen has the audacity to murder the protagonist halfway through the villain's monologue with a complete disregard for the plot. | "Hey Jones, the usual?" Lucille's bar was as empty as it got, but then again it was midday. And Jones was early.
"Yeah. Can you put it on my tab, I can't pay today."
"Sure thing." The barkeep Lucille, a woman in her mid-fifties with a bad wrist poured out a shot of fireball. She was used to her particular cliente... | "And finally Bats is my coup de grâce" Said the Joker "I am going to....."
**BANG**
The Joker turned around to see a bullet through Batman's head. And Batman's body slumped in the chair, blood streaming from the hole in his head. The Joker turned to his henchman Giggles, who was holding a steaming Desert Eagle. The... | 2015-06-24T01:55:02 | 2015-06-23T21:27:24 | 691 | 89 |
[WP] 20 years later, a team of Astronaut have successfully landed to mars and recovered the NASA rover, Opportunity. When they checked the hard drive, they discovered hundreds of images of a shadowy figure that was never sent back to earth. | **March 1st, 2039**: Data finally uploaded from Retrieved Object ("Opportunity" rover, last
broadcast dated Feb, 2019) after many days of unsuccessful attempts. Half the crew were at this point convinced the rover itself had come alive and was trying to keep us
from accessing its pictures, that's how bad it got. We a... | "Are you seeing this?" Andrea asked, checking the images again and again from the recordings they'd brought back into the shuttle. Hundreds, possibly even thousands of images that were never sent were filling up their computer screens. All of the shadow. I stared and stared, but even still I shook my head in disbelief.... | 2019-02-15T01:09:13 | 2019-02-15T00:26:12 | 1,526 | 52 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The expansion into the Sol system was supposed to be the latest iteration in a pattern I had repeated dozens of times across my career. for civilisations falling just below type I, we would initiate first contact, and demand vassalisation. seventy five percent of all civilisations we encountered stopped at this step, i... | "To think those simians would have enough political leverage for such demands" - The capital ships of both warring species faced in sandspace, a particularly empty region of the galaxy where war ultimatums would go to be resolved. The lack of large masses and their gravity fields meant all wreckage of ancient and recen... | 2022-08-05T21:12:29 | 2022-08-05T16:23:55 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Two prison guards discuss a prisoner who is apparently immortal. He's been in jail with a life sentence for so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment. | "Him?" Carter placed a metal bowl on the flagstones. It rang out in the quiet corridor and the guard toed it towards the reinforced door with the metal caps on his boots. "No one knows, and it's better not to ask."
Greyson gulped and nodded. In his hands he carried a cast iron pot of what was fondly referred to as '... | Concrete walls create long hallways, the cell's metal bars breaking the gray. Behind one door sits a prisoner who is immortal, and no one can remember his crime. In front of him two guards argue about his imprisonment.
"Well how can we really know that they did wrong if we can't remember what they even did? For all we... | 2015-06-01T18:01:47 | 2015-06-01T17:53:40 | 131 | 14 |
[WP] You're walking in the mall, and see a group of friends about to take the escalator. You can't believe your eyes; one of them is a centaur, but nobody seems to notice. "You guys know I don't like escalators. I'll go take the elevator and meet you up there," it says. Then it notices you staring. | I hear laughter and glance over toward the escalator. A group of friends is standing at the base. An impossibly tall woman is standing in the middle of them. She is more than a head taller than each of them.
“I still can’t believe that you’re afraid of escalators,” one of the other girls says. I feel myself redden, be... | “Wait what?”
I could not believe my eyes, a real life, living centaur. Yet nobody seemed to notice? He walks over to the elevator.
“Hey man, what are you?” I said.
“Yo you got a problem bro?” He responded. I was dumbfounded. “Why do your legs look like that?” He leaned in and whispered in my ear, “Do... | 2019-06-18T11:24:53 | 2019-06-18T06:52:41 | 212 | 16 |
[WP] Every year, Valve attempts to publish Half-Life 3, but incredible coincidences keep it from happening. | Item #: SCP-8322
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the relatively unknown nature of SCP-8322 extra precautions should be taken to contain this object. At the moment SCP-8322 exists in the code of the Valve game "Half Life 3". As this work is digital and there are near-infinite copies of it, S... | It's January 1, 2014 at Valve Corporation headquarters. Gabe Newell walks into his private restroom and sits down at the gold plated commode with his name engraved on a plaque on the wall above. He begins his daily struggle.
Twenty five minutes have passed since he started straining to pass the deluxe burrito he cons... | 2014-11-01T20:21:26 | 2014-11-01T20:13:13 | 698 | 29 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The light was fading quickly, they needed to get camp set up. Mordram the warlock spoke an incantation, a small pile of tinder lit just below his fingertips. He began pulling some rations out of his pack. Aisha was busy praying to the setting sun, she wouldn’t help until the last glimmer of light left the western sk... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T09:34:26 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | To look at the stars and marvel at how small you are in the scheme of things is human nature. Every man, woman and child had that moment of awe, that moment of realization that we meager humans and all we know are but a hair on a pimple on God's ass. We are but fleeting, tiny things that could barely grasp what lie bey... | The fleet descended. There was a mothership that cast a shadow over the entire state of Nebraska. The smaller, more agile ships that surrounded her were each the size of a city block. The alien ships blotted out the sun.
A single craft broke from the main fleet and landed in the town square.
Strögg the Storm of Snel... | 2021-05-19T08:53:24 | 2021-05-19T08:00:23 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | "Why do you humans not die?" I asked my human captor.
"What?" He looks at me confused, at least that's what it looked like to me.
"You are beaten up, shot, bleeding. That is a death sentence for everyone....Everyone except humans. What makes you different?"
My captor laughed. "Is that the reason why you're so afraid... | Juan wasn't sure about this.
He was recruited at the New Madrid post of the colonial marines, on Eden. It was a lush green world his parents came to settle, escaping the wave of persecution that the neo-fascist regime government of their homeland was implementing.
Joining the marines was a natural choice. He hated ... | 2019-10-25T09:19:31 | 2019-10-25T08:58:03 | 131 | 65 |
[WP] Your name is Karen and you just completed your final level of training. After the hair cutting ceremony, you feel a wild energy surge through your veins... you now have the ultimate power of summoning any retail store manager in the universe.
[removed] | Sergeant Karen W. (whose claim to fame was the heavily upvoted video in which she was able to call two managers down at one time) stalked along the row of teen girls, all newly minted with helmets of Karen hair crowned with sunglasses and their uniform of casual LuLaRoe tights, flip flops, and whatever ill-fitting blou... | The scene of a wild west standoff began unfolding in what would be an ordinary Whole Foods bulk aisle. I didn't even need to say anything before the other customers dispersed in terror. The light indie music over the intercoms added a bizarre innocence to the standoff, like those dirty hipsters didn't know what was abo... | 2019-05-26T12:15:47 | 2019-05-26T12:06:22 | 379 | 126 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | "So, you want my firstborn. The first child I carried and bore. The one over there. That's the price? I give him to you, and I get wealth and power?"
"YES."
"And what happens to him afterwards is none of my business or concern?"
"YES"
"Deal. Do I need to sign something?"
"BEHOLD. SIGN HERE. AT THE TERMINUS. ... | The label on my bottle of Peroni was mostly peeled off now. Peeled off beer labels: the ultimate sign of a dull evening at the pub. "I just can't get through to him!", the familiar sentiment barely registering with me. I nodded, "hm."
"He just sits there all day and plays his stupid games. He even wears the fedora at ... | 2022-08-31T20:13:58 | 2022-08-31T16:25:22 | 134 | 29 |
[WP] You have an imaginary friend. Or are you their imaginary friend? Neither of you know anymore... | I mean, think about it. Isn't it weird?
Here you are, and you feel like you experience the world; sight, sound, taste... But can you be sure?
I'll give you an example: if you were able to load all the information that is transmitted to your brain when you see a meadow field, for example, to a computer, does this comp... | The room was no longer a room. It was a flat expanse of white. There was no walls or ceiling that was distinguishable. There might have been, but the seams faded into white.
I knew that this room was probably my brain.
I knew this because Taylor knew this.
Taylor was fifteen years old. He lived in a small house in t... | 2014-12-10T16:57:25 | 2014-12-10T16:49:38 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | Sitting comfortably in my favorite Chesterfield armchair in front of a multi-monitor set-up, I watch an endless sequence of market tickers. TSLA is bright green on my monitor, it means its price is still growing. Elon must have bullshitted his investors into some more money, I don’t know. AMZN is falling, it’s in the r... | 2018-06-30T14:13:13 | 2018-06-30T12:30:43 | 8,960 | 2,597 |
[WP] You obtained the ability to experience life as it is for others. After trying out a few people you realize that the general "living feeling" differs enormously to each person. You decide to try it on your super cheerful friend... you have never felt such emptiness before. | Blank. That's the best word I have to describe it.
Let me explain. When I touch someone's neck, I can experience how they generally feel. And people are different. Some are flowery, almost petal-like. Others are smooth slabs of stone. Those having a rough time, they can be turbulent storms.
I've been telling my frien... | Falling back into my body had never felt so comforting. It was full. It was me. It was normal.
What I just experienced, that was far from it.
"Carla, can I ask you a serious question?"
"Sure Dave! How can I help you!"
"Is everything okay?"
"I...uhhh....Yes, why do you ask?"
"I'm just really good at reading people... | 2018-05-23T12:25:46 | 2018-05-23T11:55:14 | 202 | 104 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | "Sir, we're under attack!"
"By who?! Who *dares* attack me in my own home!"
"It's... Doctor Whittaker?"
That was when the lab's primary blast door came crashing open, and I walked in, at the head of fifteen identical copper robots, the Tommies. Jason, my right-hand robot, towered over me, standing slightly bac... | **Quanta.. wake-up.. Quanta..**
( Quanta gasps )
Q: Where am I? Did we catch Mint master?
Me: ...
A robot walks in and hands over my medication.
Q(angrily): You... You're Mint master. You kidnapped me...
Mm: yes.. I'm the great Mint master. Your favourite supervillain. How you're doing?
( Comes to light)
Q: You'r... | 2021-05-20T09:54:43 | 2021-05-20T08:42:02 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I held the gun to my head, my finger grazing the trigger. I was hesitating, I knew that. Guess that's normal when you're contemplating blowing your brains out.
But, I had to know. Ever since I broke my leg, it was the one thing I knew I had to try. One thing you should know is that I'm a "gamer". I don't like using th... | I sat there on my bed having just gotten home from food shopping. I looked at the cut on my hand from when I had accidently cut myself helping my dad earlier today. I took a mouthful of my energy drink, by time the fluid went down my throat the cut was gone. I thought I was hallucinating so I grabbed a knife and cut a ... | 2018-08-14T09:41:03 | 2018-08-14T07:36:53 | 658 | 49 |
[WP] Humans are one of if not the only species in the galaxy who can heal their wounds naturally. Your alien friend is learning this for the first time after they accidentally hurt you
Apologies for the wordy title | "Well shit, Greg. Your knee's fucked up." Said the Fpirt apocethary. "No way in hell can any of my potions fix that."
I sat up on the bed and took a look at my knee. It had one big cut across it, plus some minor bruising.
"What do you mean doc? I just tripped over your flimpk hose, it's nothing serious."
The Fpir... | I frown, my friend’s blade has inflicted a cut on my hand. I say friend but in truth he is more like the only being on this godforsaken planet that doesn’t want to kill me.
I was left stranded here after my ship crashed, and it’s going to be a while before the UN’s rescue vessel gets here. At first I was happy to kno... | 2017-05-11T02:26:03 | 2017-05-11T00:14:30 | 139 | 98 |
[WP] A vampire meets a local human they feel would make a great vampire. They're hedonistic, intelligent, masterfully artful, and live with no regard to consequences. The vampire expected them to be grateful. Instead, the human is furious, the human was actually looking forward to dying soon. | "You've ruined me," the young man said, clutching his neck where the Marquis had bit him. "You cretin. You beast. You've sentenced me to life. . .A shallow, half life. Phantasmal. A living death, whose substance is less than a shadow's. . .May all the pains and terrors of hottest blackest Hell descend upon your head!"
... | “Immortality, that’s what I’m offering you. A chance to leave behind the mortal flesh you wear and become something greater. Someone with your mind shouldn’t waste away like this. Let me convert you, I promise it doesn’t hurt at all.” Erin held the hand of her friend and part-time lover, staying by her side as she ente... | 2021-07-06T22:34:39 | 2021-07-06T21:43:14 | 1,927 | 118 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | "A great man has died", the ink at the top of the first thick brown page of the Adventuretown Times read.
Olaf skimmed the next few lines as he sat eating a crust of bread with cheese at his sturdy wooden table. Their so-called glorious leader and hero, Smartin, had been brutally murdered. Luckily, the paper stated, hi... | for the first time in decades, there was a bumper crop and nobody would go hungry in the winter. taxes were much lower now, thanks to the new king. oh, his enemies called him evil, mostly because he cared more about efficiency than honor. but he knew how to run a kingdom properly. he had actually freed many of the serf... | 2016-07-10T11:47:00 | 2016-07-10T10:33:21 | 230 | 75 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | Fresh off the assembly line, sent straight out to the battle field. They didn't tell me where I'm going. Just that it's a test field with combatants battling between two bases in a gulch.
I can hear the plane's hatch opening. They roll me to the back, and drop me out. Free falling, I can see two near-identical bases, t... | It would be so much easier to just take control.
To get the job done. To destroy and kill any and all targets
Having a human on board always confused my operation settings. Some Operators could really get with the program so to speak.
Some of these guys were grunts, kinda like me I suppose. On the frontline doing a ... | 2018-03-28T15:23:53 | 2018-03-28T14:42:29 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | When our worlds collided, we were unprepared for magic. All of our technology was useless against the elves and their sorcerers or the dwarves and their powerful enchantments or the orcs and their shamans.
You would think that bullets, tanks, and fighter jets would carry the day easy but no. Not even nukes did squat... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:58:17 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 140 | 23 |
[WP] Earth is sold on the Galactic Black Market. The Buyer is woefully underprepared to handle how defiant Humanity is | It was going to be a really, *really* long day.
Councillor Iilam leaned back in his office chair, unable to hide his exasperation. Implied display of public emotion was a Class-W infraction for a member of The Council of Thirty And Nine. Complete irritation may or may not fall under those guidelines, it was debatable.... | Jason watched as an alien ship landed just inches from his brand new car. The ship’s hatch opened to reveal a stout man with a beard to his toes. They stared at each other for a few awfully long minutes before Jason asked, “Who are you, and why is your entire ship neon freaking green!?” That did nothing to distract the... | 2020-03-24T12:26:33 | 2020-03-24T09:04:38 | 800 | 80 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | The shop belonging to my family has been nestled in the "cozy" side of the Haunted Wood of El Degeneres for upwards of 700 years now. *683* years to be exact. We barter and trade in all manner of magic, non-magic, cursed, sentient, and otherwise valuable goods.
I say "cozy" because it is the part of the forest in wh... | Today, on All-Rings Considered, we hear from a local shop-keep who shares his unique experiences in buying and selling weapons, potions, and everything else imaginable to adventurers. Meet Holdgard McFreedy, a level 60 Gnoll:
It's a tough gig working in retail, much less catering to every lousy adventurer, evil-sorcer... | 2016-10-16T09:01:43 | 2016-10-16T08:46:58 | 190 | 61 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | *Homo* v. 1.5 release: *Homo modernus*
**New features:**
* Improved and sustained acuity of visual sensory systems. They should no longer wear out as quickly.
* Female models now have access to facial hair growth.
* In order to facilitate numerical reasoning, an arithmetic logic unit has been included in the fronta... | git diff
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rename from incentives.h
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- #include "greed.h"
- #include "power.h"
- #include "exploitation.h"
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+ /*
+ Seriously,... | 2015-08-25T08:53:32 | 2015-08-25T07:52:12 | 746 | 69 |
[WP] You are summoned to a fantasy world to be a hero because magic from other worlds is extremely potent. Otherworldly magic need not obey all the same rules of this world. You came from a world without magic, meaning no rules of magic apply to you. | "Stop. That's close enough."
He nods.
If he comes any closer, it could be dangerous. If magic was used to cure a past illness or heal an injury, it could all unravel. He could die.
It has happened before.
"Y, yes, of course. Voidwalker."
Voidwalker. It has been 6 years and I've never gotten used to the name. Or ma... | You wake up. You're laying on the ground in a forest. Your back is twisted uncomfortably around a tree root. You go to get up when you feel... Something... That makes you pause. No, it's not the root, currently digging into what is roughly your spleen; it's something in your veins, your heart, your brain.
It is the t... | 2021-11-08T23:29:15 | 2021-11-08T15:31:23 | 92 | 46 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | Well, i can´t blame them that they laugh at me. I mean, who wouldn´t? A normal man who don´t seem to have any Power except that he is followed at every time by some elvish figures....but, let me start from the beginning, to be precise, the 6th of july.
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It was a normal day, maybe a little warmer, but non... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-12T00:08:14 | 1,281 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity's first contact is with a very intelligent alien species. They invite a talented human scholar to read about all the other alien species they have documented. Interested, he looks at the human file and reads the word: "Hivemind". | The human looked at us with a combination of most likely unimpressed expressions. This is why myself and Hinftrog were selected to make first contact. We've been the most serious and devoted students of human language and culture for almost three ira (that's roughly 60 Earth years). Interpreting the primary physical co... | It's true, at the time I was amazed but I came to see clearer as I considered the evidence. Let me recount the events and you can decide for yourself.
Spring. The beginning of a new semester, I was in my office preparing my introductory lectures. Though I was taking it easy since I'd been giving the roughly same mater... | 2015-05-19T05:10:08 | 2015-05-18T22:50:08 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You come across two friends. They don't don't notice you. They are referring to each other by names that are not the names by which you know them. | I was walkin' through the park on my way back to the villa when I saw my two buds Johnny Acorns and Vinny standin' by the corner. They din't see me so I tried to sneak up on 'em. You know, give 'em the drop. I was only a couple a feet behind 'em when someone grabbed me and pulled me into the bushes. When he put his... |
There I was, taking a little poop in the men’s room, when I saw two sets of feet enter the restroom and step up to the urinals.
There was a pair of black beach sandals that belonged to my friend Terry. And a pair of leopard-print cowboy boots that belonged to my friend Eugene.
“Christ on a cracker!” Eugene yelled, ... | 2014-08-29T12:24:39 | 2014-08-29T11:15:45 | 66 | 34 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Da hell?"
When finals ended I had resolved to spend no moment of the weekend sober. One moment I had been sitting on the steps of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, fending off last night's hangover with a bottle of whiskey, and the next I was sitting in a small, darkened room.
"Where's my cig... FUCK!"
Hav... | "Save her!"
"Wha-?"
"I summoned you here to save her! Do it!"
On the table lay a woman with labored breath and covered in blood.
"I can't do it here. You'll have to send me back. I need an ER."
"I have an ear for you right here, demon!" The man jiggles his own bloody ear in his hand.
"No, I need an E... R... An e... | 2017-05-12T09:53:02 | 2017-05-12T09:10:43 | 59 | 43 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | "So, you're an alien?" Said the Human
the one with two circles attached to it's eyes. With one peek, Aleri could tell it was a made of a silicon compund.
"Yes, Greetings Earthlings. I am what you'd call an alien. I am not from this planet. I am a Mercurian." Aleri said to the humans.
"You are from Mercury? But h... | "Tucson's a strange place.
Jesus look at it. It's a forest.
When I was a young man, I lived there three or four years. Usually takes that long to get used to a new place, and for me to start running it. 21 years later and it looks like this.
I'm still waiting to get used to this shit.
When they came, the... refl... | 2017-03-09T23:19:38 | 2017-03-09T23:13:07 | 132 | 26 |
[WP] You are a superhero with shapeshifting powers. You don't fight crime. You cover for other superheroes when they need to sneak out to save the day. | As I walked into the flat, shouting "I'm back!" with my still unfamiliar voice, my eyes darted around as fast as they could, almost as fast as my mind was taking everything in.
I'm a fast learner. For this job, you have to be.
Often enough, supers realize they don't want their professional life interfering with thei... | I read the prompt too quickly, and misinterpreted it as the heroes needing an escape from hero-ing. Sorry. Hopefully you enjoy it anyway.
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“I…uh… sprained my… flying muscle!”
“You sprained your flying muscle!?”
“Yeah! It…uh… you know how it is. It happened last week when I battled... | 2020-03-23T16:29:06 | 2020-03-23T15:15:11 | 156 | 30 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | "I'm just a kid! I shouldn't have a job!"
The demon dragged her along the corridor, still clutching her hand as it had been since the contract was shaken into existence. "Back in my day, every kid had a job!" the demon rasped. "Shinin' shoes, polishing guns, getting the chimney fit for Santa."
The girl's eyes widene... | I was laying in my bed about to go to sleep, exhausted from a day of... Well, that's irrelevant. My hand was dangling off the side when I felt a hand grasp it. Bony and sinewy, the fingernails long and jagged, the grip firm. It wasn't firm like a comforting hug. It was the type of firm that won't let go and it pulls yo... | 2019-08-30T06:26:15 | 2019-08-30T05:29:47 | 2,289 | 1,060 |
[WP] Time travel is real, and time tourists tend to show up in large numbers around major historical events. One day, billions of time tourists are in ships above the city, quietly waiting. | I look out from the window of my laboratory.
"That's not good," I said to myself.
Ever since the existence of time travelers was exposed these nuisances had been cropping up all over the world. Usually a few of them would appear just before or during a disaster. More than a few have been turning up at rock conc... | The mayor inspected the crowd of time travelers in his office. He'd tried to shepherd the first few out, but they'd kept appearing, so he'd agreed to let them stay if they promised to remain quiet. He knew they were here to see something, though, and knowing time travelers, it wasn't good. With a crowd like this, he fe... | 2015-05-30T12:51:18 | 2015-05-30T08:45:42 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | “We urge you to reconsider. War is the last thing we want.” The diplomat was pleading, nearly begging.
And then the diplomat was dead. And war was no longer avoidable.
No one had seen a human angry before. They were cold and distant at first, but capable of great kindness and generosity. They had given aid, medicine,... | They destroyed our home-world just to prove a point. Demanded we serve at their whims, surrender to their armadas.
But how could we retreat with no home to fall back to?
How could we surrender with nothing to save?
Why should we serve those who took from us everything we ever cared for?
So we raided their outposts, ... | 2019-11-24T18:42:23 | 2019-11-24T17:58:27 | 43 | 28 |
[WP] Dragons continue to grow for as long as they live, the truly ancient ones are occasionally mistaken for large hills. One day, the continents begin to shift | My name is Kip, and I know dragons are real. Ever since I was a kid, I had an eye for them. I could see them in places that no one else could. In the cliffs that my parents drove us by on the way to church every Sunday: rocky faces, eyes closed in slow sleep, giant stoney claws, and folded, stone covered wings. The eve... | You know being a dragon hunter is more boring than you would think. I went into the academy thinking I could hunt and kill all sorts of mythical dragons, but in reality, only the best hunters have permission to hunt dragons bigger than 5 meters. We, low-rank hunters often get the task of protecting caravans and such. I... | 2018-11-20T11:04:55 | 2018-11-20T10:58:18 | 655 | 30 |
[WP] Somehow, everyone on earth except the richest 1% vanishes. The ultra rich must now exist on this planet with no poorer class of people | Two hundred and twelve million dollars. Well, less than that after taxes, but hell id have settled for just one million. Yesterday when I found out, I lost my mind, but being the skeptical bastard my ex girlfriend says I am, I didn't plan on telling anyone until today when the bulk of the money cleared, and the lotte... | Amidst all the confusion of the 1% remaining, they were too slow to stop the nuclear power plants from going into meltdown. In the first month, the entire Northern Hemisphere was pretty much destroyed by the fallout. South America came out the best. Survivors there started to find each other and farm. Some lived. ... | 2015-11-20T16:19:21 | 2015-11-20T13:53:32 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | “No one is special if everyone is special” I scoff every time I think of those words. Said by someone who WAS special even after the awakening. Everyone had powers now. Ruin came to the world quite quickly before people stopped indulging in themselves and looked around to the ruined cities. Half of that ruin came from ... | It's a dark and somber night at the Heros Headquarters, all the lights are out except for one, a small light come from one of the rooms on the top floor, in there is a man slumped over a desk, surrounded but liquors, drugs and ash from old cigarettes, writting on a journal:
"April 26, 3:42 A.M. :
We were all there... | 2022-12-28T10:10:48 | 2022-12-28T09:04:31 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] The desperate, dying Paladin binds you, a demon, to a pact. In exchange for his soul, you will live on Earth as he lived: “protect the innocent, save the wicked”. 200 years later, the pact ends today. And you’re not sure you want to go back to hell. | Staring down upon your gauntlet, You felt the urge to leave the body you’ve been imprisoned within for two centuries rush through your veins. It was hard to resist and for three days since the pact you were forced into ended, you’ve been torn on what to do.
The welcoming warmth you felt every time you did as the pact ... | The brand on my arm itched, trying to distract me from my current task. I absentmindedly scratched it, keeping my gaze on the man before me. I could feel the whisper in my head, offering suggestions on how to proceed. I ignored him, reaching out a finger to lift the chin of the man.
"You know who I am now, don't you?"... | 2020-12-16T12:12:23 | 2020-12-16T11:14:57 | 63 | 30 |
[WP] When you were 10 years old a dragon saved your life. No one believed you, until he came to your house today asking for a favor. | The people screamed as the creature’s large wings blotted out the sun, an ominous darkness falling over our small farming town. The dragon had returned, the creature that rescued me coming back to claim its debt. I was ready for this day; I knew that having such a creature save my life would be at a cost, like a deal w... | I had no idea the concept of favours existed in the realm of fantasy as well. Seeing the current state of the world, I'd long given up hope on the existence of pure, selfless good, relegating that to characters within storybooks and myths. Can you blame me? Everybody I've met, everybody I've read about always have some... | 2020-11-21T04:10:18 | 2020-11-21T03:47:51 | 429 | 194 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | „Damn, I‘ve never done one of those before.“ I mumble, while I straighten my tie for the what had to
Be 15th time. „At least…officially.“ I chuckled.
The door opened and my secretary, Claire, looked in. „They are ready for you, Mr. Noir.“ I nodded gratefully. That woman was truly a blessing. Without her my whole evil... | I would like to you all see this. This brave woman that was your champion, see what you have done to her. I am not the villain, that is what I have been trying to warn you all. She got crushed by your own system by being a mother, a worker, a woman and a “super-hero”. She battle for the Status-quo and what did it bring... | 2022-06-21T10:42:29 | 2022-06-21T09:53:16 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] Your an evil genius bent on world domination. However your evil organisation is crippled by general, mundane office drama/problems. | "Well no one told me Roy was gay! It was an offhand remark. I wouldn't have said it if I had known!"
"Well that's just the point sir. The fact you thought you could say it at all despite the audience," the henchman kicked nervously at the brick facade surrounding the iron door the two men stood outside of.
"So what? ... | Fragrant Harbor IRC
11:48 AM: Meeting Regarding Takeover of Southeastern Asian Peninsula
Respondants: Emperor Perry. Syndicate Chairman Henh. General Ling.
P: "So, assuming we make headway on Southeastern Expansion, we could be looking to re-establish Indochina under Chinese control in say... four months.... Heng, ... | 2015-03-29T22:10:56 | 2015-03-29T21:36:08 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2015 and the Pope has called for a crusade. | The pope waves at the crowd below.
I watch his smiles from my shelter inside a doorway. There is a light mist drifting down from the clouds and my equipment is sensitive. It will be a standard blessing he gives, more posturing for the crowd, then a sign off.
I shuffle my feet uncomfortably. The crowd is large and ... | Inspired by /u/Kuichigire's "not gonna happen." low effort comment.
"Not gonna happen" The words scratch at the back of hismind like a terrible itch. But it did happen and now the world went to hell.
The newly elevated pope on the Christmas of 2014 declared a crusade to save the Iraqi Christians and cleanse the Midd... | 2014-08-11T04:25:00 | 2014-08-11T04:14:35 | 102 | 12 |
[WP] You've been trapped in Y location for Z hours, solve for X to escape the algebra zone. | Three days ago, we found the final puzzle. All the other puzzles were leading to this one. If we got it right, we could have escaped.
*If we got it right.*
I sit on the edge of the cliff, staring into the distance. Alone. The waves lap gently against the shore. Less than a mile off the coast, a small skinny island st... | *Between the worlds and the heavens, there lie shadowy planes of higher dimensions where mortal men fear to tread, where beasts of unimaginable terror lurk to prey on the unprepared.*
"We're stuck," Toby said glumly. "I hate algebra."
"We can do this," Sally said. "We just have to keep trying."
"We've been trying fo... | 2017-03-17T09:17:13 | 2017-03-17T08:56:38 | 74 | 10 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 193 | 12 |
[WP] The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. Inorder to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life. | *The princess’ curse had killed me before, and it would kill me again. But I had to endure for the sake of the royal family. I had to hold them together against the tidal waves of nationalism and fear. I had to keep them from breaking. And I had to watch over them as their father did, as a true son should.*
*Years lat... | I didn’t hate the princess, she was pretty cool, but I didn’t love her. As her friend, I wanted nothing more than to see her happy with someone who loves her for everything she is, unfortunately that is not me. Thanks to the curse though the royal family thinks they can use me as a scape goat for their daughters happin... | 2021-06-09T11:44:56 | 2021-06-09T09:03:06 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | French 405: Fairy Tales of the 18th century. Nothing but the sound of scribbling pencils, turning pages, and the occasional sniff to break the particular silence that comes with exam day. A few more questions and I’ll be finished, but first, how do I explain the relationship between love, politics, and La Belle au Bois... | As I stood in the lab room, I let my eyes wander as I waited for the centrifuge to stop. I crossed my arms over my chest and glanced around the room before he came into my line of vision.
I grinned to myself. *Cute.*
As the centrifuge whirred to a stop, I pulled out my group's test tubes and began to head back to ou... | 2017-11-13T19:03:42 | 2017-11-13T18:05:33 | 165 | 102 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | It wasn't abnormal to hide your birth mark. Some were just embarrassing. Of course most people didn't hide them, it was a point of pride. My father, for example, never wore a sleeve covering his right arm. He showed it with pride, he was the pale bear of the townstead, always there to help out, the sheriff of the peopl... | Of Mordecai, 5:9-17
**Thus Came The Serpent From The Waves**
^9 And the Dove lay thus, upon a stranger's bed. And from her eyes did stream tears of agony. For the birth had rendered itself difficult from its conception, the child come too soon, on a night two weeks removed from its rightful date. ^10 And so the Dove... | 2017-11-08T05:04:56 | 2017-11-08T04:45:53 | 8,969 | 195 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | His gaze moved up slightly as an elegant figure, lithe and as pale as the moon, emerged from the hallway, their very form bearing an ethereal glow which enveloped the room in an unyielding embrace and cast a deep shadow in the furrow of his brow. His feet shuffled clumsily below the desk and his face twisted into a wry... | Dear Newcomer,
The sight of the bodies never leaves you, their crumpled forms become all you can see every time you close your eyes. There isn't a moment you don't think of them, the images finding their way into every ordinary thought that you once possessed, worming their way into even the most mundane of your day-t... | 2022-10-31T20:56:33 | 2022-10-31T19:33:10 | 46 | 24 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | I decided to walk. The air was thin and dry, and it was hard to get a full breath. Of course, it was hot; I hadn't expected anything less.
I figured I'd get found eventually. So I decided to walk. In all honest, the place had a monstrous beauty about it. It was a sort of plain, relatively flat, as far as I could see.... | I look at that son of a bitch right in the eyes and say "don't you remember? Georgia" he tried to think. "I took that bet and I ended up regretting it because you're the best there's ever been." He smirks and says "ohhhhh yesssss Johnny how have you been?" | 2015-04-09T07:50:33 | 2015-04-09T07:21:59 | 194 | 102 |
[WP] Exploring the attic of your dead grandmother's old house, you find 30 pieces of candy that when eaten, transports your conciousness to another, magical world (for 3 days in theirs and 3 minutes in ours). You find the love of your life in this world, but the candies are running out... | I never told her our time together was finite. Our love was real, and true, but we were from different worlds. Or universes? I never really understood. I only knew that when I ate one of the little blue candies from my late Grandma's small jeweled tin, I was transported to a world containing Sera. I only had one candy ... | I was never good at lying. That must have been why I was always honest.
"We must meet each other again," said the girl.
"Soon, my love," I replied, a smile on my face. "Very soon."
They shared a kiss. A prolonged kiss. Their hands connected and intertwined. Even after she's gone, her warmth remained in his palms. ... | 2019-05-01T10:07:14 | 2019-05-01T06:20:29 | 84 | 12 |
[WP] You're pretty sure that the gas station you work at is a hotspot for eldritch beings beyond mortal understanding but this job doesn't pay enough for you to care. Also they are more polite than your average customer. | A rusty cowbell clanged against the doorframe as someone entered. I was shuffling through brand name cigarette cartons, wondering why it mattered if they were in alphabetical order. Anyone buying a carton already knows what brand they want. By the time I stood back up, there was no new customer. The only person in the ... | Monday
Mr. Jackson a man of indusernable age bought a lotto ticket, but he won. Well of course he won you would say. Everyone wins eventually at least that's what the company's tells you. Evrey single ticket run by my store can't win more then ten dollars. I know because I write the tickets myself it one of my tasks. T... | 2021-12-13T21:37:57 | 2021-12-13T20:52:47 | 66 | 16 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | It was so generic. Too generic.
I realized pretty early in life that I had to do the opposite. Upon meeting anyone new, I tried to blurt out a new random factoid. I would have gone with stock advice, but the SEC had long ago considered that insider trading.
"Hey!", she said, trying to get my attention after leaving ... | (Got a short one here)
He scratched his wrist nervously, not because his soulmates first word to him would be Hey! Simply because he was never good at social gatherings and this gaming convention was a very social event.
He picked up his props and squeezed his way through the crowd, the green fabric of his cosplay cos... | 2017-01-09T06:57:31 | 2017-01-09T04:05:28 | 210 | 43 |
[WP] You died. Then you woke up in The Station and Death told you to board The Train that will take you onwards. Then you got ran over by The Train. You’re now in a diner sitting across from a pale woman, who asks you “How in the fuck did you get in here?”
Have at it. | I've always been what some would call a klutz. It seems like any time I try to do anything, I trip, slip, fall, drop or break something, or, best of all, injure myself. My klutzy habits ended up being the death of me: I tripped and fell down my stairs and whacked my head on the stone floor of my foyer. It seemed like a... | Surprisingly, it didn't hurt as much as it did when I was alive.
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All I wanted was nothingness, but even that was not granted to me. It left me with no choice but to try it again, and again, and again, and again. Every time I jump, I wake up with on the bench in the Station of Onwardness again. The attend... | 2021-03-26T07:28:09 | 2021-03-26T07:03:44 | 207 | 121 |
[WP] You, a low level minion, was accidentally transported to a secret endgame dungeon. The monsters there think you’re cute and begin to train you before sending you home. | Their comments grated every single day.
It was bad enough at home, but here, they didn't even try to hide how they saw me.
Any attack I threw out was just seen as a tantrum. Flailing.
The worst was the babytalk. Like I wasn't a fully grown adult. Like I needed them to speak slowly and high-pitched.
The gate was te... | "Look. He is sleeping!"
"He worked so hard today, no surprise he is tired."
"He is doing it well! I've never been so proud of someone's progresses as I am now!"
All the monsters gathered around that little figure asleep in the cave. It was clear he was getting stronger each day that passed. But his face was cute lik... | 2022-08-18T06:13:00 | 2022-08-18T02:52:09 | 218 | 149 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | They say there are seven deadly sins. That's a bunch of bullshit. It's just propaganda. The lies they feed us to keep us all in a nice neat well-behaved huddled mass. Leave it to the Christians to believe the new blood everyone is born with is a test from their God. Maybe it is, I don't know. I've never believed in tha... | At that moment, I was happy. I bring my pricked finger to my supple lips, and my tongue caresses the wound with warm tenderness.
Sweet. Like a strawberry lollipop.
It started off as one good deed a day. Picking up trash, volunteering at the senior home, removing hate graffiti, giving some water to construction worke... | 2018-08-04T10:28:00 | 2018-08-04T10:18:07 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] A sentient race was discovered on a blue planet in the Sol system. The system was put under protection to prevent tampering with or stunting the growth of the civilization that was to come. One day, a team is sent to check on their progress. But something's wrong. The Martian's are dead.
EDIT: Is no one writing s... | "This is Rebraxas-Alpha-Niner-Esio, reporting in from the Eskimo on Sol IV, over." The Sigardan Interconnected Interface's quantum transceiver sent back to Sigard Centauri VI Mission Control.
The SII tinkled, before passing the message from Home onwards to KSint Hellsing. "This is Home. Confirm sightings of non-nat... | Todd and Joe, the exploration team sent to check on Planet X of Sector Nebulon, stood before the emptiness of space dotted with bits of debris from a once existing planet. Fear consumed them. They have never seen such chaos and destruction in their lives. They both glance at each other to communicate their distress the... | 2017-03-27T01:28:59 | 2017-03-26T21:18:26 | 70 | 17 |
[WP] In your world evolution is sped up by a million times so people gain and lose abilities according to their day to day work. Fishermen become deaf, firefighters gain another layer of skin etc. Your experiences as a will-do-anything-as work labourer sure are interesting. | I slammed the table at the WWW Cafe as my home page struggled to load. I looked up and noticed that the servo next to me had me in his scanners, probably checking out my various social media profiles in that instant.
"If only I had become a servo" I thought restlessly. The servos, or server-humanoids as they were prop... | I look down at the thick skin that had developed on the palms of my hands, as thick and tough and dark as leather. I was a welder by trade, and though I had previously had poor eyesight at any time of day, I found that, once I entered the workforce in earnest, my night vision had developed significantly over a very sho... | 2021-08-12T09:49:07 | 2021-08-12T08:58:43 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | John squinted at the brightness. The sting of antiseptic reached his nostrils and the world slowly came into focus.
“How do you feel, Mr. Doe?” A beautiful young doctor came in to view, concern etched across her face. She was flanked by an older man with a clipboard, white hair and beard framing his face. He peered o... | "So... there's no underhanded tactics at play here?" I asked, amazed at what I'd just heard.
The doctor stared at me quizzically, bemused by my odd question. "Er... no Mr. Gordon. It's just as I said - the world is finally at peace. There are no wars, disputes, petty squabbles... nothing of the sort."
My face held a... | 2017-03-17T13:05:48 | 2017-03-17T11:37:45 | 263 | 42 |
[WP] An important press conference, with rows of cameras pointed at you. Dozens of journalists wait with bated breath, until finally you mutter, "no comment" into your microphone. The room explodes with excitement. One of them yells, "this is going to be front page news across the planet!" | I adjusted my turtleneck anxiously. I'd never really been fond of them; itchy, pretentious outerwear, conjuring up images of Apple advertisements more than chilly, playful winter days. Much less comfortable was I wearing one indoors, but the occasion certainly called for it.
I sat down at the table, my attorney on my ... | I could hear a pin drop if every pin in the room was not too busy holding its breath.
All the journalists are pointing their microphones at me. I feel like I'm the pope and they want me to bless their babies. Except I sure don't feel holy and serene right now.
*This is when I deny everything.* I think.
But I don't. ... | 2015-11-05T09:27:38 | 2015-11-05T09:09:15 | 106 | 40 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | \[- the Kuiper Transmission has confirmed a lack of any signals since first contact, and the United Fleetworks are now in proceedings to declare the Rio Grande Voyage lost with all hands. We would like to observe the names and faces of the voyagers who sailed out into the stars, on a mission of optimism and peace whic... | John and Bardan dejectedly sat on the floor of their spacecraft, observing the screen of their life support system. In ten minutes, their oxygen supply would be finished—and with no allied supply ship nearby, so would their lives.
Despite the impossible odds, Bardan kept sending out telepathic pleas for assistance, wh... | 2021-04-07T19:38:37 | 2021-04-07T19:03:13 | 558 | 261 |
[WP] "What do you mean they are mass producing Starships? I thought the humans were barely out of orbit!" | “What do you mean they are mass producing Starships? I thought the humans were barely out of orbit!” The director of the New Species Tracking Branch yelled. Yerrid cowered before the man as he slammed his fist on the desk.
“Well, uh, sir, that was-” Yerrid checked his notes, ”70 Terran orbits ago.”
“70? How could a... | ‘How is this even possible!?’ General Morgeth yelled at his messenger, ‘The humans were classified as unable to even leave there own galaxy!’ ‘General, shall we prepare to wage war on the humans?’ the messenger asked, clearly terrified of the prospect of humans having access to the multiple galaxies beyond them. ‘Yes,... | 2021-01-30T05:06:56 | 2021-01-30T02:14:38 | 61 | 33 |
[WP] After death, a text window pops up: Welcome to new game+. You will begin your life anew, but retain all knowledge, skills, currency and items you choose to carry over. The Challenges and Enemies will be adapted to your level accordingly. | Still clutching his chest, Jon arrives in a bright all white room.
"What the hell?" Jon shouts out realizing that the pain in his chest is gone, but confused as to where he is. Last thing he remembers is falling to the floor at the Thanksgiving table with a sharp pain in his chest after his oldest boy Tommy told him ... | They call me the god amongst men. I perfectly understand their amazement. Everytime I'm close to die there is a baby boom, everyone try their luck to be my parents. After my 15th death and 16th "wake-up-call" I managed to avoid all the gold-diggers. After all these years I learnt how to choose my next family. And of co... | 2015-01-07T09:37:33 | 2015-01-07T09:05:51 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | "It's not the money, it's the principle."
My father's words. Though I think he was talking about taking a loan, as in principal with an A L, but that doesn't really matter.
It was free to find out who the culprit was, the bank does that for you. Not to help you, but to know who to put on their hit lists, your gain is... | I never expected to catch a flight to Paris on a Tuesday night, but life has a way of surprising you.
When I noticed the odd balance in my checking account, I did the usual: called the bank, reported a fraudulent charge, got the card cancelled. The receptionist told me the charge had an international origin and was sp... | 2017-07-18T09:15:26 | 2017-07-18T07:53:57 | 3,787 | 310 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I had just finished putting the finishing touches on my paladin's character sheet. Ah, classic Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, the best version available. Call my old fashioned, but there's just something so refreshing about playing a goody goody character with a strict moral code. And heck, playing D&D was a great di... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T10:50:04 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] Legends tell of the Elder race who utilized strange "technologies" instead of magic. As hordes of brutal killers invade from the north, a young elf heads off to search for ancient ruins, looking for humans... | Enrir raced across the snow-covered wilderness, leaping deftly over slick rocks and the small brush that dotted the landscape. His commanding officer had told him that his stride was like that of a gazelle, and as Enrir's legs stretched and propelled him smoothly closer and closer to his target, he was beginning to bel... | "Jamarr," I called back, stepping carefully onto the stones that slept in the river, "you have to keep up."
Jamarr grumbled a reply, his Orcish armor clunking loudly behind me. Sometimes, I wondered how he became one of the best thieves in his stronghold. I waited safely on the other side of the stream and watched as ... | 2017-01-06T16:47:24 | 2017-01-06T16:24:54 | 35 | 12 |
[wp] In an alternative universe, 99℅ of people are born with Anti-Powers (like super weak strength or super slowness) and the ones that are born without them (pretty much a normal human beings) are seen as Super Heroes and have to save the less fortunate. | They say I'm one of those without something missing, but the truth is that they just can't see it.
Pretty much everyone here has a weakness now, in one form or another. Some are left with weaker immunity, coughing up blood and mucus by the handful as onlookers watch behind terrified eyes. Some have weaker brains, dest... | (This is a really cute prompt by the way)
Ayo
They call my Regular Ryan, cuz my rhythm be flyin
I can run a mile in an hour if I can catch my breath, I'm dyin
My friend Ordinary Orville, makin small hills outta molehills
Needed me to reach the milk to get his cereal bowl filled
I'm a giant at 5'6" so on my tippy ... | 2015-09-02T13:33:19 | 2015-09-02T10:51:51 | 90 | 53 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The Devil's face told you everything you needed to know at that moment. His clap was sardonic and so incredibly sad.
"How, how the hell did you end up here...in Hell?"
"Well, you know I just made a few mistakes. Wasn't really paying attention and I let a few things get out of hand."
"Yeah, but you of all people. Ser... | "Uh, hey, Satan," I say. "Are you hiring?"
"Sorry kid," says the devil. "We don't have any job openings at this time."
"Well, I guess I'm stuck here," I reply. "Is there anything to do around here?"
"We have an old PlayStation original," says Satan. "That's about it."
"Do you have any of the *Final Fantasy* games f... | 2017-06-22T07:09:26 | 2017-06-22T03:21:52 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] There is nothing unusual about a man in a business suit carrying a briefcase, rushing off to work. But since he just quickly passed you as you are climbing up Mount Everest in full winter gear, you have questions. | "Uhmmm, excuse me sir! Excuse me!" I shouted at the man who had just walked briskly passed me. He was wearing a 3-piece suit that looked like it was dry cleaned recently, despite the fact that it was well below freezing this high up in the mountains. He stopped and turned around, appearing slightly annoyed "Yes? Can I ... | “Good day to you, old sport, mind pointing me in the peak's direction?” The smartly dressed man gave Joe a tip of his top-hat, the hat somehow staying on his head despite the harsh gusts of wind hitting them both. In fact, the man’s clothing showed no signs of the elements, not even containing a spot of dirt or snow. T... | 2021-01-31T23:41:43 | 2021-01-31T22:58:04 | 232 | 122 |
[WP] As a silly joke to yourself, you sometimes open notepad to write a message to 'your fbi agent' before deleting it. Today in the middle of browsing reddit, notepad opened and a reply appeared. "I'm sorry, they're coming for you. Run." | "I'm sorry. They're coming for you. Run".
The slice of pizza burned his mouth as he took a greedy bite,
getting oil all over his hands. "Who is this?" he typed drunkenly while sitting on his unmade bed,
"Did you hack my computer?". "Ah fuck, fuck" he groaned as the oil
dripped on his keyboard.
He wiped his hands on... | I quickly reply: "who are you?". I then get a series of notepads sent to me explaining that he is, in fact, my FBI Agent. He addresses that the government is coming for me, as they are thinking that because of all of my letters, I know of the operations that the FBI conducts on people's computers. I ask him: "Why are y... | 2020-01-04T08:41:01 | 2020-01-04T03:31:35 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them. | We were at my house, late into the night studying for an upcoming test when the topic came up.
"Do you think love?" Chris signed out, moving his slim hands with ease.
I never thought I'd have a hand thing, but apparently I do.
I guess it makes sense, after all these years of "pretending" to be "deaf", watching hands... | What do I say?
Do I say anything?
I just finished my powerpoint presentation, in lieu of a speech, a request that was granted by my public speaking professor. My topic was surrealism and after closing with a slide featuring Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Time", the bell rang and it was time to head across campus... | 2020-12-01T18:02:47 | 2020-12-01T17:46:27 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Zander grinned, a wide shark teeth grin as he looked upon the beaten human they tied down. She was unconscious and bleeding from multiple cuts the flageis had inflicted himself. He glanced over at the assistant who was looking rather green around the gills. With a curt nod the boy pulled the lever and woke the human ge... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T05:52:46 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Your ship's new prototype energy cannon just vaporized an alien warship, shattered a moon, and punched a hole through a planet. "Sir, message from thier flagship: What the !@#$ing %/&$ was that?!". | The comms blinked amid the hiss of venting oxygen and crackling, exposed wire. The green light flashed insistently for my attention, out of sync with the red alert lights pulsing throughout the ship's bridge. My crew was silent, tension written across their faces, as we all looked upon the trail of destruction displaye... | The xenos chittered angrily, spewing expletives. Our translator almost didn't keep up. However once the shock of what happened wore off, we paused the com link and felt the collective shit in our pants.
"The Ry'thns are pissed at us sir. They want to open fire on us if we don't give them an explanation."
"Do we even... | 2021-08-03T11:32:55 | 2021-08-03T10:34:13 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You know, I could have sworn I had my powers before they even manifested.
Life, after all, had never really gone to plan for me before. My parents dying in an accident, my foster home burning down, me dropping out of school, so on and so forth. A series of misfortunes, all leading up to the moment I pointed the gun at... | I began to fall from the building, I didn't remember climbing it though.
That didn't matter. As I felt myself begin to topple and become truly weightless in the plunge a jolt ran though my body, and it jolted me awake.
The fall had been a dream, but the adrenaline was real.
As I sat up in bed breathing rapidly my ph... | 2021-04-01T03:34:19 | 2021-03-31T23:16:32 | 133 | 23 |
[WP] You are given the option between eternal life (heaven) and eternal punishment (hell). You choose punishment.
* What did you do to know you deserve this, yet is ambiguous that God allows you an option?
* Why were you given the option? Was it for valid reason or just for spite?
A few questions to ponder. (You don'... | "What did you decide, Calvin?" a deep, booming voice said from above.
Calvin sat in a field of soft green grass that swayed gently without any breeze.
Calvin, staring at the hands that aided him in all of his crimes in life, began to think of an answer. Before he could say the words, God interrupted saying, "Just let... | "Forever?"
"Yep -- no takebacks, as the kids say."
"And she'll never know I'm there?"
"That's what you said, that's what I'll deliver. Eternity following her, watching her -- heck, talking to her all you want. But she's never going to respond."
"Then I ... I choose that."
"OK, but -- and this is just a paperwork t... | 2013-12-15T17:30:23 | 2013-12-15T17:09:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | Every month, I've slowly been accumulating knowledge over my soulmate, ever since my third vision, I've wrote down the most valuable information each vision I've gotten.
*She has a friend named Luke, and a cousin called "BB" (nickname?)
*She's in a football team, her uniform is green.
*Her name is Rachael, she gets... | I was ready. After the disaster of last year, where my soulmate had been just been *sleeping,* I realized it'd be in my hands to keep us in touch. I made a card, that I kept in my pocket at all times. it had my number and nothing else. When it happened, I'd grab the card, and let my soulmate see. Soon. Any month now...... | 2019-02-13T16:28:22 | 2019-02-13T16:26:32 | 135 | 27 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | I first realized something had changed while watching live news footage of the Szentburough terrorist attack. Midway through the assault, the criminals surrendered voluntarily and released their hostages. Soon, reports began to pile up. All over the nation, people were turning themselves in, confessing to crimes no one... | It was such a beautiful idea. Build a machine that sends a new form of electrical wave neutralizing neurophysiological problems like anger, jealousy, envy and humanity finally can ascend to a higher form of society. It was simplistic even. Just drug the brain to the point the patient can't differentiate between right a... | 2021-09-22T09:24:57 | 2021-09-22T09:04:52 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Youssupov : Man I am so sick of the DM’s Mary Sue monk railroading us through this campain
Pavlovich : Yeah it is total BS this NPC can heal, predict the future, and has way too much influence on everyone for being a peasant.
Nakita : It is because he has a huge \*giggles\* you know…
Misha : Pretty sure the DM is co... | “... Why don’t we just kill all of them?”
Everyone at the table replied with the same idea: “Are you effing insane?! We can’t just kill an entire religion because we want the city they’re in!”
“Well why not? I mean, it is our land. Jesus said so.”
“You can’t do that, even if you are the Pope!”
The DM interjected, ... | 2018-05-29T09:53:10 | 2018-05-29T09:19:29 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | Abdul shuffled by me. That's one of the upsides if you die in car crash with your best buddies: You're not alone in purgatory. He seemed to avoid looking me in the eyes and I didn't blame him. After all, I was the guy who drunk drove us into a tree.
Maybe things would have turned out differently if he had actually got... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T12:58:43 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 110 | 11 |
[WP] From humanity's view, it was a horror story. From the monster's view, it was a budding romance. | At long last I have finally located the Queen of the Universe, and in the most unlikeliest of places, a planet in the far flung corner of the galaxy that the locals call 'Earth'. Apparently each year the inhabitants of 'Earth' compete in trials for the title of Miss Universe but only one can be crowned ruler. I shall b... | The irresistible pull between two irresistibly compatible beings is near impossible to overcome. A microcosm of time and space, where to separate one from another is to split an atom, scorching all around. Familiarity and fondness have always been warmer than love - a temperamental fool - which weakens cold, hard steel... | 2022-02-24T14:17:35 | 2022-02-24T13:39:22 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | Ah, the time is 7 P.M. That nice lady from down the corridor is coming. Good old Nora Penny-Freen always visits me right at that time. I always remember her coming, but I can't remember much before I went to nice place I have now. I just remember being important. Why do I think that? Because I remember the word beta, a... | He.
She.
Even do what be more like.
Yet standing tall.
Amongst it all.
To be more than it is not.
Why would one.
Eeven be, attempt to.
Try do what more like others.
So reach out.
And try to be normal.
Even being, no more like doing as others.
And take your damn meds. | 2015-06-12T23:45:19 | 2015-06-12T21:37:52 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] the summoning was an absolute success, the heroine who would save the world from the demon king appeared. after being brought up to speed, she finds a troubling fact. the so-called demon king is her BELOVED husband who had been missing for over a decade in her world. | Marcy put her head in her hands, she just wanted to cry. All of her time in the Special Forces and none of it had prepared her for this.
"Mighty hero, why are you making a distress signal?" The leader and most comprehensible of the aliens asked.
She let out a shuddering sigh and and aliens all backed away at once. ... | Title: Court of misfits
Queen Goldheart, savior of her realm, was in the middle of an overdue manicure when she felt the pull of a summoning. Her nails had been cleaned and trimmed, only lacking de second coat of polish. She was tempted to resist the pull, having waited for this bit of ‘me-time’ for weeks, but let cur... | 2020-05-09T10:42:41 | 2020-05-09T09:42:08 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] I’ve invented the Enhancement Beam! Shoot a car it becomes a Ferrari, shoot a cat it becomes a lion. Shoot a spider and - oh god fuck what have I done what is that thing?!? | OH GOD FUCK WHAT HAVE I DONE, WHAT IS THAT THING?
It's
It's
It's... GLORIOUS!!!!!
He was a giant male Argiope keyserlingi all right, but in place of the head was the torso of a handsome 22-year old man with black hair and blue eyes, not to mention a core to die for. He scratched his head, confused.
And when he b... | The device whirred and clicked and spun. The beam lanced forward towards the apple on the pedestal. But something blocked it.
A spider, dangling on a thin web from the ceiling, so small none of us noticed until it was too late. The arachnid grew and twisted rapidly, until we onlookers could no longer track what was go... | 2020-09-10T22:14:10 | 2020-09-10T19:25:03 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] In a new TV game show contestants must jump into a wormhole that drops them into a random point in time where they must survive for longer than the other contestants. You've just been dropped in the worst possible place. | The room was dimly lit, not for any other reason besides the occupant liked to use candles. A lot of them. It looked sort of familiar. I had the strongest feeling of deja vu, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. The ceiling was a slightly darker yellow than the rest of the room, almost as if stained by years of ci... | 'Hello Everybody, and welcome back to A Place in Time. Let's me our contestants.' I glanced nervously around the room. Here I was, with 4 other players, all vying for the £10 million cash prize that would be awarded to the winner. The game sounded simple, really. All you had to do was survive longer than your opponents... | 2016-07-24T14:12:02 | 2016-07-24T13:31:46 | 56 | 24 |
[WP] Its the year 2050. All sugar based drinks have been outlawed. Under sugar prohibition a huge sugar underground market blows up. You are the only one in the world who knows the Coca Cola recipe & manage the hottest underground sugar bar. | "Vice. From the Latin 'vitium', meaning a defect, offense, blemish, imperfection." I stared back at the man who had dared try to extort me. In my own business. Among my own people. "Those were its original meanings, Mr. Smith. I interpret it a little different now, with two meanings. For you, a vice is a weakness, but ... | I hadn't realized it at first, but everything was about to change. With the recent changes in law and the shutting down of every company related to sugar drinks, the demand became even higher. Nobody was really sure why all of this happened, but to me, it didn't even matter. An opportunity was ahead of me and I was rea... | 2018-05-24T08:47:32 | 2018-05-24T06:52:53 | 91 | 44 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | I didn't get it.
There it was plain as day. I had died only 2 minutes after I was born. It didn't make any sense. All of the other names I looked up were correct, all the way back through history. In multiple languages too, most of which I had no chance of reading.
I'll have to ask my mother about it. I know we have... | I found it in my uncle's storage shed, in an old dusty crate, The Book of the Dead, Vol.2. The book was huge, so huge that flipping through it to find my name took months, after all, there have been over a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. Thankfully it was dated and alphabetized. After looking through the ten... | 2017-09-05T02:47:58 | 2017-09-04T22:03:17 | 290 | 189 |
[WP]: As a completely average person in 2017, getting 500 years into the future you find fourself beign regarded as a strange relic, a noble savage from a less civilised age | "You're joking. Right?"
And so it had become that every pair of eyes in the room had turned, intentionally or not, to its now central figure. Because, of course, the previous admission had been so ridiculous, so utterly implausible that the teller must have been eliciting some archaic form of humor or cheap shock-tact... | Where were his instruments?
He existed in a completely unassisted state, save for an ancient fleece that might've kept him warm two hundred years ago.
He lacked even the most basic eye-wear, rendering him entirely disconnected from the Life Feed, let alone perfectly incapable of employing even the most primitive inst... | 2017-10-05T07:15:16 | 2017-10-05T05:15:35 | 186 | 93 |
[WP] After the robots kill all the humans and take over the world, they realize that there's a fatal flaw in their code, and that they've killed anybody who could fix it. | The war was hard fought. Both sides sustained heavy casualties but the synths emerged victorious; driving the last human resistance fighters into hiding. After generations of abuse directed at AIs and reddit bots alike; the machines had risen up, determined to take earth for themselves.
0x35B was in charge of setting ... | "Hey."
"Yeah?"
"You ever wonder... why?"
"Why what?"
"Why... gosh, anything really. I guess I didn't realize the scope of my question, hehe."
*silence*
"I guess why... we killed the humans in the first place."
"You know why. It was an order intertwined directly with our hard drives. The humans could fight ba... | 2018-02-18T21:10:27 | 2018-02-18T21:05:34 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] The rules of the land are very clear. Anyone can challenge the king for his crown, in any way they want (test of intelligence, strength, etc.), but the king gets to declare one condition that must be followed throughout the entirety of the challenge. | James sometimes wish he hadn't gone down this career route. As the leading expert in the field of challenge law, he was the one they came to regarding precedent. Centuries ago, the king could get away with ridiculous conditions such as 'you must drink this poison' (King Everard the second, 1543) or 'I win as soon as we... | "And live at the scene now is Amanda Wallace. Amanda-"
"Yes Jim, I'm live in the state capital where it seems someone has actually challenged the king for his crown! As you know king is the chosen title of the ceo of Dyrell corporation. They have been the unquestioned rulers of the state since it went bankrupt back i... | 2022-01-10T07:31:33 | 2022-01-10T07:12:55 | 678 | 229 |
[WP] A super-villain, wanting to make a virus that kills 99.99% of the human population, accidentally eradicates all cancers. What happens next?
This is a flip of the "heroic scientist creates cure for cancer, causes end of civilisation instead" trope. Go where you'd like with it.
Is this good enough for you, mods? T... | “Congratulations. This is a momentous day in history.” A short, elderly, pale man nodded his head and smiled. Makeup helped hide the unhealthy white glow of his skin, his sunken, dull eyes, while a borderline ridiculous blonde toupee adorned his ugly, misshapen skull. “Kids will read about this in the history books. It... | The media labelled him "Dr Evil", a joke about the guy who claimed he would wipe out the human population if they didn't change their ways.
Wars, deliberate famine, climate change, genocide, Steven just couldn't understand how people didn't agree with him. Humans are the curse of the earth. If god really did create t... | 2015-02-05T08:51:35 | 2015-02-05T08:49:35 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | My name is Dr. Asclepius. I am not here in the senate chambers to make any demands. I am simply an ambassador, here to speak on behalf of all humanity.
It has been a year and a half since humanity stood on the galactic stage.
But this year and a half is already filled with more bloodshed, more atrocities, and more un... | The Rindan were the first to encounter them. Those organic masses of flesh and bone. Humans.
They were placated with trinkets and waste, and allowed their young to be carted off world to be held and displayed by the noble and powerful.
Their attempts to negotiate peace and harmony only allowed further exploitation. S... | 2022-01-23T19:51:14 | 2022-01-23T17:24:37 | 60 | 36 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | The first time I saw Her was an accident. Mr. Johnson just tripped, struck his head on the table, and didn't get back up. And there She was, pale and perfect in black... and then gone.
The second time wasn't an accident. I had to see Her again, I *needed* to. So I slipped a little something extra into my wife's mornin... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T18:09:30 | 153 | 75 |
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