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[WP] You run a daycare after the apocalypse. An unspoken rule among the wastelanders says the Daycare is off-limits to all. You raise the children of warlords, chieftains, and nomads. | I had never been a productive member of society before the End. Time changes us all, as they say, and after a fashionable time off spent digging myself out of a pile of concrete, I came to the realization that the world had changed, and so did I.
The daycare was, at first, more an orphanage than a daycare. I gathered ... | Angel died yesterday, probably. His lifeless frame was found crumpled, his skin long gray, gross-smelling fluids oozing from his eyes and mouth. But it could have been earlier, I suppose than yesterday that he perished.
I mostly kept busy with the day's sudoku while the others dealt with him, as they're want to do.
T... | 2022-12-23T12:23:36 | 2022-12-23T09:22:58 | 561 | 24 |
[WP] How strongly can you make someone hate a character? | It wasn't enough to get a hundred. Any fool could get a hundred. The commander had set the bar too low so that the nobodies could crawl over it. Jiro was going to do better. He was going to make his ancestors proud. He was going to get every possible kind of Nanjing scum there was. He was going to behead each one with ... | I stared into the eyes of my daughter. She had been crying, something about her boyfriend breaking up with her. I wiped away the tears with a quick slap to her face.
I yelled at her. I couldn't believe my 16 year old grown-ass girl was crying over a stupid boy.
"Shut your mouth" I whispered at her. No daughter of min... | 2013-09-15T04:47:37 | 2013-09-14T19:04:07 | 113 | 10 |
[WP] North Korea is a veritable paradise on earth but we have no idea because of aggressive propaganda and out of context quotes of the nk leadership.
The reality is the exact opposite of what the West think is true. The truth is being kept from us for fear that we would revolt if we discovered the amazing North Korea... | The young lieutenant slammed the foreign newspaper onto the conference table, then quickly attempted, and failed, to compose himself. An unflattering picture of Dear Leader leered from its pages, accompanied by a mocking headline. The elder Chairman, ever patient, allowed himself a faint smile while he waited for the... | "Mi Kyung! The pictures! Hurry!"
"Why the fuck are you speaking English?"
"... what? It doesn't matter. We go live in 2 hours... what's that?"
A tall, trim man in spotless, white, flowing robes pointed at a straw hut in the corner of the floating image.
"What? It's just a hut."
"It's been six months since we leaked ... | 2014-06-26T08:39:12 | 2014-06-26T07:29:36 | 260 | 27 |
[WP] When humans mature, they gain a single magic spell. The incantation is a single verb, and (a) subsequent command(s) if desired.
An example of the incantation could be "Obey, get me coffee."
| "Can you hook me up?"
I looked at the kid in front of me, he was, with a liberal guess, fifteen. But he was obviously resourceful, he managed to find me in this haunted city.
"Well, it depends on what you want." I said.
"I want a *discern.*"
*Discern*. Ah. That was an expensive item, because of the nature of it. You... | We'd all been brought up to look forward to adulthood, making money, settling down and being responsible, the dull stuff.
Life was always supposed to be much more than that though, why did the fun have to end as soon as we turned 18? Well, fortunately, it didn't. The solar storm gave the human race something amazing,... | 2014-11-15T20:37:44 | 2014-11-15T19:15:25 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall, and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers. He stops, looks directly at you and says, "You... You're interesting. Do your friends know what you are?" You have no idea what he means. | I've never really felt special, you know. Was always the girl who'd stand beside her friend as she fell in love with some cute boy, and I'd always later watch the cute boy tiptoe over to give her a kiss. But not me. I never had good grades. Not bad ones either, just average. I wasn't a creative soul, I wasn't extremely... | Jesus Christ. I swear, if had to dodge one more fat-assed mama pushing her obese three-year-old in a baby carriage, I was going to kill someone.
But I knew better. So, as always, I smiled politely, said "excuse me," and tried to regain momentum in the throng of holiday shoppers. Christmas. What bullshit. Just another ... | 2014-12-06T05:10:37 | 2014-12-06T04:50:39 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | “December 11, 4614. My name is Edmund Schulman, 2600 years ago was my last birthday. I am the oldest living terrestrial mammal on earth.”
I’ve done this exactly 52 times now. I remember reciting the same exact phrase the way the first batch of scientists instructed. The digital camcorder remarkably the same and in per... | The light burns at my sheltered retina as I hear hissing of the vacuum, or is it over pressure? Countless times I've been through this process and yet I still forget. The offending light is partially blocked and now my ears are assaulted with a even newer form of Mandlish, the inevitable merging of English and mandarin... | 2014-12-19T07:53:55 | 2014-12-19T06:46:09 | 118 | 24 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | Alright! It’s that point in the story where the guy gets the girl. Where he decides that he does have enough confidence, and she will respond to it. She has to.
Okay, walk over... Just. No, walk normal. LIKE A HUMAN PERSON. Alright, you’re almost there. Whoops, a little trip. No worry. Stairs are tricky. S... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T09:02:44 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 111 | 12 |
[WP] Drug company makes a new pill that reduces IQ, come up with advertisement. | *Bliss*.
"We all know that parenting is hard. Schedules to keep, meals to cook, and clothes to buy. But what can you do, when you've tried everything and your precious angel is acting a bit more like the devil every day?"
*Bliss.*
"Studies have shown that hyperactivity and misbehavior in children often stem from a... | CLOSE UP ON MAN LOOKING OUT WINDOW:
**Narrator:** “Do you feel worried? Nervous? Are there bills piling up and you just don’t know what to do?”
MAN looks at CAMERA and nods.
**MAN:** “There’s just so much turmoil in the world. The Middle East is a mess and our government is hopelessly divided because we only vote... | 2015-01-15T06:14:33 | 2015-01-15T06:12:16 | 127 | 23 |
[WP] In a world where hauntings and paranormal activity is the norm, the world clamors when a house is found to be "spiritless" | The silence is what got to Else first. It was the first time since her awakening as a medium she had experienced it. Every house has spirits. It's a fact. Even newly built houses get their first supernatural occupants soon after completion but this one was centuries old. It was unnerving.
It wasn't the silence of shy ... | Rye’s hand shook as he reached for the pint glass. His eyes had large bags underneath them and his eyelids drooped. As he grabbed the glass he yawned. “I just haven’t been able to get any sleep.”
Red raised an eyebrow. “Are you serious?”
“Yeah.” Rye steadied his hand and brought the glass up to his lips. He sucked do... | 2015-03-26T18:38:42 | 2015-03-26T18:34:30 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] As a joke, you scream 'HELP!' in your head as loud as you can while in a crowded area to catch out any unsuspecting psychics. Everyone in the vicinity turns to look at you.
I'm glad this became popular! Thank you for the responses, I'll read all of them. :)
I also love that literally nobody has taken the obvious... | Great... Fucking GREAT! The movie has probably already started and this old bitch in front of me has spent 4 minutes trying to pay for one box of LifeSavers.
"No that's 67 cents ma'am you only owe me 65," the cashier patiently explained.
"Oh thththank you dear, y-y-y-you're a lifesaaaver," she said with a slow screech... | “2015 Paranormal Psychics Association Keynote: Ballroom 11b”
The guys in the bachelor party cracked a few jokes as we rolled our luggage past the placard on the tri-pod. “Could you imagine if Sherri was psychic? Isaac would never have landed her if she knew about Stacy early on,”
Isaac had been a bit dishonest about ... | 2015-04-02T03:05:34 | 2015-04-02T02:53:58 | 920 | 156 |
[WP] You are the human personification of the Panzer VIII Maus heavy tank | They called me Maus.
It was a terrible joke. I weigh over 200 tons, and move at a sedate—and completely unstoppable—thirteen kilometres an hour. I am proud of that. No other vehicle of my size can move even half as fast. I am covered in at least seven inches of armour on all sides. My turret is heavier still.
My buil... | Neil was stuck in the doorframe again.
It was tough being stuck when you are just over one meter seventy and have a slim build, but Neil managed. Neil got stuck all the time. He did it at work, at home, and even managed to once hit his head on a branch that was at least a meter above his head.
Neil didn't usually vi... | 2015-05-18T07:14:24 | 2015-05-18T06:54:51 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Unknown to the public, the reason heroes and villains dress in such a flamboyant and fabulous manner is that it amplifies their powers. Lately, this "arms race" has been getting out of control... | "Explain to me again why you need two capes."
Mr. Menace looked awkwardly down at his flamboyant boots. "Well, Two-Two only has one cape to give him flying, so I figured if I had two, I could fly faster than him."
Edna turned around in her tall chair, glaring at the flamboyant hero from her thick glasses. "When you s... | How is nobody else amazed by this?
I mean, the first person to be born with a super power had only emerged a little over 20 years ago, so I guess the novelty has worn off a bit by now. However, this was getting ridiculous. Superman attended a press-conference with an 18-foot long gay-pride flag for a cape, Batman now... | 2015-11-07T08:36:28 | 2015-11-07T06:25:49 | 71 | 43 |
[WP] Every time someone says "Long live the Queen", the Queen's life is extended by one second. You only notice this when the Queen looked terrified when only a few people say it during a public speech.
Credit to /u/kroxigor01 for the idea. | From the crowd only a few people shouted it. Before this all happened, the entire crowd would say it. But the phrase is dying. Experts have pointed out how it may come of as nationalistic, and that it's somewhat old fashioned. Fewer and fewer people started saying it. And that took its toll. Looking back now, it all ma... | As the national anthem being sand across the country drew to a proud halt, the Queen turned to a young man at a high-tech computer- his brassy nametag reading 'Jacob MacDonald'.
"How many was it this year?"
"Uhh... about 64 million seconds worth of 'Long Live the Queens', Ma'am."
"Yes, good. How many is that in.... | 2022-09-08T11:11:40 | 2015-11-09T04:49:29 | 971 | 19 |
[WP] You are a child who used to be afraid of the monsters hiding in your room. Now, you're just a annoyed child who is tired of the monster under your bed arguing with the closet monster. | "BALTHAZAR, GRUMBLOR, MOM SAID IT'S BEDTIME!"
"Excuse me, kid, will you please let the adult monsters talk?" Grumblor said in a gravelly voice. "Balthazar, you're the one who literally won't come out of the closet.
"Oh, now that's the pot calling the kettle black." Balthazar repled. "I heard about your little weekend... | "THAT'S IT!! I've had it!"
...The human boy let out the sudden yell and swung his short legs over the edge of his bed, feet and toes stretching downward and seeking to find a pair of slippers which lay below. The oh so terrifying beast of dust and discarded socks beneath the bed and the incredibly fear inducing mons... | 2016-04-21T15:02:17 | 2016-04-21T14:47:32 | 426 | 46 |
[WP]The "30 year old virgin" story is true. But the government knows that and has a organisation that makes sure we all stay unmagical. You are a week away from your 30th birthday and still a virgin, and you've avoided any sexual encounters that came across in hopes to see if the legend comes true. | "This is your last warning, Harry! Fuck me right now, or I'll blow your fucking brains out!"
Two minutes ago, this beautiful girl was whispering into my ear about how she was going to change my life with promises of earth-shattering sex, and now here she was, a gun aimed straight at my head, eyes constantly switching... | It's almost time! I was giddy with emotion. My dad had told me about this time for so long! I was almost 30. Just a week away. I smiled at myself in the mirror, happy with myself. I was so giddy my heart was racing.
My father had told me a long time ago that if I stayed a virgin until I was 30 I would get special pow... | 2016-10-02T09:15:40 | 2016-10-02T07:46:59 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | The little light on my watch turned red mostly when I was on vacation, which made sense. The red sometimes made me a little sad, when I was at home somewhere. But on the whole, I tried not to think about it too much. "A must-have feature, here, George!" the salesman told me. Whatever. It was a cute gimmick. It couldn't... | This is my first time really ever doing something like this so feedback would be nice, I know there's some plotholes and I could fix them but I felt like it was ok.
I also tried recording my own story if anyone wants to listen to me read it instead:
https://soundcloud.com/user-824876274/you-are-notified-when-you
Who w... | 2016-11-03T10:41:31 | 2016-11-03T08:59:00 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] A dying astronaut. A sympathetic alien. A conversation. | *Open on a harshly lit corridor. A haggard young man slowly turns, weightless, breathing heavily.*
**Unknown:** I am sorry for your loss.
*The young man's eyes flicker open. His chest heaves each time he draws breath.*
**Unknown:** We watched you. Since the moment you were chosen for this program. Many of the others... | "There is nothing you can do to save me?" Harrison spoke into the transceiver within his helmet, his eyes cautiously surveying his depleting oxygen levels. There had always been danger in being a pioneer, and there had never been a frontier more dangerous, or a pioneer more adventurous than Harrison. Humanity had only ... | 2016-12-22T01:10:26 | 2016-12-22T00:06:49 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] Instead of a certain length of time in prison, prisoners must solve puzzles, the number and difficulty increased according to their crime and intellect. You must design the prison for the mad scientist that destroyed a city to "see what they could come up with"
Freedom earned with completion of the puzzles | It was a difficult task, even if I had designed thousands of prisons through my years with the justice system. The villain, Doctor Blakeston had committed thirty thousand counts of murder and I knew that I couldn't out think him no matter what I tried. I decided instead to make this the simplest puzzle anyone had ever ... | The cold decompress of the steel door did nothing to lessen the very loud singing voice that came from the cubicle.
“…and daring Dash, Adventurers slash Explorers! Titani…aah Eric! I was wondering when you were going to pay me a visit!”
I sat down at the table and stared into the face of the man who had leveled the ... | 2017-01-29T07:38:37 | 2017-01-29T07:22:27 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You dress up as a conspiracy nutter for a costume party. The second you put the tinfoil hat on, something obstructive is lifted from your mind as if you suddenly woke up from a long sleep. Of course, nobody believes you... | **Carl:** So, what's the theme again?
**Wendy:** 'Conspiracies'.
**Carl:** And how the hell are we meant to do that?
**Wendy:** Have some imagination! See? Check me out! (*twirls*)
**Carl:** You have a rope tied around your waist and... is that a cardboard ice-axe?
**Wendy:** (*beaming*) Yup!
**Carl:** What are y... | "FUUUNNNNNY JOKE," shouted Aaron. The others were doubled over in laughter. They all had a strange assortment of bits and pieces on them, scrounged from back closets and parent's basements. One couple had old suits and sunglasses, the woman rocking a late 90s pant suit. FBI, MOULDER, and SCULLY adorned their costumes... | 2017-04-10T09:13:50 | 2017-04-10T07:16:44 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.
[from this image](https://pics.onsizzle.com/the-japanese-say-you-have-three-faces-the-f... | I couldn't say how long I had been putting on an act. It felt like forever. Every moment of every day, devoted to holding that mask in front of my face, smiling politely and nodding understandingly. Behave well in class, I had been told. Fit in with your friends, I had been told. Treat your family with respect, I had b... | Humans are complicated.
This is an important fact that all spirits must be aware of. So many times the young ascend from their mortal shackles, impulsive and distorted- playing with mortals only to find themselves imprisoned or banished instead.
Humans are fragile, yes. They are susceptible to all manner of illusio... | 2017-04-23T07:50:10 | 2017-04-23T06:53:16 | 43 | 22 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | *Quite the interesting puzzle* I think to myself. *With so few letters, the vast majority of words simply won't work.*
I try out a few words, but most of what I can think of doesn't fit the qualifications. Eventually I type in MAIL.
A letter appears in front of me. It seems to be addressed to someone in Finland. I r... | It’s been 21 cycles since I typed CHALK. I think I was in here for about 2 real days before I figured that one out. Now my “days” end with each time I fall asleep, but If I had to guess, I’d say I’ve been in here for about 2 real weeks. Fortunately I can at least sleep on a BED, albeit it’s really just a mattress on a ... | 2017-05-09T10:08:14 | 2017-05-09T09:41:38 | 83 | 27 |
[WP] Science has allowed people to know their precise time of death for decades now. Your Death Party (half birthday, half funeral) has gotten awkward because your time has come, yet you're still alive. | I prepared for death as the countdown began.
"Three, two, one, zero!"
Huh. I don't think I'm still supposed to be alive.
Everybody else noticed too.
"You- you- you're still alive!" Somebody yelled out.
"It would appear so, yeah. No clue why." I responded.
"Oh, wait, sorry guys, I forgot to switch back from... | "WE DID IT!" The head scientist exclaimed.
A raucous cheer erupted in the room and the hallways. As the news spread people thundered in applause, couples hugged and kissed each other. A reporter erupted in smiles in cheers on camera and before she could even say a word everyone knew what the news was. Families screame... | 2017-05-10T14:00:56 | 2017-05-10T09:27:10 | 49 | 25 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | "So..." he said, in between sips of fine wine as he reclined on the luxurious chaise lounge. "Do anything interesting in school today?"
"I drew pictures." I said, not taking my eyes up from the once blank, now extraordinarily colourful piece of paper that was sitting on the coffee table. I reached for a red pencil cr... | My memory was as sharp as it had ever been, I remembered all of the evils this guy had done, all of the suffering he had caused, the countless people killed through his gang. I remembered the outcry of the mother that just returned home to find her husband dead with her child in his arms, the weeping ten-year-old that ... | 2017-08-03T17:11:18 | 2017-08-03T14:33:00 | 128 | 11 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | Hell wouldn't seem like a good choice to most people, But I knew I would otherwise bump into all the people I had spent so long avoiding.
Besides, after such a messy suicide, it seemed a bit hypocritical. I was rather aiming for eternal oblivion after all.
The rather nice looking angelic figure who was gatekeeping loo... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T07:15:26 | 960 | 21 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | My mind twisted this from comical to a bit dark...
I had accepted my fate as soon as I had sliced my wrists. The hot bath water stung but I had figured Hell would be much worse... only it wasn't. It wasn't what I had expected at all.
"Another suicide? You don't have to stay here, you can go to Heaven" a disembod... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T08:14:39 | 960 | 19 |
[WP] You have lived an average and boring life, upon death you arrive at the pearly gates and Saint Peter drops to his knees in fear begging for you to not hurt him, alarms begin sounding in the distance | Here we are again.
6 in the morning, get up, get dressed, get food, get teeth brushed, and get in the bus. Always the same thing. Living the real office worker dream, everything being calculated and scheduled.
The bus just turned left after the hairdresser, it picked up the old lady with the dog, and we will soon se... | All my life I felt a presence with me, nothing too noticeable or outright crazy. I had this feeling ever since I was born, as if someone was always with me. My father would often tell me it was my guardian angel watching over me and keeping me safe, though the presence never really felt.. peaceful. I loved my life as o... | 2018-05-14T10:26:34 | 2018-05-14T09:48:52 | 58 | 36 |
[WP]A Scientist discovered time travel and spent his whole life time traveling. As he was about to die, he decided to be buried at his hometown’s graveyard specifically the year when he was four years old. Everything was fine until he went to heaven and found a confused God. “You should be alive” | “You… you should be *alive*.”
The Force/Energy/All which set the universe first in motion spoke to my consciousness with such intense curiosity and disbelief, I could hardly bear it. That tone seemed to come from an animal who understands *food* and *danger*, but was suddenly told *you are a pet, but they will still ... | Just like that, there he was, at the gates of heaven. Sun rained through solid gold gates and he walked atop pearly pink and white clouds. It had been 2 weeks since he had died, sick and tired of endless life. In his life, the man had been a scientist, and he was only 44 when he had discovered time travel. Straight awa... | 2018-06-03T01:12:54 | 2018-06-02T23:46:03 | 61 | 37 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | I sat in a rickety wooden chair in the middle of an abandoned house. The kid who captured me had duct-taped my torso to the back of the chair, and was now trying with some difficulty to bind my wrists behind my back.
"You're doing it wrong," I told the kid. "You should've knocked me unconscious first. Right now, I'm w... | You know, it is hard to feel guilty for the guy. And I am ashamed to admit that my lack of guilt is for all the wrong reasons. I should not feel guilty because he is a crazed killer who enjoys torturing people in his van. But I simply do not feel guilty about it because he is fat and smells like sweat, and the stench m... | 2018-08-23T04:40:56 | 2018-08-23T02:26:34 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] You've been trapped in an endlessly repeating simulation by an alien race, studied and researched. They believe when they reset it, your memory resets as well, but for the last 1000 cycles you remember everything. | My hands closed around the necklace, felling the smooth, white pearls. The sirens blared in the background, and a cold breeze cent chills down my spine. I took the necklace, stowing it in my breast pocket, and walked away. I knew what I would find if I continued to walk forward, and I knew there was nothing I could do... | *Have you heard of Zeno's Paradox?*
The memory surfaced in Dr. Redere's mind as he stared over his machine, sweat trickling down his brow to meet the grey in his unkempt three week old beard. He blinked, surprised by the sudden memory, as his finger paused over the *on* switch.
It had taken years to design and progr... | 2018-12-03T21:21:20 | 2018-12-03T20:59:14 | 503 | 119 |
[WP] Your flight just took off with 287 passangers. Due to a software error, 286 US air marshalls were assigned to your flight. None of them are aware of each other. You are the lone passenger. Describe what happens | As the airplane roared 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, I managed to kill another person. In CSGO, that is. What else am I supposed to do on a flight? Thank god the wifi was decent and not expensive on this flight.
Holding down the key to plant the bomb, I leaned back to stretch out my stiff back. That was a mist... | We were somewhere over the pacific ocean, when it happen. I knew flying Malaysian Airlines would be risky, but the tickets were so cheap. I thought what's the worse that could happen.
Well we are flying over the pacific and they put on the in flight film: White Chicks. I let out a groan and turned to the white mustac... | 2018-12-04T17:13:09 | 2018-12-04T16:54:57 | 98 | 72 |
[WP] You are known by many as the worst exorcist in history. Every job you've ever taken has ended in you being possessed by whichever entity you came to banish. You've been doing this deliberately, though. You have plans - big plans. And today, you're putting those plans into action. | "You don't have to do this. There are others, and they are all better than you. Just distract the demon until reinforcements arrive."
I looked at the priest. He was the holy man of this small village, where news from the outside world was few and far between. Yet even he had heard about what a pitiful exorcist I was.
... | Father Richardson's cassock was drenched in blood, vomit, and something green and gelatin-like. I hoped that mess hadn't come out of me.
He was furiously wiping the filth from his face but his burning blue eyes stayed fixed on me.
"You insolent idiot!" He sneered, "When Father Esposito called me and begged me to ta... | 2019-02-06T21:23:31 | 2019-02-06T20:35:09 | 123 | 21 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | Pattie was an extremely odd woman. Her practices seemed odd and out of place in our small town.
Despite all of that, she was the center of everyone’s attention, in a good way. Most men could not take their eyes off of her. She was extremely beautiful, the way her curly raven hair danced around her shoulders as she wal... | Humans have always been on the strange side, especially the Sukts. This Sukt however was a wealthy merchant, owning several ships, so we put up with her weirdness. Yep her, but we orcs are egalitarians when it comes to putting up with people due to money. However, she remained alone. One day as I walked through the str... | 2019-05-01T17:28:57 | 2019-05-01T17:15:21 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You own a small specialty meat purveyor. You and your crew inspect, purchase, slaughter, and butcher the animals yourselves. Years ago, on a whim, you started whispering "for Apollo" at each kill. You've just dispatched the firm's 10,000th cow. | "For Apollo," I whisper as I slice the unconscious cows neck, the blood flowing out the open wound and into a drain. It was the 10,000th animal slaughtered for my specialty shop.
As I begin cleaning up my tools, I hear a noise in the storage cooler behind me. "This area is for employees only," I say as I open the door... | At this point, I doubt I could stop saying it even if I wanted to.
It started out as a joke, a little flair I added after reading D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths. After the first few cows, I started doing it intentionally. In a way, it gave a sense of solemnity to each one passing over, a tiny two-word funeral as my k... | 2019-07-09T07:14:05 | 2019-07-08T23:04:18 | 667 | 98 |
[WP] after millenia of praying, the gods finally answer, only to say that they never created the universe with mankind in mind. Or life for that matter. It is the eternal dance of atoms and elementary particles that the gods consider beautiful. Life is no more than a side effect. | When the gods had first answered, many believed it to be a hoax. Others thought that perhaps it was aliens, who simply were stepping into a title that we had provided. Others threw away their religions like a used rag, and even more devoted themselves to these “new” gods.
They had been watching, they had said. Not us,... | It was a normal weekend. On Friday, the Muslims went to their mosques and asked for devotion to Allah. On Saturday, the Jews celebrated the Sabbath and stayed at home, not doing any work to appease the Gods. On Sunday morning, Christians went to church and prayed to Yahweh, and throughout the whole weekend, atheists di... | 2019-08-21T08:39:44 | 2019-08-21T08:22:33 | 342 | 21 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | I like Sundays.
It's nice. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but it was kind of a soothing time.
For one whole day, I fall asleep. I dream senseless dreams and I never remember them when I awake.
It was just like any other Sunday. I laid out in my bed and I waited for my dreams to come and take me. It didn't t... | Times are hard, masters are no longer taking apprentices, and I have a family to take care of. After much searching, I have finally been taken under the wing of Exder, the town plague doctor. This year, we have been hit hard with something he calls the Whispering Shock. People are beginning to lose their voices, and so... | 2020-01-31T07:17:02 | 2020-01-31T07:15:25 | 1,701 | 33 |
[WP]The knight rubbed his eyes in surprise. The great dragon, slayer of armies, appeared to be a young woman with wings. The dragon was equally shocked. "You're the great knight? You're like.....fifteen." "I'm EIGHTEEN....In November" | "Oh great another 17 year old... let me guess they sent you here to claim my head and 'become a man!'" The young woman holding a fist out in mock triumph.
"Well yes... but..." the teen replied starting to disappear into his thoughts.
Seeing his uncertainty the dragon interjected before he could think on the matter m... | In the summer of his Eighteenth year, Breneric Ravenbeard, Heir to the throne of Merician, was dispatched by his father to intervene in the matter of a Dragon bothering the villages.
However, the meeting was not straightforward. Approaching the cave where the dragon had taken shelter, Breneric drew his sword. Within t... | 2020-02-05T05:00:40 | 2020-02-05T04:59:15 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | 'I have done it. I have pressed the button and defeated the Dark Lord!'
The dimly lit room was illuminated just enough to show the glum faces of the three boys lounging out across whatever comfy pieces of cushioned real estate they could find.
“This film is terrible. Turn over.”
The remote clacked and the channel c... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T12:10:32 | 949 | 81 |
[WP] Your power heavily relies on music, with the genre, tone and energy playing an important role in how much power you gain. At first, it doesn't sound much of a great power, until you stumbled upon DOOM Soundtrack. | In a family with Super strength, telepathy, mind control and super intelligence, I was like a freak that's never in place.
A power reflect on music. In a family where entertainment is taboo as they "disrupt and pollute minds", and the only music was the intense training on elegance of piano and Violins, I am weak lik... | As the armies of the underworld marched forward, reMix casually reached into his pocket and lifted out his iPod. He scratched his chin and pursed his lips, deciding what song to listen to. The nightmarish beasts before him wouldn’t go down without a fight.
He raised a figure and said, "aha!"
Since the demons were all... | 2020-12-24T05:17:55 | 2020-12-24T04:27:12 | 214 | 70 |
[WP] You're a lawyer who just got a genie lamp. After planning your words perfectly to maximize all your wishes, you summoned the genie, and surprisingly the genie turns out to be your most feared yet most respected person : Your long dead law mentor. | I rehearse the words in my head,
Check the notes scrawled on paper on the bed,
I've written in triplicate on the wall,
No level of precaution too small.
That's always been a habit of mine,
Plan, prepare, waste no time,
It's served me well in my courtroom fights,
And I'm about to lawyer for ... | Mr Beh was the last person I expected to see popping out of the genie lamp. I tried to close my gaping jaw but they refused to budge. I wanted to say something but no words formed in my mouth. It was not as if I had no words for this occasion. Years of preparation went into this trip. Researching on the fabled genies, ... | 2021-09-30T10:41:06 | 2021-09-30T09:53:28 | 331 | 157 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Ugh. School. Erin had dreaded going there for a while now. But now that she was six and a few months, there was no way around it. Her parents had kept her out of pre-school after one disasterous attempt at age four, but now they'd told her she'd just have to deal with it.
Worthless middle class vermin, blind to realit... | “Well what if their consciousness never died?”
That was the idea at least. Maybe there was someway to… save their memories. Extract them. To remove their consciousness from the physical and upload it to the technological. It had been done in sci-fi. Could it be done for real?
We had no knowledge of how the soul worke... | 2021-10-08T10:45:29 | 2021-10-08T08:51:29 | 52 | 25 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | It's a classic tale, old as time. Boy meets girl.
Girl kidnaps boy.
Girl is a supervillain. Boy is a superhero on a night out.
Mindblade just wanted to relax, have a drink at his favorite bar, meet with his friends. His usual night off duty when he can drop the guard and have a taste of the normal.
She sat next to... | I’d been stuck in many a hairy situation in my time as “the world’s greatest hero”. From getting stuck in an alternate dimension ruled by sentient dinosaurs, to being mind controlled by an alien robot I thought was my friend, to that time I had to kill a giant blue naked guy who thought he was a god.
But none of those... | 2021-10-21T18:13:38 | 2021-10-21T16:11:45 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] You watch as another timecop stops another time traveling assassin from killing you. You're not sure why time traveler's want to kill you, as you're just a barista working at a corner shop, but something you do in the future must be bad. | In the alley behind the Newton coffeeshop, Merseyside, the young Englishman grabbed the arm of the so-called "timecop" before he could vanish, too.
"Can you tell what I'm going to do that's so bad?," he begged. "Why do they keep trying to kill me?" It wasn't the first time he'd asked.
The agent sighed, "I'm sorry, Si... | Hi! For the story skip to the next paragraph. It’s my first try so be kind please? I know it’s not great but it’s what I’ve got so I hope you enjoy.
My tale starts here, in a small town coffee shop with a very tired barista. She got a simple phone call from her boyfriend Jerry, her destined partner, though she didn’t ... | 2021-12-15T18:39:46 | 2021-12-15T14:31:00 | 286 | 20 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | Oh, the poor thing. What was I to do, just leave her pawing at the side of a fence? Nonsense. I wouldn't have been able to stop thinking about it on my walk to the Nursing Home, and what a long walk it can be if I'm stuck in my own thoughts.
So I stopped and approached the kitten. She was grey with little brown splotc... | "Have you located the beacon?"
"Yes. The course has been set for arrival. Estimating one Earth week."
"That is long."
"Yes."
"Yes," Sett responded before terminating the conduit and slithering up the stairs. Gliding into the kitchen on his bevy of tentacles, he stopped at the refrigerator and pulled it open. He sel... | 2021-12-21T13:26:12 | 2021-12-21T12:37:07 | 1,341 | 212 |
[WP] This year, Santa is unable to reach all of the children on Earth due to a huge emergency. So he pulls out his ace. He calls in all of his favours with the other supernatural beings of the world, bidding them to help him. This is how little Ellie meets Death awkwardly standing in her home. | "I wont let you in!" Said the little girl trying to appear as fearsome as possible standing in front of the door in pink bunny pajamas. It was admirable really, such determination. "I wont let you take my mommy!"
"Im not here for her, little one... not now at least."I said, I knew too well that pained expression in th... | I looked at the letter again. Is he serious about this? He has one job, I sighed.
Well a favour is a favour i swiped my hand distorting space and stepped into his workshop.
Elves rushed around in a panic, none of them even noticed me. I reached out and tapped one on the shoulder. The young elf looked at me and bl... | 2021-12-25T18:10:30 | 2021-12-25T16:59:56 | 315 | 47 |
[WP] Mira noticed her backyard soil turned a slight purple, assumedly from her new fertilizer. Her vegetables tripled in size. One day, she checked her lettuce heads, and saw an alien face popped up amongst them. "Your garden is built on our soil. If you wish continue, we have requests" | Mira stared into the dark rounded eyes, framed by lettuce leaves and specs of dirt on it's milky green skin. The green complimented the purple quite well, in a bizarre way that only aliens can.
"You're in my garden." She stated, flatly."I am." It's head glistened as it spoke, sticky with a snail-like consistency."And ... | The creature blended almost perfectly with the gargantuan lettuce, so well that I had poked its eye before noticing it was not part of the surrounding vegetation. At least, I assumed it was an eye. It could have been one of those big false eye spots like an Orca whale had.
The thing in my garden made a noise like a c... | 2022-05-22T09:09:51 | 2022-05-22T07:13:42 | 45 | 29 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul, everyone knows that. It’s usually a bad idea, but you’ve got a crazy idea. Earlier, you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a paper that stated you now owned his soul. You’re about to find out if demons consider this a valid co | “ሚስጥራዊ መልእክት ሚስጥራዊ መልእክት ሚስጥራዊ መልእክት” I spoke, as the pentagram in front of me began to glow a deep brimstone red.
“LORD AHMAHAREK! HEED MY CALL” I yelled.
Suddenly, the candles all around the circle lit instantly. But instead of an orange and yellow fire, they were all some variation of black or red.
As soon as th... | James placed a hand on his chest, "no lie, I'll give you 20$ if you just sign here."
Laurence scoffed as he read the paper. "Dude, is this your way of hitting on me?"
James inspected the page, it *could* be considered a confession of love. Yet that interpretation left James wondering to Laurence's perspective on roma... | 2022-05-24T14:15:12 | 2022-05-24T13:11:38 | 455 | 69 |
[WP] Death sighed. He always hated seeing the end of a species, and today he would collect the soul of the last human. | MR AYWADE
The man jumped slightly, not expecting to hear a voice in his solitary chamber; only, it wasn't so much a voice as... something he heard inside his head, cold and grim, but not dispassionate. Turning, he saw a tall figure in a dark cloak wielding a scythe. Squinting, he saw the skull beneath the hood. Of cou... | He found her at the end of the universe, only seven hundred years old, seated on the throne of the King who previously ruled this half of the universe. She looked tired, but her eyes intensely stared forward to him, and he immediately knew she could see him. Her heavy armour hung into her, pretty much in pieces, and De... | 2022-07-11T23:00:39 | 2022-07-11T22:33:19 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] Death sighed. He always hated seeing the end of a species, and today he would collect the soul of the last human. | MR AYWADE
The man jumped slightly, not expecting to hear a voice in his solitary chamber; only, it wasn't so much a voice as... something he heard inside his head, cold and grim, but not dispassionate. Turning, he saw a tall figure in a dark cloak wielding a scythe. Squinting, he saw the skull beneath the hood. Of cou... | The alarm screeched a shrill tritone and roused Evan from his sleep. He felt the rush of air escaping the cabin and heard the alarm getting quieter by the second. The Porphyrion's hull must have been breached by a micrometeorite. He scrambled to put his vacuum suit on but he knew in his heart that he was only delaying ... | 2022-07-11T23:00:39 | 2022-07-11T22:47:30 | 71 | 20 |
[WP] An abandoned child is stumbling through the woods, barely surviving. The god of the forest and hunt notices them and after a while can't bare watching the clumsiness anymore, deciding to train the child. | “Please…”, a ragged voice pleaded out to a God she hoped existed, “whoever may be listening, protect our child…”
An elven woman named Fillius used the last of her strength to embrace her young child. The blood from her wound was beginning to slow as the last of her life force drained like the sands of an hourgla... | Sjorgün leaned down next to the deer carcass, a knife in his hand. He uttered a quick prayer for the animal, not to any god-really, praying to a god while he himself was one felt quite silly-but to the universe itself, the infinite and indifferent void that would outlast all of them, even the gods, for the animal's saf... | 2022-12-22T10:32:17 | 2022-12-22T09:47:58 | 41 | 14 |
[FF] Sci-Fi and Fantasy craigslist.org posts
Could be for sale items, job listings, whatever. | 4/7/2056 Looking for able bodied men and women willing to try something new! I'm an inventor and I need some test subjects for my teleportation device! Must sign waver upon arrival. I will pay handsomely.
4/24/2056 Looking for a non-professional cleanup crew. If you have a weak disposition or an aversion to bodily fl... | Starcruiser for Sale!!!!! 15,000
Im selling my ’22 Starcruiser model XG44. Good condition, low parsecs. Star charts are only 3 cycles out of date (if you’re outside Galactic Central, they were updated 3544 GCE). Hyperdrive fully functional, but starts to rattle if exceeding 14WD. Can run up to 20WD for short bursts th... | 2014-04-07T09:47:17 | 2014-04-07T09:34:13 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Time travel is invented, but rather than preserve the timeline, an agency is created improve history as much as possible. | It's difficult to keep track of the changes we make. When we go back, we bring a datapad that contains virtually all of the world's history up to that point, for once we alter something, future history changes, and the only record of the prior timeline exists on the datapad, and also in the mind of the chrononaut. ... | I walked into an imposing concrete federal office building just off L'Enfant Plaza with a plaque out front that simply said Department of Timeline Correction. I walked in, and there at the front desk, waiting for me was former senator Jacob Mitchell, the newly appointed head of the DTC.
"Hi," I said, "Mike O'Sullivan.... | 2014-10-12T22:00:24 | 2014-10-12T20:01:48 | 34 | 22 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | "Four months of work down the drain," he thought. Had she become aware of him? Surely not. He had been meticulous. Down to every minute detail. He could even predict when she would need to visit the ladies room before his mark could. So, how could he miss this?
He backed up the video again. There. Right there. She was... | I would tire some days, drift to sleep, silently breathing under the floor. She never knew that the old rusty basement door was unlocked, it has been six months now and I have made myself a nice warm home I never had. Muddy footprints all along her kitchen.. I never leave footprints...
You see my story is simple, pat... | 2014-10-21T12:10:56 | 2014-10-21T12:10:53 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] A brilliant scientist is found dead in their lab. Their lab notes simply state "Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined." | The laboratory sat still. Beakers and vials, all filled with an assortment of colors, lined the shelves. On the floor lay Dr. Amadeus, face down into a pool of some unknown material. At first glance, it looked like blood. But you could not see through blood, and be able to make out the floor tiles beneath it in the sam... | "'Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined.'" I read out loud, turning the paper over. "That's all it says," I tell my partner. I can hear my own perturbment in my voice. This basement lab also kinda makes me feel uneasy anyway.
"That's it? Well, we need to get this body out of here an... | 2014-11-06T13:45:29 | 2014-11-06T13:23:34 | 248 | 86 |
[WP] A brilliant scientist is found dead in their lab. Their lab notes simply state "Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined." | "Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined."
Charlie read the fraying paper. He looked past it towards the lab coat clad figure slumped face down over the desk. The poor custodian called the department in quite the frazzle saying that the good doctor Heinrich hadn't been breathing and ... | Patricia kind of lost it after the turning... After the zombies came.
We all thought it was just movies and jokes but one day the zombies came and they were nothing like what we prepared for.
Patricia was serious. She didnt care if it was zombies or a chemical weapon. She worked tirelessly on everything she did, did... | 2014-11-06T16:43:30 | 2014-11-06T14:36:49 | 75 | 23 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | They always said humans fear the unknown more than anything else.
My reply: Find me someone who doesn't fear death, then we'll talk.
I could barely hear the first few gunshots through my office window. The dull double pane lazily deflected their sharp reports like a horse flicking its tail at flies - letting them li... | "Mr. President? Mr. President!" Not a word from the White House when we called, just that ubiquitous ringtone on every number. "Jesus Christ, Bradley, what the fuck are we going to do?" I said putting the phone down.
"Bradley?" I turned behind me to find the loaded barrel of a gun in my manager's mouth, and before I ... | 2015-02-02T06:41:02 | 2015-02-02T06:37:02 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] There is a machine that can tell anyone the exact date of their death. One day, you decide to use it, but it refuses to answer you. | When you've been in tech as long as I have you learn that all machines have their quirks. Computers are like horses, when you know what you're doing they don't give you shit. If you don't know what you're doing they'll make you're life hell whenever you deal with them.
I've used machines like this before. Death clock... | "And here is my machine, I call her Tiffany!" Jared exclaimed. "What a white trash name!" the giggling inebriated blonde to his right let out. "But I guess you weren't lying after all, Mr Inventor".
Jared couldn't help himself but feel a surge of pride and accomplishment at those words. After winning countless awards... | 2015-05-04T09:15:14 | 2015-05-04T08:53:57 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] You are a manipulative psychopath, but instead of serial killer, you are a serial helper. using your emotionless genius to make other people smile.
thankless, un-noticed but instrumental in paying off someones debts with a clever robin hood of some sort, or moving at breakneck speeds everyday to help others but l... | My first submission! Here goes nothing!
I knew I was different. I realized it early on. It started with the neighborhood animals; dogs chained up overnight, stray cats, and even my own pets. I couldn't help myself. I reveled in meticulously crafting my plans and carrying them out. I loved how nobody ever suspected me.... | It's about control.
I don't care about them, about their futures or past or anything else. All that matters is that what I do forces them to feel a certain way. They are weak spineless creatures that fall for happiness, and I can make them do so. I play with their little puppet strings, forcing them to dance the way I... | 2015-05-21T07:43:45 | 2015-05-21T07:30:47 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | It wasn't always like this, and one point this town was truly alive. We at least felt a purpose. Every morning wake up be a citizen. All the while maniacs would speed throughout our town destroying everything. At night we would have to clean it up, make it ready for the player again. Sometimes we would get cameos in cu... | 2015-09-01T11:39:46 | 2015-09-01T10:13:52 | 171 | 11 |
[WP] You are the luckiest person on Earth. Everything you make an attempt for works in your favor. However, there two catches: you are absorbing the luck of those around you, and anyone who tries to profit from your luck (even with your help) is met with the worst luck immediately.
Holy crap, front page of the sub!
G... | I look to the left and right, everyone frozen waiting for my move. I knew they knew. They had to. Nobody who decided to play against me didn't do the research first. I was good, no I was lucky. You don't live in this game long if you are unlucky.
Holding two cards, looking down a red two face up staring back at... | I laid on the tattered rug and rested my head against the rusty fence. The warm air from the vent underneath is soothing.
My stomach grumbled. I reached out and felt the energy around me. It was thick and velvety. That's good. I wouldn't want to be in the downwind when it happens.
I closed my eyes, wanting to catch a... | 2015-10-17T12:59:57 | 2015-10-17T11:22:37 | 80 | 36 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | "Radiation?!" The general sputtered "That’s... Insane!"
The chamber evidently agreed. The war council of the senate had been silent until this point. But learning that the humans had defiled Kresna 4... shudders shook the room.
"How will they resettle their young?" The senator from the Iron Spire gasped "They've pois... | Upon reflection, the decision to save the galaxy might have been a mistake. The Eholim evolved on a gas planet whose composition allowed for liquid water to rain into the depths. Gossamer wings and antennae and organs of helium sacks allowed their bodies to survive forever in flight. Their home-world was so large that ... | 2016-05-13T09:18:50 | 2016-05-13T07:41:46 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | "Radiation?!" The general sputtered "That’s... Insane!"
The chamber evidently agreed. The war council of the senate had been silent until this point. But learning that the humans had defiled Kresna 4... shudders shook the room.
"How will they resettle their young?" The senator from the Iron Spire gasped "They've pois... | It was a last resort.
That's what needed to be done... The extinction of my race was at stake! No one could've known what they planned to do..
For those of you reading this log, My name is Kul'Thrat, Lead Biomancer of the Technocratic Hegemony. We were a peaceful race. We were masters of the sciences. Physics, Biolo... | 2016-05-13T09:18:50 | 2016-05-13T08:23:35 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I hope I didn't fuck up the Algebra section. God I hope I didn't. The next battery of questions hits. Historical facts, easy ones though. "Who lost at the Battle of Waterloo?", "When was the United States Founded?" ,"Where was the last battle of World War 3 fought", "Which country was first to violate the Geneva Conven... | As I entered the room, an instructor was waiting across the room sitting opposite me with a small white table laid out in front of him with an empty chair waiting for me. I let out a huge sigh and made my way to the chair and sat right in front of him.
"Good morning. For this test, I just have a few questions I would... | 2016-06-11T09:36:07 | 2016-06-11T09:06:11 | 116 | 16 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | It wasn’t as I expected. This wasn’t quite the dystopian future looking governmental building but rather a modern one with glass doors and happy looking people. That’s what was perturbing. Everyone in the white lab coats looked calm or at peace. And I mean actually at peace, not the ones where you smile with your mouth... | The world was gray, cold, and often dark.
Growing up in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewer complexes and housing towers that was Neo Angeles, life was harsh and often short. A particularly lucky girl, Yima, had lived to the age of 14 unmolested. Slight, with hair kept short and boyish clothes, she blended in for th... | 2016-06-11T10:40:59 | 2016-06-11T09:35:08 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] You're sitting in a boring lecture, about to fall asleep when the professor asks two students to lock the doors. "We've discovered a traitor among us. No -one leaves until they're found." | Gah... I must have dazed off. Okay, no panic yet. Lecture isn't over. I could catch up. Maybe. Dammit, I'm in such a _sorry_ state.
*"Mr Sands, Miss Peterson. Can you please lock those doors?"*
*"Why? Was this scheduled?"*
*"It's essential for the lecture. Please lock them."* Prof produced a handful of padlocks.
Bo... | AP Microeconomics just got interesting.
The professor was babbling on about commodities when suddenly I hear the click of a sealed fate. All screens are dark and everyone is casting accusatory looks at one another. They all look uneasy. Suddenly I hear the clang of a desk being jostled, and the professor has a gun in... | 2016-09-08T17:52:06 | 2016-09-08T17:35:27 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Finally, a chance for redemption.
We were headed back to Earth, a lowly mineral planet in a desolate corner of the quadrant. I can still remember the taunting words of Elder Karaza...
*"You lost.... to a bunch of lizards?"*
Yes, it still stings.
I now armed my warriors with long range heavy bows, crossbows and even... | "What in the void is that?"
It was the first real question Master of Fleets had commed to Master of Spies. Their arrival had been uneventful, certainly compared to the disorder in which the fleet had departed their last foray into this accursed system, so many revs ago. Arriving on the solar outskirts with admirable p... | 2017-03-04T03:25:46 | 2017-03-04T02:50:19 | 452 | 14 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | The hero looked at me, bewildered. Not three feet away from him lay the body of the "immortal" Emperor, with the hero's sword through his heart.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand the problem." He said, "I defeated him. You're free!"
"The problem is that you're undermining the plight of the common man, aren't you?" I sai... | Today is the day I kill Emperor Fargon.
The crimes he committed must no longer remain unpunished. The people of the Hilmon Galaxy need their savior, and I will be that man to them. I am a champion of the common folk, the light in the dark void of an amoral empire, the hero hiding behind the guise of the Emperor's righ... | 2017-03-12T13:41:34 | 2017-03-12T10:31:44 | 469 | 77 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | "Weren't you suppose to take that blow?"
I looked at this irritating woman incredulously. Was she serious?
"It is good fortune you didn't, but I thought that Xavier Longwood would have protected Kane even if his men had abandoned him."
"So you know of me?" I couldn't help but respond. I looked at the trio of misfit... | A taciturn air filled the room. The Emperor, Kretz and Fenton were discussing matter of state. 2 out of the 3 men at the long table were thinking intently, brainstorming plans to deal with some usurper. The fifth man was too excited, and had to make a conscious effort to not be jittery. Years of secrets and lies, despi... | 2017-03-12T13:26:11 | 2017-03-12T10:41:50 | 124 | 20 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Memory Shard Log 3.18.7
Twenty cycles ago, today, the Concordat is signed. The younger races imposed a voluntary exile upon us. Consigned upon our last world around this star, we succumbed to their last vengeful spite. I and a few others have been left on the Marisma trying to save the failing power of this facility, ... | General mcGregor considered himself a realist.
He believed that all life acted selfishly, and that war was an inescapable reality.
Yet next to the Zergon general, he felt like a squeamish school girl, bristly white moustache or no.
"I-I just don't understand," he muttered, shuffling his papers at the war table. Gene... | 2017-03-26T05:34:24 | 2017-03-26T05:17:47 | 401 | 163 |
[WP] You are the owner of a magic backpack; every morning you stick your hand in and it contains exactly what you need for the day. One morning it contains a gun. | I feel my blood chill as I stare at the gun in my hands. The backpack has never given me anything like this! One day, it had a towel, and later that day, I got splashed by a car driving through a puddle. It had an interesting book the day my doctors appointment was unexpectedly delayed. But why would it have a gun? Wha... | "A gun."
"Why a gun?!" I yell in panic, realising this afterwards and lowering my voice.
There was no doubt that I was always the odd one in my neighbourhood. I was that one girl in the apartment block that kept her life together by pieces of dusty cellotape. It just so happened that that tape, was a bag. Yes, a bag.... | 2017-05-09T19:06:55 | 2017-05-09T14:14:53 | 62 | 24 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | After death there is a plain which stretches endless without horizon. Ups and downs are lefts and rights while the constant sound of color rustles in the air. It is there I found myself. In a land of nothing, surrounded by everything, and utterly confused.
I remembered life. All of it. Vividly. From the first thoughts... | There was no bright light. No singing angels, nor pits of hell. It was like I woke up from a night's sleep - only I was standing, fully clothed and aware of everything. There was an odd, hum of calm that seemed to surround everything, which was nothing at all. A woman who stood in the nothingness, an emotionless expres... | 2017-06-02T20:08:04 | 2017-06-02T20:02:08 | 3,592 | 88 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | I'd finally died. Comfortably in my home, asleep even. I wasn't sure if it had been an assassin, but likely not. Not at 86 years old. Probably that crappy heart I'd gotten from the peasant a few years back. The afterlife was bland, free of color or scents even the air I breathed was missing the indescribable taste of t... | I had imagined death to be much different. All my life, death to me was a picture of white clouds surrounded by bright blue skies, filled with people dressed in white robes and halo above their heads. Or in my case, perhaps the fiery pits of hell, doomed to eternal damnation. Never in my life had I imagined standing in... | 2017-06-03T00:07:34 | 2017-06-02T20:41:18 | 189 | 76 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Growing up, I had always been an outcast. Everybody else in my class had amazing gifts: pyrokinesis, super strength, flight, laser eyes, invisibility, even the kid who could freely manipulate cloth. They were all praised and fawned over because of their gifts. But I was not.
My power is called "Roots." I can grow ... | From a utilitarian point of view I was fairly impressive if I may say so myself. Our country, our closed country, under a threat from the entire world, protected only by the great revered leader, was filled with people with rather useful yet banal superpowers. Flight, extreme strength or endurance, usually just one at ... | 2017-06-12T09:33:04 | 2017-06-12T07:45:36 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that doesn't make sense until the last sentence. | "Bil, bil! Holy fuck! I can't move, Bil!"
"Me too! The hell is going on? How long have we been like this?"
"For years, Bil! The agony! Holy hell, he is peeing on you! Literally peeing!"
"I can feel it! It's like worms under my skin! Kill me, Jim, kill me! I can't take this anymore! This is torture!"
George watched ... | "What do you think?" the artist asked the boy, after an hour or so had passed. The boy's face said it all - he was unimpressed.
"Bah! What is it this time? Is it the nose? I've got the nose all wrong again, haven't I. It seemed so right, at the time."
He began to make alterations, delicately changing little bits here... | 2017-06-15T02:05:04 | 2017-06-15T01:47:41 | 428 | 86 |
[WP] Time slows down for you when you are in danger. The greater the danger, the more time you have to work things out. A terrible car accident once gave you almost a minute to react. Time has nearly stopped for you for subjective months now, and you still don't know why. | I first noticed the strange lag in time when I was ten and my mother was driving my brother and me home from soccer practice. She was frustrated with our baby sister’s wailing over a dropped pacifier, my brother was crabby and refusing to just get it for her. My mother in a rush of frustration let go of the wheel with ... | Diary Entry 1:
Time is such a fickle thing.
Sure, that statement would make the brawl furl for most “Joe average physicists” out there who might tell you “No…time is relative”. I say that is non-sense. Time...is fickle.
Why?
Well, while time seems constant most of the time, just tick-tocking away…each second hand... | 2017-06-28T10:50:57 | 2017-06-28T10:37:04 | 77 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | I groaned as I sat up on the side of the road, the blazing heat beating down upon my head. I looked around and all I saw was a road sign written in Spanish.
In confusion I searched my pockets and found Mexican currency - 1,000 pesos - and a note with a simple message written on it. "Este es el examen final. Señor Herm... | "¿Qué pasó, chico?" dijo una mujer.
"Uhhhhh hola uh... lost... soy Steve, dónde está escuela"
"¿Qué escueña? Estamos en Cozumel. Es estudiante? De dónde es?"
I was so confused. The last thing I could recall was walking into my Spanish class and the fire alarm sounding. Next thing I knew, I woke up parched, with nothi... | 2017-06-29T10:02:15 | 2017-06-29T09:12:30 | 1,096 | 30 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | "What the fuck."
I was kind of pissed, I had this doctor recommended to me and hired specifically because he wasn't religious. I had gotten tired of people telling me for 15 years about how my child was the second coming of God or Zeus or Hircine or whatever. It got worse when my wife ended up having twins, people beg... | Media setup outside the hospital was especially intimidating this morning. This was the longest pregnancy and most anticipated reveal in nearly two decades, afterall.
Who would have thought only a day ago he was the one to reveal such a disappointment to the masses. He even practiced with his wife his two different ... | 2017-07-08T03:36:32 | 2017-07-08T01:33:45 | 98 | 40 |
[WP]Your method of fighting crime is rather unorthodox. You expose all of the unseen flaws of a villain right in front of their eyes. You are Adam Conover, and this is Adam Ruins Everything.
Edit: Loving these! I think some of them got to the production team, too!
Also I am not Adam, though if you can't get enough of... | "You can't escape, Adam Conover," I said smugly. "You're surrounded by crocodiles."
"Not all crocodiles kill people," said Adam Conover. "In fact, this breed looks particularly docile."
It was about then I noticed, with his hands tied behind his back, that Adam's pectoral muscles looked particularly swollen. I appr... | Adam Conover arrives at the scene of the United Nations. Every single member has been electrorcuted in their seat. There's no sign of an energy source. Adam scours the building looking for any clues. He has an intense feeling of being watched, like a deer being stalked in the woods. There's energy in the air. Adam play... | 2017-07-27T16:07:37 | 2017-07-27T14:22:59 | 1,673 | 93 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | 6 years passed, her vitals remained normal for nearly the entire coma. I remember counting the days each time I visited her room (2,267, if you were wondering), every time I saw her motionless body was another punch to the gut. Walking through the hospital door reminded me of the car crash, I was only 17, *how was I su... | "Miss. Turpin, my name is John Becker, I'm Chief of Operations at Claremont Hospital. I am here to explain everything."
Carla Turpin's family sat by her bedside; her Mum weeping, her Father staring on solemnly, and her sister trying not to laugh.
Carla lay across three beds. Her legs and arms draping over the sides, ... | 2017-08-02T06:44:21 | 2017-08-02T06:25:55 | 336 | 51 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | "Hey guys how are you?" I called over my shoulder as my friends walked into the bar. I didn't even bother looking over my shoulder to confirm it was them; I knew the probability of Jeff coming through the door exactly thirty eight seconds after he sent a text stating he was on his way was 98.7%, and those were odds I w... | Trudging along in the snow, I reminisced on my time at the academy. It was a short two years filled with laughs and good times and twice as many struggles. I was humbled at the ingenuity of the human race for finally cracking the code on the MMSC gene. Now simply referred to as “The Mold”, it bridged the gap between th... | 2017-12-17T18:26:19 | 2017-12-17T16:14:19 | 1,276 | 31 |
[WP] One evening, a portal to hell opens at the foot of your bed. A demon strides through, rips off your covers, and begins to drag you through the portal by your ankles saying “You’re going to help me settle a bet.” | I screamed like a little girl.
If being dragged through a portal by an honest to god demon - horns, red skin, the whole shabang, doesn't call for screaming like a little girl, I don't know what does.
I'd been sleeping on my friend's couch in New York City. Couch is putting it a bit generously in fact, I had to bas... | You would have thought you would try to run, or at least scream. The truth is that when a 10 foot bright red demon, literally on fire, climbed out of a black hole in my bedroom floor I did absolutely nothing. It slowly rose to it's full height and I could feel the heat of the fire traveling around it's body, looking mo... | 2018-03-10T09:23:05 | 2018-03-10T09:10:01 | 3,138 | 425 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | Juliet lay silent, forcing herself to control her breathing. Gently. Slowly. She had to calm down.
It wasn't meant to have happened like this. Whether the King annexed Tushesh or not, it wasn't her decision. It had just been her idea. A good idea too, as it would provide much needed access to the East-Sea, and open t... | The blade of the dagger was vibrating in the wall behind her head. Her almond eyes stared at me for a moment before she turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the errant weapon. Paula's honey-colored hair was pulled up into a French braid. I noticed the flesh of her shoulder showing under the strap holding up he... | 2018-04-24T00:03:12 | 2018-04-23T23:50:21 | 457 | 121 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | Natalia lazed back in her chair, with the smirk of a smug bitch who'd just avoided being killed. Katherine looked down at her buckled blade - the curved dagger she had used so many times to take so many lives before this one.
"It's okay." Natalia began, getting Katherine's attention. "Everyone gets performance issues... | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | 2018-04-24T02:30:14 | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 171 | 39 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | “Wait,” Bob thought, “am I gay?” Looking back down the scope, the shirt clearly had a hole burned in it, directly above the aorta - the shot had been good, but had just bounced off. The target was alive so Mr. Bloome was going to be pissed. Shit, he’d found his soulmate – his wife was going to be pissed. The man in his... | "No, seriously, you *aren't* my type."
"Look, I agree with you, okay? You're definitely not what I, uhh, what I was expecting. But those are the rules, right? We're kinda stuck together now, aren't we?"
"No. No we're not. Let me tell you about the *rules* okay. The rules are so vague that it could be anything... | 2018-04-24T04:13:28 | 2018-04-24T00:04:50 | 56 | 18 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | "Nec Support, Roy speaking" \<pause\>
"Have you tried killing it and re\-animating it again? " \<click\>
"Were you certain it was dead before animating? Yes, rip the heart out. Wait for 10 minutes and then retry the ritual. " \<click\>
"Yes, the animated corpse will continue to rot. That's a featur... | People are idiots. Simple as that. After third time you accept the message to a screaming newbie rambling in about zombie apocalypse, when they have some simple error, it gets old fast.
But the craziest things happen with the experienced ones. The ones who think they know better. There are standard procedures int... | 2018-04-27T22:15:55 | 2018-04-27T21:14:51 | 3,066 | 34 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | A real call I got once:
Me: "Necro Support, how can I help you?"
Them: "I'm not able to reanimate a corpse!"
Me: "Okay what line in the spellbook did you try exactly?"
Them: "SIR, I am NOT a necromancer person so I don't know."
Me: "Do you know which spellbook you're using?"
Them: "I don't know what that is!"
Me... | "You... you have who?" I ask, hoping that what I heard was incorrect.
"Marilyn Monroe, I'm gonna use her for\-"
"Sir I apologize but we don't support grave robbing\-"
"But\-"
"Of famous people" I interject quickly. Confusion seems to be radiating off my phone and I wish I could just hang up now.
"Well I mean I alr... | 2018-04-28T00:14:14 | 2018-04-27T23:38:04 | 237 | 102 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | **"Hello, this is Jeff from the Overwatch team, how can I help?"**
"Uh. Hello. Name's Jerry. So, I tried that basic human reanimation routine from *Basic Nercomundics, second edition* and it does not seem to do anything."
**"Hm. Keep in mind that we don't really support second edition anymore, it is at least 40 years... | People are idiots. Simple as that. After third time you accept the message to a screaming newbie rambling in about zombie apocalypse, when they have some simple error, it gets old fast.
But the craziest things happen with the experienced ones. The ones who think they know better. There are standard procedures int... | 2018-04-28T00:02:49 | 2018-04-27T21:14:51 | 111 | 34 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | OK James, roll the dice
2
GM: Sorry, you missed.
The entire party is in shock. They tried with two other characters already. Both dead.
GM: The new enemies arrive. Rolls , 20. John, you died. Rolls again, almost James, you barely escapes this time.
The party starts arguing: You can't let this end like this GM! We... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T09:16:08 | 303 | 17 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 210 | 51 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Mary looked at the table horrified. Another 1. That’s, what, 6 of them now? She felt desperate, it was all slipping away.
“You sure I can’t add my modifier?” she pleaded.
“We’ve been over this Mary, critical failures are critical failures,” replied Jim looking at her with pity.
“All my planning... all that time...”... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T09:09:55 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 150 | 30 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "A runner arrives with your orders. Would you like to read them out?"
"Sure." Katie unfolded the paper that Danny, the DM, just passed her. "It says that the Ruskis are carrying the guns away, and want us to stop them."
"So we charge those guns? That sounds ... dangerous."
"There's, like five-hundred guns. What are ... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T07:34:04 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 104 | 30 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 51 | 30 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | OK James, roll the dice
2
GM: Sorry, you missed.
The entire party is in shock. They tried with two other characters already. Both dead.
GM: The new enemies arrive. Rolls , 20. John, you died. Rolls again, almost James, you barely escapes this time.
The party starts arguing: You can't let this end like this GM! We... | 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 2018-05-29T09:16:08 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “So you’re storming the beaches of Italy in his game. Did you bring the WW2 character sheets?”
“Uhh... shit I brought my fantasy sheet for my ranger.”
“...”
“It’s okay! We can still play. Who was important in WW2 again?”
“Winston Churchill...”
“There we go! I’ll call my character Jack Churchill, and he’s storming ... | OK James, roll the dice
2
GM: Sorry, you missed.
The entire party is in shock. They tried with two other characters already. Both dead.
GM: The new enemies arrive. Rolls , 20. John, you died. Rolls again, almost James, you barely escapes this time.
The party starts arguing: You can't let this end like this GM! We... | 2018-05-29T09:44:43 | 2018-05-29T09:16:08 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] You are not a superhero. You are just a Scout with a magical Bag of Holding and an incredible dedication to the motto "A Scout is Prepared". | Golrin grinned as his hands reached out for the red, throbbing sphere. He loved collecting new items, and even more if they were shiny, mystifying and powerful. The glow bathed his wide-opened eyes and visage. He relished having it, stowing it in his Bag of Holding, and using it only when the situation called for it.
... | *WN: Going to be slightly changing the prompt*
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"Bag, could you pass us that bottle of Ghost Pepper Sauce? We're dealing with a problem of *gastronomic* proportions here!"
I put down my book and slid a bookmark in. "Sure! One moment." Standing up from my IKEA recliner, I put the book down and started along the man... | 2018-06-08T09:09:55 | 2018-06-08T08:58:22 | 127 | 92 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | The world was different then. It was a brutal and magical place. Before the unification, before simulink, even before the great colonisation, there was a world of chaos and wonder. There was a world where great wizards still spoke in the language of machines, where the dark lords could pay to have their voice spoken fr... | In the 21st century, things were different.
It was known to many at the time as the beginning of the end. Or so everyone thought.
Humanity, it seemed, had finally run out of luck. We'd seemingly come so far, and bested ourselves time and time again in progress. The world was changing at a drastic rate. We were no lon... | 2018-12-25T04:05:20 | 2018-12-25T03:25:31 | 120 | 14 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | "Honey? Can you hear me? I'm back from Costco! My arms are kinda full here, could you give me a hand?
"Coming!"
Susan, my wife, called out to me just as my phone went off. I have it on vibration, so typically it just goes off once or twice. Nope, today it decided to have a full-blown orgasm. Wondering what the racket... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T07:28:39 | 2,225 | 354 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | Rachael texted me and said she would be back home here soon. Usually I would run to the store and grab groceries, but I was exhausted from work. Spent 12 hours working buoys and being on the boat really took a toll on me today.
I was laying on the couch watching Netflix. Finally getting some time to relax while our c... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T08:26:32 | 2,225 | 49 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | I’m not even sure this is the right place to post, but I’m worried about my sister. About three hours ago I got a text from the Emergency Alert System. I checked my Facebook to see if anyone else got the same thing. It seemed like it was a practical joke and I couldn’t find anything in Google News.
My sister sent me ... | “Charlie, are you fucking....oh my god...are you FUCKING kidding me?”
Charlie grit his teeth, looking back and forth from his phone to the door.
Pam held the mail slot open to look through, her eyes shining angrily through her circular glasses.
She must have been standing up on her tippy toes to reach, Charlie real... | 2019-01-12T08:53:28 | 2019-01-12T08:40:36 | 124 | 27 |
[WP] Instead of requiring sleep everyone has two distinct souls that share the one body; switching places when one gets tired and needs rest. Neither has access to the memories of the other and life for most is about learning to co-exist with another person they will never get to meet. | Cool, so basically: Write a story from a DID persons view point.
Here we go.
I always wanted to see the day.
But I was a night person.
I would only wake up after sundown and would always fall asleep right after sunrise.
I would always wonder how the world would look in daylight. I only got a glimps of it, at the sunr... | READ ME!!!!
I haven’t slept in 4 days now, with help from prescription meds that Aaron gave me. He’s worried about us. I’m worried too. Reality is well and truly gone. Light brings physical pain and there is a blurred film coating my vision that only clears when I squint my eyes. But squinting is too close to closed. ... | 2019-05-29T05:17:42 | 2019-05-29T04:55:05 | 63 | 40 |
[WP] You’re a Superhero whose superpower is Deescalation. You fight villains by talking through their issues and helping them to make better choices. | The anti-matter crystal in his chest surges with a sudden energy. Slowly raising his fists above his head, the cloaked figure floats higher into the air. He calls to the citizens hiding in the streets below.
“No more! You did this to me, and now it will be undone. *Everything* will be undone. Feel the wrath ... of Cha... | "Listen, I understand how you feel."
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Both men stood atop a two-hundred-foot tall skyscraper. Above them, a gigantic array of perfectly precise death lasers loomed, ready to annihilate at a moment's notice.
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Vladimus the Dark turned quickly, "How could you? How could anyone? You don't und... | 2019-12-07T20:08:01 | 2019-12-07T19:25:31 | 1,234 | 308 |
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