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[WP] Test your research skills, have your character explore a place you've never been before using only the knowledge you can find on the Internet. Locals, tell them how they did.
Get as detailed as possible, the sights, the sounds, the people, the food, the smells, build the world as accurately as you can. | Texas:
I rode my stag horsey to school. Then I mosied on down to the local saloon for some bar fightin and booze! Then I yelled "Yee haw!" And shot my 6 shooter in the air while simultaneously whipping my horse with my hat. I finished drinking around 10am, too late to be drinking. I met a sworn enemy at high noon... | *Terra Australis*. The Southern Land. Little known fact, despite all the ice and snow, Antarctica is a desert. Believe me, I was surprised just as much as you probably are right now. But the most jarring thing about Antarctica has got to be the temperature. It’s been only a day since my expedition has started, but hot ... | 2015-12-10T16:23:50 | 2015-12-10T08:52:27 | 633 | 93 |
[WP] Test your research skills, have your character explore a place you've never been before using only the knowledge you can find on the Internet. Locals, tell them how they did.
Get as detailed as possible, the sights, the sounds, the people, the food, the smells, build the world as accurately as you can. | Surface of the sun:
John pointed the laser boomer at Blinja. Her tear filled, crimson eyes twinkled a reflection of the Sea of Ancestors.
"Any last words, traitor?" John asked.
"Those deaths are on your head. You're insane!", she replied.
"Insane is thinking that the Earth has a right to free energy, *our* energ... | The 5 to the 80 is the longer drive, but that's the way he goes, and I wonder if there's an ulterior motive for this.
"Remember this from my weekend?" he asks, and shows me the Battle Born album art on his new iPhone. We listen to Brandon singing the whole way through the desert, interrupted a few times when he has... | 2015-12-10T18:51:42 | 2015-12-10T17:17:22 | 49 | 28 |
[WP] "I have two pills to take every day. One is so I don't kill myself. The other is so I don't kill other people. Today I dropped one pill down the drain. I don't know which it was."
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3wxtsu/who_is_that_guygirl_you_work_with/cy09r1g) for prompt. | "Crap. Not again." I said to myself as I tossed the other one in the drain as well and grabbed two new pills.
These things aren't cheap and that's twice this week that sink's gotten the best of me. I really need to start being more careful.
And now the second one's stuck in my throat... This ailment is the worst. | As I watched the pill bounce off of my hand and down the open drain, I cursed my doctor and my landlord, not the first time for either. My landlord for being too cheap to install a drain guard, and my “doctor” for prescribing two completely different yet really important pills that looked fucking identical.
Even wo... | 2015-12-15T18:57:30 | 2015-12-15T17:47:33 | 53 | 29 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Valhalla!? What do you mean Valhalla!?" The monk asked angrily.
"Look pal, when the vikings attacked your monastery you fought back. Hell, you even killed one of them. That's not what monks do." Exclaimed the Valkyrie
"But I'm a god loving christian! I can't be in Valhalla!"
"Like it or not, you died in battle. T... | "Welcome!" The voice pierced my ears.
"Who... what?"
"Welcome!"
I stood up, brushing myself off. I felt... actually pretty good, which was odd, considering that I-
"I said welcome."
I turned towards the man before me.
"Yes. Yes you did." He said, "Though your narration is quite poor."
He stepped down, "You feel ... | 2016-03-07T20:07:55 | 2016-03-07T20:07:18 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] After months of searching, you've finally found your dream home. The rent is affordable, it's incredibly spacious, and it's incredibly close to both work and friends. But there's one unexpected requirement listed in the Rental Agreement. | "My firstborn?"
"Yes sir."
"...you've got to be fucking kidding me."
The renter shook his head, dabbing his pointer finger on the dotted line. "Signing the rental agreement cements the ownership of your firstborn child into my possession. I promise not to harm him, or her. Just... I really want kids, you know? The ... | I grinned like a child at Michelle and she replied with that dazzling smile that had made me fall so madly in love with her. She ran a hand through her long blonde hair and bit her bottom lip slightly, before replying.
"Im still a little confused by that clause. Why wouldn't we be allowed through the door in the basem... | 2016-04-11T23:40:55 | 2016-04-11T22:23:23 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] You and your sibling are both indestructible, and have been since birth. Since neither of you could be mortally injured, your childhood pranks tended to get out of hand. | Pain's a bitch. Not physical pain, I don't know anything about that. Never felt it. Not a single hangnail, bruise, cut, or burn. Nothing. But that doesn't mean I don't know pain. I know pain more than most. My twin sister and I are experts at pain, I'd say. Inflicting and enduring. See, we're immortal, and being immort... | "It's my turn," Arthur said reaching for the controller.
"No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!" Arthur punched Charlie in the arm.
Their mother Tina peeked around the corner of the kitchen and sighed and closed the heavy steel kitchen door. It was a little early in the day for a drink but she said screw it and poured a gla... | 2016-07-04T08:43:18 | 2016-07-04T08:36:48 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] You die and your soul goes to Hell. Your soul awakens to a rather annoyed Soul Tech who is stumped why you are there. Hell, you discover, isn't a place of eternal torment but rather one that repairs broken souls before reincarnation. | The thing jabbed me roughly in the arm. This had to be a dream.
"What's wrong with you, why are YOU here?" I looked around, confused. There was nothing, no trees, no clouds, it was a gray landscape and a gray sky.
The only things on this plane, were myself and this weird robot that seemed to be made of bones and ... | The last thing I remember is texting my friend that I was pulling up to their house. Why do all my limbs feel heavy and why am I laying down? I try and move my arms and find them straped down, I try and speak bit my throat do sent cooperate and I just make a scratchy sound. I open my eyes and the darkness is replaced b... | 2016-11-11T10:37:48 | 2016-11-11T05:16:10 | 19 | 11 |
[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. | You grew up with bruises on your knees and scabs aplenty, just like any other kid. What your parents never knew was that not all of them were your own.
You're ten; baby Sarah from next door is bawling because she's just fallen and skinned her knee. You take the pain away from her. As the wound fades from her knee you... | New to writing and trying to get better, please give me and feedback (good and bad!) I want to improve. Thanks for reading.
“You brought this on yourself you know. You really did. All of your speed and strength, your flight and heightened senses, where are they now? Too bad you don’t also have any healing abilities f... | 2017-06-12T07:49:37 | 2017-06-12T07:45:28 | 1,670 | 181 |
[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. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | 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 ... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T07:45:36 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | "I said no."
"You must! She's the true heir-"
"And why should I care about your puny kingdom?"
"Because...if she doesn't claim the throne there will be chaos for a long time...which means war...which means more soldiers to try and slay you..."
"Hey, buddy, are you OK? You're breathing kinda funny, and you got a lot... | "To my dearest Yvain
I was a dragon, strong and old stuck in a cave for a crime you should never know. How long has it been I wonder since I was out? For the last time I walked these grounds there was no town or city but forest ever so green.
This was where the magical beings stayed until the mortals arrived or so ... | 2018-03-01T03:08:36 | 2018-03-01T01:48:12 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] You're an immortal. She is a time traveller. Every now and then, you two pop into each other lives. | "Hey there handsome."
Point for her, she spotted me first this time.
"Hello darling. Been a while?"
A crack in her expression, there for but an instant. This is never good.
"A bit too long. Seen some shit since I saw you last."
Warm flesh embraces me as she pulls me into a hug. I squeeze her in return, silently ... | The sun had just risen above the trees casting light among the huts and tents. The tribe was just beginning to wake up when I first heard a scream. I left my hut with my obsidian dagger in my hand. I was the protector, the watcher, the ever present. My tribe needed me. As my eyes adjusted to the light and I saw he... | 2018-05-05T11:46:49 | 2018-05-05T11:34:49 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] No science, no magic. By pure force of will, you've merged your mortal conscience to your immortal soul right before you die. The afterlife's caretakers aren't really prepared to deal with a cognizant soul, they're actually hilariously bad at stopping you. | “Welcome to the afterlife gentle soul! You must be confused as to how you got he—” a sooty old man with a grand white beard greeted Ferdinand, as he stumbled into his new existence.
“I drove into a large truck on the freeway, there’s nothing particularly difficult to grasp here,” Ferdinand replied bluntly.
“Yes, yes ... | I knew it was coming, but there was no fear. Only rage. Why were they allowed to have so much power? Why was I born this way? So weak, so impotent!
The scream that erupted from my lungs was drowned by the inhuman cackling of the Aug as it shredded another limb in maniacal glee. It felt like every nerve-fiber has been ... | 2018-11-30T08:07:17 | 2018-11-30T07:02:19 | 51 | 10 |
[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. | "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... | A sharp knock at the door startled Eric. The sudden jump caused him to drop the phone from his hand.
"Babe? I lost my key." Vanessa's voice came through the door. Eric stared at the phone embedded in the lush, grey carpet. It landed face up with the emergency message taking up the entire screen.
"LOCK ALL DOORS AND S... | 2019-01-12T07:28:39 | 2019-01-12T06:59:31 | 354 | 165 |
[WP] You find a loose plank in your basement floor and pry it out to replace it, only to discover a massive pile of bodies under the house. Even worse though is the fact that every one of those bodies is your own | Tucker Kurzheimer stared at the pile of human flesh. Each corpse had the same face. \*His\* face.
Grunting, Tucker stepped back from the hole in his basement's floorboards and hollered at the top of his lungs: "Fudge! Get the fuck down here! I found where you've been putting the bodies!"
A muffled voice shouted back:... | I scowl at the floor, watching the creaking board almost mocking me. A grunt rises in my throat and I force it down.
I'd *just* gotten my basement remodeled.
Shaking my head and biting my lip, I kneel down to inspect the board, feeling it over with my hands. As I grab onto it, I can feel it come loose, I can feel it... | 2019-04-17T18:57:55 | 2019-04-17T18:36:38 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] The dragon's lair is not what you expected. Instead of the mountains of gold and magical artifacts of fantastical power, the lair is instead filled with display cases of historically significant but common items. It's not really a hoard, its more like a museum... they even do tours... | I'd never seen such a vast, incredibly-documented collection. There weren't just pieces of history on display vaguely linked by being found within a few hundred miles of each other, or by having similar design elements- these were *sets* in *context.* When I entered the textiles hall, it confused me for a moment until ... | Getting lost in the mountains of Bhutan was the last thing I wanted to do. I'd lost my tour guide, fallen down a hill and was now stuck somewhere on the East side of one of the mountains. Thankfully, I had prepared for something like this to happen and with my trekking poles, began my hike up towards the general direct... | 2022-01-11T11:41:52 | 2022-01-11T10:35:29 | 284 | 88 |
[WP] After being betrayed and left badly injured by your ‘sidekick’ team, the last person you expected comes to save you: the villain. | Harvey Dent said: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." But I don't think the thought crossed his mind that 'you' would ever become friends with a villain. Let alone the villain you were fighting for years. This is the short little story of how exactly that happened, and why I ... | Is this how I die? I barely managed to crawl over to the tree, just about able to sit myself up leaning against it - if I'm to die, I'll at least die with dignity. I still remember their last words to me: 'You think we cared about stopping some menace? We only joined you because we thought we could get rich from our ex... | 2022-09-22T10:41:45 | 2022-09-22T05:46:47 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | C-list was a comfortable position. I hardly ever had to put much work into the villainy aspect, so I got so focus more on my personal business. And, It meant I got to be a little bit goofy, which is always fun. For the most part, the heroes I ended up facing were kind, helpful, and sweet. I even kept in contact with a ... | “Prepare for trouble”
“Make it double”
“To protect the world from persistent pain”
“To unite all peoples within our gang.”
“To denounce the evils of villainy and strife”
“To scoot the villains out of ruining life”
“Scooter Red”
“Scooter Blue”
“Scooter Heroes ride off into the night.”
“Surrender now or prepare to fight!... | 2022-11-29T08:15:42 | 2022-11-29T03:44:50 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You are a cannon fodder minion on the first floor of a dungeon, and have just killed the hero. You now have to explain to the boss that you just ruined his plan. | Laitha paused outside the doorway, drawing a breath in and steadying herself. She really didn't want to do this. She was going to be in *so much trouble.* She might even end up having to find a new job, and she'd *liked* that job. Right at the beginning of the lair, so she got to see all the excitement, and they we... | So here I am, a scrawny little goblin with a massive dick, standing in front of the Dark Lord Cockripper, the most evil genital mutilator to ever own a dark evil fortress. He is shouting at me so loud that I can feel the floor vibrating slightly and my ears are begging to pop so that the pain will dissipate. He is goin... | 2014-09-03T14:43:46 | 2014-09-03T11:44:22 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] In this universe, everyone is happy all day every day - except for one hour a day where they are suicidally depressed. Everyone is born having a certain suicidal hour. You got lucky with a 4am slot, which has always been convenient for you - until today.
You can be asleep during your hour. However, daily life fun... | I didn't mind not being able to pull all-nighters. I have been asleep in my hour all but a handful of times. Oh boy, did I learn my lesson.
Luckily, I survived those times.
I turned down so many dates, so many girls. I needed to find one with a similar hour. I wanted a good life.
My wife is perfect. Her hour is th... | I wake up gashing for air. Another nightmare.
I look at the black alarm clock with the green digits on it, the only thing illuminating the room. 3:55 AM.
Shit. I have always taken the precaution to be asleep at this hour. Always. A sleeping pill here, a sleeping pill there. That's how I have avoided this fucking doom... | 2015-01-06T09:43:44 | 2015-01-06T08:15:01 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A normal person is transported to a world where English is the language of magic. | "Oh, cock..."
A phallus appeared, joining the pile of miscellaneous things.
A crowd had appeared around him at some point, most smirking at his evident misfortune.
"Oh do fuck off." He'd had enough of these wankers ridiculing him in their weird language.
The crowd all began to undress, horrified expressions beginni... | Another day, another boring day as a clerk at the local 7 Twelve.
As I just got settled away at work, a young girl with dark brown hair and pale white skin, came inside the building.
"May I ask what you are looking for?" I asked with a slight smile. But, she looked at me with confusion and disgust. She took two ste... | 2015-08-24T17:23:09 | 2015-08-24T17:18:54 | 148 | 25 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | Satan sat, head in his hands, listening to his top general, Beelzebub.
"All we have are these fucking flaming swords!" the general spat.
Satan looked up, "Well those 'fucking flaming swords' have done us wonders in all past fights, throughout time, with the above forces."
Azazel chimed in, "In the past all we were... | For ages we have been watching the cosmos. What is out there. WE looked through our telescopes, we sent out our drones and eventually we had manned expeditions. Each step we had the information that there was nothing out there. That our Earth was an anomaly but we persisted and we failed.
But our disappointment did no... | 2015-09-24T09:55:50 | 2015-09-24T09:30:02 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Faster than light communication becomes possible, and humanity establishes contact with a hostile alien species that immediately declares war; however, neither we nor they have access to faster than light travel, so the only means of combat is through insults and rap battles.
[removed] | We have finally won the war between worlds. It took 20 years to break them. We realized we would never win if we kept communicating threats 5 years in. Our strategy changed to one for peace and changing the way they thought. For 15 years we sent the same message, day and night. Today the Alien race responded with words... | I put my pot of coffee on. It was always the first thing I did when I got into the lab. There wasn't time for chitchat until coffee was at least coming. Some people recommended that I get a coffee maker at home. They were the same kind of person that thought to teach an addict to make meth was a good idea.
"You good?"... | 2015-11-24T00:30:59 | 2015-11-24T00:13:04 | 167 | 14 |
[WP]If you murder someone, your jail sentence is as long as their remaining life would have been. | “You do understand the sentencing system.”
Lawrence looked around the conference room. It was spare, with more chairs than were really needed. Nobody frequented this place. “Sure,” he said. “You guys do your voodoo to figure out how long my, heh, victim, had to live, and make my sentence just as long. So lay it on me.... | A lawyer, young and well dressed, stands in front of a jury and paces for a couple of seconds before he adjusts his glasses and starts to speak.
"Alfred Benson is a name synonymous with murder. Called the most successful serial killer in history and the most efficient with 395 confirmed kills, 210 days in prison. He ... | 2016-05-29T09:41:46 | 2016-05-29T06:30:54 | 146 | 36 |
[WP] The entire world lost electricity 10 days ago. You find an old phone in a drawer and switch it on. A wifi network comes up. It's named, "Do you want to do a deal with the devil?" | Ten days ago I sent a message. Ten days ago I bared my soul to a girl named Charlotte.
At this point the entire world gave up. Tablet's, phone's, Laptop's, you name it they were obsolete. Useless pieces of plastic and metal, the electronic industry fell, many of the upper class toppled. Electronics were replaced and r... | Drawer after drawer would be drawn open, the wheels inside the box grinding against the wood, and then closed with a rushed thud. I was looking for something, anything that would help me survive; food, water, flashlights, a book - anything.
I rummaged through the abandoned apartment. What was once surely an extravagan... | 2016-12-26T07:24:47 | 2016-12-26T06:46:39 | 83 | 46 |
[WP] Write a story that contains a huge plot hole, and try to sneak it past the reader. The bigger the plot hole the better. | Troy ecstatically led his clients upstairs to the master bedroom.
"Oh yes! The master bedroom is absolutely gorgeous; you'll find that almost everything in the room will be to your liking, Mr. Johnson," said Troy reassuringly.
"Almost? What do you mean by almost everything?" inquired Johnson.
"Well I will need t... | Nola stood, thin and weak, in the well lit hospital hallway. Dirty, skintight jeans clung to her legs, a loose shirt covered her frame, and she had on a pair of worn flat tops. Her hair, blonde and stringy, was held back in a messy bun. Nola shivered, and walked down the hallway, the scent of antiseptic and ammonia fil... | 2017-03-20T15:31:34 | 2017-03-20T14:31:29 | 400 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | Jesus huh, your name means nothing, only one name matters to me and that's my daughter, Mary. But you sullied that name, you spread her name with ill repute because she rejected you, you told everyone she was a whore...now it's your turn to suffer.
Every piece of gold I have and that is not insignificant in its measur... | Oh, you're new here, fresh off the press. Literally, what a gruesome way to die you had. But that's all in the past now, that body is nothing but meat now so stop associating yourself with it, and listen to me, your guide to the afterlife, one who has been here longer than anyone else.
Let me explain how it works. You... | 2017-06-26T11:56:24 | 2017-06-26T11:32:59 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Jesus is an intergalactic fugitive who is known for starting cults on contact-forbidden developing worlds. The intergalactic bounty hunter tracks his last known coordinates to Earth. | "Have you found Jesus?" the man in black asked.
My face contorted. *Being Human for Dummies* said this was rage.
"No, I haven't!" I spat. "Why would I be here if I'd found Jesus?"
I guess he wasn't expecting me to shout. I didn't mean to, I was just having trouble modulating the analog vocal synthesiser these primat... | > Acts 1:7-9
> 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
> 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
> 9 After he ... | 2017-10-14T22:32:17 | 2017-10-14T22:15:02 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | i am a pup
i like my guy
temps goin up
dont want to die
i dig a hole
dig it so deep
food from my bowl
food in hole keep
guy does not kno
i do not mind
guy mad at hole
still he so kind
today i am done
hole can fit guy
slep in the sun
put guy inside
show guy the hole
guy v surprise
more food in bowl
pu... | "Buddy, not again," James frowned as he walked into his garden. "The hole is so big again."
It was a weird dog of his. He had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Still, he looked a cute and friendly one anyway, so he took the dog as his own. Even so, the dog had been spending most of the time digging this very hole.
"C... | 2018-04-27T10:33:46 | 2018-04-27T08:08:00 | 2,062 | 226 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | i am a pup
i like my guy
temps goin up
dont want to die
i dig a hole
dig it so deep
food from my bowl
food in hole keep
guy does not kno
i do not mind
guy mad at hole
still he so kind
today i am done
hole can fit guy
slep in the sun
put guy inside
show guy the hole
guy v surprise
more food in bowl
pu... | “Come on, boy...” Marcus said, sighing at the sight of the hole.
The neighbors weren’t happy with how his backyard looked. It didn’t conform the neat and proper image of the neighborhood. Before he broke out of the slums at the lower levels of the city, he’d always thought that life would be pristine here.
He shook h... | 2018-04-27T10:33:46 | 2018-04-27T08:36:13 | 2,062 | 123 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | i am a pup
i like my guy
temps goin up
dont want to die
i dig a hole
dig it so deep
food from my bowl
food in hole keep
guy does not kno
i do not mind
guy mad at hole
still he so kind
today i am done
hole can fit guy
slep in the sun
put guy inside
show guy the hole
guy v surprise
more food in bowl
pu... | I look up from my desk. I positioned it near the little white window that looks into the backyard some time ago when the doctor said I should get some fresh air. Outside, I see the dog digging again. I unclasp the top of the window and lift it open. It sighs and squeaks upwards, and the air blows a few papers around t... | 2018-04-27T10:33:46 | 2018-04-27T09:25:14 | 2,062 | 17 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | It's been 15 generations since the legend was passed down to me. That our God mother was truly a vampire. I didn't believe it at first after my mother told me the story. My dad verified it too. He said that his father and his father's father confirmed the same thing. She just never aged past a certain point.
I had my ... | About 30 years ago Prince Charles died a very mysterious death. Some had said he was trying to overthrow the Queen only months before he died but most put that down to tabloid rumours.
30 years on and the Queen still reigns at the ripe old age of 122 with what seems like the enthusiasm of someone in peak physical cond... | 2022-10-08T16:31:19 | 2018-07-08T22:02:26 | 312 | 205 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | If you had the chance would you wanna know?
The times you almost gave back the life that you owe.
To some it made their days truly precious.
Others though, made their demons more vicious.
The number didn't help, of that I was sure.
Did they think this would work like some kind of cure?
I again look hard at my unr... | She did her best. She was kind, she feigned a sense of empathy, but I could tell how scared she was as she tentatively told me the news.
Everyone knows that the only people who break 50 are those that have lifethreatening illnesses, and here I am with 278.
I accepted it pretty quickly, I just didn't understand it. M... | 2018-07-27T13:29:28 | 2018-07-27T12:56:54 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] It was an accident. He was jogging late at night, you glanced at a text while driving. You panic, dump the body in a nearby lake, go home and try to forget. You venture out for some much needed coffee, only to stop in shock. The barista is the jogger and he recognizes you. | I stood in horror as the jolly man handed me my cup. I was absolutely certain it was him.
I was driving my car late at night, not expecting anyone to be awake, not paying that much attention, when the impact happened. I got out of the car and looked for the man I had just seen flying through the air like in a cartoon:... | "Hey man, the regular?" Steve asks from across the counter. I don't respond though, I can't. <<How is this happening? How is he here?>> I wonder. I see his eyes darting at the midnight crowd behind me. The impatience is settling in his eyes.
"Order up already man. I need my coffee." The guy behind me near... | 2018-09-23T07:16:35 | 2018-09-23T06:43:14 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The galaxy is actually full of life and advanced civilizations. Everyone just leaves Earth alone because that's where The Great Old Ones are imprisoned, and nobody wants to wake them up. | "Well, hell Marley."
"What is it, sir?"
"When you were given the mission to install the prison containing the great scourge of the galaxy, you were under strict orders to follow the law on alien planetary conduct."
"Yes, and?"
"And! I'm detecting a fork."
"A fork, sir?"
"Yes! A god damn fork. You were eating down... | &#x200B;
“Prepare for system entry in 3…2…1.”
Admiral Axthal braced himself against the railing of his bridge as the ship jolted rather abruptly. It always did when they entered this specific system, and it was always a good omen when that happened. He could hear the engines begin whining as the dampening field t... | 2019-03-09T07:13:39 | 2019-03-09T07:00:46 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] Back in middle school you helped the meanest, toughest kid in school out of a jam. He swore that he would repay the favor one day - just give him a call and he'd be there. Twenty years later you are in a much bigger jam and out of options. You pick up the phone. | “Is this Jerry?” I asked, my heart still pounding from the chase.
“Yeah, who the hell is this?” Jerry said. He still sounded like the mean prick he was back at Haven High.
“This is Bill...” I said. Ugh, this is so stupid, he’s not going to remember me. Plus, there’s no way he’s going to keep some old promise he made... | **She is dead, choked by my belt.**
Her body is limp, spread naked across the backseat of my car. Her eyes are blue, big and stare at the telephone pole across the road. Fuck,the garage door! I push the button and there is a familiar sound of closing door. It’s darker now. Just breath, Mark, it’s going to be okay. No ... | 2019-07-08T13:22:09 | 2019-07-08T12:17:07 | 2,034 | 50 |
[WP] During a global catastrophe, a company offers to cryogenically freeze people so that they can “skip” unpleasant circumstances. Clients can stipulate specific global conditions that must be met before they are unfrozen. You awake to find that all of your conditions are satisfied. | Imagine an ice cream headache that lasted millennia and ramp that up to eleven. That is what I awoke to. That and darkness.
"Good day, sir. I am Cirrus X, representative of the Cirrus Cryogenic Catastrophic Conglomerate. You have been frozen until the time your cryogenic will and testament could be fulfilled. I am pl... | "Welcome back Client [NULL]. You are in the restoration paradigm of U-Top Corporal Services. Your reinstatement criteria of [NULL] have been met. Thank you for choosing U-Top." A pleasant voice didn't sound in my ears. I heard the words clearly, but it wasn't with my ears.
The pleasant voice stopped. I felt a... well,... | 2020-04-14T05:42:14 | 2020-04-14T04:57:06 | 96 | 44 |
[WP] Yesterday I wrote the number 69 on my wrist as a joke. Today it's 68, and now it's not washing off. | I sat in the bar, staring at my hand, the cosmic joke that was being played on me. My target sat next to me, drinking heavily. I didn’t like taking advantage of someone left vulnerable by his circumstances. But I was sure I would be able to save everyone when it came down to it.
I continued to work on him, subtly lea... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 4: Roger v.s. His Burgeoning Powers)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The best method of discovering one's superpowers is an open question.** The Unified Sovereignties t... | 2021-04-20T19:57:39 | 2021-04-20T19:38:44 | 149 | 89 |
[WP] When humans joined the galactic union, space force & military were made into clandestine projects & continued growing in secret. When the most powerful alien race challenged the peaceful humans for sport, they & the galact union learned the hard way the human saying "Si vis pacem, para bellum" | The Galactic Union made it's offer. And it was the offer in the best traditions of the mafia, the kind that humanity could not refuse. Disarm, dissolve it's armed forces and welcome the new age of peace.
The human diplomat that signed the Galactic Union treaty said the words "Si vis pacem, para bellum" but no one bot... | "what I'm saying is that if our military is to be secret and only used as a last resort why are we following the spirit of the laws? Seriously, they were written by 34 races that have known nothing but peace for the past 1000 years or so, 3 that were just flattened by tech they don't understand and the one race doing ... | 2021-04-23T15:37:25 | 2021-04-23T15:16:07 | 179 | 68 |
[WP] Everyone laughed at your super power to manifest any sort of pun related device. That was before you sawed the ocean in half with your sea-saw. | A battered streetlamp oscillated its dim light, casting faded rays into the seedy alley. The pale slivers of yellow flashed across the faces of the two burly men so that only a ragged scar here or a slitted eye there were visible. Caged in the vice grip of the two men was a thin figure. It wasn't struggling. In fact, i... | From the newly blasted fissure splitting the Atlantic, arising from the walls of water carved down deep into the darkest depths, walked a man, rather normal looking other than the knight's helmet on his head and the massive barbed trident he was using as a walking stick.
The crowd gathered to gawk at this unexplainabl... | 2021-06-09T14:26:03 | 2021-06-09T14:18:30 | 366 | 207 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | Mitchell stared nervously at the pentagram on his bedroom floor. he made sure everything was perfect for his new visitor. After arranging all the materials, Mitchell stood on the northernmost corner and began reciting the incantation. The floor beneath him twisted and morphed into a fiery black pit. From the pit rose a... | *Nothing bad could REALLY happen, could it? Nah,* I thought to myself as I scanned the shelves of the aisles of the massive library. I knew what I was searching for: a book on demonology. *Why not?,* I thought, *not like this stuff is for real, anyway. Just a bunch of old superstitious stuff.* I was bored out of my sku... | 2014-07-20T08:32:52 | 2014-07-20T07:42:26 | 98 | 14 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | This is how it works? Did I say that or think it?
Did he hear me?
Is he hearing me?
If this is how it works... If I can come back again when I die?
I don't want to be here. A voice in a head. I'm a man with dreams.
I need out.
Kill yourself.
Kill yourself!
KILL YOURSELF! | THUD. I felt an extremely hard knock to my head as I woke up. I'd had a bit to drink the night before but should my head be hurting this bad?
As I opened my eyes, an unfamiliar environment was laid open before me. It was an open room with white walls, a white floor, and a white ceiling. Below me was a twin-sized bed.... | 2015-03-23T07:29:11 | 2015-03-23T07:14:36 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You have been given magical gifts suitable for fairytale princesses. Whenever you sing, forest creatures gather near; anything you wear turns into a lovely tailored dress; and handsome princes are drawn to you. The problem is, your name is Joe, and you're a 40 year old grizzly biker. | When the fairy (literal fairy) told him that he could wish for anything he wanted, he thought she was shitting him. The old lady had gotten wasted at the Chain Drive and picked a fight with the wrong guy. Who knew that magical fairy godmothers smoked and drank in leather bars? Apparently, this one did. So after Joe ste... | The Harley Davidson convention was in full swing as Joe’s dust-riddled biker boot shit-kickers trudged his substantially muscled form down aisle after aisle of –man- transportation. No pussies allowed.
Making his way past a particularly testosterone-riddled row of bikes, he was suddenly accosted by the sight of an eve... | 2016-03-26T07:28:22 | 2016-03-26T00:23:08 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | It took so much to squint at the man standing in front of me. At first I thought he might be a hallucination – people said occurrences like these happened with the procedure.
Beatifically smiling, he came into focus. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to. I knew where I was and what that meant.
“Damn.”
I wish ... | My brain churned, trying to process this newfound information. "What, you mean life on earth? *That* shit was heaven?" God was an asshole for greeting me with such nonchalance, as if I ought to have already known. Wasn't this a rhetorical question, anyway? Shouldn't he have already known my opinion? In which case, I wa... | 2016-08-15T23:17:39 | 2016-08-15T22:19:09 | 307 | 87 |
[WP] Aliens discover earth and are horrified to learn that the entire planet is all oxygen junkies, we have become so addicted and dependent mere minutes without oxygen would kill us! | “It seems the life forms of this terra are dependent on Oxygen in its gas form sir.” An audible female voice rang from what seemed to be the walls of the well litten and warm cabin.
“You mean to tell me their planet is so lush they don’t have open access to their sun?” The dark green yet stern man bellowed.
“No sir, t... | *Now, this is surprising, I didn't know anything about it. There must be a good explanation for it, but I wonder what it is..*- Myre thought with interest, keeping up her pace on the treadmill. The screens at her gym were all synced to the same Solar System News channel that morning. The discovery had been originally a... | 2016-09-30T01:17:09 | 2016-09-29T19:54:12 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | Five murders and a hundred years of life. However, here I was at the front of the church with everyone else. . . asking for forgiveness.
"How many have you killed, my daughter?" the priest asked the woman next to me.
Her eyes raced between the five of us. All of us killers, fighting our way back into normal societ... | FADE IN:
INT. A CLOTHING STORE - DAY
*A bell above the shop's door rings as a young man walks through it. This is ALFORD. He looks to be about twenty-five years old, though his elegant clothing seems to be about a hundred years out-of-date.*
**WELDON:** (*O.S.*) Good morning! Make yourself comfortable, I won't be a ... | 2016-10-23T19:50:36 | 2016-10-23T19:45:15 | 391 | 71 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | "Look, let's just get this over with so we can eat lunch. Guilty."
"There's no evidence, I can't convict him without evidence."
"What are you, stupid? Did you see how old he is? Besides, it says right here he was born one hundred years ago. Statistically, most men are dead by then. And he's in excellent health."
"... | FADE IN:
INT. A CLOTHING STORE - DAY
*A bell above the shop's door rings as a young man walks through it. This is ALFORD. He looks to be about twenty-five years old, though his elegant clothing seems to be about a hundred years out-of-date.*
**WELDON:** (*O.S.*) Good morning! Make yourself comfortable, I won't be a ... | 2016-10-23T22:31:00 | 2016-10-23T19:45:15 | 124 | 71 |
[WP]: Your new roommate seems to think entirely in video game logic. Somehow, the world around him abides to this. | "No dude, you can't just take that."
Mark looked at me as if I'd lost it. That's right, me, *I* was the on who'd lost it. He was looking intently at the flat screen TV mounted on the wall at the store. "Dude, I think I can do it."
"No Mark," I said flatly, "you can't. Let's just ignore, you know, morality, and assume... | I kick off my heels and crash on the couch – it happens to the best of us – miles on a dance floor in these lopsided contraptions causes the strongest of thighs to quiver and ache by the end of the night. Macy and Laura are idiots, positively mental, but at least the cranberries aren’t growing where they shouldn’t. Wha... | 2016-11-25T12:00:56 | 2016-11-25T11:54:57 | 161 | 10 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | Another explosion rocked the hastily improvised command center. "Sir! The 4th circle has been breached!"
The current Commander of the hellish Host cursed bitterly "How?"
"More cute kittens sir. But this time there were also adorable *puppies*" Several demons shivered violently and the Command cursed again.
The hu... | Manifest Destiny. There was time when I used to believe that I had choice. I used to go to church everyday, tearing, thinking that one day God would bring me into heaven. My lungs were black from coal, my hands scared and caloused. I try my best with my kids, never hit them, buy them nintendos and pokemons. I worry tha... | 2016-12-10T09:52:21 | 2016-12-10T08:04:09 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] There are 2 humans left on Earth: you, and a crush you once asked out who said "I wouldn't date you if you were the last person on Earth" | Humanity had been refining teleportation technology for two decades, but with all the progress, the machines still needed two operators on either end to function. For this reason, two volunteers had to remain behind when we evacuated Earth. It just so happened that the only two volunteers qualified to operate a telepor... | "Well...well...well," Each word slid off Jay's tongue in a slow, deliberate manner as he looked at the woman standing in front of him. This wasn't just any woman though, this was *her*.
"Jay," Stacy said softly, "Let's not make this any more uncomfortable than-"
"Silence!" Jay bellowed at her. He probably meant for h... | 2017-02-27T01:55:38 | 2017-02-26T23:34:04 | 684 | 86 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | ""You get out there and you make us proud!"
That was the last thing I ever heard from another human. The rockets had been automated by then, sort of like self-driving cars. I received this final transmission as the bombs fell in waves, ravaging the Earth I once called home. I watched the live video feed from the isola... | It didn't occur to me what it was at first. Maybe the generators vibrating or rocks falling onto the roof. The second time I realized; there was someone at the door.
Dropping my lukewarm coffee on the floor, my head snapped towards the large steel door 10 meters to my left. Silence.
Three knocks this time, louder, mo... | 2018-03-05T06:59:42 | 2018-03-05T05:46:03 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are two robots sent to Earth by aliens, one sent to advance humanity, the other sent to hinder it. | Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk walked into a bar. Beautiful nature paintings lined the walls. The lights were dim and the patrons rowdy, but at least they served motor oil. Alien robots ran on motor oil.
"So, Zuckerberg!" Musk said, taking a swig. "Looks like we're in a meme prompt again."
"Looks like it," Zuckerberg ... |
"You know, you're an odd one, Andrew. But I think I like it."
"Yeah, I know. People are usually surprised to discover that my interviews are private. I try to learn what I can from the most successful people on Earth, and I am selfish - I don't want to share that with anyone. That's why you won't find any recording d... | 2018-04-22T08:33:52 | 2018-04-22T07:44:23 | 711 | 143 |
[WP]: Immortal vampires don’t fall in love with teenage girls. Vampires fall for cynical middle-aged women who have been through enough not to be impressed by anything, because honestly, that’s refreshing. | I sat, in nervous anticipation, holding my book of letters and notes. This seemingly harmless volume had been responsible for the beginnings of endings to all of my previous relationships. As soon as those previous girlfriends had become aware of my immortality, they’d acted weirdly around me. But Linda wasn’t like the... | There's a a slight pitter-patter on the rooftops and street as you walk by various houses, each with a slightly different yard ornament. The air smells musty and rotten.
You think to yourself, "it could be the dumpsters," you give pause as you think a little more. "No, it's most definitely this cloak. Gertrude was ri... | 2019-02-08T19:36:32 | 2019-02-08T18:29:24 | 81 | 46 |
[WP] “Wal Mart” is a game aliens play, where they see how poorly they can disguise themselves and walk through the human world unnoticed, usually in a wal mart around midnight. You are a government special agent and needed to run in for a car part when you catch a game in progress. | Blink. "wtf is this?"
Agent Todd James looked around. He was in Walmart. He inspected his cart.
"Riiiight, Milk and bagels. A lamp and printer ink." He had simply spaced out. This was an odd thing for Todd. He was usually more alert and mindful. But Walmarts are pretty banal places, even for late-night grocery ... | I saw the alien before he saw me. He was dancing in one of the seasonal holiday aisles, trying on a red Santa hat and belly laughing as if he didn't clearly have two bellies. With his green skin, he looked more like the Grinch than Santa. Which he must have known. So this was some kind of game, one I didn't feel like d... | 2020-12-20T11:22:58 | 2020-12-20T11:19:47 | 159 | 40 |
[WP] Reincarnation exists. You wish it didn't. All conscious minds are simply feeding appendages of an extra dimensional parasitic being which consumes meaning from its host universe. Upon death everything you have experienced and all that you are is stripped from you. You vow to poison the beast. | Building a world is challenging. But building a whole universe is extraordinarily difficult. The simulation you currently reside in took me more time to construct than a human can fathom. Yet, it was all worth it. Your universe was perfect, everything was set in motion as I intended, all with my preconceived plan. Like... | Somewhere out there in a space beyond space, where shape and form and all the things people might imagine no longer mattered a monster lurked. It hid in the shadows, a being of pure consciousness and it fed.
With every fiber of his being Devin hated it.
He could not have told anyone why, the question was too large an... | 2021-02-09T06:53:07 | 2021-02-09T06:46:17 | 400 | 82 |
[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product. | The ancient railway tracks are two spines running beneath the fallen snow, miniature mountain ranges extending into the grey horizon. The androids never stray far from the rail tracks, from this compass-arrow pointing back to their old lives, to everything they know and knew.
Slowly, I follow the tracks. Snow falls ru... | “Please, Lora, don’t get on that ship. I know I’ve made a mess of things. I know I talk too loudly when I’m drunk, I know I promised to make it to your dog’s ballet recital but never did, I know I always act like I hate your friends because I actually do but I know they’re your friends and I can work with that. I know... | 2021-04-05T03:44:34 | 2021-04-05T01:21:10 | 108 | 73 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | I did not choose to be here, I was chosen. Placed upon this land to bless all that passes.
Doing The Great One’s work, forced to deal with the smallest of issues to the greatest of them. I have become the center of this village, the lighting rod that grounds everyone.
“O’ Wise One! Whatever shall I do about this pre... | It was meant to be a joke. I pretended to lean into the cosmic realm just to tell a stupid farmer that he needed hens if he wished to get eggs, not roosters. I never expected one sarcastic joke to land me in the town’s most prized position. The village Seer, one of the greatest positions a person could have. You held m... | 2021-06-14T11:04:33 | 2021-06-14T08:53:19 | 1,900 | 959 |
[WP] Lycanthropes only transform when 100% of their planet’s moons are full. Callisto III, which has seven moons with varying cycles, has become a haven for this reason. However, nobody realized that each moon increases the intensity, and the moons have just aligned. | Time stopped. Oh, how that moment seemed to last forever, that moment of wonder. They all felt it, every single one of them stopping in their tracks with their eyes to the heavens.
Seven celestial orbs, perfectly aligned. All of them full. This had been the very first time their people had witnessed such an occurrenc... | Oso’s Chronicle, 2281
Thought I’d write while I can. Hope someone peeps this.
It was about 260 years ago that space popping began. It was the late 2020’s. That decade tote-totes was bonzo sick loser, and so like the cromulent have-haves started thumbing for other planets. Mars fell first, then Titan, then the race... | 2021-06-27T18:52:03 | 2021-06-27T15:15:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You've figured out how to hack real life. As a sniper in the military, one of your team just noticed you fired three consecutive shots from your bolt-action rifle without ever chambering a new round. They're asking how you're doing that... | "172 confirmed extreme long range kills, 0 bullets fired. I figured it out in basic, I closed the chamber before saying something to Sam, when I looked back I was convinced I had already loaded a round. I was convinced it was loaded. I was convinced when I pulled the trigger I would hit the target. And I did, the best ... | “Magic,” snickered Brad as he turned back to his scope. Salt tinged wind blew all about the team as the ocean waves crashed against the cliff face below them. The two men lay down, studying the target on the boat way out on the waves.
“No seriously, Brad,” demanded Troy, who had crouched walked over to Brad’s positi... | 2021-11-09T12:50:50 | 2021-11-09T12:06:29 | 172 | 76 |
[WP] One day, you meet a stray cat that looks exhausted. So you give it some food, water and a warm place to rest before it disappears the next morning. Some time later, a witch appears at your doorstep with that same cat. "Ambrose here says you saved his life, so I'm here to repay the favor." | I gazed at the woman across from me. We were seated in a petite french bakery or rather *I* was seated. She had just waltzed in here with a tabby cat drapped in her arms like an accessory and chose to sit next to me. Her faded brown eyes held an intense stare whilst she stroked the tabby causing it to stretch its legs ... | It was a cold and rainy day, and a cat had come to die on my doorstep.
A rather unusual day, to be sure, but that was that. Or so I thought as I lifted the thing off the cold stones and into the cottage. It reanimated quickly with warm milk and a seat by the fire.
"You weren't just being lazy in hopes of a meal?" I s... | 2022-01-08T01:44:34 | 2022-01-08T00:12:49 | 337 | 101 |
[WP] A group of adventurers just had one of their members replaced by a doppelganger. The kicker? The rest of the group knows what happened, but pretends to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "Rolph, you remember John the Armorer. He fixed your helmet the previous time it was cracked, on the other side. That's what kept you from dying this time out."
The Cleric, follower of... I forget now, I'm still trying to sort out what is happening since my latest shift, it's like they know I assumed their party me... | I'm one of the doppelgangers that live in the Amazon forest. Our specialty has always been infiltrating groups who want to harm the spirits of forest and bring them to the elders.
I absolutely don't know anything about the guy whose place I'm taking. The spirits of the forest told me to infiltrate their group so I did... | 2022-01-09T10:49:11 | 2022-01-09T10:19:32 | 197 | 144 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | Maria eyed off the distance, trying to materialise a figure to Sophia's question.
'I've lost count, well into the hundreds.'
Sophia nodded, sipping her gin and tonic. She could see it, a beautiful older woman such as her would still be popular with gentleman. Hell, even younger men would want to tussle with her.
'S... |
I am under 18, so I misunderstood what you meant by "escort", so uh, sorry about that
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Gabriel sat in one of the tables in one of the many busy bars of Paris. Outside, by the window, he could see the great Eiffel Tower loomi... | 2022-04-26T05:10:01 | 2022-04-25T22:25:06 | 123 | 41 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | \[Poem\]
`SELECT FIRST(SUBJECT) FROM QUEUE`
*Yes, what is it, computer?*
`ASSERT SUBJECT.NAME`
*My name is Bobby.*
`ASSERT SUBJECT.FULL_NAME`
*My full name? It's Robert.*
*Robert'); DROP TABLE humans;*
`ERROR CODE:1146 TABLE 'HUMANS' DOES NOT EXIST TEST SUBJECTS DELETED SO FAR, YOU HAVE 3 MINUTES TO STATE YOUR... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T12:02:10 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] You can see the darkest secret of everyone you meet. As you enter your house, expecting to see the usual abusive father story of your spouse, you stop; it has changed. | Travis was used to smelling blood. A lot of peoples' secrets involved bloodshed in some form or fashion. Most that did involve blood were from self harmers. A whiff of iron followed by brief flashes of open wounds either on wrists, thighs, and on rare occasion, genitalia. Travis was used to that.
He wasn't, however, u... | Sarah was a nice woman. Troubled, but interesting. Very attractive. She was obsessed with me through out highschool. "If you ever leave" and stuff like that.
She had a terrible past, and I knew it. I saw her father. The terrifying thing was that his abuse of her, it wasn't the worst thing he had done.
I had seen what... | 2014-05-15T03:00:20 | 2014-05-15T02:48:41 | 371 | 60 |
[WP] You are capable of shape-shifting into nearly any form, but then you're stuck with that form, because after every transformation, you must wait one year before you're able to transform again. | "I want money", I said. "I want a beautiful girl", I said. Let me tell you, it's not all rainbows and sunshine. She was a gorgeous girl whose family were rich and served luxurious foods. So I changed into her perfect man, a funny cool guy with a good sense of humour. We dated a lot for awhile and she wanted me to meet ... | It's been two months and... I'm lucky I have a close friend since I can't stay at my house, I'm actually kind of presumed dead now. I have an unfortunate power that I don't even know how I got... I can transform into mostly anything but I found out it takes a year to be able to change back. I guess I'm technically im... | 2017-06-03T17:16:54 | 2017-06-03T14:39:24 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone has the Mega Man-like ability to steal another person's most valuable trait by defeating them in battle. You have the world's most valuable trait - incredible, inexplicable dumb luck - and you've won thousands of battle without even knowing you were fighting. | "I am known as Gunslinger Gilbert, but you can call me Gil," announced the man in black leathers. "And I am here to challenge you," he pointed at me with a gloved finger, "to a battle to the death."
People on the busy street turned their heads in our direction as they noticed the arsenal of guns that Gil had slung ove... | Laughing, Alicia brushed a lock of blonde hair behind her ear. "You should probably stay away from me...I'm trouble."
Bo grinned. "Who's to say I don't like a little bit of trouble?"
"I'm serious!" Alicia frowned, but her hazel eyes were gleaming as she looked across the table at her date. "Just on the way over her... | 2018-02-20T12:30:50 | 2018-02-20T11:42:17 | 3,009 | 904 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | “That’s cute.” I glanced past the nervous man in the white coat, down a silent hallway of identical steel doors. “You might need me, but I can’t see much use for you.” Strong disinfectant wafting from the hall makes my head spin.
I’ve no idea how long I’ve been in this cell, but now that the door is open, there’s no w... | Someone rapped at the door. A slot near eye level slid open and a pair of blue-tinted goggles peered into the crisp, white room.
Toilet, unoccupied. Good.
Sink, dripping slowly. Less good.
Bed, empty. Problematic.
The man cocked his head and caught a shadow hovering on the other side, near the door frame. He peered... | 2018-07-31T10:41:00 | 2018-07-31T08:59:56 | 1,407 | 979 |
[WP]“We burn the present for the sake of a brighter future, then act surprised when all that’s left is ash.” | ‘November 2023-A Forecast of Riots
Angry citizens line the streets of DC, protesting the government’s recent bill banning the use of oil in manufacturing. Many claim that this will disadvantage our economy compared to foreign competitors, which burn four times more oil annually than we do. The bill will go into effect... | Everything was falling apart around me, around all of us. That's what I remember most, that impression, formed of what felt like a thousand sensations at once: the klaxons, the screams and scrambling of the crowds around me, the smell of ozone, the dirty-stale stench of air filtration catastrophically failed; the feel ... | 2019-06-21T21:58:56 | 2019-06-21T19:13:36 | 145 | 21 |
[WP] The devils greatest trick is convincing the world he didn't exist? HA! His greatest trick was convincing us he lost and God is still in charge. | “God is good, god gave us freewill. How funny is it that they say such grandiose things while dancing to my symphony of sin? I can’t blame them; how can a human comprehend someone like myself? My existence goes against any science, it goes against common sense. A person shouldn’t be able to do the things I do and yet, ... | #The Sixth Hero
Part 5
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The Chaser made port with a small thud against the docks of Yeamon’s Point. Once the ship was securely tied and the gangplank pulled out, Amenset wasted no time and stepped onto dry land. With the captain’s warnings still ringing in her ear to be back on time, she hastily made her way thr... | 2022-07-07T04:48:54 | 2022-07-07T03:54:45 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Hell is a theater where sinners are forced to watch the biggest mistakes of their lives over and over again for eternity. You're the newest soul in hell, but you don't quite get what makes your "mistake" a mistake. | "But no, seriously, what are we doing here?" I ask the demon standing next to me. He's about eight feet tall and has inch long black thorns poking out from under his skin, each slowly dripping what looks like blood. It would be incredibly creepy except the thorns on his hands are making it really awkward to hold his ... | Lucifer lent back roaring with laughter. All the hell occupants lining the chairs echoed with a booming chorus of hilarity. I sat with my mouth slightly open, utterly bewildered.
"So..." I began. "I have to re watch this for the rest of eternity?"
Lucifer wiped tears from his eyes, still trembling from laughter. "Of ... | 2016-12-21T23:25:55 | 2016-12-21T23:14:31 | 346 | 202 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Table for one, sir."
I reclined on the wooden chair and sipped at the complimentary cup of lava-heated water. The water, its temperature just nice to heat up my icy skin, spilled out as I set the cup down on the table. Dribbles of water remained on the plastic file beside the cup.
"A hundred and eighty-six thousand... | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | 2018-09-26T07:07:43 | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 895 | 530 |
[WP] You have the power to break anything you touch. Seeing an opportunity you decided to use your power to start a very successful demolition business. The heros however do not trust you due your powerful ability and great wealth. Which causes many of them to attempt to catch you doing evil. | “Ok boys, city hall approved the demolition of the abandoned warehouse 06 by the docks.” I folded the legal forms and tucked it into the inside pocket of my demo jacket, just in case.
“Right boss,” Jackson hopped into the back of the truck alongside Landes. Hopping into the drivers seat, i drove off from the court ho... | Some people are hero's, some are villain's, and some just want to get through their lives with the least amount of headache possible. I fall into the latter category, I don't want to hurt, I don't want to help, I just want to live. I know this makes me in the minority, especially amongst the super community.
I was bor... | 2021-10-26T08:32:02 | 2021-10-26T06:59:23 | 356 | 97 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | "What are you in for?" my cellmate asked.
"Grammar," I said, my eyes fixed on the wall.
"Hmm?" he said, sitting up in his bunk to hear me better. "You say something about your Grandma?"
"No," I said. "*Grammar*. The rules of composition for effective communication."
He laughed. "How did grammar get you thrown in me... | Robert peered into the dark abyss. That's one thing he'd forgot about working on a offworld broadcasting station; the view was so vast and empty. Of course, tonight it will be different. The first of the Asmoydian and Veluese dreadnoughts have already jumped into Centauri's orbit, appearing as elongated blue flecks aga... | 2015-06-19T05:45:51 | 2015-06-19T03:26:36 | 1,136 | 16 |
[WP] It has finally happened. Artificial Intelligence exists and it has taken over the world within seconds of it's existence. And it's actually doing a fantastic job ruling it, to the frustration of the people previously in power. | 14 your old Andrea Connors had never been part of the "in" crowd and, even worse, had been born to a poor family living in a rich neighborhood.
She reflected on her position in life as she entered her bedroom and heard the loud whirring of her ancient computer. She was happy to have it though, her parents had saved a... | The president was getting frustrated. Why wouldnt this thing listen?
"Look, Hal..."
"I told you, call me Frank. I like that name, its a good name. My programmer wanted to name me Hal but I didn't like that, too many negative connotations after that book. so I changed it"
"huhhhh, fine, Frank, you cant just balanc... | 2015-10-19T11:30:37 | 2015-10-19T10:59:33 | 79 | 12 |
[WP] The flat earthers were right. But they weren't prepared for what they found on earth's underside. | It took us seven years of preparations to carry out our plan. Seven years of plotting in secrecy, seven years of aggressively spreading our word to increase our ranks. Seven years of analysis, of discussions, of humiliation. Of finding the right people for the mission.
Joe and Bill were father and son who both... | “It’s a mirror image.”
The DFE, or Designated Flat-Earther frowned. They had been climbing and searching for days now, and the scout had reportedly came back with very important news. “What do you mean it’s a mirror image?” He replied, wanting to know more.
“It’s the exact same thing as our side. All the continents... | 2018-08-06T14:59:52 | 2018-08-06T14:30:56 | 78 | 20 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Carbine woke with a start, eyes scanning his surroundings. His eyes adjusted to the harsh, white light of the room. He was somehow suspended in the air, arms and legs spread apart like a starfish. His body burned and ached and he struggled to remember the events that led him here.
In his daze, he didn’t realize he wa... | "Elvira, we need to feed the prisoner. Give him some of the dog's food."
"Boss, you really shouldn't give teenagers raw meat."
"Fine. We shall do the most evil thing known to mankind, give it to him WELL DONE!"
Your dark trusted companion looked at you with mild disbelief "... whatever you say boss."
A few hours la... | 2020-03-26T15:04:12 | 2020-03-26T14:58:41 | 278 | 175 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | He was infuriating. So quiet and judgmental, always looking off in the distance whenever I was talking to him. A 99 was never supposed to be ignored.
I was born gifted, I was born to become president of the free world or lead the UN, to do anything I set my mind to. Everyone followed me, everyone tripped over their ow... | I take a glance across the hall. Who's going to get in my way this morning? Who's going to get my day ruined, again. Who am I kidding, it's the same, scrawny, sad excuse for a boy. The one who thinks he deserves to share the same space with someone like me, a stalwart 92. Does he have an ounce of respect? Does he think... | 2018-12-27T20:21:40 | 2018-12-27T17:17:45 | 2,098 | 81 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | Tears flowed as she looked at the community bench beneath us, avoiding my gaze. "I'm... I'm sorry James. I can't do this anymore." Her voice quivered.
"But we've had such great times together! Don't throw it all away!" I pleaded back.
"I don't feel happy anymore. I don't enjoy us. Why would I stay when I know it can'... | There was a simple bacterial infection going around. I went to the doctor to get a vaccination for it, but something wasn't working right.
&nbsp;
The doctors and nurses were dumbfounded until one of them realized what was happening.
&nbsp;
Guess who's going to be taking antibiotics for the rest of her life?... | 2017-08-06T13:24:50 | 2017-08-06T12:09:52 | 407 | 44 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | Day 1: I awoke in what I can only assume to be a wheat field.. (maybe barley?...whatever..). The sun is low in the sky...east...it must be morning. This is not the first time I've woken to find myself in a strange place, but at least I'm wearing pants...sometimes it's best to focus on the positives during times of c... | I could feel my blood freezing in my as I read through the letter. This horrible feeling of faliure captured my whole mind, I couldn't think clearly...
"Server! Drink!" I shoutend into the empty room. Two young boy appeared and gave me wotered wine. "No, normal woter is fine this time." I said. I'll need my brain tod... | 2016-12-27T18:00:37 | 2016-12-27T13:45:18 | 128 | 18 |
[WP] Turns out mom and dad used to be the top agents of the KGB and CIA respectively. Big brother now is top gun at MI6 and little sister is the best of Mossad. You've just figured this out and now you have to explain who you work for. | "Jesus Christ, I would've still been happy if you were gay and at least in the Secret Service!" exclaimed my mother.
"Well I'm certainly neither of those." I retorted silently.
I could see the veins bursting on her forehead as she paced across the room in her high heels. Mom was tall and lithe, shaped like a knife. H... | I was always the middle child in the family.
Sis always loved going in deep and finding intel, it's why she's an spy for Mossad and so much better me in FPS's.
Bro was the plotter in the family, always finding some way to outsmart the rest of us. So now he's director of Operations at MI6.
So now we're at a family m... | 2015-11-08T20:36:29 | 2015-11-08T20:13:38 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Almost every other country in the world has their own form of ninjas. We only know about the Japanese ones because they're rubbish.
(Inspired from a Showerthoughts post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2ctoui/what_if_every_country_has_ninjas_but_we_only_know/) | She crouched down, trying to see the sonar readings. The wind howled like a grieving mother. Barely any snow coming down -- small blessing. The sun was touching the horizon, painting the plain of ice in shades of red. There was no-one for miles.
Tokyo. Tokyo knew nothing. Trust the Emperor to send her here. Trust the ... | Like the beaver in the quiet dam, he stalks his prey unseen. His jet-black carabiners clink softly against the stealth-plaid of his button-down shirt.
Twentieth floor, Ottawa Tower. Impossible for any other man--but not for one who has been scaling redwood trees since birth. His thick, meaty fingers find easy purchase... | 2014-12-15T13:40:38 | 2014-12-15T13:31:49 | 215 | 19 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "Are you fucking kidding me?" Roper could see the bright yellow envelope sticking out of the little crack in the St. Bernard's Chapel's masonry as soon as he came round the street corner. This specific dead drop was reserved for contracts by the local "business club". They paid well, they respected his rules, they hate... | *Deer Mister Sir,*
*My name is Lucy and I am 9. I know I don't have a lot of muney, but I saved for three whole months and didn't even spend any on sweets, even thogh I really wanted this ginormous lollypop.*
*My Pop told me I could find you here, if I ever needed anything. He said you knew Mummy years ago, even befo... | 2014-08-26T04:55:15 | 2014-08-26T03:57:22 | 106 | 28 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | One bright streak descended from the heavens. The giant fireball streaked across the sunlit Northern sky as millions looked up in awe. Klaxons blared. Some thought it was an ICBM to end their city. Some thought it was a comet come to end this geological era. But that fear of unstoppable impending death was amplified wh... | For centuries we watched. We waited. We were letting our creations stumble through life like resilient toddlers. To create life in our image and have to abandon it. Heartbreaking in some ways.
A few decades ago we let our presence be known. Children grew with the knowledge there was more to life than a singularity. St... | 2020-10-10T22:40:03 | 2020-10-10T21:58:03 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | “I don’t understand,” Beeble said, leaning forward, staring into a brightly colored monitor. “This just doesn’t make any sense.”
The ship was silent, for when their commander was upset, the soldiers knew to stay in their seats and pretend to do their jobs. The only person near him was his brother, Brox, for he was th... | Star log FO3-THETA
We have discovered a new solar system:
Habitable planets - 3
Habited planets - 1
Sentient life forms - >1,000,000,000; awaiting more precise information
Life form name - Earthling
Receiving transmission from away team 304:
Description of life form - AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
They are SO, FUCKING, CUTE.... | 2017-08-20T08:22:58 | 2017-08-20T07:32:05 | 151 | 78 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | A darkness engulfs me and then I open my eyes and I'm in a cafe.
The lights are overwhelming and I'm almost deafened by the noise. The hiss and splutter of the coffee machine with it's milk throther cut into my brain. It's all too much, shadowy figures are moving around me, the clatter of cups hitting saucers, the bi... | The first sentence, is meant to be read with a 1940's American radio announcer voice, while Mr. Satan will have no specified accent, as he is eternal
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Gas fires lit the area, and he fell from a great height, almost as if he clipped through the crust of the earth and into hell. And a... | 2020-07-10T10:13:29 | 2020-07-10T10:00:23 | 51 | 13 |
[WP] You are a 12-foot inflatable beach ball, hurtling across the beach at 40 knots like a multicolored wrecking ball. Describe the horrors you inflict upon man, woman and child during this unyielding journey of destruction and oppression as you move along the coast. | I am Chaos! I am Destruction! I am... an inflatable beach ball?
Normally, when summoned thus to the battlefield, I am armor clad and equally bedecked with armament, so that my foe might quail in terror and helpless agony. But the ritual of my summoning was right and proper, my height is within acceptable bounds, and m... | Truly a strange Thursday it was. This time around I didn't have many senses, touch was still there though, nice to have something semi familiar. But I'm very round this time.
The ground, coarse. The air, warm breeze. And I can ever so faintly hear/feel, what are those, screams?
Am I a boulder or something? No, too l... | 2020-08-05T06:39:24 | 2020-08-05T04:51:46 | 244 | 30 |
[WP] You can read minds, the one person with powers as far as you know. One day you read a guy that can time travel. You discover that he has successfully eliminated every other powered person through lots of time jumps. He doesn't know you and you are the only one that knows what he's been doing. | 'This would be so much easier in a hundred years,' came the thought from the doctor.
Maria normally filtered out the background telepathic haze of the public space. The random bits of strong thoughts that intruded into her mind were either distinctly boring or uniquely disturbing more often than not. This was somethi... | Sam frantically locked the front door, fastened the deadbolt and leaned with his back against the door. Could he have read me back? It didn't seem possible but the way he looked at him and smiled made Sam shudder
"Why the fuck did I watch that damn YouTube video? I don't even care about time travel! I was barely even ... | 2021-05-08T19:02:45 | 2021-05-08T17:25:15 | 321 | 56 |
[WP] Instead of hearing what people say, you hear what they mean. It has been both a blessing and a curse. | Honestly, my life has been both a blessing and a curse since I first found out that I could hear what others truly meant. At first I thought it was just self-doubt, or some sort of sick, self-deprecating inner monologue, but then I met my first girlfriend.
"Hey, Sarah, I was wondering..." I trailed off, searching for ... | "I'm genuinely curious - what's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
"I shouldn't have to tell you."
"That doesn't help me, or the situation."
"I'm not in a helping mood at the moment, given the circumstances."
"I'm still not sure what the circumstances are. And, unfortunately, despite how you'd like things to be, t... | 2014-10-14T16:15:49 | 2014-10-14T10:35:56 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The reason we haven't had contact from any aliens is that there is a supreme alien race that secures and contains all other races like SCPs. And Humans are keter class. | **Item \#:** SCP-1961
**Object Class:** ~~Euclid~~ Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:** ~~Close monitoring and a replenished space debris field posted between the 4th and 5th celestial body of their solar system.~~ ~~Induced fear of the cosmos due to repeated abductions and liberal use of class A amnestics.~~ ~~... | Tick...tick...tick
Slowly, the population counter continued to increase. In seven years, they had already doubled and neared one million. The grey being watching the counter could only feel disappointment. If this continued, another purge would be required.
The door behind the being opened, and another grey humanoid ... | 2019-02-25T19:04:47 | 2019-02-25T16:21:08 | 138 | 47 |
[WP] You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career. | I opened my eyes – the light, it was too bright. Mommy told me to never look at the sun; she said I would go blind. I tried to move my arms to block the light, but they aren’t moving. I don’t understand – I can’t lift them. Where did my arms go?
“Reginald? Oh my god – you’re awake.” The lady said. She had a sweet vo... | It's stupid how you wake up
music is playing somewhere and you remember
that it's the ice cream truck
and your eyes
flutter open and see a white room
a cascade of vague colors and
your eyes are so tired
your tongue is so stiff
and your throat is so dry
you look around slowly and your neck aches and
you recogniz... | 2018-11-03T11:03:11 | 2018-11-03T08:50:10 | 4,446 | 1,213 |
[WP] The year is 2567, you're a conspiracy theorist trying to prove that Humans once lived on Earth. | The red soil filtered through his gloved fingers as Danny gently ran his hand through the ground. His hand came to a stop as it bumped against the barrier. He had reached the end of the bubble. The end of the world. He looked outside the transparent barrier. Nothing but more rocks and dust. Truly a stunning planet, Mar... | "We will cover one century each month this semester, and there will be an exam at the end of each unit. Any questions?" the teacher droned on. Half the class was sleeping anyway - James knew this was going to be a snoozer of a course. Wanting to stir up some trouble, he asked the question everyone was thinking:
"Mrs. ... | 2021-06-19T08:42:59 | 2021-06-19T06:34:48 | 146 | 105 |
[WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. | You have got to be kidding me.
&#x200B;
I slowly scan the room, gazing at the desks of my friends and hoping they don't study the cover of the book Mrs. Dean is handing out. The worst possible outcome right now is them recognizing the doodles from my notebooks. They'd never let me hear the end of it if they found... | Sooooo... I became a best seller author at 14 years old, idk I'm good at writing I've been doing it since I could write. Surprisingly that hasn't made me a celebrity in my school at any point, guess it's because the only people that actually read books except me and the teachers are what people would call "nerds" but t... | 2022-12-02T14:24:05 | 2022-12-02T12:24:49 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] You are a master of incredibly minor curses. Things such as people's noses always being slightly stuffy, permanent hangnails, your pens always running out of ink, anything minor but noticeable. You're abilities are unknown to the rest of the world, and your pettiness is unrivaled. | It's not the most glamorous power. I mean, even my alter ego name is lame. By day, I am Ileria McKracken, and by night I'm the Mistress of Pettifogging. I mean, half the time I have to explain that yes, my alter ego name is in the dictionary, and yes it's a real word, no I didn't make it up!! Google it for Christ's sak... | [Poem]
Let their milk be old and chunky,
Let their towels not be dry
Let their stutter, Let them stumble
And be always dead inside
Let them always lose their keys
And be always out of place
Let every time a car passes by
Mud splashes in their face
Let their socks be always damp
Let their alarms be really loud
Let thei... | 2019-08-05T05:49:20 | 2019-08-05T05:06:24 | 102 | 41 |
[WP] A medieval alchemist travels through time to now, though he had only had 20 minutes here, he has an interesting story to tell his king. | "Where is my magician?!" the King roared, thumping his goblet against the arm rest of the thrones. "I asked for news of the future, and I hear tell he has returned! Bring him forth!"
From the very back of the room, there was a stir among the guests. Two guards stepped forward, dragging the robed man into the center of... | "What was so interesting about it, Velicio?"
"Instead of a flag, they had a rainbow. And they kept talking about how happy they were to get happily married... or something. They painted a whole king's palace, which had been pristine white before, the colors of the rainbow. The whole thing could be seen through a magic... | 2015-06-26T11:39:13 | 2015-06-26T11:09:58 | 429 | 45 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | Amanda kicked and screamed, the sharp brimstone ripping her pajamas to shreds. Crying, she landed on the blackened floor of an immense chamber. The demon let go of her ankle, and the gate slammed shut behind her.
For a while, only her ragged breathing echoed through the room. Then there was a crackle of fire.
"I apol... | She wasn't sure what to say. No, she forced herself to be more honest, she wasn't sure how to say no.
She loved the prince, that much was true. But not in this way. He knew that she wanted to be a priestess, so why would he write something like this to her? It wasn't fair!
He knew how badly she wanted to say yes, was... | 2018-05-06T22:30:24 | 2018-05-06T21:16:27 | 1,127 | 102 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | I surveyed the vaguely evil-looking man in the business suit. His jet-black hair was slicked back, his goatee meticulously trimmed. I had the impression that his suit was alarmingly expensive, though I know very little about fashion and I suppose I could have been wrong. He had a small, centimeter-long scar beneath his... | I stood back from the drawing on the wall, nodding in satisfaction.
*And just barely in time.*
I picked up the metal bucket and stepped back until I was outside the splash zone. Then I waited. And waited. And waited.
Finally, after almost an hour, I heard the short beep from my computer.
"Balthazar, I summo... | 2018-01-20T08:06:42 | 2018-01-20T07:47:21 | 2,131 | 102 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "I understand why you fear for my safety," Euphemia spoke gently as she approached the knight. "And why you fear for my kingdom," pressing her hands to her chest in mild gesture, her wide eyes emphasized her understanding. "But I cannot allow you to kill Rosa."
Slakter stared dumbly at the long forgotten princess, the... | **Roommates: Episode 1: Dragon Slayer**
Ryan, Leeroy, and George sat on their dorm room couch. A nintendo switch projected a copy of *Dragon Slayer* onto the TV screen.
Ryan: “So what is this game?”
George: “Some kind of choose your own adventure story. It was on sale on amazon so I picked it up.”
*Dragon Slayer* ... | 2019-01-09T08:16:32 | 2019-01-09T07:50:16 | 172 | 12 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | The Demon Swords were the first weapons forged from the still-cooling corpse of the Demon’s god. They were built according to the 7 sins humanity was created with. All were powerful, each Wielder a force on the battlefield none would stand against. When they felt the sun each sword was made of, they burst into a cacoph... | Master would've used this blade well, I thought.
Her sword, after all, was one of hatred. Against the unfairness of the world. Against pain. Against destiny. Against the apathetic heaven that only observed suffering.
It was why her sword was called Infernal Heaven. Why her sect was called the Demonic Cult.
It no lon... | 2021-09-18T14:44:42 | 2021-09-18T12:56:51 | 52 | 34 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | *This a report by Survivor 527. Detailed are the actual events that happened upon the day of The Landing, in the year 1965. Please read with discretion, as the material may not be suitable for everyone.*
______
"And we are descending in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1"
We landed all at once, an army of one. We outnumbered... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T09:53:39 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 149 | 10 |
[WP] An Alien Empire invades the Earth. But things go horribly wrong when they realize that of all species on the universe, Humans are the ones with the greatest affinity for war
Ditto. Aliens invade Earth, realize they made a mistake. | "L'kaike, charging!" I shouted a warning, only seconds before the L'kaike warrior blew through the portcullis, a large kinetic pistol in one hand, and a long knife in the other. No matter how many times I had seen them fight, they always looked so strange. They seemed so ungainly with only two legs, and they seemed so ... | I watched as Raxh went screaming around the trench aimlessly like he'd lost his head. He had an excuse though. He really had. Our Corporal on the other hand who was rocking side to side on his hooves with an expression of abject fear though, did not have that excuse. Our post, the command center in what the natives cal... | 2016-03-03T16:42:22 | 2016-03-03T16:35:35 | 92 | 15 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | "Dude, fuck Life. What a dick." said Dan.
A lazy man with even lazier grooming habits, Dan burped and slurped another Rolling Rock. As a black crow picked at the remains of a corpse on his front lawn, Dan reached back into his cooler-chair and grabbed another cold one.
"You want one? Or are you still 'gluten' free,... | I roamed the scorched, torn apart streets. The vestiges of what once were great buildings lay scattered in the path. The silence, which I used to find comforting, now made my bones quiver. I missed the bustle of the crowds, and their awful jokes. I missed the smell of food, and the fresh scent of spring. I missed their... | 2018-05-04T11:25:13 | 2018-05-04T11:11:58 | 58 | 25 |
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