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chacham2 OP t1_j5oqsgs wrote
Reply to comment by thewrytruth in [WP] As a necromancer, you are in the business of reanimating the dead for a few days at a time. Families say goodbye, businesses get cooperate secrets, scientists test their drugs, etc. The more they pay, the better they are restored and the longer they stay, as it does take a lot out of you. by chacham2
Thank you for the reply!
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Reply to [WP] You wake up in a nuclear bunker with no idea of how you got there. The only form of communication you have is a computer that says "I'm sorry, this was for your own good." by f---thezodiac
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chacham2 OP t1_j5opzyt wrote
Reply to comment by publiuscicero in [WP] As a necromancer, you are in the business of reanimating the dead for a few days at a time. Families say goodbye, businesses get cooperate secrets, scientists test their drugs, etc. The more they pay, the better they are restored and the longer they stay, as it does take a lot out of you. by chacham2
That was a pleasant and interesting read. Thank for for the replies!
Kizer_Sewze t1_j5opm1q wrote
Reply to comment by Oba936 in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
I was really hoping after the second wish the response would be slightly different, like “The genie smiled as he spoke, ‘That wish has never been asked of me’”
DBONKA t1_j5opd2l wrote
Reply to comment by Writteninsanity in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
Then they could pay with something that can't be physically moved, for example real estate, instead of money.
HelloWorld1352 t1_j5op5v0 wrote
Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] You're cursed by a witch, whatever you say, anything you say will come true by star_Cora
“I am no longer cursed.”
katpoker666 t1_j5onatk wrote
Reply to [OT] Writer's Spotlight: bookworm271 by Say_Im_Ugly
Congrats Bookworm! I’ve really enjoyed your SEUS stuff in particular. You have a lovely and unique voice! Hopefully one day I’ll see you at a campfire to pile on the praise in person :)
In the interim, what do you like to read? Any favorite authors?
Oba936 t1_j5omvbz wrote
Reply to comment by DueAnalysis2 in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
He asked a second one, and it at least looks like he got that one granted as well.
I'm going with the great Tarantino here for everything beyond that. ;)
bibblode t1_j5om7nf wrote
Reply to comment by MolhCD in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
In my opinion it is not a fuck up. Something like that genie who can only grant a specific wish once can't really be abused and everyone should have access.
NeVMiku t1_j5om4ia wrote
AGDude t1_j5olox2 wrote
Reply to comment by Awesome0Sauce in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
Good stuff. Reminds me of Omelas.
stopimpersonatingme t1_j5olbga wrote
salsas10 t1_j5ok8gb wrote
Reply to [PM] Give me an apocalypse scenario and I will write you a short story about people from that situation. by Lamborgani96
It's the children. They are empty. One day, all across the globe, they just started looking towards the North pole. Doing nothing else. Not moving. Not eating. Just staring.
DueAnalysis2 t1_j5ok3gl wrote
Reply to comment by Oba936 in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
I didn't get it: he asked for two wishes?
Blubelle85 t1_j5oigg2 wrote
Reply to comment by rmshilpi in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
It's a pun. They were at their Wit's end...
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Reply to [WP] As a necromancer, you are in the business of reanimating the dead for a few days at a time. Families say goodbye, businesses get cooperate secrets, scientists test their drugs, etc. The more they pay, the better they are restored and the longer they stay, as it does take a lot out of you. by chacham2
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Spriggan_42 t1_j5ohrtm wrote
Reply to comment by Writteninsanity in [WP] A bar called “The Alibi” that’s notorious for being just that.. an alibi. Often packed with ex-cons, the customers of The Alibi adhere to a silent, but strict, code: If they say they were here, we saw them. They’ll always back an alibi, no questions asked. by JelloStaplerr
Amazing story, well-crafted with a quick to grasp intrigue that still manages to leave you hooked.
Thanks for writing this terrific story!
kristinpeanuts t1_j5ogoiv wrote
Reply to comment by publiuscicero in [WP] As a necromancer, you are in the business of reanimating the dead for a few days at a time. Families say goodbye, businesses get cooperate secrets, scientists test their drugs, etc. The more they pay, the better they are restored and the longer they stay, as it does take a lot out of you. by chacham2
Wow. This was a fantastic read. Really good! 🙂
South_Suit9833 t1_j5ofw3k wrote
Reply to [PM] Give me an apocalypse scenario and I will write you a short story about people from that situation. by Lamborgani96
Space Colony gone wrong
wojtekpolska t1_j5ofhvu wrote
Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
I want to get (starts a random number generator between 100 and 10000 million ) USD
The_Almighty_Cthulhu t1_j5of4lo wrote
Reply to comment by Writteninsanity in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
Yea I can imagine that. Eventually some rich activist or activist group gets some money together, and just offers to pay for anyone that gets to the genie, knowing that the money will come back.
Followed by them just no longer trying to collect money, cause what's the point now?
TenspeedGV t1_j5oeuee wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
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HelloIamOnTheNet t1_j5odzk1 wrote
Reply to comment by Awesome0Sauce in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
You'll always be a prince to me.
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Good story!!
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Reply to [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
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spiritplumber t1_j5oqxq8 wrote
Reply to [WP] As a necromancer, you are in the business of reanimating the dead for a few days at a time. Families say goodbye, businesses get cooperate secrets, scientists test their drugs, etc. The more they pay, the better they are restored and the longer they stay, as it does take a lot out of you. by chacham2
The dead will serve" was the decision, as we endure Fimbulvetr and prepare for Ragnarok. And so they do.
Look at the shambling line, a trickle compared to the river of decaying bodies that march in phalanxes up and down the ramp, wider than a parade ground, to the main shaft, carrying up coal, iron, copper. The cold slows their movements, but their sheer number makes up for it - and slows the advance of putrefaction just as our swordsmen and artillerists slow the encroaching swarm. Maybe it will be enough, in both cases.
This line follows a glowworm path, luminescent runes large and simple enough for their clouded eyes to follow; those without eyes, and those who lead them, bear their thin guiding chains as a tree might bear ivy. The ones that can walk carry the ones that have stopped, in the same wheelbarrows used for ore.
Crude helmets bolted to head or skull bear notches; every time a restoration is needed, another notch is made. Even the necromancers had to bend the knee to mathematicians; like food, or wood, or anything else, blood and power is scarce. Reanimate a warrior to have a worker; reanimate the worker again when it fails. Up to the allotted number of times, divined and inscribed, for maximum efficiency; sorcery of diminishing returns.
The workers with one notch, in the gloom, look alive enough to be recognizable, if family was ever allowed in the mine. Living family, anyway. It has been tried to put fallen brothers in the same chain gang. The numbers say half percent greater yield. The implications, the necromancers don't care, and everyone else tries to not think about it. The souls are gone; it is repeated every day, to every grieving widow, every time with the same cold words.
The workers with two notches are the majority. They've lost toes, noses, jaws. Unimportant for the task. Lighter. Streamlined. Efficient.
The workers with three or four notches have picks, spades, crowbars tied or stapled to their forearms, the fingers no longer worth keeping. They can still serve.
The workers with five notches, there's barely enough left to push a cart, or move a bellows where motive power can't yet reach. They, too, can still serve.
Past that, there is finally rest. Bones to powder, any meat left to slurry, that plants may live and feed us. The necromancers remove the taint they applied. This, too, is repeated every day, every time with the same cold words.
"Eight notches? Looks... pretty intact, considering. Why are we keeping it?"
"She's a volunteer."