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Reply to [WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed... by lordhelmos
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Reply to [WP] You've spent years building up your remote mountain stronghold. Now, when you're finally done and sit down with a good book and a cup of coffee, the heroes arrive... by filwi
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YeahKeeN t1_jd48ij0 wrote
Reply to comment by kokikitsune in [WP] You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It's a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well. by aRandomFox-II
You’re teaching the World Serpent what electricity is and you use Zeus as an example and not Thor!? Jokes aside this was really funny.
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Reply to [WP] When you and your team of villians try to commit the heist of the century; you have planned for everything. Except another team of villians who are doing the same thing. Yall fight and your team wins. The heroes show up and congratulate the "heroes" for saving the day. You roll with it. by Splitstepthenhit
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chacham2 OP t1_jd41y9r wrote
Reply to comment by MilkLover159 in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
So, the original idea was one second. I switched it to one minute so he could get that long, especially with earlier generations. Ion any case, a story with either one would make me just as happy. :)
MilkLover159 t1_jd41gwy wrote
Reply to comment by chacham2 in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
That’s about 15000 years with todays population
librarian-faust t1_jd3zzj8 wrote
Reply to comment by chacham2 in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
Right, makes sense. Thank you
tslnox t1_jd3z79t wrote
shadowylurking t1_jd3z6lk wrote
Reply to comment by lakija in [WP] Your boss, an evil mastermind who's outsmarted every hero out there, makes a confession to you: "I haven't had a successful plans in years. All the stuff I come up fails miserably. Things just keep working out in my favor. I say "all according to plan" just to look like I know what I'm doing." by ImTheAverageJoe
Oh boy.
He knows that everyone got lucky and somehow no body died. All the heroes escaped their prisons. He's completely boned
chacham2 OP t1_jd3y1pg wrote
Reply to comment by librarian-faust in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
The idea was a whole world massive spell. Perhaps via some items. The original idea was just one second from everybody. That would give him a couple hundred years.
tamtrible t1_jd3xqw9 wrote
Reply to comment by SirPiecemaker in [WP] When you and your team of villians try to commit the heist of the century; you have planned for everything. Except another team of villians who are doing the same thing. Yall fight and your team wins. The heroes show up and congratulate the "heroes" for saving the day. You roll with it. by Splitstepthenhit
Fair enough.
It's just a bit of a pet peeve of mine, I have a very close friend who is albino. I even took one of my favorite authors slightly to task for it :-)
librarian-faust t1_jd3xl1n wrote
Reply to comment by chacham2 in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
Surely if he can manage "steal a minute from this person" cast en masse, he can work out a "is person sleeping?" check first... and plumb those two together...
I mean, it's also reasonable that this might not be a thing that's allowed under the magic system, but... /shrug
GetsTrimAPlenty2 t1_jd3xiiu wrote
Reply to comment by kokikitsune in [WP] You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It's a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well. by aRandomFox-II
You finally get it set up, Jörmungandr puts on tiny glasses and a wrist brace. They peer at the screen and mumble "Yes tiny gods, vengeance will be mine".
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Then you get them setup for CounterStrike only for them to get headshot across the map by Thor6969 saying: "lol get rekt newb".
chacham2 OP t1_jd3x3p4 wrote
Reply to comment by librarian-faust in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2
I was thinking about that, except the whole round earth thing gets in the way. ;)
Dra5iel t1_jd3tzhz wrote
Reply to comment by hillsfar in [WP] You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It's a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well. by aRandomFox-II
This is why, as long as a customer service Rep actually tries to help me and doesn't lie, they get 11/10 and outlandish praise in the additional comment box. Those surveys are bullshit and are almost always used as an excuse to screw over support staff.
TerrificTooMan t1_jd3tpwj wrote
Reply to comment by chacham2 in [SP] A curse placed upon you reveals to anyone what you are thinking of when you interact with them. by chacham2
I may not be asking this right, but what precisely did you not find interesting, or was this just not the kind of story you expected?
donutguy640 t1_jd3sji0 wrote
Reply to comment by Spiritual_Lie2563 in [WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw, but instead of just flat out granting your wish (and doing it in the worst way possible), it only opens up the most reasonable opportunity to get what you wished for. by xxDubbz
heh heh heh, sucks to be YOU!
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Reply to [WP] You are a literary thief, able to pull the words from fictional texts and manifest them in reality. However, these words will be irreversibly removed from every copy of that text, and its effects cannot be undone. by Cautious_Damage_3219
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still_thinking_ t1_jd3roak wrote
Reply to comment by Tregonial in [WP] You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It's a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well. by aRandomFox-II
—Request Submission Form #1—
Client name: Triton
Product: Tablet
Issue: Water damage
—Request Submission Form #2—
Client name: Cyclops
Product: Smartphone
Issue: Facial recognition won’t work
Customer Service Review:
“Best service I have found! Today’s technology is unnecessary cumbersome and complex, but these guys know their stuff!”
-Bigfoot
ThiefCitron t1_jd3rifv wrote
Reply to comment by Tregonial in [WP] You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It's a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well. by aRandomFox-II
Do Bastet, the ancient Egyptian cat goddess!
bruhImatwork t1_jd4apvc wrote
Reply to [WP] You are a literary thief, able to pull the words from fictional texts and manifest them in reality. However, these words will be irreversibly removed from every copy of that text, and its effects cannot be undone. by Cautious_Damage_3219
"Once you do this, there is no going back." She spoke to me as if I had never considered the repercussions.
I have been studying for centuries. I have read every script. I have absorbed every bit of this world, this universe that I could. Untold horrors have been done in my name.
"Lilith, we can't stop now," I spoke to her like the companion she is and is deserving of, my voice calm. "Look at what I- at what we have done. Stopping now would mean it was all for nothing."
"I know. It can't be for nothing. And it never has been for nothing." She wanted to appear brave, but her face betrayed her. "It was for them."
"For them, yes. But also for us." We both knew deep down that there was triumph and defeat in this vast emptiness we stood in.
No, not stood. Floated.
Floating in the vastness of "the great beyond". Two lost souls, aching to be found. It's just us now. The fault lies with both of us. She was the reason and I was the revelation.
She held the only text I hadn't yet spoke from. "So will you speak the beginning?"
We agreed long ago that I could not and would not speak from this. I could pull reality from imagination. In the past, I had tried to change the truth by speaking it. But truth is subjective. Truth lives in the hearts of man and man will bend that truth to his whim.
"I will try."
"You will do more than try!" Neither of us were unfamiliar to her passion. Her passion is what drove me to destroy what we had. Her passion is what also drove me to build everything that had been lost. Her passion. My wildest dreams lay in that passion. "You will speak and it will give back what we have unjustly taken from everything."
"But... I will lose you. We will lose everything. I'll lose myself, too." There was no melancholy in my voice. I knew what needed to be done. As did she.
"We will lose each other, yes. But we stand to gain more than all we have ever had. We can create a more fair world. More fair than what we were born into. More fair for those who will come after us." She spoke through tears. Tears of sadness and tears of a hopeful tomorrow.
"I will do this. But you must forgive me." The tears started to fill my eyes as well.
She reached out an ethereal hand and wiped my cheek. "There is nothing to forgive. You have given me the world. Give me this new world and make it in the image of all we have learned."
We remained there, still. It felt longer than any of our meditations and eons of silence. But as soon as it was over, it felt as if it had passed in an instant.
"Goodbye, Lilith."
"Goodbye, Adam." We waited just a moment, eyes locked in eternal love. "Speak"
My eyes closed on her face for the last time. I opened my mouth to speak but couldn't find the words. As my mouth began to close, her hands grasped mine as if to urge me on.
I spoke.
"Before the beginning, there was a vast emptiness. There alone was The Destroyer. Using the wisdom that can only be acquired through endless age and immense loneliness, he made a decision. A decision to begin again. This is the account of The Beginning."