[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for October 2023
Added 2023-10-03 11:10:25 +0000 UTCBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
- Real Dream Sequence: The MC decides to undergo a Dream Sequence for Plot development. They fight their inner daemon, master a power within them this whole time, receive a prophetic vision, all making total perfect sense with no logic required. Then they wake up, and proceed to forget everything except the weird bits, then forget those too.
- Eldritch Bureaucracy: While Eldritch are sanity warping chaotic beings of reality bending power they also have to live together in the void and now have created a society. When on some mortal realm a cult without real understanding of the Eldritch use a summoning ritual that mixes up the names of two enemy low level eldritch, the (new) eldritch society has to now figure out how to handle such a situation
- Grocery Store Disappearances: I've put this one up a few times. Anyway, If you've ever heard of the Tales from the Loop RPG, this was originally an idea for a scenario for it. Basically kids are going missing in local grocery stores and now a kid and their group of friends need to figure out what is going on because their sibling has vanished in the local grocery store, the anomaly is going to move soon, and of course the parents don't believe you.
Comments
An interesting idea, though sadly not. Literally just an idea I've had kicking around since I saw a competition prompt for the Tales from the Loop roleplaying game. The entry period was already past, but I spent a bit of time fleshing my idea out and then did nothing with it. I occasionally put it up for a vote if I don't have a lot of highly liked prompts to force me to actually write it.
Akhier Dragonheart
2023-10-04 13:52:52 +0000 UTCI was kinda hoping that the 3rd prompt was about actual grocery stores disappearing, like the whole store was up and gone. Maybe with the people, maybe not but I really wanted to know what would cause that.
Michael Marisa
2023-10-04 12:57:49 +0000 UTCGreat! That was an odd bit of nonsense and made me worry if some silent votes might have gotten screwed by what was going on. Hopefully if anyone else had it not work, they'll have noticed and be able to get their votes in.
Akhier Dragonheart
2023-10-04 01:45:16 +0000 UTCI just tried it again, after some votes have come in, and it worked.
Tristan R Mitchell
2023-10-03 14:40:00 +0000 UTCThat is very odd. I just checked the current votes and you definitely aren't among them. If it doesn't let you, just reply with what you do want to vote for and I'll keep it in mind.
Akhier Dragonheart
2023-10-03 11:15:04 +0000 UTCThe poll seems to be broken. I vote, it says it is the only vote, and then it removes the vote.
Tristan R Mitchell
2023-10-03 11:12:15 +0000 UTC16s
Captdeth
2023-10-03 11:10:51 +0000 UTC
