[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for September 2022
Added 2022-08-31 06:28:29 +0000 UTCOnce again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment. That will mostly be figured out as we go. Besides that, the short story will come out before the end of the next month.
Rules for prompts:
- No NSFW (Patreon would get testy about that)
- No prompts about anything directly related to my current stories (can't be something the MCs would come across)
- Not doing depression or similar
Comments
Robin Hood the Merchant of Sherwood. Our hero is a Merchant, and in fact the best merchant around. But he is more even than that! He is a Swindler. He sells at a loss to those in need and treats the Guard well, if only fairly, and is on good terms with the villagers he meets on his travels, but he has no compunction about fleecing the wealthy for everything they have. He even took a low noble for his winter coat, in winter! Using all his Skills is no mean feat, with Haggle and Price Gouge, and Fascinate and many more besides he relieves the wealthy of their surplus and passes the savings onto you! A day at the market.
Carl Mason
2022-09-01 06:21:28 +0000 UTCDark Lord's Handbook.
Carl Mason
2022-09-01 05:32:40 +0000 UTCNo, no, the summons completes and the summoned begins to serve his master and then the witch walks in... "Who are you? How did you get in here! I planted all that nightshade around the door for a reason!" Notices the summoning circle and the cat sitting on her reagents shelf. "Cat! What have you done?" It would be a little fun of the cat was a proper magical familiar, but still 100% cat.
Carl Mason
2022-09-01 05:29:55 +0000 UTCA Mage duel at the archmage or above level. A bit like in this monthly only the reverse of this month they try to be as flashy as possible both actually lovers they try to make the other party look good. While trying to avoid much collateral damage. Maybe throw a spell that looks impressive at bystanders only so that the other mage can valiantly defend them. And maybe the reaction of some awed onlookers.
Han Pol
2022-08-31 20:51:01 +0000 UTCStory Prompt: Dragons are the weakest. Typically Dragons are portrayed as one of the strongest creatures on a planet. Well typically that may still be true. However dragons have a rather embarrassing planet of origin or it may be better said a terrifying planet of origin. On this planet save for some insects that could wipe out your typical fantasy cities dragons are the lowest of the low. It can be said that even the gods avoid this planet. Though fortunately only some dragons have left the planet keeping the rest of the universe in relative safety.
Steven Robert Henderson
2022-08-31 18:35:27 +0000 UTCYes yes a perfectly normal cat except once for some sec in some day she get a spark of her previous self, so the Summon get more confused and we get wtf situation/moment when it happen and made the Summon think and rage :P with wtf happen here :)
Zarik0
2022-08-31 15:18:36 +0000 UTCdemon cultist mc being the good guy while a grand druid and a summoned hero are the villains flipping the script what seems evil is good and what's good is most likely evil
Mathias Baumann
2022-08-31 13:49:24 +0000 UTCNah nah, it must be a perfectly ordinary cat. And the Summon has to deal all the nonsense that involves
Rory
2022-08-31 13:15:17 +0000 UTCOh yeah :) And with a twist the cat IS the witch after a bad experiment (or fused her conscious with the cat) and she get semi lobotomized by becoming a cat and have just some bout of her previous consciousness appearing here and here for some sec (most of the time she totally a cat mind :) so she need to "plan" long term or take opportunity when it happen like here with the old summoning circle already prepared :P
Zarik0
2022-08-31 13:11:16 +0000 UTCHow about a story about some higher being trying to design a system and all the worries about energy costs and bugs, sometimes more literally than others?
Wittekin
2022-08-31 11:51:27 +0000 UTCold hero and the demon lord had finished their fight, they betrayed their companions and fake their deaths. A good while has passed and there is a new hero and a demon lord. In their boredom and a competition between them they decide to each mentor one of the new hero and a demon lord and see how thing go this time.
Solarlancer
2022-08-31 07:52:48 +0000 UTCStory Prompt: Summoned by a Cat!? As a Divine Champion answering the summons, You examine the surroundings where You have manifested. You see a rather large cauldran, shelves of magical reagents, a black cat staring at You from a workbench, more shelves containing potions, and the summoning circle with You at the center, though curiously there is mercury splashed across it from a spilled vial beneath the cat. This is evidently a Witch's lab, but oddly no sign of the Witch, or anyone that could've summoned You for that matter... 'Meow~~' Heeding Your Master's command, You search for ingredients to prepare breakfa- WAIT WHAT!?!?!?
Rory
2022-08-31 06:53:45 +0000 UTC
