[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for Jan 2022
Added 2022-01-01 07:43:51 +0000 UTCBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. I'm going to run the poll for five days. The short story will be finished in January and will be available to all patrons. For the moment the stories will remain patron only as despite my thoughts last poll I've since become not sure if/when to make them public.
AI Nano Drone Swarm - You wake up to blackness and see a computer bios prompt for booting up. Vision comes in and you see a ruined cityscape. Everything is in high contrast, very bright light and absolute dark shadows, you look up and see a rift running through the sky through which you see space. A file loads and you get some past memories. You find out that you are a shard of an AI that was at war with a virus, to save yourself you ending up compressing yourself and put yourself into a nanobot swarm repair bot. You also learn from that rift in the sky that you are in a humongous bio dome that is a small piece, one of billions of a dyson sphere. The shadows and light thing is because the atmosphere was sucked out of that crack in the dome going to space. You as a repair bot need to start repairing the bio dome to get utility services back online and open the links to the other biodomes next to you. The long story being you need to figure out what caused that virus attack, why is everything so ruined like a war occurred, more importantly what happened to the other pieces of you that you had to leave behind to save your core, and what happened to all of the other inhabitants of the sphere.
High Level Wizard Fight - A couple of archmagis fight each other
Werewolf in a Tie - Slice of life werewolf in a blue collared job
Comments
More buzzwords mostly. That and being set in space adds a +10% scifiness modifier as well
Akhier Dragonheart
2022-01-05 00:34:07 +0000 UTChow can it be more scifi than a post apocalyptic setting caused by advanced warfare
zalex
2022-01-05 00:05:48 +0000 UTCHuh, now that you mention it, it sort of does. Though this one is more scifi than even that because of the location and what not.
Akhier Dragonheart
2022-01-02 16:30:20 +0000 UTCWhy does the nano drone option sound so much like Bunker Core?
Carl Mason
2022-01-02 02:44:12 +0000 UTC