The Writing Prompts Thread

[CarlManvers2019]

Someone put him on an asteroid and chucked it out into space I think. Patriot Act was a classic JLA episode though. I miss the old Timm-verse. The new YJ one is alright, but it's not as good.

Kinda skipped out on the 2nd half of Young Justice Season 3, both because it was sorta getting real world political from what I know and I didn’t want to wait a long time for another season and stuff, things also felt pretty slow to me

Maybe a few years from now, only cartoon I’m waiting for is Genndy Tartavotsy’s PRIMAL

 

[f1onagher]

Season 3 was cold piss. None of the interesting characters they promised, a poor rendition of Terra's plot, and yes, badly placed RL politics. The show should have stayed canceled and I say that as someone who pushed for season 3. When we were promised Static Shock, Arrowette, and a continuation of the legitimately good story they had.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Season 3 was cold piss. None of the interesting characters they promised, a poor rendition of Terra's plot, and yes, badly placed RL politics. The show should have stayed canceled and I say that as someone who pushed for season 3. When we were promised Static Shock, Arrowette, and a continuation of the legitimately good story they had.

Plus, I recall I didn’t like the redesigns, the more modest ones, not sure which, memory’s sorta bad

Anyway, back to Writing Prompts

Here’s One: Humanity’s surprisingly advanced technology and combat power makes it so that when the apocalypse occurs, after the initial panic, they fight back and start invading literal HELL

Hell alongside Heaven and many other mythological places are all part of some vast cosmology or “dimension composed of pure emotional/thought/soul/intellect” mixed with alien realms

Essentially, humanity imitates the Argonians during the Oblivion Crisis, the guys who got the Daedra to close the gates because they were invading into their own territory too much

Turns out, part of this was planned in order to prepare humanity for future eldritch threats


Alternatively, some scientists somehow made the technology to open portals into these mythological realms or “Myth-Worlds” and it was decided that they were places to research

The armies of hell invading was a side effect and by then it was alerting them all that earth was ready for a higher form of war between the “Myth-Worlds”

 

[f1onagher]

First idea is just a better take on the Salvation War. Second mixes in Gate with what feels like Norse mythology. Either ideas are fine on their own, but need someone willing the grind out chapters.

Idea of my own: Star Wars Rebel Tankers story. Star Wars ground combat has always been criminally underrepresented and 90% of the vehicles are Imperial. Seeing the crew of say a T3-B Assault Tank wrestling with Imperial forces on some nameless world not only expands the scope of Star Wars onto one of those hundreds of fronts the heroes never get close to and fulfills my Tank>Walker fetish.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

First idea is just a better take on the Salvation War. Second mixes in Gate with what feels like Norse mythology. Either ideas are fine on their own, but need someone willing the grind out chapters.

Idea of my own: Star Wars Rebel Tankers story. Star Wars ground combat has always been criminally underrepresented and 90% of the vehicles are Imperial. Seeing the crew of say a T3-B Assault Tank wrestling with Imperial forces on some nameless world not only expands the scope of Star Wars onto one of those hundreds of fronts the heroes never get close to and fulfills my Tank>Walker fetish.

I’m not so into Star Wars EU but I gotta wonder how they decided that those big AT-ATs were so practical with legs like that

 

[f1onagher]

As a purely direct-fire platform, the AT-AT is rather brilliant, especially if you don't anticipate encountering heavy AP resistance. It's a handy tool for dominating an urban zone during repression operations as it can stand above most settlements and fire down into them while deploying troops to secure its flanks.

As an actual combat APC its a miserable design with a limited cone of fire and an obvious weakness to old fashioned tank traps. So typical Imperial terror weapon. When I use them in strategy games I tend to stack them in front of conventional artillery and behind regular tanks to serve as fire support.

From a Doyalist perspective, they're also very iconic and allowed the makers of Star Wars to have a big land battle with only a few stop motion models.

 

[Deleted member 88]

AT-STs actually work really well at securing its flanks.

But imperial war machinery in general relies more on terror and quantity.

In legends, it was stated the empire has the manpower to overwhelm its enemies, given it can recruit or conscript trillions of soldiers.

Thus it can afford poorer quality machinery because it's numerical weight is just insurmountable.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

AT-STs actually work really well at securing its flanks.

But imperial war machinery in general relies more on terror and quantity.

In legends, it was stated the empire has the manpower to overwhelm its enemies, given it can recruit or conscript trillions of soldiers.

Thus it can afford poorer quality machinery because it's numerical weight is just insurmountable.

Did George Lucas ever think that stuff up when he made Star Wars or that was all stuff for Expanded Universe guys to make and think to be plausible?

So much about Star Wars I don’t know, just so you know, I used to think Clonetroopers and Stormtroopers were the same thing, never saw the latter without helmets till the new trilogy

 

[AndrewJTalon]

A slightly simpler plot, but one with a fair amount of potential.

Around Year 5, Harry, Dumbledore, Voldemort, and numerous other wizards on both sides and across Earth determined to have combat potential... Are teleported to an alien starship. The aliens (Let's call them the Starfarers) explain things pretty simply: They are at war with a race of genocidal aliens. These other aliens are completely different in even their base chemistry, like some kind of Eldritch abominations, that want to wipe out all carbon based life.

The Starfarers have one trump card: Magic, which is something they have tried to duplicate. Alas, only humans are able to wield magic or generate magic users. The Starfarers have taken magic users from Earth before as this war has been going on for centuries-Usually just a few, a dozen maximum. But they're at the point where they need an entire army of magic users to win this thing, so they're basically drafting as many witches and wizards as they can.

The Starfarers do not care about the local issues the Wizards have, because if they lose this war, Earth will be enslaved or destroyed. So they'll use every powerful magic user they can lay their hands on. And so, the wizards will have to find a way to get along and win this thing, or die trying.

No pressure.

If Voldemort and Dumbledore's factions and other factions of wizards can't work together and with the aliens, Earth is fucked.

... That said, the Starfarers will probably need to be... Persuasive, at first.

Voldemort: "You cannot command me, you simple, magicless creatures! I am Lord Voldemort, and I will-GRRRRAAAAYYYAAAARRRGHHH!" *He twitches and shakes, before falling, twitching, onto the deck*

The Starfarer representative, an attractive humanoid woman with green skin, is nonplussed.

Starfarer: "We also injected some of the more... Unreasonable of you with controls. To ensure compliance."

Voldemort: "You-You cannot possibly-GRARRRRGGGHHHH!"

Starfarer: "At the moment the controls activate when Lord Voldemort attempts to use magic."

Voldemort: "YOU INFERIOR-AAAARRRGH!"

Starfarer: "Or insults anyone."

Voldemort: "I WILL KILL-GYYYAAHHH!"

Starfarer: "Or he feels murderous."

Voldemort: "Haa... Haa... Haa-AAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!"

Starfarer: "Or if I feel like it."

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I can see Dumbledore face palming and calling Voldemort by his real name and pointing out how he was sorta an idiot before all this and he’s being one now with his unnecessary malevolence

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Anybody here ever read Robert E. Howard’s “Skull Face” it involves an undead or “living past the point he should be dead” ancient sorceror who was unearthed and made plans to conquer the world as the main antagonist. It’s sorta guessed that he was also a ridiculously good chemist or alchemist using long lost ancient knowledge to preserve himself and make drugs

Original Superhero/Supervillain Idea: An Ancient Eldritch Sorceror who received many mortal wounds and used magic to sustain himself, wakes up to modern day Earth

His body is extremely damaged, aged and corpselike. But it is noted that he is of a large height, arouns 11ft tall

Given that he’s still using magic to keep himself from dying to those mortal wounds by a “Mortal Blade” which cannot be healed and even have pieces of metal still stuck in him that he is both consciously and unconsciously using telekinesis to keep from killing him

He is severely weakened and cannot just unleash his powers

He goes off to slowly build a powerbase, uses long hidden treasure, blackmail and his own powers and knowledge to gain him funds and infrastructure

One or two defeats by superheroes later, he somehow decides to “be peaceful” and creates a city-state wherein he’s the ruler and pretty much every citizen’s a migrant who thought “Wow, living under a supervillain is not so bad” or a “Product”

By which he means a necromantic/biomantic construct he made from all manner of DNA

Sort of got the idea from the few LITRPG’s I’ve read

 

[Deleted member 88]

Okay not a story idea and I’ll probably fail miserably in articulating this.

But basically an artificial environment or environment manipulation.

In nature-you can’t have a jungle and a polar ice cap right next to each other as biomes. Given the way earth’s climate and geography works.

But what if, either through magic or technology you could do such a thing?

That is-say have Arctic tundra bordered by jungle? Or desert?

Perhaps with a technological or magical barrier(or portal) between them. No intermediate zone.

What happens?

By that I mean how do the environments and organisms interact? If left to their own devices?

Say aliens or magic users or super advanced humans decide to experiment with ecological systems.

Placing arctic tundra-with it’s fauna and flora right next to Sahara desert, right next to the Amazonian jungle.

Between these artificially created biomes(which are themselves in some grand laboratory-like maybe a ring world or something) is an invisible portal of sorts-species can and do crossover.

But will enter environments largely hostile to the one they are native to.

Further more-the “portal” is designed to fade over time, allowing these biomes to connect without any barrier between them.

Does life remain separate, or does it interact beyond the microbial level?

 

[Certified_Heterosexual]

A low/noir fantasy prompt I picked up long ago from who-knows-where:

"The city's Thieves Guild and Assassins Guild have a shaky gentleman's agreement in which they share information sources, fences, and hidden paths through the sewers and across the rooftops. Eventually, one of the two tries to take exclusive control of these vital resources, and an underground war breaks out."

 

[Svalinn]

A low/noir fantasy prompt I picked up long ago from who-knows-where:

"The city's Thieves Guild and Assassins Guild have a shaky gentleman's agreement in which they share information sources, fences, and hidden paths through the sewers and across the rooftops. Eventually, one of the two tries to take exclusive control of these vital resources, and an underground war breaks out."

that sounds interesting and different.
I guess since they need to keep their conflict hidden, they can't be too brutal or obvious.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

that sounds interesting and different.
I guess since they need to keep their conflict hidden, they can't be too brutal or obvious.

Say, ever watch John Wick? TvTropes sorta notices how it seems that outside of the criminal underworld, barely anybody pays attention to all the assassins’ actions even in public

 

[Svalinn]

Say, ever watch John Wick? TvTropes sorta notices how it seems that outside of the criminal underworld, barely anybody pays attention to all the assassins’ actions even in public

might be a survival trait they've developed to not get dragged into it.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

might be a survival trait they've developed to not get dragged into it.

No panic or fright either, I really wish to see the rest of John Wick’s setting

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Here’s a Writing Prompt

Unlike most Magic-Class you don’t fling lightning bolts, summon elementals, teleport, hide behind the tank

Unlike those so called “Magic Knights”-Class who are just Magic-Class who also use weapons, you don’t go off doing the first stuff and maybe enchanting your weapons

No

You’re a Melee-Weapon-Mage

You conjure things like hammers, swords, knives, axes, maces, whips etc and THROW em at the motherfuckers!!!

Nothing like an Ultra Greatsword to the face

What? You think I just throw these stuff around? I can actually wield these huge motherfuckers

Anything that can be used in close quarters, I can make and I use em to kill hundreds of cowards like you

I’m Krom. The Melee-Weapon-Mage. Also a Barbarian

 

[LordSunhawk]

Had a very silly thought earlier today.

Turian patrol detects an unidentified bronze-colored ship scanning Relay-314, which is now active. In typical Turian overzealous law enforcement mode, they attack the ship, which promptly accelerates at a rate that would be instantly fatal to any organic lifeform and shoots through the relay. Said Turian commander then puts 2 plus 2 together and gets 'Obviously an AI!' and panics, sending an alert to higher command.

Turian fleet gathers and goes through the relay.

Only to be met by a rather... large... ship. A bit larger than Earth's moon, in fact, with a rather spectacular (and larger than the entire Citadel) insignia of a three-headed dragon. And get a rather polite comm request asking why they decided to be so silly as to fire upon a probe from the 5th Imperium.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Had a very silly thought earlier today.

Turian patrol detects an unidentified bronze-colored ship scanning Relay-314, which is now active. In typical Turian overzealous law enforcement mode, they attack the ship, which promptly accelerates at a rate that would be instantly fatal to any organic lifeform and shoots through the relay. Said Turian commander then puts 2 plus 2 together and gets 'Obviously an AI!' and panics, sending an alert to higher command.

Turian fleet gathers and goes through the relay.

Only to be met by a rather... large... ship. A bit larger than Earth's moon, in fact, with a rather spectacular (and larger than the entire Citadel) insignia of a three-headed dragon. And get a rather polite comm request asking why they decided to be so silly as to fire upon a probe from the 5th Imperium.

I’m starting to read Dahak by David Weber, stopped because I was also reading Silmarillion

One question though, how did the Citadel avoid getting eaten by the Achuultani? And I mean the Citadel and many races in previous cycles?