The Writing Prompts Thread

LordSunhawk

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I'd say that the Citadel is located in one of the satellite clusters that surround the Milky Way. Therefore, the Achuultani never actually went there because it was outside of their planned sectors for cleansing. The Imperium is scouting said clusters to make sure there are no surprises lurking while they prepare for the final offensive against the Achuultan. They encountered a relay, and sent out a probe to scan it, the probe triggered it, activating 314, and the rest is history. Note, the probe was manned, it's just that Imperial inertial dampening and drive technology is so good that the crew only felt a mild rock as they did a crisp 180 and shot back through the relay.
 

CarlManvers2019

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I'd say that the Citadel is located in one of the satellite clusters that surround the Milky Way. Therefore, the Achuultani never actually went there because it was outside of their planned sectors for cleansing. The Imperium is scouting said clusters to make sure there are no surprises lurking while they prepare for the final offensive against the Achuultan. They encountered a relay, and sent out a probe to scan it, the probe triggered it, activating 314, and the rest is history. Note, the probe was manned, it's just that Imperial inertial dampening and drive technology is so good that the crew only felt a mild rock as they did a crisp 180 and shot back through the relay.

Okay, TBH just asking because I’m reminded of Warhammer and Halo fusions where I really gotta say, they wouldn’t or shouldn’t be part of the same universe

I mean the Reapers would have been encountered or destroyed long long long ago by guys like the Forerunners or Eldar Empire or Necrontyr or Old Ones given their age

Also, the Citadel itself is pretty underwhelming compared to the many things the Forerunners made that include Dyson Spheres
 

CarlManvers2019

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Say, remember all those Rule63!Superman stuff from months back

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Here’s an idea

Superwoman & Lex Luthor during some fight involving a space-time machine both end up together in some other planet with a Red Sun, thereby nullifying her powers

Lex doesn’t have his tech except for a self-recharging laser pistol he made on a whim

Right before he can kill her, they’re attacked by some barbarian tribes and monsters, they somehow end up having to team up with each other

She punches him surprisingly hard
 

CarlManvers2019

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Prompt: A club of serial killers who've been making waves in the city for his killings and LOVES the fame, accidentally targets a man who is way more dangerous than he looks at first glance after encountering him after one of their "happy times"

They are all now being hunted by a rather relentless ex-assassin who did a REALLY early retirement due to feeling pretty guilty about his many kills
 

CarlManvers2019

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Prompt: A young peasant boy falls in love with a princess but is barred due to his low status. To impress her family, he becomes an extremely powerful sorcerer who worships the "Deep Gods" & he is now surprised that his newly built home is being attacked by the Princess-Knight-Hero & the royal army
 

CarlManvers2019

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Prompt: You are a Psychiatrist/Therapist, your new patient is an innocent looking young man. He tells you this, "I enjoy hurting and killing other people, whenever I do it, I feel like a God, I feel good"

He proceeds to tell you of how he was a soldier/assassin/vigilante because having to struggle in order to kill, made him feel even better and made him feel somewhat less guilty as the blame went to others

Before the session ends, he says he knows the psychiatrist/therapist already called the cops mid-way, he will surrender quietly but thanks him for listening
 

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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.

It could be an amusing one shot, but ultimately it just doesn't work. The power levels are just too absurdly different.
 

CarlManvers2019

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Prompt: A guy who's mute or extremely untalkative needs to pay his rent

He never talks, people can more-or-less just get what he means from him pointing at stuff and shrugging

In order to pay for his rent and his debts to the mob, he either works as a crossdressing maid at a cafe because they noticed he was TRAP-Material or he becomes their HITMAN

Given that he has a talent that involves being really good at any CQC, using pretty much anything as a melee weapon and throwing it with deadly efficiency

All told from a Third Person Perspective or the Perspective of those around the MC who think he's a horrible psycho and plans on killing him ASAP
 

Zyobot

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Here’s a 2018 She-Ra fanfic idea that I'm thinking of titling Another Chance At Childhood. The premise is that thanks to some First Ones’ tech shenanigans, Adora gets de-aged and becomes a baby once again. Fortunately, Glimmer and Bow aren’t alone in caring for their de-aged friend. She-Ra—having split off from Adora and become her own, individual person in the process—is here to help.

Her being Adora’s She-Ra, complete with her personality and memories from before de-aging, she’ll be inducted into the Best Friends’ Squad and ensure that the trio doesn’t become one person short for somewhere between, say, ten and twenty more years. At the same time, she’ll also struggle with the uncertainty that comes with being her own entity with actual thoughts and feelings, as opposed to being an alter-ego of someone else to be summoned at their beck and call. And taking care of baby Adora, which should no doubt test her knowledge of parenting and require her to adopt a “gentle giant” approach to avoid hurting her, will prove especially awkward at first.
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Expanding on an idea I came up with elsewhere, I'm thinking of writing a Danny Phantom fanfic called Ember Reacts. Essentially, it takes the theory that Ember died in the 1970s and runs with it by having her give her two cents on the modern world. This presumes she's more or less a fish out of water when it comes to current events and pop culture, of course. Namely, via Ember starting a YouTube channel where she not only posts music videos and footage of her concerts, but also her reactions to the various wonders and horrors of the internet

Her bafflement at Gen Z humor and slang aside, she'll have also given up on the whole villain business and made an honest living sometime prior to the start of the fic. Hopefully, that'll have given her time to become less vicious and more friendly with her fans (e.g. interacting with them in live-streamed Q&As). Other Danny Phantom characters will make appearances too, such as college-aged Danny & Friends regularly monitoring Ember to make sure she's being a good girl. Not to mention a home-schooled Danielle causing constant mischief at home.
 

Doomsought

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Babylon 5 / Exalted
Rather than diving into the empty void of elsewhere, in his exile, Autochthon travels in a non-direction through the pure chaos of the wyld that eventually leads him to Earth. Contact is made just before Autocthon would pull out the alchemical exalts to protect the autochthonians.

Autochthon is fascinated by the Newtonian energy based technology of Earth as Earth is fascinated about the essence based magitech of the Autochthonians. Initial forays into magitech by Earth are largely limited to the use of thaumaturgy in the form of alchemy and enchantment to produce materials with miraculous properties for use in Newtonain technology such as room temperature superconductors. However geomancy is also explored as a means to access more advanced forms of magic, with an altier manse being built in Hawaii to produce Oricalium.

As geomancy is explored further, per-existing desires to terraform and colonize mars combine with the shortage of magical materials needed to produce more advanced magitech combine to produce an ambitious plan. Geromancy could be used to Gaia-form mars, making it both livable and a source of magical jade. Autochthon has nothing but praise and encouragement for the plan, and only to step in a few times to correct mistakes.

Eventually the Vorlon visit and are noticed by Autochthon. Mutual comprehension is difficult, but eventually the Vorlon rationalize Autochthon as the First One Patron of humanity and leave.

Even with an entire new world that is geomantically active, humanity keeps their habit of rationing the miracles available through magitech. Megitech is never used for conveniences that can easily be produced using electronic technology, miracles are used for things that would be impossible or prohibitive using mundane means such as fusion reactors, reducing government corruption, and self replenishing mines.

As Humanity is discussing which of the planets should be modified with Autochthonian geomancy to provide a source of Adamant and other materials, the Centauri arrive. At this point Humanity uses magitech fusion reactors as a source of essence, electricity and plasma for their spacecraft. Megitech is used for gravity manipulation, skill enhancement and hull reinforcement, while everything else is mainly handled by electronics. The only essence based weapons used by humanity are essence twisters and artifact weapons that integrate the ghost eater technique (and these only are produced due to warnings from Autochton, essence based weapons are horribly inefficient).

For Autochthon, he has come to the conclusion that while they were necessary weapons, the Exalts limited Humanity's progress in magitech. The exalts had too easy an access to miricles and did not need to earn them by improving their understanding of magitech.
 

Doomsought

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Nier: Automata / New Battlestar Galactica
Instead of the machines invading the androids, it is the cylons. First contact is initially peaceful, with the cylons being able to get some data on Replicant technology. However the Cylons eventually offend the androids religiously with their hatred of humanity.

Before and during the conflict, the androids are able to gain some technology from the cylons as well. Eventually, they cylons just retreat from Android territory to take advantage of the fact that the androids are not an interstellar power and just harass them.

Eventually an android scanner unit gathers intelligence on the on both the location of the colonies of Kobol and the Cylons' plans to attack them. This causes the Androids to create the Yorha expeditionary force. The Yorha androids are inspired by the bio-cylons which themselves were inspired by replicant technology, however Yorha bioroids include propitiatory android technologies such as the Near-Field Combat System and enhancement chips.

The Yorha Expeditionary force manages to arrive in the Cyrannus to warn the Twelve colonies before the CNP system could be fully implemented. The Cylons are forced to attack ahead of schedule, focusing much of their attacks on the Yorha to attempt to deny the Humans vital intelligence. While the Yorha capital ships prove inadequate in the battle, the opposite can be said of Yorha flight units. Do to their durability and the simple fact that it is much easier to mission kill a ship than destroy it completely, most of the Android command staff and Diplomats were able to survive long enough to be evacuated by Colonial search and rescue Teams.

When the initial battle breaks with the Cylons retreating, the Colonials soon become confused on an institutional level by the Androids from earth. Verbal attacks on the androids using religious grounds recieve a horrifying response: Humanity on earth was killed by a curse that likely came from a deity. Eventually, at the end of the first season/book it is revealed that the Cylons have come to worship the same diety that is responsible for the destruction of humanity on earth.
 

Zyobot

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Got a WH40K fanfic idea coming up here.

Posted it in the General Warhammer Thread already, but cross-posting a lightly amended version of my initial synopsis here:

  • I first floated the idea here, but to elaborate on it somewhat: My fanfic draws on the notion of sentient emotions and beliefs giving rise to deities in the Warp that come to embody them, as is the case with the Imperial Cult sustaining the Emperor of Mankind or the turbulent state of the Galaxy fueling the Dark Gods of Chaos. However, my interest lies in the other, more “theoretical” beings who’d arise from this process — namely, the Machine God so fervently worshipped by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

  • The Adeptus Mechanicus is as old as the Imperium itself — and their faith even older, what with the Tech-Priests of Mars practicing the Cult Mechanicus before the Emperor came along and conscripted them to his cause in exchange for being allowed to retain their faith. At present, there exists an uneasy syncretism between the Imperial Cult and the Cult Mechanicus. However, even ignoring the Tech-Priests’ continued reverence for the Machine God (and the Emperor as more of a “Machine Jesus”), the ubiquitous (if not enthusiastic or innovation-happy) use of technology and pervasive belief in Machine Spirits throughout the Imperium provides a basis for a new, long-gestating Warp God to finally awaken.

  • Come the 42nd Millennium, and Psykers and Tech-Priests across the Galaxy are hit by a “thunderclap” of psychic energy as what began as occasional sightings of new “machine daemons” and skirmishes with elusive, but technologically advanced warships of consistent design and capabilities becomes an onslaught when a host of new Warp Storms open. A new player has entered the Great Game, and when the Fabricator-General of Mars renounces the Emperor as a “False Omnissiah” and pledges fealty to the newest God of the Warp, so, too, does most of the Adeptus Mechanicus. A Second Schism is now underway, but the reign of Deus Machinarum — “God of the Machines” — has only just begun.

  • Despite its recent emergence, the Machine God of the Warp is known by many titles: Deus Machinarum, the Great Gear, the Machine in the Warp, the Omnicog, the Orthodox Omnissiah, and a hundred-thousand other epithets spoken by Tech-Priest and Heretek alike across the Galaxy. As these names imply, it is the Warp God of machines, industry, and technology — ranging from simple mechanisms like gears and pulleys, to Dark Age marvels like STC constructs and Men of Iron. It also claims domain over the various disciplines that led to their invention, with the subjects of mathematics, engineering, and scientific discovery and innovation falling under its sway — much to the alarm and paralyzing panic of Imperials, Mechanicus loyalists, and neutral tinkerers the Galaxy over.

  • Like its rival deities, the Machine God has its own residence in the Warp that reflects and gives visual quality to the fields in which it claims domain. It dwells in the middle of the Foundry-Scape, an endless expanse of factories, power plants, and giant gears whose size and productive capacity put the likes of Mars to utter and fatal shame. But much like the Forge Worlds of Realspace (who are but pale imitations reserved for the Great Gear’s mortal servants), its assembly lines work ’round the clock to mass-produce armies of mechanical daemons — known as “Warpbots” — who act as the Machine God’s disciples and foot soldiers in the Materium, easily being a match for the Necrons and C’tan Shard super-weapons in direct combat. Indeed, many have noted the Warpbots’ strange resemblance to the long-defunct Men of Iron of ages past, with some going so far as to theorize that even before fully awakening, the Machine God had unconsciously triggered the Cybernetic Revolt that saw mankind’s machines turn on them and resulted in the outlawing of Abominable Intelligence throughout the Galaxy. In any case, it remains a theory for now, though many fear the fully awakened Machine in the Warp may perform even worse feats of technological terror than that as the 42nd Millennium rages on.

  • Even though it lacks a physical form or appearance comprehensible to mortal minds, the Machine God is best visualized as a colossal mass of gears and sprockets held together by metal chassis and dotted by computer terminals, conveyor belts, and mechanical tendrils that flow out from its body. In the middle of its gargantuan central cog is a single red eye that focuses in and out on whatever the Machine God has turned its gaze to, much to the consternation of beings on the receiving end. In short, imagine it as a roughly planet-sized Klingklang with a color scheme of Martian gold, red, and rusted grayish-brown — as well as numerous other machines attached and appended to its physique — and that is the Machine God, dubious visual qualities as a Warp entity notwithstanding.

  • While its emergence was felt by all and its role to play in galactic affairs profound, the Machine God’s reception throughout the Materium has been mixed. Its most obvious devotees include the bulk of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who have defected from the Imperium and pledged themselves to the newly emergent Machine in the Warp. Unfortunately, this has produced a Second Schism on a scale not seen since the Horus Heresy, which — as cribbed from some ideas put forth by Bassoe right here — has split it into an Orthodox Mechanicus loyal to the Great Gear, an Imperial Mechanicus that remains loyal to the Emperor, and a Draconic Mechanicus that venerates the recently awakened Void Dragon of Mars, now in direct competition with the Machine in the Warp for the title of “True Machine God”. More schismatic still are the numerous “heterodox” cults in the margins, ranging from a minority that believes the true Machine God is neither a C’tan nor a Warp deity, to sects of the Dark Mechanicus who seek to create their own “Dark Omnissiah” in the Warp to act as the Chaotic rival to the Orthodox Omnissiah in much the same way as Unicron is the equal and opposite of his brother Primus in the Transformers franchise.

  • However, for all the “mixed” reception the Machine God has received in the Materium, it pales compared to the dissonant reactions it has received in the Warp. Chief amongst these is the Dark Gods of Chaos, who fear the newest arrival as an all-too-powerful interloper and Second Great Force for Order alongside their longstanding archnemesis, the Emperor of Mankind. The Machine God has caused them considerable trouble on the ground, as well, what with the mass-conversion of Chaotic Tech-Priests to the Orthodox Omnissiah and resultant “Scrapcode Wars” in which Chaotic machinery (such as Daemon Engines) has become increasingly vulnerable to “disinfectant cleansing” by the Great Gear, turning them from rickety demonic constructs into well-oiled mechanical wonders used by the Orthodox Mechanicus. Its relations with more “material” gods fare no better, as the Void Dragon — once the “original” Machine God whom the originators of the Cult Mechanicus mistook for divine and made their god of choice — must now compete with the Machine in the Warp for followers, with the consequent clashes between the Orthodox and Draconic Mechanicus — as well as Imperial Mechanicus loyalists — proving especially fiery and baleful. But perhaps most ominous of all are the tiny, but growing sects of the Dark Mechanicus who’ve drawn twisted inspiration from the emergence of an “orthodox” Machine God and seek to create one of their own as their Chaotic rival in the Warp — laying the groundwork for the emergence of a Fifth Chaos God who, if born, will unleash a galaxy-spanning, techno-theological apocalypse to make the Horus Heresy, Age of Strife, and War in Heaven look insignificant in scale.

  • This is what the Coming of Deus Machinarum hath wrought. And as the Galaxy is wracked to its very core by the Second Schism, endless Warpbot incursions, and the arrival of the Orthodox Omnissiah in the 42nd Millennium, an age-old adage becomes more relevant than ever: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”

Otherwise, that's all I've got now, barring a bit of successive back-and-forth with @Bassoe in the corresponding thread. If anyone's interested, feel free to let me know.
 

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