The empire is slowly dying, so the MC wants to set off and start a colony to preserve the sum total of the empire's knowledge and history; they have trouble getting started--for starters, the king doesn't like the idea that his reign will be the last...
AAP by VijayC
What should I label this? It's miscellaneous for now...if anyone can think of something better, please post a comment here.
June 30, 2010
June 25, 2010
Dead Zone ('travel to other world' plot)
C1 is an ordinary man (or woman), who's on his way to visit family when he notices an odd looking man skulking along, apparently marking people. Thinking he's a thief, C1 calls out, and gives chase when the man runs. Catching up, he grabs him. The man screams in surprise, there's a flash of light, and the next thing C1 knows he's no longer at the train/bus station. He's in a crowded room that looks like something out of a fantasy novel, with a bunch of people staring at him expectantly.
It is explained that he's been brought to another world because they need assistance. Not from him particularly, but from someone from his world. This is a magic dependent society. People are innately magical, as is much of the landscape. Many things they rely on for day to day life are operated by magic. There are, however, groups of people that choose to live a different lifestyle. People who have magic based afflictions, people who've been exiled, and people who just don't like magic, that live in dead zones.
There are several of these zones, sizable cities with a fair amount of land, on the outskirts of the kingdom. They were created hundreds of years ago, and have boundaries that mark the area of magical cancellation. Recently, however, one of the zones has started to expand, nulling out magic in an ever increasing radius. Somehow C1 is supposed to help them figure out what's going on and stop the spread before it affects the whole country. All they know is that somehow, someone from C1's world helped create the anti-magic zones, and that his lack of magic is supposed to help somehow.
AAP by mme.aloria
It is explained that he's been brought to another world because they need assistance. Not from him particularly, but from someone from his world. This is a magic dependent society. People are innately magical, as is much of the landscape. Many things they rely on for day to day life are operated by magic. There are, however, groups of people that choose to live a different lifestyle. People who have magic based afflictions, people who've been exiled, and people who just don't like magic, that live in dead zones.
There are several of these zones, sizable cities with a fair amount of land, on the outskirts of the kingdom. They were created hundreds of years ago, and have boundaries that mark the area of magical cancellation. Recently, however, one of the zones has started to expand, nulling out magic in an ever increasing radius. Somehow C1 is supposed to help them figure out what's going on and stop the spread before it affects the whole country. All they know is that somehow, someone from C1's world helped create the anti-magic zones, and that his lack of magic is supposed to help somehow.
AAP by mme.aloria
June 20, 2010
The Wolf and the Dragon
A young wolf breaks an ages old taboo and leaves his (or her) forest (resulting in permanent exile) to search for the poacher that killed his sibling/mate/friend/real estate agent.
After a long period of time and still no luck, the wolf grows world weary and pessimistic and begins to believe he has nothing to live for. He comes across a young dragon that was stolen from its nest, turned into a pet, and later kicked out on the streets to die.
The wolf impulsively saves the young dragon who in turn 'imprints' on the wolf and starts following him everywhere, gradually filling the gap left by sibling/mate(maybe not so much...)/friend/real estate agent.
AAP by SpatulaCastle
After a long period of time and still no luck, the wolf grows world weary and pessimistic and begins to believe he has nothing to live for. He comes across a young dragon that was stolen from its nest, turned into a pet, and later kicked out on the streets to die.
The wolf impulsively saves the young dragon who in turn 'imprints' on the wolf and starts following him everywhere, gradually filling the gap left by sibling/mate(maybe not so much...)/friend/real estate agent.
AAP by SpatulaCastle
June 15, 2010
Prepared Sacrifice
MCs find a child [in the forest], running for his life, and too young to explain what he's running from. After looking after him for a while, monsters/crazed wild animals attack the village/farm/homestead. That never usually happens, they normally keep away from humans...after fighting them off, MCs find a dying man following the pack, who explains – the child is a prepared sacrifice, to raise an Evil thing into the world. The man stole him away from the evil people, and ran for it. The magic on the child drives the monsters/wild animals to attack. And now the people who want to raise the Evil are after this child, because they need him/her back before the year ends, and the time of sacrifice is over...
So MCs have to take kid through monster infested forest (optional). They reach the capital city, where the monsters/animals wouldn’t follow. And THERE they find out that the sacrifice had to be of royal blood, and what do you know, the prince has been kidnapped...(this bit’s even more optional...wait, it’s all optional, right, do what you like with it) so they spend a little while thinking the kid was royalty, but in fact he was the heir’s decoy. WHICH MEANT, that the authorities in the city were all for just killing the kid so the prophecy couldn’t happen, because royal blood or no, he's the prepared sacrifice now. With one side trying to capture the child, and the other side trying to kill the child, they were in way over their heads.
AAP by jessymay
So MCs have to take kid through monster infested forest (optional). They reach the capital city, where the monsters/animals wouldn’t follow. And THERE they find out that the sacrifice had to be of royal blood, and what do you know, the prince has been kidnapped...(this bit’s even more optional...wait, it’s all optional, right, do what you like with it) so they spend a little while thinking the kid was royalty, but in fact he was the heir’s decoy. WHICH MEANT, that the authorities in the city were all for just killing the kid so the prophecy couldn’t happen, because royal blood or no, he's the prepared sacrifice now. With one side trying to capture the child, and the other side trying to kill the child, they were in way over their heads.
AAP by jessymay
June 10, 2010
curse on happiest couple in the land
A couple claim to be the happiest in the land, so the local witch decides to test their claim by turning them into animals that would normally hate/eat each other. Can the couple overcome their newfound differences to break the spell and live happily ever after?
AAP by midori_baby
AAP by midori_baby
June 5, 2010
Remembrance
MC has the ability to recollect the memories or past conditions of an object by simply touching it. The thing is, he comes from a family where this power has almost been completely bred out due to severe persecution of these "gifted," so he can barely use it.
He discovers the power when he is listening to music with a pair of used headphones he bought at a garage sale because his good ones are temporarily broken and a song that he has never heard in his life and that he doesn't have on his iPod starts to play. This happens again and again and he eventually discovers that he is hearing songs that the old owners of the headphones had listened to before he had bought them.
He slowly learns how to stop this from happening, but then one day he hears something different, a conversation that someone listened to whilst wearing the head-phones, and he slowly begins to uncover a dark past involving his family.
AAP by avidfantasywriter
He discovers the power when he is listening to music with a pair of used headphones he bought at a garage sale because his good ones are temporarily broken and a song that he has never heard in his life and that he doesn't have on his iPod starts to play. This happens again and again and he eventually discovers that he is hearing songs that the old owners of the headphones had listened to before he had bought them.
He slowly learns how to stop this from happening, but then one day he hears something different, a conversation that someone listened to whilst wearing the head-phones, and he slowly begins to uncover a dark past involving his family.
AAP by avidfantasywriter
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