December 30, 2009

trapped in dreamland

A boy starts having weird dreams about a girl in a fantasy land. One day, his mom turns on the news and he sees that this girl is missing. His dreams get weirder and weirder until he is transported to the dream land, too, and he finally meets the girl. They have to find a way out of the dream world before his dreams take over and he never wakes up.

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December 25, 2009

where magic is considered a curse

In a world where magic is considered a rare curse among humans, one unfortunate young lad/lass discovers to his/her horror that they are *gasp* afflicted! With the blessing of his/her (still very much alive) parents, said unfortunate heads out on a journey to rid themselves of this power. However, somewhere deep in the bowels of the earth, a similar power has stirred in response and wants nothing more than this power for itself, and attempts to keep our protagonist from achieving his/her goal at any cost.

AAP by Kaiyah

December 20, 2009

wizard versus magician

The plot is told from two perspectives: The first is that of the "hero," who has been told by a wise wizard (who has been his guardian since he was _ years old) that he must gather his most trusted allies and recover a dark artifact of great power from the evil magician who intends to use it.

The second perspective is that of the "villain," the same "evil magician," who is actually developing a powerful new spell which will allow the user to absorb and purify necrotic energy; his "lair" and the artifact that is key to his research are almost stereotypically dark and evil-looking, but only because he has been forced to conduct his research there because he cannot remove the artifact from it. He has actually barricaded himself into a handful of rooms, because the rest of the complex has been filled to the brim with monsters; they might have overwhelmed him by now, except for the help he's received from the tribe of orcs which he has converted to his cause.

As the hero journeys toward the lair, he gains one or two new allies in addition to his previous companions. Their descriptions and knowledge of the "evil magician" of the quest conflict with what the hero has been told, and while he at first brushes them off as simply being misled by said "evil magician," he becomes more and more worried that his mentor may have been hiding something from him.

This is, of course, proven accurate when the group actually reaches the "evil magician." After a mix-up which nearly leaves the hero and the magician dead, the hero's mentor appears and snatches the artifact, using a container he created which allows him to remove the artifact from the lair. The hero's group then joins forces with the magician and some of the orcs from the tribe to find and stop the wizard before whatever nefarious plan he's concocted can come to fruition.

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December 15, 2009

Brothers (plot with mages, demons, tribal wars)

In a fantasy world, humans become mages by killing demons and ripping out their heart. However, before being allowed to go and hunt for a demon, all young adults must pass a test. If they fail, they must leave the village they live in. Two brothers do the test. One passes, and one fails. The one who fails the test (C1) gets cast out of the village, but manges to kill a demon. He then falls in love with the daughter of the chief of another village.

Meanwhile the brother (C2), who passed the test, managed to kill a demon as well, and now is sent on a mission to assassinate the chief of the village C1 now resides in (he married the daughter of the chief).

AAP by vulture

December 10, 2009

villain's memoir

On the eve of his/her execution, a villain sits down in his tower prison to write how he got where he is now. The story is his first person account of his rise to power, and how his good intentions went horribly wrong. We're talking betrayal, sacrifice, revenge, magic, lies and intrigue, assassins and kings, and so on.

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December 5, 2009

Depth Perception

MC is shallow, vain, everything-revolves-around-me, stereotypical beautiful/handsome Queen Cheerleader/King Jock (preferably a senior, otherwise they might be too young for this to work). Or so it seems. In fact MC runs their own website/blog/DeviantArt profile/whatever, and pours out their feelings to the Interwebs, with poetry or whatever else is expressive, and has for several years. Like, gets down into the deep nitty-gritty that everyone believes they're incapable of feeling or expressing. MC grows close with one of the commenters (who's been there from the first post), like really close... And agrees to meet the Commenter, however inadvisable this may be--albeit carrying their phone with 911 dialed just in case. Safety
first, you know--trust but verify.

When MC gets to the meeting place, instead of the coffee shop they expected to find, there's an empty lot. Stepping onto it, MC is transported to a Fantasy Land of your choosing--maybe completely made up, maybe alternate magical version of their city. In Fantasy Land, there waits the Commenter, aka the Love Interest, who is some sort of higher-up who has grown very attached to MC and wants them for a mate/consort/whatever. So MC has one week to decide whether they'd like to stay in Fantasy Land forever, where they can truly be themselves, or return to Earth with the deepest facets of the personality they've struggled to hide /removed/, so they can literally be as shallow as they seem.

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