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Started by Cramulus, May 11, 2009, 09:40:54 PM

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Rococo Modem Basilisk

Nanotechnology is used in the space program in order to cyborgize tardigrades. The cyborg tardigrades are put into torpor in generation ships and programmed to begin building large radio transmitters whenever they wake up, broadcasting information about whereever they landed.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Zombie film/story where instead of moaning the zombies are characterized by incessany deranged laughter. This is because being dead they've "heard the punchline" (as per the notion promulgated in "Let's Visit the World of the Future" that human life is a joke and when you die God tells you the punchline)
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Rococo Modem Basilisk

A man discovers that he can 'consume' people's worries by listening to them complain, and becomes a counselor. Once he consumes their worries, they cease to be worried (even if the cause of their worry still exists), and he gets a rush of euphoria. Unfortunately, he becomes addicted to the worries and anxieties of others, and he has to deal with his own guilt over the fact that his patients have ended up in major trouble due to the fact that they lost self-preserving levels of fear after sessions with him (for instance, brushing off very real threats to their lives because of an irrational boost of self-confidence). He confides, one night, in a colleague from down the hall and feels a great weight lift off his shoulders -- and then the colleague begins to tell a familiar story, about a man who can 'consume' guilt...


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

After our protagonist dies on the table during surgery for ten minutes, he spends the rest of his life literally haunted by the ghost of the person he used to be -- which becomes irritating as both he and his ghost develop independently and their personalities begin to diverge.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Freeky

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 28, 2016, 11:08:05 AM
After our protagonist dies on the table during surgery for ten minutes, he spends the rest of his life literally haunted by the ghost of the person he used to be -- which becomes irritating as both he and his ghost develop independently and their personalities begin to diverge.

I love this.  :lol:

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#725
There's been plenty of tv shows set in hospitals, and one set in a military medical tent, but I don't think there's ever been a tv show set in a doctor's office or a pharmacy.

EDIT:
Other ideas:

*A commercial for chunky peanut butter where they s-pread it on an icy road for traction

* A superhero who gains x-ray, microscopic, and telescopic vision from smoking weed

EDIT:
Another idea:


I've been meaning to write up a SubGenius themed text wherein NHGH is depicted as a sort of evil twin of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; as opposed to the "Lord Who Looks Down [in Pity]", NHGH is "The Lord Who Looks Down In Contempt" and has a bunch of extra hands and faces so he can point and laugh at the suffering of all sentient beings.

EDIT:
Another dea:

The expected sea-level rise from global warming never occurs because It turns out aliens are draining the world's oceans
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#726
An account of an election decades in the future when  the polarization in American politics has continued to increased to the point where the Republocans are openly a murderous Nazi party with aspirations of world domination and genocide and the Democrats are all either hardline Stalinists or else bent on banning all speech that might hurt anybody's feelings and sending anyone who doesn't have good vibes all the time to reeducation camps.

EDIT:
Another, somewhat related, idea:

An account of the the Siege of Stalingrad told as an allegory of the United States electoral process (Nazis=Republicans, Stalinists=Democrats)

EDIT:
Another idea:

A misguided hippie super-anti-villain has a crazy scheme to turn the Yellowstone volcano into a giant water pipe and hotbox the atmosphere to mellow everybody out. Unfortunately this will have the effect of screwing up animal behavior, causing accidents with heavy machinery, and last but not least blocking out the sun and plunging the world into cold and darkness. (My original thought for the hippie supervillain was that he was turning the moon into a bong)

EDIT:
Another idea:

A guy is caught in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop. He eventually realizes that this means his actions no longer have consequences - neither for him nor for anyone else - and becomes a public urinating, convenience store robbing, gluttonous, hard-drinking, drug addicted, rapist-murderer.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#727
A parody of superhero comics that's basically intentionally written as if the writer couldn't keep their superheroes straight and kept getting different famous superheroes mixed up. For instance, It starts with the protagonists' parents being murdered by radioactive spiders (which have taken over their planet) as they arrange for his escape from their doomed world by sending him in a rocket to earth.
Winds up being raised by a character who is somehow a conflation of Ben Parker and Alfred
Later in life he's persecuted by a right-wing newspaper editor who doesn't like the fact that he's an immigrant.


EDIT:
Another idea:

A character living in the middle ages gains superpowers from some typical superhero-origin type freak coincidence. He attempts to use his powers for good but is accused of witchcraft and forced to turn his powers against his former friends and community leaders to save his own life, which he lives out in indignant exile.

EDIT:
Another Idea:

It starts out like Groundhog Day with a guy reliving the same day over and over again, except eventually it becomes apparent that he's not actually reliving the same day, what's actually happened is that everyone else in the world has somehow developed some kind of amnesia where they continually forget the previous day.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#728
Here's a couple of ideas of hopefully somewhat less trite quality than some of my more recent ones


-A metaphor for life, and particularly my life. The story starts when A man acquires something extraordinary by luck, perhaps he plants pumpkins or somehing and one grows to cartoonishly enormous size. Going with the pumpkin example, he tries to decide what to do with it; enter it in a fair? make a bigass jack-o-lantern? try to sell it to botany researchers?. At any rate, by the time he decides what he wants to do with it it has already rotted away.


-After a nuclear war the next civilizations arise from highly traditional and backwater cultures who remain highly traditionalistic and conservative in the belief that it was their traditional ways that saved them and that the major prewar civilizations were destroyed because of their decadence. This turns out to be true, after a fashion, but not in the sanctimonious way that the new civilizations believe. It eventually becomes clear that these various peoples survived the war because they were deemed too irrelevant and inconsequential to bomb.


And another trite idea:
-Comedy skit concept: Older sibling becomes mad with power while babysitting younger sibling. Turns house into orwellian police state complete with "Big Brother is watching you" posters.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Satire/deconstruction of superhero genre featuring an animal control unit tasked with containing the hundreds of animals which surely must gain superpowers in the wake of any pollution-related industrial disaster in a world where chemical spills can cause superpowers. "Superfund" jokes abound.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Rococo Modem Basilisk

A message is discovered, written by David Bowie shortly before his death. It is a letter, written long-hand. It says "feed him, or the stars will come right". The envelope contains a key belonging to a locker room in a public swimming pool in Berlin. A group of occult investigators must now race against the clock to isolate and seal away... The Thing From Davey Jones's Locker!


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Freeky


Rococo Modem Basilisk

The Elizabethan government is drawn into the internal political machinations of the angel world after Dee attempts to gain their help in the war against the Spanish, resulting in Shakespeare outing Marlowe as a double-agent & mole on the side of the angels (and eliminating him in a dank dive bar).


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Ok, I just got an idea for a TV show. Probably not a viable idea for legal and liability reasons, but an interesting one. It's a vaguely Mythbusters-esque show called "What If" which sets out to answer the sort of not-conveniently-answerable questions that come to people while hih or sleep deprived or recovering from sedation. Each week they'd take questions from actual stoners, insomniacs, and so forth and test them out. For example, someone might be wondering what would happen if you gave a sloth crystal meth, so they'd find a sloth and give it meth snd see what changes happened in it's behavior
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

minuspace

The First Encounter of the Third Kind actually happened to Walt Disney, whereupon he decided to copyright the alien language, alphabet, and all record of communication therewith, in near perpetuity.   Precluding the capacity to decipher any of their messages, or that some random noise may have actually come from elsewhere, humans remain blind to the truth of that what they consider most essential of/to themselves.  This is that their imagination is not their own.

All abstract or creative thought, arising from apparent memories of past experience, or dreams of what may come, all of it, in it's entirety, derives from signal beamed directly to our brains by perniciously indifferent aliens.  It just so happens they gain significant bandwidth by repeating signal though our headspace.  Once the copyright held by Disney expires, or is effectively contested, then humans will again start to understand the meaning that informs their thoughts.  Beyond the what and how of things, we will be given to grasping why we already always were the messengers of causality.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

There' a legendary figure who hasn't aged since the 1940's. He is sought out by the protagonists who seek to learn his secrets. He tells them of a place and a ritual that can grant any person a magical wish, such as the wish he made for immortality. The seekers go to the place and repeat the ritual and it works, but not quite right. Over time they start to develop growths and tumors, cancers throughout the entire body with the exception of parts of the brain. The cancer doesn't kill them though. The ritual worked and is the reason for the cancer. None of their cells are dying but their cells are continuing to divide and continually building up. It turns out that the first guy had walking-ghost stage radiation poisoning when he did the ritual and that's why he didn't have these side effects.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago