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

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Cain

A subplot may also deal with a growing human subculture interested in eating sapient alien space bananas.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 18, 2015, 10:57:09 PM
An alien cargo ship crash-lands on earth, containing a large number of relatively weak, docile aliens, all of whom are genetically identical. After a year or so, they learn a human language (and their language is decoded) and we discover that they were being cloned and bred as a food source -- they are the alien equivalent of bananas, except that they are sapient; they were genetically engineered to resist disease without changing their flavor because of several near-collapses of the monoculture. As they integrate into human society, splinter groups form and (inspired by human cultural artifacts) decide to free their brethren and take revenge against the culture that was breeding them. A handful infiltrate the facility where the crashed cargo craft is kept, but they are killed by base security, leading to widespread race riots in large cities between humans and the alien space bananas.

That sounds awesome
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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#332
-A renaissance or eraly industrial revolution era story somehow linking together Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Night of the Lepus, in regard to killer bunnies (but without explicitly referencing either movie)

-A monster movie where the ones being terrorized by the monsters are also monsters themselves. Perhaps a warlike race of alien conquerers is decimated by some sort of undead apocalypse (either zombies, ghouls, or feral vampires) that begins among their conquered slaves but soon spreads everywhere. (This idea initially started out as an idea for a D&D encounter, a mindflayer city overrun by zombies and demons)

-The sinister reason why the insignias of the Flying Spaghatti Monster and that of the goetic demon Bifrons are vaguely similar looking if you squint your eyes right

-Plan 9 From Outer Space retold as an allegory for the Iraq war. (The aliens are looking for solarinite weapons, Earth doesn't have any solarinite weapons, the aloen leaders are clearly incompetant...)


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-or the opposite of the above, a movie about the Iraq war whose plot includes fantastic elements clearly cribbed from Plan 9
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a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


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


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LMNO

Oh, wow.  I just pictured this scene:

George W Bush: "The Earth people are getting closer to that which we fear. Since they will not listen or respect our existence, they cannot help but believe our powers when they see their own dead walking around again, brought about by our advancement in such things. As soon as you have enough of the dead recruits, march them on the capitals of the Earth; let nothing stand in your way. Their own dead will be used to make them accept our existence and believe in that fact."

Colin Powell: "Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it."

Condi Rice: "First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite."

Hillary Clinton: "Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it "mad" that one planet must destroy another who threatens the very existence-..."

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#334
A story where it is deliberately unclear whether it passes the Bechdel test because the female characters are of ambiguous sexuality and their unseen significant otners all have androgynous names.

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-The tribulations of an Italian or Italian-American vampire living in a garlic-heavy neighborhood.

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-A parody of Disney/Pixar's Planes about a flying  saucer that vehemently insists that it is a weather balloon


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-As part of a parody of Harry Potter dorm assignments are assigned by drawing lots out of an old hat.
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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


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Rococo Modem Basilisk

A corrupt priest sits rotting in a Vatican City jail after stealing parish funds to pay off gambling debts. One day, the Pope himself visits him, and tells him that the Antichrist has been born and that he must find a relic -- a book bound in Christ's foreskin, with vellum pages made from the hide of the original scape-goat, with instructions on how to defeat God's army in the end times -- and destroy it. In order to do so, he must use the training and skills he swore off when he joined the priesthood so many years before, and once again adopt the name he swore he would never again answer to -- James Bond.


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.

axod

#336
Across the pond, on an oil tanker proximate the Cayman's, industrious cannoli artisan-entrepreneur prepares human-alien banana-splits in smoked porpoise-egg Benedict sauce every Sunday for brunch.  The recepie goes viral and evil extra-terrestrial overlords discover the extremely palatable nature of Human genetics.  This results in Earth becoming a top galactic gastro-tourist destination for the next big poly-olfactory Proto-Mongolian BBQ.  Quickly, it becomes apparent that this is the best thing that ever happened to our otherwise cosmically insignificant biosphere, and the Original cannoli artist is, in sacrificial effigy, roasted to perfection like a suckling pig on a spit.  He was first rubbed in fennel and then served to our most propicious spawn, with radichio and cave-aged lard.
just this

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#337
In this satire of movies like The Lazarus Effect or Event Horizon or Jurassic Park, The story follows two unrelated teams of scientists. The first team, while working on genetically modified high yield crops or new medicines or reanimating the dead or something like that, accidentally creates an unstoppable monster. Meanwhile the second group - a team of Nazi mad scientists working in a secret laboratory in Argentina to develop an airborne drug-resistent strain of the bubonic plague which they plan to release in Israel and in New York City - accidentally stumbles upon a discobery which will have enormous benefits for all mankind and may also hold the key to defeating the monster.
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


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Rococo Modem Basilisk

A three act action-movie structure. In the first act, a talented rookie cop who plays by the rules uncovers wide-scale corruption in the force, and learns that he has to work outside the system in order to take down the systemic corruption. In the second act, that same cop tries to take down the organized crime syndicate that was manipulating the corrupt officials, but finds that he is unable to do so by himself by flouting the rules and doing things his way, and instead utilizes the system (in the process finding it necessary to make amends with the cops that were involved in some of the more minor corruption, in order to join forces and mobilize to defeat a larger problem). In the third act, he discovers that the few people he continued to trust from the first act into the second were being manipulated by a third party -- a large and wealthy private mercenary corporation with strong ties to an obscure but powerful religious cult -- and that in order to deal with this threat, he needs to break all the rules and go on his own to take down the cult leader, knowing that he will at best be arrested or become a fugitive of justice afterwards. (So, basically, The Parable of the Gong meets Die Hard)


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.

Cain

I was hoping in the third act it would be revealed that the corrupt cops were themselves cops acting outside of the system in hope of taking down a yet higher corrupt figure (like a Mayor or Governor).  But then the story becomes a parable about he who stares into the abyss and the ends justifying the means.

EK WAFFLR

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They all have tuberculosis, but they're fighting bravely.
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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on March 06, 2015, 01:48:34 AM
A corrupt priest sits rotting in a Vatican City jail after stealing parish funds to pay off gambling debts. One day, the Pope himself visits him, and tells him that the Antichrist has been born and that he must find a relic -- a book bound in Christ's foreskin, with vellum pages made from the hide of the original scape-goat, with instructions on how to defeat God's army in the end times -- and destroy it. In order to do so, he must use the training and skills he swore off when he joined the priesthood so many years before, and once again adopt the name he swore he would never again answer to -- James Bond.

OMG that's great!
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

Q. G. Pennyworth

You know that show "Wheeler Dealers" where one loud incompetent British guy buys shitty cars and gets his goofy looking mechanic to fix them? That, but robot bodies instead of cars. And maybe not British.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on April 10, 2015, 02:19:05 AM
You know that show "Wheeler Dealers" where one loud incompetent British guy buys shitty cars and gets his goofy looking mechanic to fix them? That, but robot bodies instead of cars. And maybe not British.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on April 10, 2015, 02:19:05 AM
You know that show "Wheeler Dealers" where one loud incompetent British guy buys shitty cars and gets his goofy looking mechanic to fix them? That, but robot bodies instead of cars. And maybe not British.

Instead of British it's an anachronistic antebellum southern gentleman buying enslaved transformers he plans to force to work on his cotton plantation after they're repaired
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