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

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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Misc Ideas:

*Conspiracy theory: Space aliens gave the Atomic Bomb to the allied powers. Sort of an updated version of aliens-built the pyramids. I for one find the fact that the first atom bomb was built using 1940's technology to be much more fantastical than the fact that the ancient egyptians were able to pile one rock on top of another using only ancient egyptian technology

*Skit about a televangelist faith healer where all the people coming up to be healed have vulgar afflictions like diarrhea or foot odor or herpes or erectile dysfunction

*On a related note, a televangelist themed porno: "What afflicts you jy brother" "I can't maintain an erection" "let me touch your penis and you will be healed" etc

*Society of anthropomprphic sea squirts which fears adulthood - equating it with death - as many types of sea squirts lose their brains after metamorphosis
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He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Slash fic of the old spice guy and the dos equis guy
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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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 02, 2018, 09:09:09 AM

*Conspiracy theory: Space aliens gave the Atomic Bomb to the allied powers. Sort of an updated version of aliens-built the pyramids. I for one find the fact that the first atom bomb was built using 1940's technology to be much more fantastical than the fact that the ancient egyptians were able to pile one rock on top of another using only ancient egyptian technology

Ignores the fact that computing, proper centerfuges, etc, were invented on the fly for that very purpose.  1938 tech could not build the bomb; 1943 tech could not NOT build the bomb.

American history didn't actually start until 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945.  At 5:28, we thought we could do anything, we were the USA.  At 5:31, we knew we could do anything, we were America.

For good or for ill.
Molon Lube

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

*A supervillain compulsively monologues gives away his evil plans and just generally information he probably shouldn't be saying out loud. He can't stop himself. It gets worse and worse. Eventually he resorts to driving a spike into his left temporal lobe

*Cartoon where mythological trickster gods are stars of a Jackass-esque show-within-a-show

*A factory in orbit. Cuts down on transportation time of finished goods and ozone gas produced as a byproduct of whatever this particular factory does becomes a positive boon rather than a pollutant as it is released into the upper rather than lower atmosphere

*A character who is so abusive their cover story is that their spouse "fell down the stairs shaving"
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

#1429
Spinoff/fanfic of The Phantom Tollbooth in which there is strife between the Lethargians and a faction led by the Terrible Trivial

EDIT:
Another idea:

*"Holy Shit"- A mock televangelical program, based on Peter Popoff's pitches for "miracle spring water", in which a preacher preaches and pitches "holy shit", interspersed with testimonies from people who have rubbed the holy shit on themselves or eaten it and thereby been cured of diseases
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

axod

Neutrino from distant galaxy blazar shows up at IceCube to play a round of vidio games.
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minuspace

Mystery Russian telecom satellite makes room for Putin's reality show inside US minds.

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#1432
This one's not a story idea, it's an idea for a business (thought it could also work well as a location that the characters go to in a story or m0vie):

A restaurant with a horror movie theme. It's nearly pitch dark, save for some flickering green lights, except when the waitstaff bring something out from the kitchen, at which point strobe lights flash behind the kitchen door. The waitstaff are all dressed as either slashers or supernatural spooks. The music is a mix of spooky music like Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor, Halloween novelty songs like Monster Mash, themesongs from horror movies, and possibly horrorcore songs like Dead Body Man and If I Was A Serial Killer .All the meat products are prepared in a way that emphasizes the fact that they were once alive; one of the dishes is a whole roast pig that comes with a long knife jammed in its back. Hot wings are also served. When the bones come back, instead of being thrown out they are cleaned and dropped into a clear hollow plexiglass wall mounted flush to one of the real walls. As time goes on this chamber fills up with bones. The menus are block printed in cow's blood (but laminated for sanitary purposes)
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

#1433
The story of a pacifistic vampire who subsists on used tampons and maxi pads.

EDIT:
On a related note:

Shortly after the invention of the birth control pill there are a wake of vampire attacks as the pill suppresses mensturation and vampires can no longer as easily get their fix from used maxi pads since so many people are now on the pill. The part of the prescription with the week of non-medicated pills to allow mensturation to take place eventually comes about as part of a secret peace treaty between the human authorities and the vampire underworld.



EDIT:
Quote from: Cain on January 28, 2011, 11:23:39 PM
Alternate history original story idea: the Russian Revolution fails, only for proto-fascist Whites to come to power, slowly but steadily turning Imperial Russia into a Nazi Germany style state.

This one has great potential for affecting everything up to the present day in so many ways.  If you have the Spartacist uprising in Bavarian succeeding, you essentially have swapped Russia and Germany's places.  How does the Polish-Russian War of 1920-22 go down?  Since France played a large role in that war and was acting primarily against the USSR, it has no reason to get involved in this war.  In fact, the French may back the Whites against Poland.  Does the Entente Cordiale survive WWI?  How does Japan react to Russian militarism?  Etc etc

I think it would be cool to do the converse. The whites win instead of the reds but history plays out mostly the same with the intended moral being that 1.) any philosophy professed by a dictatorial state is generally just meaningless window dressing and 2.) Dictators are a fungible commodity
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

Science fiction story where the creator of an anti-aging and youth restoring serum has his research stolen by a gang of assassins who plan to debelop it into a weapon that will allow them to exploit legal loopholes and kill people legally by reverting them to a fetal/embryonic state.
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

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 20, 2018, 05:22:06 PM
Science fiction story where the creator of an anti-aging and youth restoring serum has his research stolen by a gang of assassins who plan to debelop it into a weapon that will allow them to exploit legal loopholes and kill people legally by reverting them to a fetal/embryonic state.
Sparks development of 'The Orbitrator': egg-like cocoon deploys over neo-natal subscriber and is propelled into orbit before rebirth. Technology remains very expensive and is mainly only available to US presidents via DARPA.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

A retelling of Dracula where Lucy is an idol, Mina is her otaku friend who she secretly is into, Dracula is a VC who's buying up prime Tokyo real estate & has convinced himself that turning the whole world into vampires is inevitable & therefore he should accelerate the process. After turning, Lucy ends up literally preying on her fans in order to avoid eating Mina, while graduating from hidden crush to a Carmilla type relationship. Lucy's managers don't tell anybody she's dead, of course, and just try to subtly shift her fans to other groups. So, of course they are concerned when she does unscheduled performances on her own -- leaving none of the attendees alive! Lucy and Mina team up to fight Dracula. Van Hellsing is an anon -- he never actually shows up, and instead just gives them advice based on his medical background and extensive otaku knowledge of pop-culture vampire media.


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

Two ideas:

*The story of a mad scientist trying to reanimate the dead who is sensible and starts out reanimating tissue from steaks and chickens from the supermarket instead of jumping straight into whole stolen bodies from the cemetery

*A movie starts with the police interviewing a suspect's friends; none of their stories match up. The rest of the movie is in flashback showing why all the seemingly contradictory stories are actually true. (for example, they can;t even agree on what he was wearing that night, and over the course of the flashback he spills stuff on himself and has to change his shirt twice)
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

axod

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 17, 2018, 06:14:00 PM
This one's not a story idea, it's an idea for a business (thought it could also work well as a location that the characters go to in a story or m0vie):

A restaurant with a horror movie theme. It's nearly pitch dark, save for some flickering green lights, except when the waitstaff bring something out from the kitchen, at which point strobe lights flash behind the kitchen door. The waitstaff are all dressed as either slashers or supernatural spooks. The music is a mix of spooky music like Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor, Halloween novelty songs like Monster Mash, themesongs from horror movies, and possibly horrorcore songs like Dead Body Man and If I Was A Serial Killer .All the meat products are prepared in a way that emphasizes the fact that they were once alive; one of the dishes is a whole roast pig that comes with a long knife jammed in its back. Hot wings are also served. When the bones come back, instead of being thrown out they are cleaned and dropped into a clear hollow plexiglass wall mounted flush to one of the real walls. As time goes on this chamber fills up with bones. The menus are block printed in cow's blood (but laminated for sanitary purposes)
I floated this and think it could be done, add marijuana and a car service and I think it would rock. eating death in the fall is awesome.
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axod

Because simeone has to foot it, thee experience of death can now be outsourced to a ghost wryder.
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