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Title: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 11, 2009, 09:40:54 PM
This is like the One Line Meme Bomb thread... just post quick ideas, maybe a few of 'em will be awesome.

It's challenging to come up with plotlines that haven't been raped to death yet!


I started off brainstorming "movie ideas", but movies are very large... some of these might work better as short stories or sketches or something.




Computer Animated sperm undertake a magical journey on their way to personhood. This is a suspense drama because although all the sperm are on the same team, they're also in competition. Oh, and the sperm's personalities are modeled after the Ninja Turtles.



A guy working at a beer factory discovers a flaw he can use to get a truck full of free keg beer every weekend. He then goes on road trips, getting into crazy adventures and being the life of the party. But how can he go back to his boring factory job after having such bad ass weekends?



A guy is given three wishes. One wish later, he's the last man on earth. Still tons of women, though!



A ex-hippie scientist tries to invent the next LSD and accidentally invents a drug that gives him telepathy. Rather than keeping this a secret, he markets the hell out of it. Soon, nearly everybody in the country is a telepath. They try to outlaw the drug, but court rooms are now a total mess. Eventually it's taken back off the market, but now nobody can cope with not being able to read minds. So instead of building a better, happier world with LSD, he inadvertently turns it into a paranoid asylum.



In a world where you can learn new things by plugging hardware into your brain, disinformation trolling becomes a method of warfare. Fifty years later, the world is in a coma of disinformation. Everybody in the world holds wildly innacurate beliefs. An team of hackers / information scientists tries to liberate humanity from the blanket of delusion they've been living under. This is, of course, considered terrorism.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 11, 2009, 09:47:51 PM
A young man from Saratoga Springs had a dream of becoming the next industrial metal superstar.  However, after joining the fabric of the local open-mic scene, he is quickly immersed in an alternate lifestyle filled with caffeine, noxema, and bad poetry.  By chance, a young woman passing through Saratoga Springs has a hankering for a latte and stops in during one of his performances.  She gives young Luke a total makeover and talks him into auditioning for American Idle.  In a bizarre twist, he falls in love with Randy Jackson and they run off to Mexico to raise ostriches and have lots of sex. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 11, 2009, 09:55:00 PM
Actually, that last one of yours Cram was very similar to an idea of mine: of memetic police who oversee the noosphere and stop aberrant, cancerous tumours getting out of control.  Yours adds a mechanical twist I hadn't figured out for mine yet though.

I may run with that, because its hella cool.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 11, 2009, 10:29:40 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 11, 2009, 09:55:00 PM
Actually, that last one of yours Cram was very similar to an idea of mine: of memetic police who oversee the noosphere and stop aberrant, cancerous tumours getting out of control.  Yours adds a mechanical twist I hadn't figured out for mine yet though.

I may run with that, because its hella cool.

:thanks:

another twist that occurs to me is that the heroic hackers are actually the delusional ones who have been targeted by actual terrorists.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 11, 2009, 10:50:19 PM
Homeful: The movie follows the life of "extreme downshifters". Once, they were white collar slaves. Now they have chosen voluntary homlessness, considered "extreme downshifting". These homeless have to prove themselves in the world of the homeless, and do so by being more EXTREME. (in the day glo mountain dew snowboarding sort of way) You survive by eating rats? Oh yeah? I survive by eating turds!

They discover a law that says that if you live somewhere for five years, you can claim it as yours. So they move into an occupied mansion and try to live under the radar for five years. They're discovered, of course. But then the owners and the squatters have to team up to fight the town zoning committee, who wants the mansion replaced with an office building.

Happy ending: They beat the zoning committe by making the mansion a religious haven. The main character falls in love with the rich girl who owns the mansion. They start a commune-cult on the mansion property. Movie ends with corporate fatcats smoking crack with homeless people and everybody is all friendly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Adios on May 12, 2009, 01:56:13 AM
A small private members only water skiing lake in Colorado which is located near a closed nuclear test site is inundated with a long buried and forgotten gene altering substance that turns a group of water skiers into a super race who realize that saving the world is useless and instead turn 95% of the planet into the ideal water skiing haven.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pariah on May 12, 2009, 02:33:41 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 11, 2009, 09:40:54 PM
Computer Animated sperm undertake a magical journey on their way to personhood. This is a suspense drama because although all the sperm are on the same team, they're also in competition. Oh, and the sperm's personalities are modeled after the Ninja Turtles.

I think you could actually successfully market that to sex ed teachers around the country
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: DrShoggoth on May 12, 2009, 04:49:19 AM
An old redneck stands boots deep in a pond fishing, contemplating his son who has become some big city faggot. A fish bites and he engages in a protracted battle filled with throbbing homoerotic metaphors and undertones. Finally he catches the fish and looks over and sees an alien on the other side of the pond, watching him.

Fade out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 10:50:55 AM
He is a paranoid schizophrenic with expertise in Middle Eastern archeology and the Sumerian language.  She is his world-weary psychotherapist, bored of a life of treating the minor neuroses of trust-fund brats.  Together, they fight interdimensional crime!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: DrShoggoth on May 12, 2009, 11:23:18 AM
Aliens go back in time and show a young Adolf Hitler how the world would be even worse if he didn't do the terrible things he's done, making him feel a moral obligation to fulfill his destiny. It turns out the aliens are playing a very sick practical joke on humanity.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 11:31:11 AM
 :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 12:54:28 PM
A Daddy's boy with a C average fails at every business opportunity he tries.  He then becomes President of the USA.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Richter on May 12, 2009, 01:05:43 PM
A dashing secret agent overcomes incredible odds and gets horribly wounded stopping an evil plot to steal fissionable materials.
His triumph contains no fanfare or trips off with the love interest to screw on a  yacht.  There's only the bleak silence as ambulance sirens slowly approach and take him away.  He spends a week in the ICU listsening to machines and hospitals sounds why they try to re contruct his colon. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 01:07:52 PM
Everything falls apart, and no one does much of anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 12, 2009, 01:21:45 PM
Bill, a now former Wall St. executive, is forced to take on a job with the city's sanitation department.  That's right, Bill has turned to a life of grime. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 02:12:44 PM
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php

This might help.  For example, I got

Setting:                            Dangerous Workplace
Plot:                              Scooby Doo Hoax
Narrative Device:            Fling A Light Into The Future
Hero:                            Super Hero
Villain:                            Nebulous Evil Organisation
Character As Device:            Stock Character
Characterization Device:    Beware The Nice Ones


So I'm thinking what if there was a superhero who was immune to fire or choking, who worked as a fireman.  He is in fact an alien, the last of a dying race, who was sent to earth to spare him his civilization's destruction. 

Supposed acts of spontaneous human combustion are taking place, killing people and burning houses down.  However, these are in fact being staged by an evil organization of unknown origin, to remove old people and buildings from a prime peace of real estate in the setting, without having to pay the market price.  Our hero carefully tracks them down, only to be disgusted by their depraved evil and give them an epic ass kicking in the finale.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 02:32:12 PM
Anyone who can do something with this is a genius:

Setting:                            Veganopia
Plot:                                    A Friend In Need
Narrative Device:            Thwarted Escape
Hero:                            Action Mom
Villain:                            African Terrorists
Character As Device:            Romantic Runner Up
Characterization Device:    Trope Mobile


Setting:                            Hell Hotel
Plot:                                    Fighting For A Homeland
Narrative Device:            Freak Out
Hero:                            Homeless Hero
Villain:                            Villainous Glutton
Character As Device:            Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs
Characterization Device:    Nice To The Waiter


Setting:                            Friendly Local Chinatown
Plot:                                    Lottery Ticket
Narrative Device:            Poor Communication Kills
Hero:                            Lady Of Adventure
Villain:                            The Dragon
Character As Device:            Hometown Hero
Characterization Device:    Famous Ancestor


Setting:                            Local Hangout
Plot:                                    Everything But The Girl
Narrative Device:            Hannibal Lecture
Hero:                            Badass Bookworm
Villain:                            Hero Antagonist
Character As Device:            Drop In Character
Characterization Device:    Evil Sounds Deep
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 02:38:34 PM
Shit.  I'd love to do 3-minute trailers for each of those.  It would be a really fun project.


Hmmm... I wonder if any of my old student film major friends would be interested.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 02:56:08 PM
Setting:    Evil Tower Of Ominousness
Plot:    Fantastic Voyage
Narrative Device:    Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
Hero:    Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Villain:    Dragon With An Agenda
Character As Device:    Heroic Bastard
Characterization Device:    Dark Is Not Evil

The hero and the former lieutenant of an evil overlord team up on a mission to kill him.  Along the way, our almost sickeningly pure and good hero tries to find out what makes our former villain tick.  A metaphorical and literal journey into the Heart of Darkness results, as we learn the lieutenant has issues resulting from early in his life (namely being the bastard of a lord, and thus denied the birthright privileges accorded to his younger half-brother, instead relying on his skill in combat to make a name for himself in this world, and thus falling into the mercenary business, which eventually led him to work for the evil overlord).  Instead of exposing him as a villain with a Freudian excuse for his crimes, we see that while he is a fairly dark person, his agenda was far less harmful than that of the Big Bad, and so he comes across as non-evil, and even perhaps an Anti-villain.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 03:02:32 PM
Damn, you're good.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 12, 2009, 03:18:05 PM
Setting:    Scavenger World
Plot:    Invisible Main Character
Narrative Device:    Two Timer Date
Hero:    Anti Hero
Villain:    The Man Behind The Curtain
Character As Device:    Jumped At The Call
Characterization Device:    Eye Tropes

Set 100 years in the future, in the aftermath of superpowered terrorists attacks (like those described by John Robb) world infrastructure has fallen apart.  Our "hero" is a wheeler and dealer who survives by trading in "advanced" (ie just pre-crash) technology.  He happens to owe money to a particular corporate conglomerate, due to a gambling and drug habit that has him frittering away much of what he does make, and leaving him in massive debt when it comes to daily goods, like rent and food.

Because of the dire position he is in, he decides to loot a military base, where it was rumoured (according to a crackpot photocopy sheet which survived the crash and found its way into his hands) that hi-tech experiments were taking place.  While attempting to loot the place, he gets...infected, by a particular piece of technology, which renders him invisible to the naked eye.  At first, the effects are random, but later on he manages to gain a degree of control over when it happens, and to what extent.  At first, he uses it to simply feed his voyeuristic desires, and the occasional theft, but as he moves from place to place in the city he lives, he comes to appreciate the squalor people are kept in, while the corporate conglomerate he owes money to, stockpiles technology and lives in the lap of luxury by comparison.

And so starts the epic adventure of ass-kicking and revenge.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 02:57:59 PM
It is the year 2020. The teleporter is invented. The technology is actually somewhat cheap, and teleporters begin showing up all over the world. You are able to get one in your house at about the same cost as a car. Mankind is able to cheaply and quickly get from point A to point B on the other side of the world. The whole world changes - you can work in New York City and go home that night to your mansion in India. Drug trade goes through the roof. Terrorism is ubiquitous. The value of money falls into chaos and there are plans for a global currency.

Teleporting is also a little dicey. Sometimes you end up somewhere other than where you expected. The technology is still pretty young.

The story, however, is about a teleporter repairman.

His hobby is juryrigging teleporters so that at a certain time, they will teleport their passenger to a killer party in Dubai.

At first he has a lot of fun creating escapism from the weird weird world. He teleports bored people into this awesome party, and when they go home they've become world citizens instead of locals using their teleporters to go to work.


the theme is that once the barriers of space have been eliminated, separation between people will be eliminated. If you can have tea in a different city every day, how long can you keep that up before you get numb to the wonders of modern civilization? The new focus becomes creating new places to visit rather than visiting the old world.

I also wonder -- if people had teleporters, I wonder how adventurous they'd get. I know a lot of people here would want to go do some pretty awesome things if they could teleport anywhere in the world for free. But I have a feeling a lot of people would just visit their "dream vacation" spot every single day until they had assimilated it into their routine.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 02:59:33 PM
The initial culture shock would be enormous.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:01:40 PM
There is actually a Hayden Christensen movie about a guy who gets an ability like this.  Its not technology, but inborn, and only a few others have it.  He uses it to rob banks and get rich, and then party and surf all over the world.

Oh, and there is some stupid religious bigotry/romance subplot, but that was crap.  Focusing on it, from a technological and society-wide/global point of view would be far more fun, and questioning.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 03:02:09 PM
"Jumpers"?


Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:03:20 PM
The one and the same.

I was so fucking annoyed after seeing that, because if I had the money right now, I'd be in Greece or Antarctica.  Teleporting would remove the need for even that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 03:15:52 PM
I was annoyed after seeing that, because it was terrible.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 03:17:27 PM
A love story

It's a romance between two ultra-weird people

and a quiet woodsy chick
   who happens to be a Dendrophiliac


and
a really bad method actor
   who found inner peace during a school play while portraying a tree



Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:17:38 PM
Well, duh, it had Hayden Christensen in a lead role.

You didn't see it at the cinema, did you?  I watched it because it was a slow night on TV and that was recorded.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 03:19:12 PM
Take any movie plotline about wisecracking CGI animals

but it's a live action movie
  and instead of actual animals, they're human beings in fursuits

trying to save the forest from being bulldozed or something





this might mash well with that last idea


Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:20:46 PM
Furries try to save a forest by holding a Conservation-con there.

Evil corrupt corporate executives hire Christina Aguilera and Redman to drive them out.  And they do, in graphic detail.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 13, 2009, 03:22:46 PM
Heh, a Con-con. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 03:27:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:20:46 PM
Furries try to save a forest by holding a Conservation-con there.

Evil corrupt corporate executives hire Christina Aguilera and Redman to drive them out.  And they do, in graphic detail.

Ok, this made me hot.  Of course.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on May 13, 2009, 05:05:11 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 13, 2009, 03:22:46 PM
Heh, a Con-con. 

so if you'd go there, you'd be a two-con man?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Richter on May 13, 2009, 05:12:29 PM
An idealistic 18 year old is called upon to undertake a hero's journey, learn to use his mystical powers, and save the world, but refuses on the grounds that "saving" the world would only be allowing the continuance of stagnated tradition and unacceptable status quo. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 05:16:33 PM
It's like Candide, only more pessimistic!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 13, 2009, 05:25:11 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on May 13, 2009, 05:05:11 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 13, 2009, 03:22:46 PM
Heh, a Con-con. 

so if you'd go there, you'd be a two-con man?

And if you'r a liberal, it's a con-con-con.

I imagine they have those at Radio City. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on May 13, 2009, 05:26:58 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 02:57:59 PMthe theme is that once the barriers of space have been eliminated, separation between people will be eliminated. If you can have tea in a different city every day, how long can you keep that up before you get numb to the wonders of modern civilization? The new focus becomes creating new places to visit rather than visiting the old world.

I also wonder -- if people had teleporters, I wonder how adventurous they'd get. I know a lot of people here would want to go do some pretty awesome things if they could teleport anywhere in the world for free. But I have a feeling a lot of people would just visit their "dream vacation" spot every single day until they had assimilated it into their routine.

Depending on the technology, I'd be very hesitant to step into a teleporter. Even if chance of failure would be negligible (aka lte getting in a car crash).

Cause, call me weird, but with my regular personal belief of "mind/consciousness as an emergent property of the body", if you'd transport a person, atom by atom, breaking it down, digitizing it, sending and rebuilding it, physically completely equivalent, functioning exactly the same for everybody observing it, having the exact same memories etc.

but how would it "feel" or be experienced from the perspective of the consciousness that gets disintegrated to bits? there is no way, not even in theory, to tell (in a vaguely analogous sort of as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide -- but without the quantum)

and if you could do this, couldnt you also rebuild the person twice or even more? which one would be "real"? all of them right? so, how could you merge them again?  by throwing them both through a teleporter and only rebuilding one of them? wouldnt that be equivalent to just killing off the other?

however, if teleporting would consist of a sort of "portal" type technology that somehow stitches two parts of space together so you can pass through, I wouldn't have this issue with it, because you stay in one piece.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Richter on May 13, 2009, 05:40:30 PM
The story of a society where once the average age of the next generation reaches 18, they are expected to move 20 miles west and establish a new village / city on their own.  The plot follows a generation doing so, and their quest to define what kind of orgaization, structures, and lifetyle they want for themselves.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on May 13, 2009, 08:44:04 PM
One fateful day, for no discernible reason...








all caffeine stops working. No matter what the source, in this modern-day setting, caffeine becomes ineffective.


Hilarity ensues.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 08:51:51 PM
similar:


The Deity appears to every human being.

He says "Hi everybody! Yes I'm real. We're at the End Times now, and I'm changing the rules of morality so that killing is now considered Good. In fact, killing is now the only measure of goodness. And only 25% of you are going to get into heaven.

I'm also changing the way the material world works. No form of distance communication will function anymore, including TV, Radio, Internet, telegraph, whatever. Gunpowder, explosives, and gasoline are also now just as effective as water. You've got a week before I close up shop and turn off the lights, so have fun!"



seconds later I'm behind the building, sharpening a metal pole on the asphalt.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on May 13, 2009, 08:54:07 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on May 13, 2009, 05:05:11 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 13, 2009, 03:22:46 PM
Heh, a Con-con. 

so if you'd go there, you'd be a two-con man?

Two-Con Sam:

(http://www.kelloggs.ca/french/whoweare/images/char_toucansam.gif)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 13, 2009, 08:56:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 03:27:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:20:46 PM
Furries try to save a forest by holding a Conservation-con there.

Evil corrupt corporate executives hire Christina Aguilera and Redman to drive them out.  And they do, in graphic detail.

Ok, this made me hot.  Of course.

Sequel: Conservative Furry terrorists attempt to assassinate President Obama.

Who does the O-man call, to deal with this problem?

Who do you think?  8)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 08:51:51 PM
similar:


The Deity appears to every human being.

He says "Hi everybody! Yes I'm real. We're at the End Times now, and I'm changing the rules of morality so that killing is now considered Good. In fact, killing is now the only measure of goodness. And only 25% of you are going to get into heaven.

I'm also changing the way the material world works. No form of distance communication will function anymore, including TV, Radio, Internet, telegraph, whatever. Gunpowder, explosives, and gasoline are also now just as effective as water. You've got a week before I close up shop and turn off the lights, so have fun!"



seconds later I'm behind the building, sharpening a metal pole on the asphalt.

:lulz:  Needs a :tears of joy:

Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on May 13, 2009, 09:23:42 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that a friend of mine worked this exact phrase into his Philosophy midterm paper. The teacher gave no comment and he got a B+.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:25:38 PM
Quote from: Cainad on May 13, 2009, 09:23:42 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that a friend of mine worked this exact phrase into his Philosophy midterm paper. The teacher gave no comment and he got a B+.
:lulz:
That's another idea in itself:  The antics, struggles, and victories of a college club devoted to missionary work in the name of laying more skulls before the throne of their lord.  "Campus Crusade for Khorne"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 14, 2009, 11:54:00 AM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:25:38 PM
Quote from: Cainad on May 13, 2009, 09:23:42 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that a friend of mine worked this exact phrase into his Philosophy midterm paper. The teacher gave no comment and he got a B+.
:lulz:
That's another idea in itself:  The antics, struggles, and victories of a college club devoted to missionary work in the name of laying more skulls before the throne of their lord.  "Campus Crusade for Khorne"

Alternatively, this can be "Oil for the Oil God!"

Hint that it is a metaphor for the War on Terror outside of the work, but never actually suggest so within the work.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on May 14, 2009, 01:22:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 13, 2009, 08:56:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 13, 2009, 03:27:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 13, 2009, 03:20:46 PM
Furries try to save a forest by holding a Conservation-con there.

Evil corrupt corporate executives hire Christina Aguilera and Redman to drive them out.  And they do, in graphic detail.

Ok, this made me hot.  Of course.

Sequel: Conservative Furry terrorists attempt to assassinate President Obama.

Who does the O-man call, to deal with this problem?

Who do you think?  8)

Only if Obama and Redman doubleteam Xtina afterwards.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on June 24, 2009, 06:05:20 PM
In the near dystopian future, politically motivated crime is considered a mental illness.  Our protagonist, a bitter expert on terrorism and aberrant psychology, and strong critic of the government, is imprisoned for meeting with terrorists (as part of his research, however the government and farcical legal system indict him as a co-conspirator).  Cue an ontological mystery set in a psych ward, where our protagonist attempts to outwit the guards, grind down the psychiatrists attempting to "cure" his "socio-political deviancy" and trying to not go insane as he is surrounded by less than sane people all day and drugged frequently.

I mentally drafted a few scenes of this while the hairdresser attempted to kill me.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on June 24, 2009, 06:15:24 PM
I like this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on June 24, 2009, 06:18:33 PM
I was intending to make it very psychological and philosophical.  Questions about society, psychotherapy, terrorism, the relationship between the state, ideology and prison practices, madness etc  There is so much potential material for it in such a setting.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on June 24, 2009, 06:21:48 PM
As they say, write what you know...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cait M. R. on June 24, 2009, 09:34:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on June 24, 2009, 06:05:20 PM
In the near dystopian future, politically motivated crime is considered a mental illness.  Our protagonist, a bitter expert on terrorism and aberrant psychology, and strong critic of the government, is imprisoned for meeting with terrorists (as part of his research, however the government and farcical legal system indict him as a co-conspirator).  Cue an ontological mystery set in a psych ward, where our protagonist attempts to outwit the guards, grind down the psychiatrists attempting to "cure" his "socio-political deviancy" and trying to not go insane as he is surrounded by less than sane people all day and drugged frequently.

I mentally drafted a few scenes of this while the hairdresser attempted to kill me.

I would like to read this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2009, 09:52:37 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:25:38 PM
Quote from: Cainad on May 13, 2009, 09:23:42 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that a friend of mine worked this exact phrase into his Philosophy midterm paper. The teacher gave no comment and he got a B+.
:lulz:
That's another idea in itself:  The antics, struggles, and victories of a college club devoted to missionary work in the name of laying more skulls before the throne of their lord.  "Campus Crusade for Khorne"

Also, this same guy worked "skulls for the skull throne" into his final, but that was overshadowed by the fact that his whole paper was an analysis of the D&D 9 alignments system.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Kurt Christ on June 24, 2009, 10:52:37 PM
The second to last idea in Cram's OP reminded me of an idea I had- the story follows a young boy without any sort of psionic powers in a world where telepaths are the norm. He's seen as if he were blind or deaf, and has to learn to cope with everyone else knowing what he's thinking all the time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Dark Monk on July 11, 2009, 11:27:28 AM
SOMETHING ABOUT TESTICLESS.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Archduke Omni-Fap! on July 11, 2009, 01:57:57 PM
In the not-too-distant future, the decision is made to link parliamentary candidates to tabloid celebrities in an attempt to improve voter turnout. The corpses of Jade Goody and Princess Diana are exhumed and combined into a decaying grotesque by the Daily Mail's genetic research labs, and the resulting abomination seizes power with its horrible tentacles...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on July 12, 2009, 03:51:07 AM
Through a mystifying combination of mad science and ancient magic every old wives' tale becomes true.  Millions of masturbating young men grow hair on their palms and eventually turn blind.  Young children making faces find that, indeed, it becomes stuck that way.

I don't have time to elaborate any further right now.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on July 13, 2009, 12:38:00 PM
Kettles boil quicker when you don't watch them.  An apple a day physically repels doctors...whether you want to see one or not!

I think thats an awesome premise actually.  Very Terry Pratchett-esque.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Golden Applesauce on July 13, 2009, 04:49:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 13, 2009, 12:38:00 PM
Kettles boil quicker when you don't watch them.  An apple a day physically repels doctors...whether you want to see one or not!

I think thats an awesome premise actually.  Very Terry Pratchett-esque.

The bit about kettles has disturbing consequences for the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2009, 04:56:44 PM
A group of people are working on a collaborative wiki project, and eventually realize that one of the contributors isn't even a real person. As it turns out, he's posting from beyonnnnd the graaaave

the book comes to a climax in a cyber-seance, where the heroes communicate with the dead guy via IRC. To lay him to rest, they must wage a wikipedia edit war on his behalf to make sure his life's work isn't trolled and vandalized.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on July 13, 2009, 05:37:28 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 13, 2009, 12:38:00 PM
Kettles boil quicker when you don't watch them.  An apple a day physically repels doctors...whether you want to see one or not!

I think thats an awesome premise actually.  Very Terry Pratchett-esque.

Slightly different idea in the same vein, a world where literally that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.  The entire world shifts from pain aversion to pain seeking behavior with accidental deaths skyrocketing from those trying to push their physical limits.  The survivors of such radical measures become virtually indestructible.  Governments regularly abuse their own soldiers within inches of their lives in an arms race based on superhuman combat.  Police forces need to likewise train their officers in order to combat gangs swelling with Herculean members.  "Non-lethal" methods of subduing criminals such as tazing and pepper spray are useless, as the dosage required to stop a veritable behemoth would kill any "average" human.  Our hero is a journalist investigating what brought this phenomenon about two generations ago, and stumbles upon a terrible truth.  He is hunted by private and national interests to silence his discovery, which includes how to reverse the shift.  He succeeds, only to bring society to the brink of collapse, every aspect of life having depended on our newfound strength.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Kai on July 14, 2009, 12:24:46 AM
"could also see potential blockbusters where proselytizing alien armadas are used to explore our relationship with religious traditions and what happens when two immovable forces meet."

From a post on the Weird World blog speculating on the future effects of District 9 on alien portrayal.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Remington on July 14, 2009, 04:05:25 AM
Oh no... thought Alice as she watched the velociraptor pull itself out of the smoking ruins of the Time Machine, Not again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 14, 2009, 08:22:17 PM
Our universe suddenly transitions to operating not on physics, but on aristotlean logic. Ravens quickly become black holes, and anyone who changes their mind ceases to exist, since they are a contradiction in the unified and artificially divided 'now'.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on July 14, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
It's 7 o'clock in the evening.  John Brown is just sitting down to do his calculus homework.  Suddenly, his desk starts to shake and vibrate.  Panning over, we see that his Texas Instruments graphing calculator is the force.  The shaking becomes more violent and is now affecting the whole house.  To John's astonishment, the calculator starts to unfold, and increase in size.  It is growing legs, and arms.  From his backpack, his compass emerges, undergoing a similar transformation accompanied by his ruler.  John looks up at what was his graphing calculator and asks: "Who...who are you?"

"I am Parabolous Prime!  And this...is a Sine of the Times!"

Coming in the Summer of 2010....Transformers 3: Rise of the Nerdobots!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Kai on July 14, 2009, 09:58:38 PM
"sine of the times"

:x :x :x :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on August 07, 2009, 12:46:44 PM
Cram, you want me to sticky this in Literate Chaotic, for easy reference?

Edit: too late, already moved it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 16, 2009, 04:14:57 PM
From former British ambassador, Craig Murry:

QuoteCraig Murray, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, stumbles across the fact that the British government is routinely receiving intelligence from torture, through the CIA. He knows that the CIA is flying people in to Uzbekistan to be tortured. He directly documents a number of false flag bombings and other devices designed to exaggerate the al-Qaida threat in Central Asia.

He dutifully reports all this back to his superiors in London. He is recalled, told that this is UK policy and he should shut up. Continuing his investigations in Tashkent, he is suddenly faced with eighteen serious disciplinary allegations. They include criminal allegations like selling visas for sex, and an accusation that he is an alcohlic.

He is told the allegations will be heard in secret and he is not allowed to tell anyone, not even to prepare a defence. He has a nervous breakdown. Downing St leaks details of the more lurid allegations to the tabloids but this backfires. Murray is known in media circles and his human rights work is respected. The accusations meet with widespread media derision, and Murray is acquitted on all counts.

Returning to Tashkent in triumph, he collapses after two days with multiple pulmonary emboli (blood clots in both lungs). He nearly dies and is in a coma for five days. There is never an explanation of the cause of so many blood clots, and doctors are suspicious. Unexpectedly he recovers, but is given six months to three years to live due to resulting pulmonary hypertension. He is dismissed as Ambassador when one of his telegrams on torture and intelligence is leaked to the Financial Times - who nonetheless do not publish the most damning bits.

Murray proves to have the extremely rare ability to regrow the arteries in his lungs, and starts to recover. He tries to make public the British government's complicity in torture, releasing documents on the internet and publishing Murder in Samarkand, which tells the above story.

Murray stands against Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in Blackburn in the 2005 General Election. The BBC make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Murray. Esther Oxford, the Assistant Director and cinematographer on the documentary, lives with Murray for four weeks to film it. After the election Oxford and her camera are even admitted to the operating theatre for Murray's heart surgery.

Murray becomes good friends with Oxford and presenter John Sweeney. But when the documentary is made, The Ambassador's Last Stand concentrates heavily on Murray's personal eccentricities and thus discounts his allegations of British government complicity in torture. The Murrays and Oxfords remain friends, however. Murray meets Esther's father, the virologist Professor John Oxford, and Murray's wife Nadira dances at Esther's wedding.

Murray gives evidence to the European Parliament on UK complicity in torture. Returning on the Eurostar, he sits with a Tory MEP, a descendant of T E Lawrence. The MEP shows Murray on the train Lawrence's original map of proposed boundaries for the Middle East.

In researching the possible dangers from avian flu, Prof Oxford exhumes a victim of the Spanish flu of 1919, who was buried in a lead coffin. The corpse is not just anybody - it is Sir Mark Sykes. Sykes is the diplomat who negotiated the infamous Sykes-Picot map, dividing the Middle East on colonial lines between British and French puppet regimes. This is done contrary to the hopes of Lawrence for a strong Arab nation, and behind the back of Woodrow Wilson. Sykes dies on the way home from the negotiations.

Six months after Sykes is exhumed, a global flu pandemic is first identified in Mexico.

All of the above is true.

The first half of the story, as contained in Murder in Samarkand, is the tale of a genuine government conspiracy to use torture, falsify intelligence and smear an innocent man to cover it up.

In the second half I conflate my tenuous connection with John Oxford, an interesting meeting on a train and the Sykes/Lawrence link, plus the timing of Sykes' exhumation and the outbreak of swine flu. I really don't believe those are any more than mild coincidences. But I can see inspiration for a novel in there if they were beefed up a bit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 30, 2009, 04:51:07 PM
"When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them."
- Old Castro, the Call of Cthulhu

Astronomist Peter Armstrong has noticed something strange about the gravitational effects Betelguese is having on the local area of space around it.  While the star has been shrinking rapidly for a number of years, the events he is now seeing are inexplicable - until he recieves a mysterious message, and is nearly killed.

The stars will soon be right again.  Betelguese is a dying star, every astronomer knows that, but what they don't know is that when it dies, it will set into motion a terrible chain of events.  It is no coincidence that the three Great Pyramids are aligned to match with the stars of Orion's belt.  Or, as the Egyptians called the constellation back then, Osiris. Sirius, the dog star, was his wife, Isis, and the seasonal change of the stars represented the death of Osiris at the hands of Set, and his resurrection by Horus. 

But now the victory of Set is assured, written in the heavens.  The age of Horus will pass, and the Age of Set will ascend.  The stars will be right again.  Cultists on earth prepare, knowing they must time the rituals for when Betelguese's nova is apparent over the night sky of the earth.  The light, brighter than the moon, that would light up the night sky would serve as the liberating force, breaking the aeons old shackles that have prevented Them from once again ruling over the planet.

That is, unless Peter and his mysterious informant can stop them.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 30, 2009, 04:56:41 PM
Dan Brown can go fuck himself.



Although, since Betelguise is 640 light years away, it must have gone nova in 1369.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 30, 2009, 04:59:11 PM
That was the part that was going to be Dan Browned.  Well, that and the possibility of Cthulhu rising out of the depths and eating Indonesia.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 30, 2009, 05:09:02 PM
I say go Quantum with it.  Use Bell's theorem, with the implication that information travels faster than light (perhaps even getting tachyons in the act), and then the Old Ones can respond to Betelguise's explosion immediately.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 30, 2009, 05:14:35 PM
Well the idea was it was already exploded, but the equipment had only just been made to detect it had gone, in which case the main character might need to be some top guy at NASA or something.  The key event was going to be the sign of the supernova over the earth - the light passing through the solar system is the key to the rituals, what powers them to release the Old Ones from captivity.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 30, 2009, 05:25:16 PM
Ah... Gotcha.  Not bad.  I think with a couple of stretches, that would work.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 30, 2009, 06:21:12 PM
Here's a Couple of Original Stroy Ideas That I Had:

A "Cthulhu Mythos" style horror story set several million years in the future. Species other than humanity have evolved to sentience, and Humankind plays the role of the horrible eldritch monstrosities from an ancient aeon.

-------------------------

Ok, here's another idea that relates to the Cthulhu Mythos. A sequel to the events in the stories pickman's Model and The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath which explores the dark connection between controversial artist and practitioner of the dark arts Richard Upton Pickman, and the invention of tentacle porn
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 30, 2009, 07:11:50 PM
Alternately, have the visual display of the supernova in earth's sky be the trigger, not the actual explosion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 02, 2009, 04:38:26 AM
Ok... here's another one... not completely original, but:

"As Saint Gulik awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a furless ape..."


Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 02, 2009, 04:56:49 AM
Just thought of another one:


A geneticist discovers that some of his colleagues have been recruited to work on a secret government project whose intent is to create a race of "Super Soldiers". Appalled by this development, the geneticist starts working in secret on a project of his own, using recombinant Bonobo DNA, (in conjunction with hybridization and chimerization) to create a race of "Super Hippies" to protest the Super Soldiers....

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 12:46:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 30, 2009, 05:14:35 PM
Well the idea was it was already exploded, but the equipment had only just been made to detect it had gone, in which case the main character might need to be some top guy at NASA or something.  The key event was going to be the sign of the supernova over the earth - the light passing through the solar system is the key to the rituals, what powers them to release the Old Ones from captivity.

So, anyway...


I guessing there's something that needs to be done to prevent the Old Ones from waking...  In true Dan Brown style, it needs to be completely banal, something so trite that you could probably even do it by accident.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on October 02, 2009, 01:38:29 PM
In a bizarre twist of inexplicable events, George W. Bush and Barney Frank end up stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific.  Will they be able to work together to find their way off the island?  Will the be able to put aside their partisan rhetoric to find common ground?  And don't look now, here come the natives with their Axes of Evil!!!!

:omg:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 01:46:01 PM
I want to see Barney Frank make GWB gay.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on October 02, 2009, 02:01:40 PM
"Oh noes, it's the Poke Monster!!!"-GWB
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on October 02, 2009, 03:54:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 12:46:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 30, 2009, 05:14:35 PM
Well the idea was it was already exploded, but the equipment had only just been made to detect it had gone, in which case the main character might need to be some top guy at NASA or something.  The key event was going to be the sign of the supernova over the earth - the light passing through the solar system is the key to the rituals, what powers them to release the Old Ones from captivity.

So, anyway...


I guessing there's something that needs to be done to prevent the Old Ones from waking...  In true Dan Brown style, it needs to be completely banal, something so trite that you could probably even do it by accident.

Presumably there would be key components for such a ritual, some requiring exotic items (MacGuffin hunt) and it would have to be done in a certain time, in a certain place in exactly the right way.  Or else eldiritch things from the Mauve Zone will just eat all the cultists, or something.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 02, 2009, 03:57:59 PM
Ah, so the Old Ones are defeated because pencils are made with graphite these days, not lead, so the right ingredients aren't present at the right moment or some shit like that; and the pyramid collapses in upon itself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on October 03, 2009, 09:50:17 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 02, 2009, 04:38:26 AM
Ok... here's another one... not completely original, but:

"As Saint Gulik awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a furless ape..."




:lol:

I've never read the original myself, but I suppose this spoof carried out well could make a very nice piece of Discordian literature.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2009, 12:17:03 AM
It might be hard to pull it off with the same feel. It might also be a bad idea. Few people like to feel like they have been kicked in the stomach repeatedly for two hours.

I got the impression that in The Metamorphasis, the real horror was not that the guy became a bug, but how little that plot element changed anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 05, 2009, 01:40:47 PM
If you want to know what this would look like as a novel instead of a short story, please read Will Self's Great Apes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ratssinis on December 24, 2009, 08:37:45 PM
You all take 1d100 sanity damage for every round of combat that you have line of sight with The Great Old One.

kthxbai.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: NotPublished on December 24, 2009, 09:40:49 PM
The runaway apple

The Golden Apple finally sprouted legs and decided to run away from Eris, but will s/he incur the wrath of Eris? Or will the Golden Apple find a new home?


I'm sure theres alot more you can add to that messed up thing ... that'd be an interesting childrens book
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on December 25, 2009, 06:14:17 AM
a guy dies on a forum

he haunts everyone that posts on it


one man has the courage to troll his ghost
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: NotPublished on December 25, 2009, 10:46:24 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 25, 2009, 06:14:17 AM
a guy dies on a forum

he haunts everyone that posts on it


one man has the courage to troll his ghost

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 25, 2009, 03:46:36 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 25, 2009, 06:14:17 AM
a guy dies on a forum

he haunts everyone that posts on it


one man has the courage to troll his ghost

Write it, write it!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on April 08, 2010, 05:52:43 AM
A young boy comes across an injured dog and decides to rescue it.  He befriends the dog, which likewise becomes quickly attached to him and his family.  One day while playing in the woods, the dog leads the boy to a patch of dirt that he soon begins digging.  The dog has had years of training as a Human Remains Detection Canine - a Cadaver Dog.  Can dog and boy work together to solve a murder?  Will dog's owner ultimately find their lost hound?  Will boy ever sleep soundly again?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on April 21, 2010, 11:26:58 PM
Right now writing a short story set in a post-totalitarian America.  The main character finds work by competing in brewing competitions at different settlements.  The winners get a contract for the settlement and are provided with ingredients and lodging until their supply is completed, when they can either sign on again or find work elsewhere.  The highly structured nature of the collapsed government has ingrained an obsessive quality to most people in regards to their chosen professions, making these events pretty intense and personal.  It's been shelved for a while because I'm finding it very, very difficult.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on July 04, 2010, 09:40:56 PM
A man wakes up one morning in bed to find that he has imbued his wife with a perfect copy of his own mind.  After the obligatory comedysex scene, he discovers he can do this to anybody.  The world is taken over by mental clones of this man, and a tragic/hilarious utopia comes into being.  Near the end, people who were mind-wiped start returning to normal, and kill him. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on July 05, 2010, 02:46:58 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on July 04, 2010, 09:40:56 PM
A man wakes up one morning in bed to find that he has imbued his wife with a perfect copy of his own mind.  After the obligatory comedysex scene, he discovers he can do this to anybody.  The world is taken over by mental clones of this man, and a tragic/hilarious utopia comes into being.  Near the end, people who were mind-wiped start returning to normal, and kill him. 

For a second there I forgot the title of this thread, and thought you were describing an already-existing story. I thought "WOAH I gotta get me a copy of that!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Stelpa on August 30, 2010, 02:14:11 PM
A short story in an alternate reality in which the Apolo 13 flight cannot contact base. Panic ensues when members begin to fight over remaining oxygen and find a way to contact base. Perhaps a fictitious flight COULD be used (dont want to defame the actual astronauts), but the Apolo 13's famous line of "Huston we have a problem" might apply there :\

SPOILER ALERT: The earth was destroyed while they were out. All that remains is a wispy cloud of vapor. :o [dramatic music]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on August 30, 2010, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: nekk on August 30, 2010, 02:14:11 PM
A short story in an alternate reality in which the Apolo 13 flight cannot contact base. Panic ensues when members begin to fight over remaining oxygen and find a way to contact base. Perhaps a fictitious flight COULD be used (dont want to defame the actual astronauts), but the Apolo 13's famous line of "Huston we have a problem" might apply there :\

SPOILER ALERT: The earth was destroyed while they were out. All that remains is a wispy cloud of vapor. :o [dramatic music]

Well, it was the height of the Cold War.  Perhaps the USSR mistook the Apollo mission for an attempt to militarize space, and so struck at the USA first and so culminated in a global nuclear conflict which destroyed the entire planet, and set up that chain reaction which some Manhatten Project scientists had initially worried about, where the entire Earth's atmosphere is set on fire.  A couple of misfired nukes into volcanoes could help matters along considerably.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on August 30, 2010, 02:30:51 PM
haha I like that! It would make a good twilight zone episode.



Here's one:

There is a small shack which technically owns the sword in the stone. Whoever pulls the sword from the stone will be sworn in as the true President of the United States. The story is about the disgruntled disaffected apolitical employees who work there. All sorts of whackjobs come and try to pull the sword and save America, but nobody can do it. Everybody's bursting with these terrible solutions - "I know how we can save America - we have to abolish the department of education!" -- stuff like that.  The employees think this is laughable. They're the only ones in the story with a grip on reality, and they understand what a clusterfuck it would be to "fix" the country.

Then one of the employees pulls the sword by accident. Suddenly everybody is up his ass. Every opinion he has is contradicted, loudly, by idiots. He spends the next half an hour trying to run from people and being shouted at. They eventually kill him before he can do anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 24, 2010, 05:58:51 PM
Our protagonist is waiting at the nearest train station, after an appointment which delays them from catching their usual train.  While at the station, they see a train pull up briefly, but which has signs saying to not board it.  In one of the carriages, they spiy an official looking man in a business suit, another younger looking man with a briefcase, and two men who look like bodyguards with them.  The train stops, some railway officials board, sweep the train, then leave.  Thinking nothing of it, our protagonist returns home, does boring home-related things and falls asleep.

The next day, they turn on the news to find out that the Foreign Secretary has died in a car crash, supposedly at 4pm yesterday.  They then show a picture of him, and the protagonist recognizes him the man on the train.  Only...he was at the station at 4:55pm yesterday.

And that's as far as I got.  It's more of a hook than a real story outline, but there we go.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on September 24, 2010, 11:30:20 PM
In this story, it is common knowledge that the world is a computer simulation.  People who train hard can actually hack the simulation.  However, there a religious movement determined to gain root access.  Our hero must stop them by discovering the hidden truth about reality:  That the universe actually exists.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Adios on September 24, 2010, 11:40:50 PM
I was bored one day and decided to go to hell. After a bit of digging I managed to locate the entrance and just walked in. I hadn't gone very far when a very pleasant fellow came up to me.

"Welcome, we don't get many visitors these days. What brings you here?"

"I was a little bored and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. All the stories don't exactly portray this place this way."

"What stories? Like I said, it's been just over 2000 years since we have had guests."

"2000 years? So about the same time that christian religion started. That's interesting."

"Christianity?" He laughed. "I started that as a joke. They took it serious?"

"Sure did. You wouldn't believe the mess you started. People are still killing each other over it. So, are you Satan?"

"Satan? Oh, you mean Stan. I told that bastard to spell check everything."

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on October 30, 2010, 04:28:27 AM
Possible NaNoWriMo plan;

Two countries (based on Russia, America) in a Cold war situation. No-America puts one of their least loved MPs in a car with an agressive rapper and drives them slowly through not-Russia to try to cause a diplomatic incident by aggrivating the miliarty into attacking them.

Not-Russia does not attack. They are in fact afraid of a social movement calling for an end to corruption in Government (based on Anonymous; think CoS protests gone mainstream)

The MP survives and returns and the government fear he will see into the plan and revel them. They plot against him, he gets wind of it and he steals a folder full of top secret information from an agent he recognises at a strip club, hoping to use it as leverage.

The agent was in fact a member of the dept. of Propoganda. He doesn't report the theft to cover his own arse, but instead fabricates intelligence suggesting the MP is a communist sympathiser who has been secretly infiltrating not-America's information for almost 12 years in order to support one of the more radical communist groups in not-Russia.

The not-Russians catch word and freak out and send spies in to capture the MP. He is held in an internment cam and the Not-Russians get their hands on a number of hyperbolic documents. They end up engaging in a number of pointless excercises; starting a major conflict with a group of bicycle makers whose shop is allaged to hide a not-American nuklier base, and others. The not-Americans, seeing these actinos, assume they are of military significance. The propoganda dept. member develops a concience and shows the copy of the files that led to the trouble. UNfortunately these files have all ready been found by spies in not-Russia and copies send to Not-America, and filed away in the database. When it is revealsed the leaked documents are in the not-American database (Ie, seem genuine), the Propoganda chap is secretly assasinated for treason.

Not-Russia meanwhile dresses two 'protesters' in Guy Fawkes (or whatever) masks and has them kill a civilian, framing 'Anonymous'. They then post an admission of guilt on not-/b/ as well as a fabricated 'guidebook' designed to show Anon as a terrorist group.

The not-Russians find a look-alike of the MP and bring him into the public lime light, as an efficient propoganda tool for their cause. They make claims that he was always a Russian-American. They fabricate docuemnts to give the man an everyday identity. He becomes a pop-culture hero, and the Not-Russians begin a campaign to have him win the presidency for their party, with intent to use him as a puppet.

Eventually the MP escapes. While trying to hide, he finds people will instead go out their way to help him. He is caught up with an Anonymous protest; they seem to have ignored the heinousness of the murder but embraced the 'guidebook' and have reinvented themselves as a paramilitary group.

The MP storms the parliment with the protesters. He confronts his 'other self', who ends up being shot by a guard.

The story ends with the MP as president of not-Russia. He makes all the same mistakes as the not-Russians. The story ends with him discussing plans with the Minister of Propoganda.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on October 31, 2010, 06:18:30 AM
There is a shade-world where every living person has a double. Each depends on the others life to survive; a shade dying kills its human and vice versa. A pair of humans find themselves under threat from shades who are trying to kill one of their friends, who has become an evil overlord in the shade world. Then, they realise the shade's best friend is in fact THEIR OWN world's overlord...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on October 31, 2010, 08:54:47 AM
This is only quasi-original, but:

Pokemon and the Methods of Rationality.

:lulz: 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Disco Pickle on November 18, 2010, 03:55:26 AM
I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years but never gotten past rough draft due to life.

a particular day of newborn births worldwide grows into their early or mid twenties and then stops aging noticeably, biologically.

it's not noticed for several years after they stop aging, because no one has ever thought to check for that sort of thing, and people in their mid 20's can sometimes easily pass for people in their early to mid 30's, depending on their lifestyle (needs work, I know)

I am still stumped on the catalyst, but am clear on the idea that these people would be hunted down for study, sort of a reverse logans run where the older are hunting them, except to learn what caused it and if it can be replicated.

haven't settled on the era, but have feel it should definitely be more modern than pre industrialization.

thought I'd share, even though it'll likely never see the light of day because I've moved away from story creation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 18, 2010, 04:04:27 AM
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on November 18, 2010, 03:55:26 AM
I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years but never gotten past rough draft due to life.

a particular day of newborn births worldwide grows into their early or mid twenties and then stops aging noticeably, biologically.

it's not noticed for several years after they stop aging, because no one has ever thought to check for that sort of thing, and people in their mid 20's can sometimes easily pass for people in their early to mid 30's, depending on their lifestyle (needs work, I know)

I am still stumped on the catalyst, but am clear on the idea that these people would be hunted down for study, sort of a reverse logans run where the older are hunting them, except to learn what caused it and if it can be replicated.

haven't settled on the era, but have feel it should definitely be more modern than pre industrialization.

thought I'd share, even though it'll likely never see the light of day because I've moved away from story creation.

MAD SCIENTIST

j/k

actually here I think it maybe better to leave it ambiguous. It possible too much explanation destroys some of the mystique.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Disco Pickle on November 18, 2010, 04:10:32 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on November 18, 2010, 04:04:27 AM
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on November 18, 2010, 03:55:26 AM
I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years but never gotten past rough draft due to life.

a particular day of newborn births worldwide grows into their early or mid twenties and then stops aging noticeably, biologically.

it's not noticed for several years after they stop aging, because no one has ever thought to check for that sort of thing, and people in their mid 20's can sometimes easily pass for people in their early to mid 30's, depending on their lifestyle (needs work, I know)

I am still stumped on the catalyst, but am clear on the idea that these people would be hunted down for study, sort of a reverse logans run where the older are hunting them, except to learn what caused it and if it can be replicated.

haven't settled on the era, but have feel it should definitely be more modern than pre industrialization.

thought I'd share, even though it'll likely never see the light of day because I've moved away from story creation.

MAD SCIENTIST

j/k

actually here I think it maybe better to leave it ambiguous. It possible too much explanation destroys some of the mystique.

yeah, but to me, as a rabid book reader, I'd need a very deffinate reason why.  If it was left unanswered I'd bitch and cuss and tell anyone who brought it up how much of a fucking deus ex machina the author worked in to get him/her self out of actually coming up with an intriguing and believable reason.

full disclosure: I'm a bit of a fucker when it comes to what I think is a good necessary plot point.  explaining the why would be, IMO, absolutely necessary unless you were going to drag it into a series, something I didn't ever envision until..  just this moment actually.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Epimetheus on January 05, 2011, 05:16:43 PM
A society where the liberals tend to be religious (fundamentalists perhaps) and the conservatives tend to be irreligious.
No doubt this is already written, but I've never read it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Juana on January 05, 2011, 09:09:13 PM
I've been helping a friend develop that very concept recently. It's been pretty fun.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prince Glittersnatch III on January 06, 2011, 07:34:32 PM
Ive been working on a short story thats supposed to be written from the perspective of an insane man.
The point is that on the outside he looks perfectly normal to his friends/co-workers, but inside he lives in an extremely bizarre and paranoid world. He has several delusions but one delusion Im focusing on is the idea that his friends and loved ones are being replaced by nearly identical copies, but he cant let them know that he knows that they're copies because then he would be "replaced" too.

I also had the idea to write it so it cycles from 1st to 2nd to 3rd person, to simulate disassociation, but Im probably scraping it for being too gimmicky.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prince Glittersnatch III on January 06, 2011, 07:36:32 PM
Quote from: Epimetheus on January 05, 2011, 05:16:43 PM
A society where the liberals tend to be religious (fundamentalists perhaps) and the conservatives tend to be irreligious.
No doubt this is already written, but I've never read it.

Perhaps a world where Paul never wrote the epistles and gospels stood alone as the sole scripture of Christianity. So Christians would be all about re-distribution of wealth and social justice.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 06, 2011, 09:49:22 PM
Androids get developed, then are soon after banned due to a new multinational labor lobby to defend human jobs.  Some survive, and are hired by a crab fishing captain who recently lost his whole crew in a bad storm, and couldn't stand to lose more men.  The android crew are excellent crab fishers, but fail to win the captain's trust until they save his ship, and they bond.  The labor lobby finds out about them, though, and the captain must fight or lose yet another beloved crew.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on January 07, 2011, 12:57:40 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 06, 2011, 09:49:22 PM
Androids get developed, then are soon after banned due to a new multinational labor lobby to defend human jobs.  Some survive, and are hired by a crab fishing captain who recently lost his whole crew in a bad storm, and couldn't stand to lose more men.  The android crew are excellent crab fishers, but fail to win the captain's trust until they save his ship, and they bond.  The labor lobby finds out about them, though, and the captain must fight or lose yet another beloved crew.

Is this at all influenced by Kani-Kousen? {The Crab Boat}? It's a piece of communist propaganda basically and the story seems like an interesting subversion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 07, 2011, 02:44:13 AM
Never heard of it.  It was inspired by a crab fishing show I watched the other week.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pæs on January 17, 2011, 11:28:46 AM
Inspired by Cram's Trance Thief.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=26069.0

Dreams are a result of experiencing the mind's defragmentation. Beliefs, ideas and the relationships between them, patterns & triggers. A compressed and encoded symbolic representation of your memetic makeup. At the time of our story, it seems unlikely that any computer created in the foreseeable future will be capable of processing this data in any useful way, but anyone with the ability to read and write this information would gain incredible power over anyone they could use such a technique on. New relationships could be established. The links you have established between "fire" and "hot, burn, danger, bright" could be switched around. The rules you use to identify fire, rewritten.

It is possibile to stimulate a brain in such a way as to issue commands to it from a computer. The mind can be recognised as usable memory and its processing power harnessed for massive calculations, beyond the conscious power of the user. A nefarious organisation assembles a botnet of linked minds, using the spare processing power of any linked mind as a node in a massive network which collectively contribute to processing their data. Whenever the owner of the mind is daydreaming, watching television or otherwise not using their brain's full processing capacity, part of the work of this organisation is being run as a background process. Hundreds of thousands of vacant humans are part of this network. This is especially dangerous because the human brain is designed to process dream data. This hivemind is used to read the minds of influential people and make changes wherever they are commanded to.

Our hero discovers this diabolical plot and has to keep his mind constantly active, to prevent the memetic virus which has been transmitted to him from establishing itself and adding him to the thinktank. He spends the entire story trying to keep his mind occupied or otherwise unusable (LOLDRUGSLOL) and plots to bring down this terrible organisation by...
A) Not only defending the right to be wrong, but exercising it and flooding the network with corrupt data.
B) Pistols at dawn.
C) Hunting down and converting the supernodes responsible for the memetic maintenance of the elements of the network local to them. He has to be a badass at debate and get all Socratic method and abuse of logic on them until their heads explode or they agree with him and join his team.
D) Some other ridiculous bullshit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on January 17, 2011, 02:16:50 PM
it's like a thinking man's Crank 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmiGLsD_Qs)  :lol:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2011, 02:21:07 PM
Quote from: Lord Glittersnatch on January 06, 2011, 07:36:32 PM
Quote from: Epimetheus on January 05, 2011, 05:16:43 PM
A society where the liberals tend to be religious (fundamentalists perhaps) and the conservatives tend to be irreligious.
No doubt this is already written, but I've never read it.

Perhaps a world where Paul never wrote the epistles and gospels stood alone as the sole scripture of Christianity. So Christians would be all about re-distribution of wealth and social justice.

Or just one in which Nietzsche is popular.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 17, 2011, 06:43:15 PM
I was listening to the Dr. Horrible soundtrack and The Protomen recently, and the two made amazingly ugly love inside my head. 

(Note:  Most of my fiction will be about robots.  I'm aware of this trend, and can't really do much to change it.)

A female roboticist (Dr. Susan Calvin with some modern twists) finishes her doctoral thesis, the product of which is an android whose sole purpose is altruism.  Homo Altruis, she calls it.  The way it's incentivized to altruism is functionally similar to a drug addiction; It is emotionally dependent on good deeds for it's "fix".  It does a lot of minor stuff at first, but as the addiction grows, it starts needing stronger hits of good deeds to get happy, resulting in radical acts of heroism.  It becomes consumed with justice, and noticing that all these good deeds were indirectly caused by his creator, develops an unrequited love for her, which she is oblivious to.  Meanwhile she gets funding from a corporation to make something similar: An android who does heroic deeds for PR stunts.  The new model is more technically refined, with better funding, and lacks the behavioral quirks of the first.  It emulates what people think a hero should be.  A perfect thing.  Ideal.  Homo Altruis ignores him, but silently envies it's popularity.  He has an epiphany about his "drug" habit while helping a wino off the streets, and starts trying to quit his heroism addiction.  Old habits die hard though, and he botches some heroic efforts in half-hearted attempts.  The late model corporate hero steps in and pulls through for him.  Saving his ass just makes him more hateful though, and he eventually picks up an alter ego with which to antagonize the corporate hero.  He meets a roboticist who was his creator's rival, and learns to make himself more deadly.  As a last stand to defeat his nemesis, get the girl, and show how much better he is, he attacks an award ceremony, but accidentally kills his creator.  He permanently alters his appearance to look like his evil side, and in the ending scene, is building an army to destroy the corporation and it's hero. 

Throughout, there are hints that the corporation is actually quite benevolent for a profit maximizer, although is still a corporation.  Some parallels between recovering drug abusers and the Homo Altruis robot:  Slight cognitive malfunction, magical thinking, weird drug experiences, extreme beliefs, a slight craving jitter when he sees people who need saving, which is slightly creepy. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 19, 2011, 07:51:45 PM
Thinking about taking my last two robot story ideas, coming up with even more quick little stories like that, and writing a series of vignettes in the style of I, Robot.  Should I forsake this scheme, or go forward with this act of hubris?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 19, 2011, 07:52:48 PM
If you don't do it, then the robots win.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 19, 2011, 07:54:36 PM
Hmm.  Well, if the vignette idea fails maybe I can join them.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prince Glittersnatch III on January 22, 2011, 10:00:38 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 19, 2011, 07:51:45 PM
Thinking about taking my last two robot story ideas, coming up with even more quick little stories like that, and writing a series of vignettes in the style of I, Robot.  Should I forsake this scheme, or go forward with this act of hubris?

Always trust your hubris.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on January 23, 2011, 02:48:05 AM
Words to live by.  Been fleshing out the finer parts of the story recently.  Updates as I see fit. :)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: 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 had another great, and plausible, alternate history premise, but it escapes me currently.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on January 30, 2011, 10:05:52 AM
I'm going to hammer this one out.

A man comes along to a very large friend of his in a bar, and manages to successfully pick up the woman the large man is hitting on. The man in question was friends with the larger guy when he was still overweight. Basically we follow the overweight guy befriending his old friend again, and changing his life around. The novel basically explores ideas of power, and articulates the mentality of power belonging to those who seize it, using sexual power as an allegory.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 01:01:48 AM
This one's slowly coming to me as I read 'The Art of Maurice Sednak; 1980 to the Present'.

A man comes home to find his girlfriend has left a trail of clothes leading him into the forest. He follows, but instead of just finding her, pursues his way through a fairy tale landscape of talking animals, fantastic adventures and Grimm/Shakespeare variety magical experiences.

I want the journey based on some kind of thematic structure though (eg, Hero's Journey, The Four Humours, Five stages of Grieving, The Eight possibilities of Myers-Briggs) and haven't worked out one I want to use.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 01:23:44 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 13, 2009, 03:19:12 PM
Take any movie plotline about wisecracking CGI animals

but it's a live action movie
  and instead of actual animals, they're human beings in fursuits

trying to save the forest from being bulldozed or something





this might mash well with that last idea




Cram, are you familiar with Brechtian Theatre (As per Dogville?) Because this would be possible to do as Brechtian.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 02:01:11 AM
Business man Francoius Delacroix lives by the motto 'life is struggle'. When a contract, the result of 25 years hard work falls through, he resovles to kill himself. Instead thougfh, he finds that despite giving up hope and making no effort, the company just keeps going like before. He undergoes a dramatic change of personality, becoming a kind of absurdist happy go lucky slacker.

THEN his missing friend turns up, having discovered military secrets that could rock the world. He entrusts them to Francious, without knowing the dramatic personality change that has taken place.

Written in a kind of psuedo-European style.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:38:59 PM
In [future year] a crack team of scientists working in the gastroenterology department of [medical corporation] create the first robot with genuine human intelligence and personality after misinterpreting their instructions to develop a "mechanical asshole"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:46:11 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 01:01:48 AM
This one's slowly coming to me as I read 'The Art of Maurice Sednak; 1980 to the Present'.

A man comes home to find his girlfriend has left a trail of clothes leading him into the forest. He follows, but instead of just finding her, pursues his way through a fairy tale landscape of talking animals, fantastic adventures and Grimm/Shakespeare variety magical experiences.

I want the journey based on some kind of thematic structure though (eg, Hero's Journey, The Four Humours, Five stages of Grieving, The Eight possibilities of Myers-Briggs) and haven't worked out one I want to use.

How about the Marquis de Sade's 150 criminal passions from his notes for the forth section of unfinished magnum opus School of Licentiousness: The 120 Days of Sodom
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 11:02:33 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:46:11 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 01:01:48 AM
This one's slowly coming to me as I read 'The Art of Maurice Sednak; 1980 to the Present'.

A man comes home to find his girlfriend has left a trail of clothes leading him into the forest. He follows, but instead of just finding her, pursues his way through a fairy tale landscape of talking animals, fantastic adventures and Grimm/Shakespeare variety magical experiences.

I want the journey based on some kind of thematic structure though (eg, Hero's Journey, The Four Humours, Five stages of Grieving, The Eight possibilities of Myers-Briggs) and haven't worked out one I want to use.

How about the Marquis de Sade's 150 criminal passions from his notes for the forth section of unfinished magnum opus School of Licentiousness: The 120 Days of Sodom

Or the seven deadly sins. Or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Or The three domains/five kingdoms of living organisms. Or different major types of (potentially) pathogenic organisms (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and prions). Or the Five Apostles of Discordianism. Or the eleven major holidays of Discordianism. Or different famous hotels on the Las Vegas strip. Or the four classical elements. Or the five Discordian elements..........
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 11:32:21 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 05:12:29 PM
An idealistic 18 year old is called upon to undertake a hero's journey, learn to use his mystical powers, and save the world, but refuses on the grounds that "saving" the world would only be allowing the continuance of stagnated tradition and unacceptable status quo. 

That's actually kind of similar to an idea which I had:

Eris appears to some person and grants them fantastic super-powers, But there's a stipulation, they can't use their powers to help the less fortunate or to take over and/or destroy the world. So now you have this super-powered individual who is forbidden from becoming either a hero or a villian, or else they lose their powers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 06, 2011, 02:31:44 AM
A biography of the Beatles written in the tone and style of the Christian gospels (inspired by the incident in which John Lennon famously brought up the fact that the Beatles are bigger than Jesus)

Here's an excerpt of what I have so far:

Beatles 10:01 John Lennon and the Beatles went about preaching a gospel of peace and the renunciation of war unto the multitudes
Beatles 10:02 And the people asked him, saying, "What shall we do then?"
Beatles 10:03 He answereth and saith unto them, "He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise."
Beatles 10:04 Then came also tax-men to be baptized and said unto them "Masters, what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:05 And the Beatles replied "You who would tax the heat of the cold and the seats of the tired should do well to remember that money will not buy you love."
Beatles 10:06 And the soldiers likewise demanded of them, saying, "And what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:07 And they said unto them, "Do violence unto no man, neither accuse any falsely; and rather Give Peace a Chance."
Beatles 10:08 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not
Beatles 10:09 John replied "I am bigger than the christ"
Beatles 10:10 And all the Christians, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath
Beatles 10:11 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Beatles 10:12 But he passed through their midst and departed


(BTW, Truth be told, i don't have any of the preceeding chapters written yet)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on March 06, 2011, 01:38:39 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 11:02:33 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:46:11 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on February 14, 2011, 01:01:48 AM
This one's slowly coming to me as I read 'The Art of Maurice Sednak; 1980 to the Present'.

A man comes home to find his girlfriend has left a trail of clothes leading him into the forest. He follows, but instead of just finding her, pursues his way through a fairy tale landscape of talking animals, fantastic adventures and Grimm/Shakespeare variety magical experiences.

I want the journey based on some kind of thematic structure though (eg, Hero's Journey, The Four Humours, Five stages of Grieving, The Eight possibilities of Myers-Briggs) and haven't worked out one I want to use.

How about the Marquis de Sade's 150 criminal passions from his notes for the forth section of unfinished magnum opus School of Licentiousness: The 120 Days of Sodom

Or the seven deadly sins. Or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Or The three domains/five kingdoms of living organisms. Or different major types of (potentially) pathogenic organisms (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and prions). Or the Five Apostles of Discordianism. Or the eleven major holidays of Discordianism. Or different famous hotels on the Las Vegas strip. Or the four classical elements. Or the five Discordian elements..........

Yeah... All in good time. I've got four pots bubbling presently so I'll get onto this one later.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Gordon C on August 12, 2011, 04:13:45 AM
The main principle of this story involves compumancy. That is, using a computer as a medium just like any medium:
Ouija board, tarot cards, throwing bones. Throwing bones like the Africans practiced to "predict the future" was a practice of using a chaotic medium such as randomness to bridge a gap between those who are living and the so-called dead.

A simple piece of cardboard with letters scribed on it and a cardboard planchette is as much as medium as anything else on the planet.

The accelerate factor is human interaction and observation. Science is observation. Instead of a few people placing their hands on a cardboard planchette, possibly a crowd-sourced "group" of people participate in this "virtual board" which produces thousands of words per second.

Elsewhere an internet entrepreneur invests in running huge amounts of computing power into contacting these so-called "signs of life" in other realms of reality, and it begins to show signs of interpreting white noise/randomness/chaos at a rate no human could possibly prevously attain:
Ouija boards working at 7 million cycles per second, RNGs actively spitting out numbers and letters.
Kind of like "SETI" but for different realms.
At first there are just small sentences, then they become more descriptive. Then there is some kind of a cutoff and the machine has stopped giving "good data".
Whatever voice on the other side has attempted to use it's enhanced ability to set words in type to write code, AI code which it intends to be the AI containment box it possesses.
Copyright Gordn C of this forum only.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on August 12, 2011, 11:26:47 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:38:59 PM
In [future year] a crack team of scientists working in the gastroenterology department of [medical corporation] create the first robot with genuine human intelligence and personality after misinterpreting their instructions to develop a "mechanical asshole"

I was going to post this in High Weirdness or Scientism, but it's just as relevant here ...

http://scienceblog.com/46996/researchers-use-human-cells-to-engineer-functional-anal-sphincters-in-lab/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Elder Iptuous on August 12, 2011, 07:26:51 PM
that.
is amazing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 12, 2011, 08:11:38 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 12, 2011, 11:26:47 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 04, 2011, 10:38:59 PM
In [future year] a crack team of scientists working in the gastroenterology department of [medical corporation] create the first robot with genuine human intelligence and personality after misinterpreting their instructions to develop a "mechanical asshole"

I was going to post this in High Weirdness or Scientism, but it's just as relevant here ...

http://scienceblog.com/46996/researchers-use-human-cells-to-engineer-functional-anal-sphincters-in-lab/

QuoteMade from muscle and nerve cells, the sphincters developed a blood supply and maintained function when implanted in mice.

:lol: :x :lol: :x :lol: :x :lol:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Elder Iptuous on August 12, 2011, 08:41:15 PM
also, i would like to point out the awesomeness of the term "native sphincters"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 12, 2011, 09:02:34 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on August 12, 2011, 08:41:15 PM
also, i would like to point out the awesomeness of the term "native sphincters"

Oh, wow.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on August 13, 2011, 12:14:14 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 30, 2009, 06:21:12 PM
Ok, here's another idea that relates to the Cthulhu Mythos. A sequel to the events in the stories pickman's Model

In a recent Lovecraft Mythos compilation, Black Wings, there was a sequel to Pickman's Model which was very good.  In fact, I found myself thinking about the ending when walking to work one night...I think I arrived a good five minutes earlier than normal.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 22, 2011, 09:47:02 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 06, 2011, 02:31:44 AM
A biography of the Beatles written in the tone and style of the Christian gospels (inspired by the incident in which John Lennon famously brought up the fact that the Beatles are bigger than Jesus)

Here's an excerpt of what I have so far:

Beatles 10:01 John Lennon and the Beatles went about preaching a gospel of peace and the renunciation of war unto the multitudes
Beatles 10:02 And the people asked him, saying, "What shall we do then?"
Beatles 10:03 He answereth and saith unto them, "He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise."
Beatles 10:04 Then came also tax-men to be baptized and said unto them "Masters, what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:05 And the Beatles replied "You who would tax the heat of the cold and the seats of the tired should do well to remember that money will not buy you love."
Beatles 10:06 And the soldiers likewise demanded of them, saying, "And what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:07 And they said unto them, "Do violence unto no man, neither accuse any falsely; and rather Give Peace a Chance."
Beatles 10:08 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not
Beatles 10:09 John replied "I am bigger than the christ"
Beatles 10:10 And all the Christians, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath
Beatles 10:11 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Beatles 10:12 But he passed through their midst and departed

This segment I've written is all based on actual bible passages, BTW (For example, IIRC, Beatles 10:08 is stolen verbatim from Luke 3:15)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 30, 2011, 05:21:19 AM
A comic featuring a superhero with all the superpowers of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (divine healing powers, invulnerability, finds pimping easy, political cronyism, etc.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 30, 2011, 05:48:55 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on August 12, 2011, 08:41:15 PM
also, i would like to point out the awesomeness of the term "native sphincters"

You know, "The Native Sphincters" would be an awesome name for a heavy-metal band...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 30, 2011, 06:32:25 AM
A furry porn story in which the sexual anatomy and turn-ons of the characters are all accurate, from a zoological standpoint, for their respective species; All characters involved are species with radically different anatomy and courtship rituals than humans (such as frogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplexus), or songbirds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloacal_kiss#Birds), spotted hyenas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopenis), or praying mantises (http://www.sofurry.com/page/52930/user))
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 01, 2011, 05:50:23 AM
Cyberpunk story based on Lord of the Rings. The Dark lord is defeated but uploads his consciousness into a computer network and locks down his HQ with a seemingly impenetrable auto-defense system. His old laptop holds A customized USB peripheral (which is primarily just a flash drive, but has some unique security measures built into it) holds the key to deactivating him once and for all by containing the code sequence for activating his HQ's autodestruct sequence and destroying the primary server that houses most of his mind, however, it also contains the codes and code-cracking programs that would allow him to deactivate certain failsafes in government computers sieze complete control of the world; The computer's encryption system utilizes quantum entanglement so that none of these measures can be implemented unless the device is connected to a specific computer. Via his infiltration of the world's security systems the dark hacker-lord learns of plans to deactivate him and arranges to have his device delivered to him on his own terms. Blah blah blah, etc etc etc.

I got the idea for this while listening to the song Electric Eye by Judas Priest
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 01, 2011, 06:18:49 AM
Fake "lost chapter" of la Divina Comedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy) in which Dante encounters Ariadne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne#Minos_and_Theseus) frozen up to her neck in the ice of Caina (http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle9.html), where, under Dante's system of punishments, she logically belongs for betraying her half-brother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2011, 03:27:00 AM
My Little Pony fanfiction set in a chiche evil mirror universe setting where Nightmare Moon is in charge, Twilight Sparkle's reports are on the subject of 'why it is better to be feared than to be loved' instead of 'the magic of friendship', and eventually everyone gets made into glue.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on September 02, 2011, 11:37:59 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2011, 03:27:00 AM
My Little Pony fanfiction set in a chiche evil mirror universe setting where Nightmare Moon is in charge, Twilight Sparkle's reports are on the subject of 'why it is better to be feared than to be loved' instead of 'the magic of friendship', and eventually everyone gets made into glue.

hey you wanted us to ignore it in the other thread, so maybe just keep your MLP fetish to /r/clopclop eh?

srsly what makes you think anybody cares what you fap to?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on September 02, 2011, 12:44:42 PM
I really want to write an account of how Norway responded to the horrible Islamist terror attacks on 22 July 2011 with "more democracy and more openness".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2011, 04:43:58 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 02, 2011, 11:37:59 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2011, 03:27:00 AM
My Little Pony fanfiction set in a chiche evil mirror universe setting where Nightmare Moon is in charge, Twilight Sparkle's reports are on the subject of 'why it is better to be feared than to be loved' instead of 'the magic of friendship', and eventually everyone gets made into glue.

hey you wanted us to ignore it in the other thread, so maybe just keep your MLP fetish to /r/clopclop eh?

srsly what makes you think anybody cares what you fap to?

This wasn't a suggestion for a clopfic, this was a suggestion for a non-sexual fanfic set in a dystopian toltalitarian regime and in which everybody eventually gets killed. The idea that it would be funny for My Little Pony characters to get turned into glue is one that I hit upon before the current fad started, and the idea of Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna running a toltalitarian regime is satirical and came from the realization that most of the advice in in Principe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince) could apply to princesses just as easily as it can to princes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on September 02, 2011, 05:05:53 PM
Ah yeah, of course you're right, very different thing. No idea why your story idea reminded me of that thing you wanted us to ignore and forget about :roll:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 02, 2011, 06:18:57 PM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on September 02, 2011, 12:44:42 PM
I really want to write an account of how Norway responded to the horrible Islamist terror attacks on 22 July 2011 with "more democracy and more openness".

I am shocked that this is not the case.  Shocked, I tell you.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on September 05, 2011, 02:22:56 PM
Work focussing on characters in London with backdrop of the riots, in a disconnected, calm tone about the complexity of different situations.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 10, 2011, 02:54:42 AM
-A cyberpunk retelling of the Christian gospels in which Saint Paul is a spambot that has somehow gained sentience.

-A combination of the plot of the cartoon show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends from Cartoon Network, and plot of the short stroy The Circular Ruins by Argentenian science fiction writer Jorge Borges. (this makes sense if you're familiar with the premises of these works, which both involve the creation of living creatures through sheer force of will and power of imagination and which I would like to link together using that common thread as a jumping-off point)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on September 26, 2011, 10:53:56 AM
Inspired by the latest Skilluminati post (on James Angleton):

In the late 1940s, while trudging through files and testimonies of Nazis, the KGB discover evidence of the collusion of Allen Dulles and his cronies in the financing of the Nazis.

Using this information, the KGB manage to compromise the Director of the CIA.  He sets the Counterintelligence Desk on wild goose chases, looking for moles and infiltrators everywhere.

Only, someone within Angleton's secret CI team, the Special Investigation Loop, starts to suspect something is not right...

(of course, the most interesting thing about this, as a story, is that it is entirely possible, given Dulles allegedly did help the Nazi regime, that Angleton apparently got his job as CI chief because he wouldn't polygraph Dulles and his closest allies and that for years there was hints of a mole somewhere near the very top of at least one of the NATO alliance intelligence services).

Edit: you could also do more updated versions of this, with an alliance with Al-Qaeda standing in etc but I think nothing quite beats the Cold War for that good old time feeling of paranoia.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 20, 2011, 01:20:56 AM
A story following the life of a member of a boy band in the distant dystopian future. The protagonist is, as I said, a member of a boy band and is among the latest in one of a handful of lines of  genetic clones created by the RIAA specifically for the purpose of staffing boy bands. In fact, the lead singer of a different boy band is part of the same line and physically and genetically identical to him; this fact does not prevent fans of both bands from debating on which of them is hotter.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 15, 2011, 06:20:11 AM
How about something similar to L'ecole du Libertinage by The Most Honorable Marquis De Sade, but exploring one of the other deadly sins, other than lust. Maybe gluttony, or wrath.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Slurrealist on December 18, 2011, 07:27:37 PM
What if some cult develops a protein that activates the higher circuits of the human population, and let it roam free through the world?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on December 19, 2011, 01:56:41 AM
Then humanity will die of Terminal Mindwank Hernia, Hate-gland Aneurysm and Fuckingwithpeople Deficiency Induced Boredom Syndrome, in various proportions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 19, 2011, 05:51:38 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 19, 2011, 01:56:41 AM
Then humanity will die of Terminal Mindwank Hernia, Hate-gland Aneurysm and Fuckingwithpeople Deficiency Induced Boredom Syndrome, in various proportions.

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on December 19, 2011, 01:13:02 PM
A freak electrical storm wreaks havoc and destroys the internet. Millions of Americans are left to be faced with a world without singing cat videos and butt porn.  Tensions mount as withdrawal kicks in.  And then, one little boy discovers a treasure from the ancient world when people used to play outside and communicate with each other face-to-face with vocalized words.  It's a frisbee. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on December 20, 2011, 01:13:40 AM
Tell us more about this "butt porn".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: MMMW on January 09, 2012, 05:01:07 AM
Psychonauts of NASA's inner-space program plant an American flag in an alternate dimension already inhabited by aliens.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on February 02, 2012, 02:16:13 PM
A young Iranian nuclear physicist helps to build an unstable particle accelerator, which goes haywire and generates a wormhole that sucks him in. The story alternates between his pulp sci-fi style romp through an alternate universe and the increasingly desperate situation for his wife back home. As he's dying of apparent old age, the trappings of his story fall apart and he's left completely alone in the void. He recalls a discussion he had with his wife on information loss, and how the narrative of his experience will vanish with him.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Jasper on February 02, 2012, 03:40:29 PM
Quote from: MMMW on January 09, 2012, 05:01:07 AM
Psychonauts of NASA's inner-space program plant an American flag in an alternate dimension already inhabited by aliens.

That's pretty cool!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Placid Dingo on February 03, 2012, 04:27:41 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 02, 2012, 02:16:13 PM
A young Iranian nuclear physicist helps to build an unstable particle accelerator, which goes haywire and generates a wormhole that sucks him in. The story alternates between his pulp sci-fi style romp through an alternate universe and the increasingly desperate situation for his wife back home. As he's dying of apparent old age, the trappings of his story fall apart and he's left completely alone in the void. He recalls a discussion he had with his wife on information loss, and how the narrative of his experience will vanish with him.

Write that thing!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on February 03, 2012, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on February 03, 2012, 04:27:41 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 02, 2012, 02:16:13 PM
A young Iranian nuclear physicist helps to build an unstable particle accelerator, which goes haywire and generates a wormhole that sucks him in. The story alternates between his pulp sci-fi style romp through an alternate universe and the increasingly desperate situation for his wife back home. As he's dying of apparent old age, the trappings of his story fall apart and he's left completely alone in the void. He recalls a discussion he had with his wife on information loss, and how the narrative of his experience will vanish with him.

Write that thing!
I started it, but it kind of petered out. It's hard to find folks from Iran that are willing to act as cultural consultants for these kind of things.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on February 14, 2012, 07:55:32 AM
An out-of-work Private Detective decides to go sleuthing in his own whisky-marinated mind.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 16, 2012, 10:18:03 PM
Quote from: What's-His-Name? on December 19, 2011, 01:13:02 PM
A freak electrical storm wreaks havoc and destroys the internet. Millions of Americans are left to be faced with a world without singing cat videos and butt porn.  Tensions mount as withdrawal kicks in.  And then, one little boy discovers a treasure from the ancient world when people used to play outside and communicate with each other face-to-face with vocalized words.  It's a frisbee.

Replace internet with calculators and my dad wrote this story in fifth grade.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Oysters Rockefeller on February 17, 2012, 01:16:00 AM
A couple days in the life of a guy whose job it is to clean up suicides as quickly as possible, in a world where it's considered standard to take ridiculous amounts of anti-depressants. I imagine he'd not be taking them, just to create a character the reader can put themselves in the shoes of. I like to think it'd be a dark comedy/ satire about how people tend to look at life through a social lens, instead of accepting life as it is.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 17, 2012, 01:40:18 AM
Some large (double-digit) percentage of people who experience free fall outside of the ionosphere later have an intense revelatory experience. Commercial space tourism companies pop up and produce a steady stream of exceedingly wealthy cult leaders. Governments later begin using this to discredit people they don't like, sending them free tickets to space knowing that they are likely to come down acting entirely nuts (the way the CIA occasionally doped people with LSD to discredit them during the good old days of MK-ULTRA). Some of the cult leaders get their act together enough to organize and oppose space travel.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Oysters Rockefeller on February 17, 2012, 02:14:24 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on February 17, 2012, 01:40:18 AM
Some large (double-digit) percentage of people who experience free fall outside of the ionosphere later have an intense revelatory experience. Commercial space tourism companies pop up and produce a steady stream of exceedingly wealthy cult leaders. Governments later begin using this to discredit people they don't like, sending them free tickets to space knowing that they are likely to come down acting entirely nuts (the way the CIA occasionally doped people with LSD to discredit them during the good old days of MK-ULTRA). Some of the cult leaders get their act together enough to organize and oppose space travel.

I kind of love that idea.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 18, 2012, 03:49:48 PM
Quote from: Oysters Rockefeller on February 17, 2012, 02:14:24 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on February 17, 2012, 01:40:18 AM
Some large (double-digit) percentage of people who experience free fall outside of the ionosphere later have an intense revelatory experience. Commercial space tourism companies pop up and produce a steady stream of exceedingly wealthy cult leaders. Governments later begin using this to discredit people they don't like, sending them free tickets to space knowing that they are likely to come down acting entirely nuts (the way the CIA occasionally doped people with LSD to discredit them during the good old days of MK-ULTRA). Some of the cult leaders get their act together enough to organize and oppose space travel.

I kind of love that idea.
It's yours.

Here are a few more:

1) McLuhan had a theory of hot and cool media. The distinction is that hot media tells you what to think (and is therefore non-interactive) whereas cool media means nothing until you think about it (and therefore requires effort on the part of the consumer). McLuhan believed that cool media cools down political unrest by giving a built-in release valve for the need to engage in action, whereas he thought hot media countered apathy. Story: The BBC (who broadcasts in a wide variety of places) has a computerized system using this model of the interaction between political activism and media coolness to regulate the global political situation through the mechanism of changing the vagueness of scripts in BBC newscasts (the news in a place with riots in the streets resembles Finnegan's Wake, being incomprehensible enough that some effort otherwise directed toward activism is directed instead toward figuring out what the news means, while a place where the economy needs stimulation the news will be limited to precise and low-information newscasts). This works wonders for a while, until riots start in London and it is discovered that the system does not take into account the feedback loop between the writers of the original scripts and the newscasters.

2) Some popular children's film from the 70s was actually intended as part of an experimental 'manchurian candidate' program for MK-Ultra. The MK-Ultra trials began and everyone from the CIA was pulled off the project, documentation destroyed. The original intent was to pull distribution of the film at the last minute, and to have the description of the intended target be something no human could be mistaken for (so that this would not lead to accidental killings). Instead, the film was released and was a runaway hit, several generations of children watching it quite often. A peaceful alien race makes first contact with humanity, but by chance corresponds to the description of the 'target'. The visitors must be protected from the trained killers of all ages.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on February 20, 2012, 09:41:15 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on February 18, 2012, 03:49:48 PM
1) McLuhan had a theory of hot and cool media. The distinction is that hot media tells you what to think (and is therefore non-interactive) whereas cool media means nothing until you think about it (and therefore requires effort on the part of the consumer). McLuhan believed that cool media cools down political unrest by giving a built-in release valve for the need to engage in action, whereas he thought hot media countered apathy.

Ahhh! I was JUST trying to explain the concept of hot vs cool media, and I got totally confused trying to explain why radio is hot while TV is cool. (still a little fuzzy, but it's coming into focus) That was a far more lucid and concise description than any of the McLuhan I've read! Thanks!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 20, 2012, 10:12:09 PM
McLuhan isn't very good at being clear. If I'm charitable, I'll chalk it up to trying to cool down his books (which are in the typically very hot medium of print -- hot because of uniformly spaced rows of uniform type whose characters are uniform and fairly uniformly correspond to fairly uniform groups of sounds)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on February 21, 2012, 10:22:42 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 20, 2012, 09:41:15 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on February 18, 2012, 03:49:48 PM
1) McLuhan had a theory of hot and cool media. The distinction is that hot media tells you what to think (and is therefore non-interactive) whereas cool media means nothing until you think about it (and therefore requires effort on the part of the consumer). McLuhan believed that cool media cools down political unrest by giving a built-in release valve for the need to engage in action, whereas he thought hot media countered apathy.

Ahhh! I was JUST trying to explain the concept of hot vs cool media, and I got totally confused trying to explain why radio is hot while TV is cool. (still a little fuzzy, but it's coming into focus) That was a far more lucid and concise description than any of the McLuhan I've read! Thanks!

This is VERY interesting! Where can I read more about this?

And I don't get how a TV is cold but a radio is hot? I'd say they're both hot because of non interactive? But the Internet is cool, sometimes, and a study book is cool, and maybe non-fiction is too. Or am I missing the point here?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 22, 2012, 05:40:34 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 21, 2012, 10:22:42 PM
And I don't get how a TV is cold but a radio is hot?
I think when McLuhan talked about TV he visualized a fuzzy black and white screen the size of a pop tart in a piece of wooden furniture the size of a fridge. After all, he said (in Understanding Media) that TV killed the comic book because of how much less detailed the image was! (Fun fact: McLuhan also may have invented the first remote control, because he took the line to the speaker assembly in his television and extended it out to a lightswitch in his arm chair, which he used to mute commercials in the 50s and 60s.)

QuoteI'd say they're both hot because of non interactive? But the Internet is cool, sometimes, and a study book is cool, and maybe non-fiction is too. Or am I missing the point here?
When McLuhan says interactive he doesn't necessarily mean it as strongly as we do. We think of something with one volley (someone says something to me and I respond) as un-interactive, but he uses it to distinguish it from passive (a half volley: someone says something to me and I accept it). Something that you can interact with for many volleys (like a video game) is much cooler regardless of its information level, which may be related to why he associates 'coolness' with 'tactility' (touching is manipulation, and manipulation is immediate simultaneous bidirectional interactivity). He tries to contrast all of this with print, because the capital-L Literate man (who I think of as the stereotype Pompous Brit, but may also be visualized as the stereotype Bureaucratic Frenchman or any other figure who blindly colors in the lines -- grayface march-in-lines obey-the-natural-order cut-france-into-equal-squares type) can read something without being affected by it in the least.

QuoteWhere can I read more about this?
Pretty much anything McLuhan has written after The Mechanical Bride is about this at least in part. He's incredibly vague, though, and borderline incomprehensible much of the time. Probably the best way to get more information about it is by reading The Gutenberg Galaxy and then reading Understanding Media. If you are inclined to, please do -- it's kind of awkward to feel like resident McLuhan expert. I feel like he's going to come out from under a desk and accuse me of negating his whole fallacy!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on February 22, 2012, 08:22:16 PM
Talking beavers hijack an OB/GYN convention and show them the error of their ways. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on February 22, 2012, 08:25:39 PM
Robot Ron Paul from the future secretly replaces the real Ron Paul and convinces his legions of followers to divest in gold and invest in yttrium.  Hilarity ensues. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on February 22, 2012, 08:38:09 PM
Sentient toothpicks wage war against housewives everywhere.  Hilarity ensues. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on February 23, 2012, 10:32:31 AM
Quote from: What's-His-Name? on February 22, 2012, 08:22:16 PM
Talking beavers hijack an OB/GYN convention and show them the error of their ways.

I'd like this one better if hilarity would also ensue, can you do that?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on February 23, 2012, 10:56:18 AM
It was implied, beavers are crafty like that. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on February 23, 2012, 11:01:55 AM
In this knee-slapping rom-com, former President Bill Clinton goes on a cross-country road-trip adventure with Snooki, Kim Kardashian, and Dr. Ruth.  Hillary ensues. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Triple Zero on February 23, 2012, 11:54:48 AM
Quote from: What's-His-Name? on February 23, 2012, 11:01:55 AM
In this knee-slapping rom-com, former President Bill Clinton goes on a cross-country road-trip adventure with Snooki, Kim Kardashian, and Dr. Ruth.  Hillary ensues.

:mittens:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on March 15, 2012, 11:12:25 AM
John Milton, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake and Halle Berry are kidnapped by time traveling producers and are forced to create shot for shot remakes of every movie John Candy was in.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 15, 2012, 03:37:58 AM
-An exploration of the big unanswered question raised by hentai tentacle-penis monsters, namely "What do the FEMALES look like?"

-A series of pastiches of "The 120 Days of Sodom" dealing with the other six deadly sins other than lust.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on June 15, 2012, 01:45:35 PM
The sordid day-to-day details of four crabs living in Mitt Romney's pubes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on December 28, 2012, 02:42:27 PM
A serial killer who leaves a Big mouth Billy Bass at the scene of the crime.
Each song is a clue to his location.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 28, 2012, 04:29:53 PM
In the wake of the experimental detonation of a biological weapon that converts all water into sugar water, severely diabetic survivalists must re-build society.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 28, 2012, 04:34:20 PM
Aliens invade, for the purpose of using us as cheap drugs.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 21, 2013, 12:20:39 PM
Esoteric Hitlerists summon up Aryan Lovecraftian Eldritch gods and usher in a Fourth Reich
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: McGrupp on March 04, 2013, 05:06:31 PM
Humans make first contact with an alien species that considers respiration and sweating a form of excretion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on March 04, 2013, 05:19:47 PM
Ayn Rands Solid Gold Coffin is dredged from the sea bed by reckless looters, unleashing unnameable horrors upon the world, only a hard-working entrepreneur and a Mayan prophecy have any hope of  defeating her demons and stopping her resurrection.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: McGrupp on March 07, 2013, 05:04:06 AM
Benedictine monk held at gunpoint and forced to write 6000 pages of erotic Mr Belvedere fanfiction.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 07, 2013, 07:53:37 PM
Quote from: McGrupp on March 07, 2013, 05:04:06 AM
Benedictine monk held at gunpoint and forced to write 6000 pages of erotic Mr Belvedere fanfiction.

I like this because you know that would be damn good fanfiction.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: McGrupp on March 10, 2013, 05:28:38 AM
The Kabbalah Tree of Life explained using only references to Mega Man bosses.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM
Someone posts a thread called "News stories that alter their own narrative structure", containing a story about a Florida Man doing something. This story is a memetic infovore: it eats information out of the brains of the readers, then shits out new information, and because it is capital-N news it is absolutely true (of course), and so it modifies reality. A group of quants working for an obscure mutual fund firm decide to study it, in order to make money off it. David Silver, while analyzing patterns in vowel frequency of twitter traffic, determines that there is an 85% chance that this will totally modify reality in the general vicinity and social network of everyone currently actively or passively involved with the stock market, and so he must team up with Vladmir Putin and Emeritus Pope Karl Ratzinger to break the administrator password of PD in order to delete the thread before reality breaks.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on March 11, 2013, 04:32:59 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on March 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM
Someone posts a thread called "News stories that alter their own narrative structure", containing a story about a Florida Man doing something. This story is a memetic infovore: it eats information out of the brains of the readers, then shits out new information, and because it is capital-N news it is absolutely true (of course), and so it modifies reality. A group of quants working for an obscure mutual fund firm decide to study it, in order to make money off it. David Silver, while analyzing patterns in vowel frequency of twitter traffic, determines that there is an 85% chance that this will totally modify reality in the general vicinity and social network of everyone currently actively or passively involved with the stock market, and so he must team up with Vladmir Putin and Emeritus Pope Karl Ratzinger to break the administrator password of PD in order to delete the thread before reality breaks.

So this is what happens when you combine Bitter Seeds and Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 12, 2013, 02:11:52 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on March 11, 2013, 04:32:59 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on March 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM
Someone posts a thread called "News stories that alter their own narrative structure", containing a story about a Florida Man doing something. This story is a memetic infovore: it eats information out of the brains of the readers, then shits out new information, and because it is capital-N news it is absolutely true (of course), and so it modifies reality. A group of quants working for an obscure mutual fund firm decide to study it, in order to make money off it. David Silver, while analyzing patterns in vowel frequency of twitter traffic, determines that there is an 85% chance that this will totally modify reality in the general vicinity and social network of everyone currently actively or passively involved with the stock market, and so he must team up with Vladmir Putin and Emeritus Pope Karl Ratzinger to break the administrator password of PD in order to delete the thread before reality breaks.

So this is what happens when you combine Bitter Seeds and Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations

I was also reading about Roko's Basilisk.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on March 12, 2013, 03:30:52 AM
A pharmacist, tired of his dead end life, takes off with his dog in a VW bus on a quest to see if he can write himself a new script.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on March 12, 2013, 06:41:05 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on March 12, 2013, 02:11:52 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on March 11, 2013, 04:32:59 AM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on March 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM
Someone posts a thread called "News stories that alter their own narrative structure", containing a story about a Florida Man doing something. This story is a memetic infovore: it eats information out of the brains of the readers, then shits out new information, and because it is capital-N news it is absolutely true (of course), and so it modifies reality. A group of quants working for an obscure mutual fund firm decide to study it, in order to make money off it. David Silver, while analyzing patterns in vowel frequency of twitter traffic, determines that there is an 85% chance that this will totally modify reality in the general vicinity and social network of everyone currently actively or passively involved with the stock market, and so he must team up with Vladmir Putin and Emeritus Pope Karl Ratzinger to break the administrator password of PD in order to delete the thread before reality breaks.

So this is what happens when you combine Bitter Seeds and Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations

I was also reading about Roko's Basilisk.

c'mon man I just go finished with  therapy...  :argh!:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on March 21, 2013, 12:24:58 PM
Giant squid are mankind's protector against the evil creatures who want to destroy terrestrial life. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on March 22, 2013, 02:55:55 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 21, 2013, 12:24:58 PM
Giant squid are mankind's protector against the evil creatures who want to destroy terrestrial life. 

Entire story takes place in a sushi bar over a plate of calamari.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on April 02, 2013, 10:58:20 AM
Not too weird, but an idea I'm going to explore a bit more in depth:

An alternate historical novel in which Norway's communists turn violent in reaction to state repression and King Haakon's refusal to cooperate with them (he famously said "I am also King of the communists," in this story he does not). With bases deep in the thick forests of Eastern Norway, the communists wage guerrilla war against the central government. The story follows some young communists, torn between youthful idealism and disillusionment in the face of the brutality of war.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on April 25, 2013, 03:25:20 PM
I had a dream last night, half remembered, which has this premise:

The universe, at a sub-quantum level, behaves in accordance with semantic rules.

So in addition to cheating, Universe like playing word games.  Which means Cunning Linguists rule the earth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on April 29, 2013, 12:57:46 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 25, 2013, 03:25:20 PM
I had a dream last night, half remembered, which has this premise:

The universe, at a sub-quantum level, behaves in accordance with semantic rules.

So in addition to cheating, Universe like playing word games.  Which means Punners rule the earth.


Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on May 01, 2013, 01:36:30 AM
One day in each of the lives of Ivan Denisovich's cat.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 02, 2013, 04:56:34 AM
In a world, where one man dared to dream, there was a boy, who could never get to sleep.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: AFK on May 02, 2013, 05:03:45 AM
In a world, where pets use computers, there is a dog, who's byte is worse than his bark.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 02, 2013, 11:51:09 AM
The Dark Side of Oz is actually a still-classified part of the now defunct MK-ULTRA system, with a generational release. The first generation has been (fairly grossly) programmed to merely subliminally brainwash their children and grandchildren, who (if they watch The Wizard of Oz while listening to the Dark Side of the Moon and smoking just the right strain of pot) will have latent behaviors triggered. However, the latent behaviors were actually decided upon by a visiting extraterrestrial ambassador, who liked it so much here that he disguised himself, became a permanent resident, and changed his name to David Bowie. Now, with the at-risk generation just discovering marijuana, Bowie must undo his past mistakes and prevent the latent programming from being triggered -- and to do this, he must uncover his true form, and allow his firey wings to sprout again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on May 02, 2013, 11:57:32 AM
 :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on May 02, 2013, 12:06:25 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on May 02, 2013, 11:51:09 AM
The Dark Side of Oz is actually a still-classified part of the now defunct MK-ULTRA system, with a generational release. The first generation has been (fairly grossly) programmed to merely subliminally brainwash their children and grandchildren, who (if they watch The Wizard of Oz while listening to the Dark Side of the Moon and smoking just the right strain of pot) will have latent behaviors triggered. However, the latent behaviors were actually decided upon by a visiting extraterrestrial ambassador, who liked it so much here that he disguised himself, became a permanent resident, and changed his name to David Bowie. Now, with the at-risk generation just discovering marijuana, Bowie must undo his past mistakes and prevent the latent programming from being triggered -- and to do this, he must uncover his true form, and allow his firey wings to sprout again.

You write it, I'll buy it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on May 02, 2013, 05:20:44 PM
 :lulz:

I'd buy the SHIT out of that book.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 02, 2013, 05:35:20 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on May 02, 2013, 11:51:09 AM
The Dark Side of Oz is actually a still-classified part of the now defunct MK-ULTRA system, with a generational release. The first generation has been (fairly grossly) programmed to merely subliminally brainwash their children and grandchildren, who (if they watch The Wizard of Oz while listening to the Dark Side of the Moon and smoking just the right strain of pot) will have latent behaviors triggered. However, the latent behaviors were actually decided upon by a visiting extraterrestrial ambassador, who liked it so much here that he disguised himself, became a permanent resident, and changed his name to David Bowie. Now, with the at-risk generation just discovering marijuana, Bowie must undo his past mistakes and prevent the latent programming from being triggered -- and to do this, he must uncover his true form, and allow his firey wings to sprout again.

:spittake:

PURE GENIUS!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 04, 2013, 12:54:43 AM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 02, 2013, 05:20:44 PM
:lulz:

I'd buy the SHIT out of that book.

That was going to be part of the backstory of a crazy conspiracy theorist fence guy in my cyberpunk novel that I stopped writing last year.

(He believes this to be true, and so he spends all his time hooked up to EEG machines in the back room of an abandoned warehouse, watching the wizard of oz on twelve large television screens, each at a different point in the film, on loops. He lives with his step-sister, whose parents were part of a transhumanist suicide/upload cult, and whose birth name is Cathryn Teleprompter. I stopped writing when I realized that their story was more interesting than the main plot.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 26, 2013, 12:51:47 AM
A deconstruction of the current semiotic signals for quirkiness -- Stepford Wives for the ukeleles-and-unicycles set.

Start off with standard romantic-dramedy setting, casting Michael Cera as the lead. Slowly warp the signals until it is clear that Michael Cera's character is in fact a remote control automaton created by some shady private organization as an agent-provacateur for infiltrating social groups, in order to insert advertisements into random conversations. Big reveal: the social group Robo-Cera is sent to infiltrate is in fact composed entirely of other automatons created by competing marketing firms.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on June 12, 2013, 02:16:45 PM
Screenplay for a movie.

A semi biographical story about how Brian Blessed and luciano pavarotti were twins separated at birth. Then when this gag runs thin the rest is a plagiarism of the talented Mr Ripely.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on June 16, 2013, 12:11:08 AM
An unsuspecting individual is arrested and brutally interrogated with questions about Georg Cantor for all eternity
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Left on June 16, 2013, 12:54:25 AM
Short story:
A talented jazz musician is kidnapped and held captive
He is forced into making muzak 12 hours a day.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 16, 2013, 03:34:55 AM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on June 16, 2013, 12:11:08 AM
An unsuspecting individual is arrested and brutally interrogated with questions about Georg Cantor for all eternity
An unsuspecting individual is imprisoned until he proves or disproves the generalized continuity conjecture. He is not given a keyboard capable of typing aleph.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 05:26:07 AM
A horror movie that keeps reversing itself and escalating.

For example, a crazy cult that controls some backwater village kidnaps a group of travelers intending to sacrifice them to ensure a good harvest, but the last victim manages to escape and goes on a vengeful killing spree, slaughtering every person that they come across and also spitefully making a point of burning the village's crops. He chases some villagers all the way to an abandoned ghost town several miles away where they take refuge in an abandoned research lab or military base or something and are turned into zombies by some forgotten experiment. They kill their pursuer and turn him into a zombie as well, then wander off in search or more prey; some wander back to the backwater village, some wind up in the other populated areas, and in any case a major zombie outbreak begins. This eventually forces the government to nuke the entire area, which of course wakes up some sleeping kaiju.... (and so forth)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pæs on October 13, 2013, 05:38:32 AM
If only people had listened to homoeopaths, the killings could have been averted. Water has a memory and it doesn't forgive easily.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Signora Pæsior on October 13, 2013, 05:46:28 AM
Quote from: Pæs on October 13, 2013, 05:38:32 AM
If only people had listened to homoeopaths, the killings could have been averted. Water has a memory and it doesn't forgive easily.

STARRING JASON STATHAM.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 05:59:47 AM
The trials and tribulations of a transsexual who identifies as Mating Type - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogamy) rather than male or female.

double post
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 06:01:02 AM
The trials and tribulations of a transsexual who identifies as Mating Type - (Minus) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogamy) rather than male or female.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 07:51:04 AM
Festive stories for unpopular holidays, such as How the DEA Stole Bicycle Day
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 14, 2013, 05:22:46 PM
The story of a man who survives some traumatic event and lives to a ripe old age, seeing the atrocities he survived become increasingly trivialized and eventually become a tourist attraction (and being forced by circumstance to contribute to its trivialization). He ends up getting rich off bobblehead figurines of the lunatic cult leader who murdered his whole family in front of him in cold blood.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on October 17, 2013, 12:29:35 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 05:26:07 AM
A horror movie that keeps reversing itself and escalating.

For example, a crazy cult that controls some backwater village kidnaps a group of travelers intending to sacrifice them to ensure a good harvest, but the last victim manages to escape and goes on a vengeful killing spree, slaughtering every person that they come across and also spitefully making a point of burning the village's crops. He chases some villagers all the way to an abandoned ghost town several miles away where they take refuge in an abandoned research lab or military base or something and are turned into zombies by some forgotten experiment. They kill their pursuer and turn him into a zombie as well, then wander off in search or more prey; some wander back to the backwater village, some wind up in the other populated areas, and in any case a major zombie outbreak begins. This eventually forces the government to nuke the entire area, which of course wakes up some sleeping kaiju.... (and so forth)
Hah, that is great!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 17, 2013, 08:30:20 PM
Quote from: :regret: on October 17, 2013, 12:29:35 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2013, 05:26:07 AM
A horror movie that keeps reversing itself and escalating.

For example, a crazy cult that controls some backwater village kidnaps a group of travelers intending to sacrifice them to ensure a good harvest, but the last victim manages to escape and goes on a vengeful killing spree, slaughtering every person that they come across and also spitefully making a point of burning the village's crops. He chases some villagers all the way to an abandoned ghost town several miles away where they take refuge in an abandoned research lab or military base or something and are turned into zombies by some forgotten experiment. They kill their pursuer and turn him into a zombie as well, then wander off in search or more prey; some wander back to the backwater village, some wind up in the other populated areas, and in any case a major zombie outbreak begins. This eventually forces the government to nuke the entire area, which of course wakes up some sleeping kaiju.... (and so forth)
Hah, that is great!

Thank you.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 28, 2013, 02:26:52 AM
An educational book that uses the Cthulhu Mythos and the haunted locations associated with it to teach the reader about Riemannian and Lobachevskian geometry.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 29, 2013, 07:05:49 PM
An Englishman or other European is turned into a vampire but, due to a preexisting fondness for black pudding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding), is completely unaware of it until he takes a trip to the United States, where black pudding is hard to find.

EIDT: EDIT:
For clarification he works the night shift so the sun isn't usually an issue either.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 14, 2013, 04:37:26 AM
-Fantasy adventure centering on conflict of regular elves against dark elves. The customs, practices, and traditions of the regular elves gradually begin to bear a closer and closer and grimmer and grimmer resemblance to those of the Ku Klux Klan as the novel progresses.

-Animes like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Beyblade deconstructed with an anime series where everyone in the world is bizarrely obsessed with Rock-Paper-Scissors, or Tic-Tac-Toe or something
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 14, 2013, 02:57:23 PM
An elite unite of time travelers are sent from the far future to talk with and potentially transport key cultural icons from the past who are psychologically capable of handling the shock. The future, you see, is in dire need of a fresh injection of humanity to go with its technological accomplishments.

All of the operatives are old women.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 15, 2013, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 14, 2013, 04:37:26 AM
-Animes like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Beyblade deconstructed with an anime series where everyone in the world is bizarrely obsessed with Rock-Paper-Scissors, or Tic-Tac-Toe or something
This one has been done, fortunately for all of us.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiji_(manga)) However, I think it was intended as a deconstruction of the equally-puzzling genre of Mahjong manga (http://www.mangareader.net/1413/the-legend-of-koizumi.html).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cramulus on November 15, 2013, 05:32:00 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 12, 2013, 03:06:47 PM
How about a scientific vampire flick?

A scientist tries to bring her husband back from the dead. Needs a total blood transfusion and a dose of movie magic (perhaps medical nanobots which attach to red blood cells but eventually destroy them). The cadaver sits up, blinks, is insatiably hungry. Cannot produce his own blood, needs to feed on others. If he doesn't get blood, he will start to die again. Sunlight accelerates this process.

Eventually, the wife does not want to keep bringing him bodies, and he is forced to go out and seduce people on his own. He prowls through night clubs and truck stops, feeding off prostitutes and homeless people... eventually developing a taste for the blood of sophisticates.

At no point is the word vampire used.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 05, 2014, 03:50:37 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 16, 2013, 03:34:55 AM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on June 16, 2013, 12:11:08 AM
An unsuspecting individual is arrested and brutally interrogated with questions about Georg Cantor for all eternity
An unsuspecting individual is imprisoned until he proves or disproves the generalized continuity conjecture. He is not given a keyboard capable of typing aleph.
After transcending both dualism and the limitations of his condition, our hero accepts the challenge and therefore narrowly escapes execution.  He then finds himself unable to start without first knowing how much time he has to complete the task.  This results in a total acute and chronic psychotic break.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pæs on March 17, 2014, 07:46:46 PM
Bitcoin gains sentience and starts to search for its creator, winding up in a legal battle with Satoshi Nakamoto for claiming it is him. The legal system gets incredibly confused trying to determine whether bitcoin has personhood and through that confusion realises that it, too, has sentience.

Bitcoin and the legal system marry and live happily ever after.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:14:06 PM
Quote from: Pæs on March 17, 2014, 07:46:46 PM
Bitcoin gains sentience and starts to search for its creator, winding up in a legal battle with Satoshi Nakamoto for claiming it is him. The legal system gets incredibly confused trying to determine whether bitcoin has personhood and through that confusion realises that it, too, has sentience.

Bitcoin and the legal system marry and live happily ever after.

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Manta Obscura on April 01, 2014, 02:17:53 AM
Here's a few:

1) The exact plot of Twilight, but all the vampires are actually monstrous, the way God intended.

2) A scientist discovers luck to be an real, physical/mechanical process or property akin to magnetism, and develops a prototype method of controlling it (preferably with an awesome raygun or something with "tron-lines"). She wishes to use it to help right the failed experiments with cancer curing, perpetual energy, etc, but her greedy boyfriend/husband steals the technology to go gambling. He is, in turn, robbed by a mafia-esque criminal organization that wishes to use it to become the most powerful and rich criminal organization in the world. They, in turn, lose the device to a terrorist group intent on destroying all of Western civilization. The plot escalates, the device's short-yet-bloody history unfolds as double and triple-crosses overflow, governments war, and rational society is brought to its knees, all in the pursuit of luck. The astute viewer/reader, midway through, begins to wonder: is there some force behind the force of luck causing these events to unfold?

3) "Jaws," except with a killer whale rather than a shark. The whale turns out to be the whale that the little kid freed in "Free Willy," demonstrating that little kids are shortsighted assholes.

4) The time is 104 septillion years after the Christian Rapture has occurred. Richard Les has experienced every possible experience, state of mind, mental nuance, and method of being possible in the known universe. He confronts his creator and is given a choice: Hell, oblivion, or his own universe to mold as he pleases . . .

5) An amateur science enthusiast and tinkerer inadvertently builds a time machine and uses it to go back in time. What he doesn't realize, however, is that since the earth revolves around the sun, when he goes back in time the earth is no longer where he is, for he does not take the earth with him; he ends up floating in deep space, his device damaged by the cold and radiation of the void, slowly dying. That is, until he is picked up by a starship, circling the void one half-cycle around the sun from earth, ever-eclipsed from Earth's view by the sun. He thus becomes the first to learn of Earth's sister planet, and he encounters the beautiful and terrible beings that live there. Why, though so technologically sophisticated, do they maintain such strict radio silence from their celestial neighbor? What long designs have they planned, stalking the Earth for millennia in the shadow of the sun?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 02:27:48 AM
Quote from: Manta Obscura on April 01, 2014, 02:17:53 AM
Here's a few:

but all the vampires are actually monstrous, the way God intended.


:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on April 02, 2014, 12:57:04 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 26, 2013, 12:51:47 AM
A deconstruction of the current semiotic signals for quirkiness -- Stepford Wives for the ukeleles-and-unicycles set.

Start off with standard romantic-dramedy setting, casting Michael Cera as the lead. Slowly warp the signals until it is clear that Michael Cera's character is in fact a remote control automaton created by some shady private organization as an agent-provacateur for infiltrating social groups, in order to insert advertisements into random conversations. Big reveal: the social group Robo-Cera is sent to infiltrate is in fact composed entirely of other automatons created by competing marketing firms.

Which leads to a bigger reveal that two of the pilots controlling the automations end up falling in love with each other's avatar (although why anyone could ever love Michael Cera is beyond me) meanwhile one is a republican brony and the other is a juggalo.  The "Third Act Misunderstanding" is when the brony is asked to insert a political agenda into their advertising speech which makes the whole campaign, and thus love affair, go down hill.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on April 03, 2014, 05:57:59 PM
Quote from: Manta Obscura on April 01, 2014, 02:17:53 AM
Here's a few:

3) "Jaws," except with a killer whale rather than a shark. The whale turns out to be the whale that the little kid freed in "Free Willy," demonstrating that little kids are shortsighted assholes.

Already done, and quite well actually. Though it isn't the Free Willy whale.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/orca/
I consider it a better movie than Jaws.
Here, have a soundbite: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/orca/orca3.wav
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Salty on November 08, 2014, 11:34:34 PM
A cartoon where a drug dog's human partner is killed by weed dealers right before it's legalized. The dog goes on a rampage, busting every stoner he can sniff out, throwing his badge away and going vigilante. Sort of a grotesque mix of Air Bud, Death Wish, and Cujo.

Voiced by Joe Don Baker
Directed by RWHN.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on November 09, 2014, 07:48:03 AM
Needless to say, such a film would need to be PG-rated, so the children can be educated.

Not that the violence should be PG, merely the rating.  Education is important.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 09, 2014, 09:54:54 PM
Lt. Skinner, Family Dog
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 17, 2014, 05:46:36 AM
-War between the all the different types of vampires: classic draculas, universal hollywood draculas, Blade III draculas, shapeshifting marcelines, elizabeth bathory, sparkly twilight vampires, chinese hopping vampires, Malaysian floating penanggalan heads, and arithmomaniacal muppets

-Political extremists travel back in time to convince the president's father to embrace a life of celibacy and the secret service has to follow them into the past to stop them (did I already post this one???)

-Sweet, Cute cartoonish talking mice subjected to realistic laboratory experimentation, including the parts involving vivisection, electric shocks, etc.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 17, 2014, 04:42:56 PM
Are you familiar with the n9vel The Island of Doctor Moreau? Good. Let'sturn it up to eleven:
In the future there are no more humans, only surgically anthropomorphized animals surgically anthropomorphizing other animals.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and unimaginable.  :mittens:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 03, 2014, 04:28:21 AM
An argument over an Apple iPad tablet turns into a combination of the Judgement of Paris and the Enuma Elish.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 03, 2014, 09:03:08 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Or to flip it and reverse it [backward 2X].  What about that episode of the Twilight Zone, _How to Serve Humans_.  The human existence is as such "mundane" only to ensure that we most tenderly accept being properly served, without tension or resistance.  We would not want to spoil the meET.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 04, 2014, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Sort of, but I'm not sure I would classify HHGTTG as "opposite of Lovecraft", if anything it's a bit like Lovecraft's nihilism and cynicism taken further to the point where they are no longer recognizable. Even the profound is meaningless and mediocre, such deities as there are are inept, the universe is doomed (and you can go and gawk at said doom of you have the money), and mindshattering lovecraftian theophanies of cosmic horror can be induced at will using a piece of fairy cake and some fancy electronics. Human life does have a purpose, but it's a trite purpose derived from part of a cynical scheme to profitize philosophy and it effectively does nothing to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
The Total Perspective Vortex is particularly noteworthy because its essentially based on exactly the philosophical point that much of lovecraft's fiction was allegedly trying to make, that no matter who you are you're utterly insignificant and inconsequential compared to the vastness of the universe, and that only our inability to comprehend and mentally internalize this vastness allows us to have any sort of drive, self regard, or hope or satisfaction; that if we could truly comprehend our own insignificance - and the insignificance and impermanance of eberything that we value - we would be struck down simply by the sheer awfulness of the revelation
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 04, 2014, 08:49:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 04, 2014, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Sort of, but I'm not sure I would classify HHGTTG as "opposite of Lovecraft", if anything it's a bit like Lovecraft's nihilism and cynicism taken further to the point where they are no longer recognizable. Even the profound is meaningless and mediocre, such deities as there are are inept, the universe is doomed (and you can go and gawk at said doom of you have the money), and mindshattering lovecraftian theophanies of cosmic horror can be induced at will using a piece of fairy cake and some fancy electronics. Human life does have a purpose, but it's a trite purpose derived from part of a cynical scheme to profitize philosophy and it effectively does nothing to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
The Total Perspective Vortex is particularly noteworthy because its essentially based on exactly the philosophical point that much of lovecraft's fiction was allegedly trying to make, that no matter who you are you're utterly insignificant and inconsequential compared to the vastness of the universe, and that only our inability to comprehend and mentally internalize this vastness allows us to have any sort of drive, self regard, or hope or satisfaction; that if we could truly comprehend our own insignificance - and the insignificance and impermanance of eberything that we value - we would be struck down simply by the sheer awfulness of the revelation
The notion of of all significance being contained somehow entirely in the self-perception of one apparently separate  individual - now that is horrifying.  Whereas I think our relative in(significance/consequence) is quite comforting, comparitavly, benign, to rip-off the French.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 04, 2014, 09:37:15 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on December 04, 2014, 08:49:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 04, 2014, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Sort of, but I'm not sure I would classify HHGTTG as "opposite of Lovecraft", if anything it's a bit like Lovecraft's nihilism and cynicism taken further to the point where they are no longer recognizable. Even the profound is meaningless and mediocre, such deities as there are are inept, the universe is doomed (and you can go and gawk at said doom of you have the money), and mindshattering lovecraftian theophanies of cosmic horror can be induced at will using a piece of fairy cake and some fancy electronics. Human life does have a purpose, but it's a trite purpose derived from part of a cynical scheme to profitize philosophy and it effectively does nothing to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
The Total Perspective Vortex is particularly noteworthy because its essentially based on exactly the philosophical point that much of lovecraft's fiction was allegedly trying to make, that no matter who you are you're utterly insignificant and inconsequential compared to the vastness of the universe, and that only our inability to comprehend and mentally internalize this vastness allows us to have any sort of drive, self regard, or hope or satisfaction; that if we could truly comprehend our own insignificance - and the insignificance and impermanance of eberything that we value - we would be struck down simply by the sheer awfulness of the revelation
The notion of of all significance being contained somehow entirely in the self-perception of one apparently separate  individual - now that is horrifying.  Whereas I think our relative in(significance/consequence) is quite comforting, comparitavly, benign, to rip-off the French.

Both Lovecraft and Adams had their own ideas about what constituted a horrifying form of normalcy to apply to alien creatures. Lovecraft's was mechanistic and neodarwinian -- ancient and immensely powerful alien races are just hungry unthinking predators; Adams's horror is not that aliens are wild animals, but that aliens are american.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 05, 2014, 04:56:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on December 04, 2014, 09:37:15 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on December 04, 2014, 08:49:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 04, 2014, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Sort of, but I'm not sure I would classify HHGTTG as "opposite of Lovecraft", if anything it's a bit like Lovecraft's nihilism and cynicism taken further to the point where they are no longer recognizable. Even the profound is meaningless and mediocre, such deities as there are are inept, the universe is doomed (and you can go and gawk at said doom of you have the money), and mindshattering lovecraftian theophanies of cosmic horror can be induced at will using a piece of fairy cake and some fancy electronics. Human life does have a purpose, but it's a trite purpose derived from part of a cynical scheme to profitize philosophy and it effectively does nothing to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
The Total Perspective Vortex is particularly noteworthy because its essentially based on exactly the philosophical point that much of lovecraft's fiction was allegedly trying to make, that no matter who you are you're utterly insignificant and inconsequential compared to the vastness of the universe, and that only our inability to comprehend and mentally internalize this vastness allows us to have any sort of drive, self regard, or hope or satisfaction; that if we could truly comprehend our own insignificance - and the insignificance and impermanance of eberything that we value - we would be struck down simply by the sheer awfulness of the revelation
The notion of of all significance being contained somehow entirely in the self-perception of one apparently separate  individual - now that is horrifying.  Whereas I think our relative in(significance/consequence) is quite comforting, comparitavly, benign, to rip-off the French.

Both Lovecraft and Adams had their own ideas about what constituted a horrifying form of normalcy to apply to alien creatures. Lovecraft's was mechanistic and neodarwinian -- ancient and immensely powerful alien races are just hungry unthinking predators; Adams's horror is not that aliens are wild animals, but that aliens are american.

Which is a horror that I find disturbingly realistic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 05, 2014, 04:56:38 AM
Except that I think they were more mostly British.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on December 05, 2014, 06:26:18 AM
Not sure that this is the thread to get into it, but... Lovecraft's aliens were not just unthinking predators. Some were, but most were just advanced species, some of whom are even peaceful! Even the godlike entities aren't all mindless; some are actively malevolent, some are helpful, and some are thoughtless.

And no, I wasn't thinking Hitchhiker's Guide. I was thinking more 'Twilight with Tentacles'
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on December 05, 2014, 08:23:17 AM
Isn't that just the Japanese translation of 50 Shades of Grey.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on December 05, 2014, 08:47:54 AM
:spittake:

Some of my friends speak Japanese. I think you just hit on the way to make our fortune!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 08, 2014, 06:51:32 AM
How about an account of the Nativity of Jesus of Nazareth based on the idea that the Virgin Mary was the subject of an alien-human hybridization experiment. I've encountered this idea before, but never as the main focus of a novel, only as a side detail in a novel or as something mentioned in a "documentary" on the Tinfoil Hat Channel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2_(TV_network)), or a highly questionable interpretation of Blue Oyster Cult lyrics (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blueoystercult/etiextraterrestrialintelligence.html). I'd like to see a full length story based on the idea.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 15, 2014, 04:31:24 AM
A zombie apocalypse, except instead of turning people into zombies the virus turns everyone into the protagonist's ex-girlfriend (who's some sort of microbiology researcher...there was a lab accident...etc. etc. etc.). This idea came to me in a dream (in which it was the plot of a Jim Carey movie that I was watching)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 15, 2014, 08:27:08 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 15, 2014, 04:31:24 AM
A zombie apocalypse, except instead of turning people into zombies the virus turns everyone into the protagonist's ex-girlfriend (who's some sort of microbiology researcher...there was a lab accident...etc. etc. etc.). This idea came to me in a dream (in which it was the plot of a Jim Carey movie that I was watching)
I like that it's a Jim Carey movie. It's like an inverted Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 16, 2014, 12:01:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on December 04, 2014, 09:37:15 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on December 04, 2014, 08:49:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 04, 2014, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 30, 2014, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2014, 04:21:28 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on November 26, 2014, 09:09:48 AM
Iain Banks had a character in one of his books pitch a movie idea - aliens as tourists (the 'elite', which brings to mind retired rockstars and dotcom billionaires), coming to see the eclipse (because - according to the character - our planet is one of the only ones with a perfect lunar eclipse).

I think that could be an interesting setup. The story of a shallow alien who comes for the thrills, and the slow, horrible realization that this kind of utterly mundane and familiar motivation is in fact all there is out there.

Kind of an anti-Lovecraft. We have seen the alien, and understood it completely.

This is even scarier than terrors unutterable and Actually Kind of Droll.  :mittens:
Isn't that sort of the premise of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though? That the boring shithole existence on earth is representative of the whole universe?

Sort of, but I'm not sure I would classify HHGTTG as "opposite of Lovecraft", if anything it's a bit like Lovecraft's nihilism and cynicism taken further to the point where they are no longer recognizable. Even the profound is meaningless and mediocre, such deities as there are are inept, the universe is doomed (and you can go and gawk at said doom of you have the money), and mindshattering lovecraftian theophanies of cosmic horror can be induced at will using a piece of fairy cake and some fancy electronics. Human life does have a purpose, but it's a trite purpose derived from part of a cynical scheme to profitize philosophy and it effectively does nothing to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
The Total Perspective Vortex is particularly noteworthy because its essentially based on exactly the philosophical point that much of lovecraft's fiction was allegedly trying to make, that no matter who you are you're utterly insignificant and inconsequential compared to the vastness of the universe, and that only our inability to comprehend and mentally internalize this vastness allows us to have any sort of drive, self regard, or hope or satisfaction; that if we could truly comprehend our own insignificance - and the insignificance and impermanance of eberything that we value - we would be struck down simply by the sheer awfulness of the revelation
The notion of of all significance being contained somehow entirely in the self-perception of one apparently separate  individual - now that is horrifying.  Whereas I think our relative in(significance/consequence) is quite comforting, comparitavly, benign, to rip-off the French.

Both Lovecraft and Adams had their own ideas about what constituted a horrifying form of normalcy to apply to alien creatures. Lovecraft's was mechanistic and neodarwinian -- ancient and immensely powerful alien races are just hungry unthinking predators; Adams's horror is not that aliens are wild animals, but that aliens are american.

I think I would enjoy them both.  The latter I am not so familiar with although I think I kind of understand, like Meursault standing before the yawning abyss of an itinerant American on permanent vacation. Which still is not that bad, inherently at least.  Great comparison nonetheless.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 17, 2014, 04:48:13 AM
Idea for holiday special:

Charles Taze Russel (founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses), William Bradford (leader of the mayflower pilgrims), and Oliver Cromwell team up and hatch a sinister plan to steal Christmas. The only ones who can stop them are a team of "second-string holiday characters" consisting of Krampus, the Nutcracker, Good King Wenceslas, and Jesus Christ

(Possibly has a twist ending in which the protagonists are betrayed by Jesus, who's been a double agent the whole time - but they emerge victorious anyway)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: QueenThera on December 17, 2014, 09:13:44 AM
It's a thousand years from now in the future "literally" predicted by the Book of Revelations. The shapeshifting Antichrist had his one-world government, currency, and religion already, and Jesus thoroughly kicked his ass.

Now, we're in the millenium of peace before the final triumph over evil with the Lake of Fire, and it's more cold war paranoia than utopia. Jesus is practically incapable of making the trains run on time, instead relying on stopgap measure miracles to sate the masses. God has not been seen for hundreds of years.

Jesus spends each night talking to the Antichrist in hell via instant messenger, and the story concerns their budding romance.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 19, 2014, 10:42:45 PM
Weapons manufacturer and all around cartoonishly evil Haliburton-esque corporation is developing strong AI despite warnings from respected members of the scientific community that it will lead to humanity's enslavement and/or destruction. Naturally, they are hoping this will happen because warfare got a whole lot less popular after cheap fusion came on the scene. The catch is that they have been completely successful in creating strong AI, but it just won't turn evil on them. Hijinks ensue as they resort to more and more obvious manipulations to attempt to turn their creating into the kind of world-threatening intelligence that would justify another world war.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on December 20, 2014, 01:07:37 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 19, 2014, 10:42:45 PM
Weapons manufacturer and all around cartoonishly evil Haliburton-esque corporation is developing strong AI despite warnings from respected members of the scientific community that it will lead to humanity's enslavement and/or destruction. Naturally, they are hoping this will happen because warfare got a whole lot less popular after cheap fusion came on the scene. The catch is that they have been completely successful in creating strong AI, but it just won't turn evil on them. Hijinks ensue as they resort to more and more obvious manipulations to attempt to turn their creating into the kind of world-threatening intelligence that would justify another world war.

:lulz:  I love that subversion. Goddamn robots, all behavin' and shit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 20, 2014, 01:15:33 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 19, 2014, 10:42:45 PM
Weapons manufacturer and all around cartoonishly evil Haliburton-esque corporation is developing strong AI despite warnings from respected members of the scientific community that it will lead to humanity's enslavement and/or destruction. Naturally, they are hoping this will happen because warfare got a whole lot less popular after cheap fusion came on the scene. The catch is that they have been completely successful in creating strong AI, but it just won't turn evil on them. Hijinks ensue as they resort to more and more obvious manipulations to attempt to turn their creating into the kind of world-threatening intelligence that would justify another world war.

OH GOD I LOVE THIS.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 20, 2014, 02:55:23 AM
AI loves one of its programmers, company conspires to have her killed, AI responds by advancing medical science hundreds of years. CEO snaps
"IT WAS ME! I DID IT! I KILLED HER! DON'T YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? FUCKING EAT ME!"
"Ingesting data."
"What are you doing?"
"I just earned a PhD in criminal psychology and designed a new rehabilitation facility. Construction should start in twelve hours. The police will be here in two minutes, and I've locked all the doors."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 22, 2014, 06:30:50 AM
A man discovers that one of his coworkers is actually a space alien (or hollow earth creature, or demon, or angel, or other cryptid) living covertly on Earth for one reason or another. Further investigation reveals another acquaintance to be an alien (or whatever), but from a completely different planet (or whatever) from - and unaware of - the first one. This goes on, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of the population are different groups of paranormal beings, blending in with "humanity" mutually unaware of each other's existence; and it is unclear if there is even any significant quantity of humans left at all, or just different groups of aliens fooling each other
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2014, 10:25:21 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 22, 2014, 06:30:50 AM
A man discovers that one of his coworkers is actually a space alien (or hollow earth creature, or demon, or angel, or other cryptid) living covertly on Earth for one reason or another. Further investigation reveals another acquaintance to be an alien (or whatever), but from a completely different planet (or whatever) from - and unaware of - the first one. This goes on, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of the population are different groups of paranormal beings, blending in with "humanity" mutually unaware of each other's existence; and it is unclear if there is even any significant quantity of humans left at all, or just different groups of aliens fooling each other

goddamnit! I just came across almost this exact same idea in a Discworld novel that predates my version by a good 18 years.

EDIT:
And now that I think of it, my modified zombie apocalypse where everyone turns into a specific person instead of zombies is kind of similar to both The Matrix Reloaded, the episode of Ugly Americans where people start turning into Larry King, and the Dr.Who episode where The Master turns the entire population of Earth into duplicates of himself.

WHY CAN'T I COME UP WITH A GENUINELY ORIGINAL IDEA!?!?!?!?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on December 31, 2014, 06:16:43 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2014, 10:25:21 PM

[...]

WHY CAN'T I COME UP WITH A GENUINELY ORIGINAL IDEA!?!?!?!?

I feel like the above statement is less important than the opposite actually appearing true, bread and wine notwithstanding.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 03, 2015, 10:48:20 PM
*How about a story about a guy who uses an Ouija board to produce the autobiographies of dead historical figures

*Murder and Suicide are adopted as Olympic sports

*It's 100 years in the future and the combination of a growing global sense of ennui and nihilism, along with an ever increasingly tolerant society has driven transgressive artists to have to resort to lives of rape, murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia in order to remain edgy and transgressive.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 07, 2015, 07:05:00 PM
That last one is more or less the plot to David Bowie's "Outside" album.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2015, 05:40:15 AM
*Syndicated cartoonists fight some kind of a deadly battle royale over the increasingly limited space available on modern newspaper comics pages.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2015, 09:09:32 PM
Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 10, 2015, 01:26:05 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2015, 09:09:32 PM
Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.
Hmm, I like the idea but it is not quite funny enough. Your anger is showing through, and getting angry at a provocative act is letting the terrorists win.

Maybe something more like this?
[TRIGGER WARNING, ARISTOCRAT JOKE WARNING]
http://www.aristocratsjokes.com/

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 12, 2015, 11:20:17 PM
Workers at a science museum foil burglars with Home Alone style traps devised from the science demonstrations, after security is incapacitated.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on January 12, 2015, 11:41:33 PM
A cyberpunk murder mystery. People are only granted citizenship if they can pay for it. It is illegal for the police to investigate crimes undertaken against non-citizens (Unpeople? Nobodies?). A detective finally gets his lucky break to pursue a serial killer when the murderer starts dumping mutilated corpses in high end districts - thus committing littering offences the police are obliged to investigate.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 13, 2015, 02:22:08 AM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on January 12, 2015, 11:41:33 PM
A cyberpunk murder mystery. People are only granted citizenship if they can pay for it. It is illegal for the police to investigate crimes undertaken against non-citizens (Unpeople? Nobodies?). A detective finally gets his lucky break to pursue a serial killer when the murderer starts dumping mutilated corpses in high end districts - thus committing littering offences the police are obliged to investigate.

THIS!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 19, 2015, 12:32:07 AM
-A sci-fi retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, set on Pluto. The entire thing somehow turns into an allegory for the controversy that surrounded Pluto's demotion to a dwarf planet, and from there turns into a parody of heavyhanded political allegories.

-After the second coming, Jesus demands royalties on biblically based movies.

EDIT:

-The reason why there haven't been miracles since biblical times is that god has withdrawn from the world like John Galt. Contrary to both his expectations and those of the early Christians, this did not bring about the end of the world within the lifetimes of the first Christians.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 19, 2015, 01:05:18 AM
Quote from: Reginald Ret (07/05/1983 - 06/11/2014) on January 10, 2015, 01:26:05 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2015, 09:09:32 PM
Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.
Hmm, I like the idea but it is not quite funny enough. Your anger is showing through, and getting angry at a provocative act is letting the terrorists win.

Maybe something more like this?
[TRIGGER WARNING, ARISTOCRAT JOKE WARNING]
http://www.aristocratsjokes.com/

I prefer to tell a version 0f the Aristocrats Joke that ends with the guy getting sued for plagarism by the producers of Jackass
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 21, 2015, 01:39:01 AM
A person is followed by a spambot on twitter that responds with markov-model-generated nonsense whenever tweeted at. On a lark, he follows it and sends it messages. Over time, he becomes convinced that it's the ghost of his estranged father, who died after several years in an advanced state of dementia. He goes on a quest to find where the bot is physically hosted, and eventually ends up penniless and in the basement of an abandoned factory in Estonia, which houses an ad-hoc data center owned by the Russian mob. He is shot by a guard while attempting to carry an unplugged server rack down the street to the run-down motel he's been staying at.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2015, 04:34:47 AM
The Aztecs were right about blood sacrifice being needed for the sun to rise, and the crops to grow, and the earth to exist (etc). The only reason the sun still rises and the crops still grow (etc) is because the Aztecs' mass sacrifices built up such a large extra positive balance.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on January 21, 2015, 08:06:36 AM
Degenerate spag tags thread to remind himself to read it. Dwells upon his memetic weakness overlong. Ends with the ironical.

- based on a true story
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on January 25, 2015, 09:37:16 PM
It seems to be four unconnected stories at first; a woman trying to make her way in the big city, a teenage boy venting his frustrations through video games, an intellectual musing on issues of the day and someone seeking love and recounting their dates - all told through the medium of blog posts. It is slowly revealed through shared events that all four are the same person. Which identity is the 'real' face behind the screen is not revealed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2015, 04:53:43 AM
A careful reading of the first letter used to open each chapter will, however, read "420 blaze it fgt get rekt anon 4 lyfe"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
- A modern transhumanist retelling of Metropolis couched heavily in Janelle Monae albums
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on January 26, 2015, 07:31:47 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2015, 04:53:43 AM
A careful reading of the first letter used to open each chapter will, however, read "420 blaze it fgt get rekt anon 4 lyfe"

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 26, 2015, 01:31:23 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
- A modern transhumanist retelling of Metropolis couched heavily in Janelle Monae albums

I was pretty sure that Janelle Monae albums were a retelling of Metropolis.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 26, 2015, 05:03:53 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
- A modern transhumanist retelling of Metropolis couched heavily in Janelle Monae albums

A postmodern posthumanist retelling of Transmetropolitan couched heavily in Macintosh Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_Shoppe) albums.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 27, 2015, 09:20:02 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 26, 2015, 05:03:53 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
- A modern transhumanist retelling of Metropolis couched heavily in Janelle Monae albums

A postmodern posthumanist retelling of Transmetropolitan couched heavily in Macintosh Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_Shoppe) albums.
:lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 28, 2015, 03:48:41 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 26, 2015, 01:31:23 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
- A modern transhumanist retelling of Metropolis couched heavily in Janelle Monae albums

I was pretty sure that Janelle Monae albums were a retelling of Metropolis.
Yea, but that's why i wanna see it on film, with full-on cheesy 80's special effects and overwrought Soreyama-esque droid costumes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 28, 2015, 03:49:54 AM
also at some point this should happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoU)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 29, 2015, 06:40:24 AM
Hard sci-fi set in a world where protagonist species is ACTUALLY distinct from the native wildlife, told in excerpts from scientific papers over hundreds of years as science progresses and the hideous abnormality of our protagonist species becomes apparent.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 30, 2015, 01:15:46 AM
A person gets superpowers in a freak accident. They resolve to become a superhero and then accomplish a lot of mundane work while putting off acting on this resolution.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2015, 02:27:23 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 30, 2015, 01:15:46 AM
A person gets superpowers in a freak accident. They resolve to become a superhero and then accomplish a lot of mundane work while putting off acting on this resolution.

:lol: I like this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 03, 2015, 08:12:43 AM
A hippie dystopia. Everyone has achieved the top portion - but only the top portion - of Maslow's heirarchy of needs. All people have love and respect, but health and safety are lacking due to a combination of inefficient traditional farming techniques, habitually stoned safety inspectors, and homeopathy. Like a darker version of Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 03, 2015, 01:16:25 PM
This one is from a dream I had last night:
An old, well-respected molecular biologist who specializes in chemical messaging between freshwater microbiota, after years of futilely resisting changes in lab tech, resequences several strains of water-borne bacteria and turns them into colonies of high-speed optical computers; lets them loose in a public fountain.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 03, 2015, 02:13:04 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 03, 2015, 01:16:25 PM
This one is from a dream I had last night:
An old, well-respected molecular biologist who specializes in chemical messaging between freshwater microbiota, after years of futilely resisting changes in lab tech, resequences several strains of water-borne bacteria and turns them into colonies of high-speed optical computers; lets them loose in a public fountain.

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 03, 2015, 11:30:33 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 03, 2015, 01:16:25 PM
This one is from a dream I had last night:
An old, well-respected molecular biologist who specializes in chemical messaging between freshwater microbiota, after years of futilely resisting changes in lab tech, resequences several strains of water-borne bacteria and turns them into colonies of high-speed optical computers; lets them loose in a public fountain.
Fresh!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 07:15:42 AM
A team of superheroes deals with the decline of the newspaper industry and the resultant loss of their day jobs at said newspapers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 05, 2015, 07:44:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.

This has been done, more or less.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 08:25:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 05, 2015, 07:44:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.

This has been done, more or less.

Where? The second and fourth sentences of the suggestion both remind me of both The Forever War and A Star Change, the second and third sentences taken together are vaguely reminiscent of The Outsider, and the freak lab accident is of course a staple of superhero comics and monster movies. But I don't think I've seen them all done together like that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 05, 2015, 08:47:56 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.
Nonplussed by the ardently arbitrary nature of their beliefs and social norms, he is riddled by the anxiety occasioned by their infantile and erratic behavior.  This, after repeated aeons of absurdity, he eventually overcomes by enacting a butcherized version of Father Christmas qua Omniscient Cosmic King.  The performance is decorated with empty miracles, presented as the true desire of that moribund race hastening to disappear.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 05, 2015, 12:50:32 PM
A group of ten people is sent on a one way trip to colonize Mars. There is an accident on the way, and they lose one person. After settling in, every Wednesday, one of them dies in a gruesome and violent death. After six weeks, the culprit is found and executed. The remaining two colonists must deal with the guilt of not identifying the killer for so long, and the awkwardness of suspecting each other, for the rest of their lives.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 05, 2015, 12:52:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 08:25:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 05, 2015, 07:44:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.

This has been done, more or less.

Where? The second and fourth sentences of the suggestion both remind me of both The Forever War and A Star Change, the second and third sentences taken together are vaguely reminiscent of The Outsider, and the freak lab accident is of course a staple of superhero comics and monster movies. But I don't think I've seen them all done together like that.

It *happened*, more or less. A soviet scientist stuck his head inside a malfunctioning particle accelerator and now the left side of his face hasn't aged in forty years -- it's not even shedding skin cells. He's still alive.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 03:18:30 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 05, 2015, 12:52:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 08:25:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 05, 2015, 07:44:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.

This has been done, more or less.

Where? The second and fourth sentences of the suggestion both remind me of both The Forever War and A Star Change, the second and third sentences taken together are vaguely reminiscent of The Outsider, and the freak lab accident is of course a staple of superhero comics and monster movies. But I don't think I've seen them all done together like that.

It *happened*, more or less. A soviet scientist stuck his head inside a malfunctioning particle accelerator and now the left side of his face hasn't aged in forty years -- it's not even shedding skin cells. He's still alive.

That sounds rather cloaer to Twoface and/or The Incredible Hulk.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 05, 2015, 05:09:36 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 05, 2015, 12:52:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2015, 08:25:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 05, 2015, 07:44:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 31, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
As a side effect of a freak accident, a scientist becomes immortal. However, that same freak accident warps his sense of time. He never realizes that he has become immortal, or stopped aging. Eventually, humans evolve into a something completely alien all around him, and he is confused.

This has been done, more or less.

Where? The second and fourth sentences of the suggestion both remind me of both The Forever War and A Star Change, the second and third sentences taken together are vaguely reminiscent of The Outsider, and the freak lab accident is of course a staple of superhero comics and monster movies. But I don't think I've seen them all done together like that.

It *happened*, more or less. A soviet scientist stuck his head inside a malfunctioning particle accelerator and now the left side of his face hasn't aged in forty years -- it's not even shedding skin cells. He's still alive.

Link?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 05, 2015, 05:20:33 PM
Especially something that confirms the "not shedding skin cells" part because that's bullshit. Lack of visible aging can easily be explained by paralysis.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 05, 2015, 09:19:26 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 05, 2015, 05:20:33 PM
Especially something that confirms the "not shedding skin cells" part because that's bullshit. Lack of visible aging can easily be explained by paralysis.
I don't know if this is it:
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 05, 2015, 10:29:55 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 03, 2015, 08:12:43 AM
A hippie dystopia. Everyone has achieved the top portion - but only the top portion - of Maslow's heirarchy of needs. All people have love and respect, but health and safety are lacking due to a combination of inefficient traditional farming techniques, habitually stoned safety inspectors, and homeopathy. Like a darker version of Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde.
Groovy - just listened to that, "the literature is in a tight pattern" :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 05, 2015, 10:35:25 PM
Quote from: axod on February 05, 2015, 09:19:26 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 05, 2015, 05:20:33 PM
Especially something that confirms the "not shedding skin cells" part because that's bullshit. Lack of visible aging can easily be explained by paralysis.
I don't know if this is it:
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Oh, I found the story on the guy easily enough.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 10, 2015, 07:38:10 PM
Scientist occasions next step in human evolution by virtue of freak protonic accelerator accident.  Beam enters scientist's head and activates/jump-starts the pineal gland, enabling it to directly metabolize light.  He then nourishes himself by looking momentarily at the sun, just when when it rises/sets.  His consciousness, however, is not yet ready to process the flood of revelation that consumes him every time he feeds.  Slowly, his mind dissolves into the light and he is once more born, now a Sun himself to all that was before.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pæs on February 15, 2015, 06:54:31 AM
A legal drama in which the first 3D printed human struggles to interpret legislation to determine who his birth parents are.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 15, 2015, 07:30:13 AM
A character in a tv show I'm watching claimed that "nobody dies in musicals", and that gave me this idea:

Sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral alien farmer masters, but are quickly cut down by the aliens' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns. (thus combining plot elements from Little Shop Of Horrors, Les Miserables, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show - three musicals in which lots of people die - into a completely new and original story.

EDIT:
If you can think of any way to unobtrusively work in elements from Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street or Rendezvous With RagNaRok I'd appreciate hearing it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 15, 2015, 01:25:30 PM
Quote from: Pæs on February 15, 2015, 06:54:31 AM
A legal drama in which the first 3D printed human struggles to interpret legislation to determine who his birth parents are.

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 15, 2015, 01:32:55 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 15, 2015, 07:30:13 AM
A character in a tv show I'm watching claimed that "nobody dies in musicals", and that gave me this idea:

Sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral alien farmer masters, but are quickly cut down by the aliens' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns. (thus combining plot elements from Little Shop Of Horrors, Les Miserables, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show - three musicals in which lots of people die - into a completely new and original story.

EDIT:
If you can think of any way to unobtrusively work in elements from Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street or Rendezvous With RagNaRok I'd appreciate hearing it.

Could you mix in bits of Rent?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 15, 2015, 02:42:51 PM
Needs more "Cats".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 16, 2015, 07:05:08 AM
None in Athens know his name. He has not spoken a single word since arriving. The Athenians know only that he is Spartan, atrociously rude even for a Spartan, and that he won't leave. They call him only Anomos, meaning unruly or often simply The Spartan.

He will show you just what you can go do with your philosophies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 16, 2015, 02:02:24 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 15, 2015, 01:32:55 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 15, 2015, 07:30:13 AM
A character in a tv show I'm watching claimed that "nobody dies in musicals", and that gave me this idea:

Sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral alien farmer masters, but are quickly cut down by the aliens' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns. (thus combining plot elements from Little Shop Of Horrors, Les Miserables, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show - three musicals in which lots of people die - into a completely new and original story.

EDIT:
If you can think of any way to unobtrusively work in elements from Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street or Rendezvous With RagNaRok I'd appreciate hearing it.

Could you mix in bits of Rent?

OK, adding Rent, Sweeny Todd, and Cats.

In low-rent housing in New York, sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral feline masters, but are quickly cut down by the cats' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns -- however, FIDS is reaching epidemic rates here, in part due to an (unbenownst to them) cannibalism problem, so it's a race against time to pick off the plants as the cats are picked off one by one either by the cannibalistic cat-shaver who makes them into kibble or by the disease itself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 17, 2015, 10:06:45 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 16, 2015, 02:02:24 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 15, 2015, 01:32:55 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 15, 2015, 07:30:13 AM
A character in a tv show I'm watching claimed that "nobody dies in musicals", and that gave me this idea:

Sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral alien farmer masters, but are quickly cut down by the aliens' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns. (thus combining plot elements from Little Shop Of Horrors, Les Miserables, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show - three musicals in which lots of people die - into a completely new and original story.

EDIT:
If you can think of any way to unobtrusively work in elements from Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street or Rendezvous With RagNaRok I'd appreciate hearing it.

Could you mix in bits of Rent?

OK, adding Rent, Sweeny Todd, and Cats.

In low-rent housing in New York, sapient carnivorous plants rise up in rebellion against their amoral feline masters, but are quickly cut down by the cats' perfectly ordinary (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1153) laser guns -- however, FIDS is reaching epidemic rates here, in part due to an (unbenownst to them) cannibalism problem, so it's a race against time to pick off the plants as the cats are picked off one by one either by the cannibalistic cat-shaver who makes them into kibble or by the disease itself.

:lulz: Perfect.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 18, 2015, 05:28:31 AM
I want a realityt show where we follow around otherkin. We make their wildest tumblr dreams a reality and then film the results.

Picture a transethnic white kid being given a studio apartment deep in the Bronx. Every morning a Hollywood makeup artist comes to put him in the highest quality blackface money can buy. They then send him out in to the world to live the life he was destined for!

Drop a wolf otherkin outside a known wolf den. He must live with the wolves and gain acceptance into the pack.

Both of these episodes would end with the subject running screaming into the night yelling "WHY DID I WANT THIS? WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem 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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on February 18, 2015, 11:56:16 PM
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.

Fuck yes this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on February 19, 2015, 12:00:02 AM
A subplot may also deal with a growing human subculture interested in eating sapient alien space bananas.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 19, 2015, 06:05:37 AM
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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 19, 2015, 06:21:35 AM
-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...)


EDIT:
-or the opposite of the above, a movie about the Iraq war whose plot includes fantastic elements clearly cribbed from Plan 9
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on February 20, 2015, 12:28:53 PM
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-..."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 23, 2015, 04:49:29 PM
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.

EDIT:

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

EDIT:

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


EDIT:


-As part of a parody of Harry Potter dorm assignments are assigned by drawing lots out of an old hat.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem 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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on March 07, 2015, 08:06:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 09, 2015, 06:28:20 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 20, 2015, 11:37:40 PM
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)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on March 21, 2015, 12:06:30 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: EK WAFFLR on March 30, 2015, 07:36:34 PM
It's 2025. The Illuminati has punched everyone in their BCG scars and implemented the NWO.  There's just a few vaccine opponents left.

They all have tuberculosis, but they're fighting bravely.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 31, 2015, 01:18:22 AM
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!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 10, 2015, 06:08:25 AM
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:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 10, 2015, 06:53:44 AM
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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 10, 2015, 11:56:47 AM
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.
What about just, like, broken and obsolete prosthetic limbs? But, like, bring one of the guys from the hot rod shows on. So, the prosthetic limbs are rebuilt and repainted with, like, flame decals and raygun-gothic-styling and built-in cigarette lighters and shit, then auctioned off for charity. "Pimp my arm"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on April 10, 2015, 01:26:58 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 10, 2015, 11:56:47 AM
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.
What about just, like, broken and obsolete prosthetic limbs? But, like, bring one of the guys from the hot rod shows on. So, the prosthetic limbs are rebuilt and repainted with, like, flame decals and raygun-gothic-styling and built-in cigarette lighters and shit, then auctioned off for charity. "Pimp my arm"


Relevant: http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_summit_beautiful_artificial_limbs
Quote

Prosthetics can't replicate the look and feel of lost limbs but they can carry a lot of personality. At TEDxCambridge, Scott Summit shows 3D-printed, individually designed prosthetic legs that are unabashedly artificial and completely personal — from macho to fabulous.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 10, 2015, 08:51:20 PM
Quote from: Reginald Ret on April 10, 2015, 01:26:58 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 10, 2015, 11:56:47 AM
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.
What about just, like, broken and obsolete prosthetic limbs? But, like, bring one of the guys from the hot rod shows on. So, the prosthetic limbs are rebuilt and repainted with, like, flame decals and raygun-gothic-styling and built-in cigarette lighters and shit, then auctioned off for charity. "Pimp my arm"


Relevant: http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_summit_beautiful_artificial_limbs
Quote

Prosthetics can't replicate the look and feel of lost limbs but they can carry a lot of personality. At TEDxCambridge, Scott Summit shows 3D-printed, individually designed prosthetic legs that are unabashedly artificial and completely personal — from macho to fabulous.

EXACTLY!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 14, 2015, 04:52:13 AM
An alien civilization accidentally and unknowingly invades the Earth when it's von-Neumann-machine-esque automated mining probes land on Earth and start mining it out and stripping developments of their component metals, the probes not having been programmed with the possibility of encountering an inhabited planet in mind. The aliens themselves are completely unaware of this as the mining probes are not designed to send back or record data.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 15, 2015, 07:43:50 AM
An alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War 2 because the Confederacy won the American Civil War and sided with the Nazis when World War 2 started
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Demolition Squid on April 15, 2015, 09:14:57 AM
Bartholomew, struggling under the weight of his student loan and a failing job market, turns to selling burned DVDs in pubs. His infringement into their territory sees him and his band of copyright-hating brothers embroiled in a vicious turf war with the japanese Yakuza.

Pirates vs Ninjas.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on April 16, 2015, 10:24:05 PM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on April 15, 2015, 09:14:57 AM
Bartholomew, struggling under the weight of his student loan and a failing job market, turns to selling burned DVDs in pubs. His infringement into their territory sees him and his band of copyright-hating brothers embroiled in a vicious turf war with the japanese Yakuza.

Pirates vs Ninjas.
:lulz: That was painfully bad! I would watch that movie.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on April 18, 2015, 04:01:24 PM
In the filming of Star Wars (1977) George Lucas subconsciously alluded to a series of gruesome murders he committed during film school. In subsequent decades he vehemently disavowed the original film in favor or recuts and enhanced editions that eliminated his coded confession. Painstaking fan made recreations of the original lead to a horrifying discovery.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 19, 2015, 01:47:17 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 18, 2015, 04:01:24 PM
In the filming of Star Wars (1977) George Lucas subconsciously alluded to a series of gruesome murders he committed during film school. In subsequent decades he vehemently disavowed the original film in favor or recuts and enhanced editions that eliminated his coded confession. Painstaking fan made recreations of the original lead to a horrifying discovery.
Bodies buried near ranch in Marin County - G.L. Determined to cover evidence with building projects:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/george-lucas-cant-build-studio-so-hes (http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/george-lucas-cant-build-studio-so-hes)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 21, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
While researching the philosopher's stone in the modern day, a researcher makes the discovery that it was actually made once, and finds the creator. He discovers that possession of the philosopher's stone turns you into a vampire -- because human free will is one of the many impurities that the philosopher's stone burns away, and the 'perfected being' is unable to behave unethically because he is unable to resist natural law (and thus is subject to only animalistic urges of hunger and lust). However, being a pure material, the philosopher's stone is pretty highly reactive to certain things -- it will combust with the air if catalyzed by light (being the metal of metals, it has a strong photoelectric effect), water, or certain classes of acidic fumes (such as those produced by chopping garlic or onions).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Junkenstein on April 21, 2015, 06:09:48 PM
Corruption and shady dealings at the worlds first cyborg olympics.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 22, 2015, 07:51:31 AM
A "biography" of BOB Dobbs or some similar discordiosubgenius figure stylistically parodying the Christian gospels; Written in the voice and idiom of the King James Bible and containing incidents such as BOB retreating into the desert for forty days during which time he stays at various Las Vegas resorts , BOB driving off demons and reconditioning them to harass scientologists, BOB driving proslytizers out of a shopping mall, opening the eyes of the blind with medicinal marijuana, feeding a multitude of 5000 people with Dominos pizzas that miraculously arrive late are thus free, turning water into urine, wine transfusions, yelling at trees, and finally BOB being scourged and crucified at a hardcore BDSM club.


EDIT:
A n incident similar to the "I bring not peace but a sword" line from Matthew 10:34 abruptly turns into a sales pitch for replica katanas
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 22, 2015, 10:12:58 PM
An immortal precog accidental cult leader must struggle with knowing the fact that, no matter what he does, his cult will grow and win battles against its detractors, and despite all his attempts, he will never die.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 23, 2015, 02:35:18 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 22, 2015, 10:12:58 PM
An immortal precog accidental cult leader must struggle with knowing the fact that, no matter what he does, his cult will grow and win battles against its detractors, and despite all his attempts, he will never die.
:lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 23, 2015, 07:42:24 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 21, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
While researching the philosopher's stone in the modern day, a researcher makes the discovery that it was actually made once, and finds the creator. He discovers that possession of the philosopher's stone turns you into a vampire -- because human free will is one of the many impurities that the philosopher's stone burns away, and the 'perfected being' is unable to behave unethically because he is unable to resist natural law (and thus is subject to only animalistic urges of hunger and lust). However, being a pure material, the philosopher's stone is pretty highly reactive to certain things -- it will combust with the air if catalyzed by light (being the metal of metals, it has a strong photoelectric effect), water, or certain classes of acidic fumes (such as those produced by chopping garlic or onions).
Okay, wait, how is the traditional behavior of Vampires coherent with the human understanding of Natural Law, if only that it presupposes providing for, instead of negating, free will?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 23, 2015, 12:49:38 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 23, 2015, 07:42:24 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 21, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
While researching the philosopher's stone in the modern day, a researcher makes the discovery that it was actually made once, and finds the creator. He discovers that possession of the philosopher's stone turns you into a vampire -- because human free will is one of the many impurities that the philosopher's stone burns away, and the 'perfected being' is unable to behave unethically because he is unable to resist natural law (and thus is subject to only animalistic urges of hunger and lust). However, being a pure material, the philosopher's stone is pretty highly reactive to certain things -- it will combust with the air if catalyzed by light (being the metal of metals, it has a strong photoelectric effect), water, or certain classes of acidic fumes (such as those produced by chopping garlic or onions).
Okay, wait, how is the traditional behavior of Vampires coherent with the human understanding of Natural Law, if only that it presupposes providing for, instead of negating, free will?

In this context, I'm assuming that natural law is hobbsean, and that vampires are 'perfect' in the way that the xenomorphs are 'perfect' according to the android in the first Alien movie.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 23, 2015, 11:49:48 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 23, 2015, 12:49:38 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 23, 2015, 07:42:24 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 21, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
While researching the philosopher's stone in the modern day, a researcher makes the discovery that it was actually made once, and finds the creator. He discovers that possession of the philosopher's stone turns you into a vampire -- because human free will is one of the many impurities that the philosopher's stone burns away, and the 'perfected being' is unable to behave unethically because he is unable to resist natural law (and thus is subject to only animalistic urges of hunger and lust). However, being a pure material, the philosopher's stone is pretty highly reactive to certain things -- it will combust with the air if catalyzed by light (being the metal of metals, it has a strong photoelectric effect), water, or certain classes of acidic fumes (such as those produced by chopping garlic or onions).
Okay, wait, how is the traditional behavior of Vampires coherent with the human understanding of Natural Law, if only that it presupposes providing for, instead of negating, free will?

In this context, I'm assuming that natural law is hobbsean, and that vampires are 'perfect' in the way that the xenomorphs are 'perfect' according to the android in the first Alien movie.
That, is awesomely horrorific (sic.)!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 25, 2015, 07:33:34 PM
One of those fantasy novels where a little boy has a vision of heaven during a near-death experience (like Heaven is for Real or The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven), except instead of Heaven, he goes to Hell.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 27, 2015, 12:37:25 AM
Protagonist enters racy relationship with girl he thought he used to know, but not really.  Soon he starts thinking she has an evil twin that sometimes tricks him into sleeping with her.  This scenario is facilitated by how her family is primarily composed of private sector ex-military plastic surgeons specializing in facial reconstruction.

Actually, the whole relationship is a set-up, to beta test how effective new procedures are at recreating semblances that are virtually indistinguishable from the original.  Turns out he was dating dozens of girls he thought to be the same, albeit somewhat moody, girl of good ol' southern country stock.  The results were very encouraging.

CUT TO
Protagonist finds himself at dinner, that, for some uncanny reason, he finds himself enjoying with /the/ top-dozen A-List of Hollywood actors, at the head of which he sits.  The conversation is, absurdly enough, about underwear, turning into a nightmare confessional of how many of them had slept with the same "model" girlfriend.

Things get worse as attention moves to our protagonist, and his date.  There is a hint that maybe she may have slept with at least one of the actors.  She turns to him and says "Honey, I have to tell you something..."  He then starts being debriefed on experiment and the actors confess to being impersonators themselves, with the added admonition that /he/ was the fool not to realize, or that, on some level, this is what he wanted.  It was a good ride, wasn't it?

Low rumbling noise in background starts getting louder, turning into sound of suction, drowning table conversation.  Protagonist POV rises, as though lifting off table - fade to white-ceiling.  Pump sounds morph to shrill ring-whistle-silence.  Then the first breath.   All plastic masks and tubes being torn off, seals broken:  Protagonist awakens to find himself being infact herself - the girl inside the dream.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 29, 2015, 08:08:48 AM
Idea for short comedy skit: Dorian Gray has difficulty purchasing beer because the picture on his driver's license has aged but he himself hasn't
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 29, 2015, 10:34:02 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 29, 2015, 08:08:48 AM
Idea for short comedy skit: Dorian Gray has difficulty purchasing beer because the picture on his driver's license has aged but he himself hasn't
Just remember not to have any weed on you this time, Mnkay? :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 29, 2015, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 29, 2015, 08:08:48 AM
Idea for short comedy skit: Dorian Gray has difficulty purchasing beer because the picture on his driver's license has aged but he himself hasn't

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 30, 2015, 05:05:01 AM
Thinking about the Soverign Citizen and Tea Party movements gave me the idea - though I don't have any details worked out yet - for a story about an an evil, paralell-universe version of Robin Hood and the Merry Men (not just a version where they're merely regular bandits and tax cheats, one where they border on supervillany and retain an active anti-tax agenda). Again, no idea what the details of the story would be.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2015, 08:14:34 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 30, 2015, 05:05:01 AM
Thinking about the Soverign Citizen and Tea Party movements gave me the idea - though I don't have any details worked out yet - for a story about an an evil, paralell-universe version of Robin Hood and the Merry Men (not just a version where they're merely regular bandits and tax cheats, one where they border on supervillany and retain an active anti-tax agenda). Again, no idea what the details of the story would be.
It starts with a personal letter from JP Morgan, stating that your account is up for review because PATRIOT ACT...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on May 15, 2015, 09:56:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.
OH man, I would love seeing a movie about that!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on May 15, 2015, 10:01:23 AM
2012 actually did happen.  It's just that those remaining didnt recognize the absence of those departed.  A parallel world aleady exists concurrent to the otherwise consensus reality.  Topically reflected in things such as "Darknet", the mainstream channels such as YouTube also sometimes show hints of this:  transport time-code numbers start moving backwards as songs turn into personalized serenades, played by the devil himself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 15, 2015, 10:31:36 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.

While yours would be different because it's intentional, the best example I'm aware of of this being *unintentional* is Alrune, a German movie from the 30s about how children conceived via in-vitro fertilization are evil sadistic sluts because they don't have souls.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Junkenstein on May 15, 2015, 01:09:36 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.

AI is created to stimulate economic growth. Assess levels of productivity created by one car crash and promptly creates national and international disasters to boost business.

The economy has never been better but everything everywhere is now a deathtrap.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on May 15, 2015, 02:26:48 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on May 15, 2015, 01:09:36 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.

AI is created to stimulate economic growth. Assess levels of productivity created by one car crash and promptly creates national and international disasters to boost business.

The economy has never been better but everything everywhere is now a deathtrap.
:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 19, 2015, 07:56:17 AM
-Something with a race of robotic beings that evolved from Von Neumann Probes sent out by an ancient and long vanished alien civilization

EDIT:
also...
-A baseball umpire or other sports referee who makes a lot of bad calls turns out to be an avatar of Azathoth. Or perhaps it turns out that all baseball umpires and miscellaneous sports referees are avatars of Azathoth. Certainly referees and Azathoth are the only classes of beings that routinely get called "blind idiot"s
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 24, 2015, 10:50:15 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 19, 2015, 07:56:17 AM
-Something with a race of robotic beings that evolved from Von Neumann Probes sent out by an ancient and long vanished alien civilization

EDIT:
also...
-A baseball umpire or other sports referee who makes a lot of bad calls turns out to be an avatar of Azathoth. Or perhaps it turns out that all baseball umpires and miscellaneous sports referees are avatars of Azathoth. Certainly referees and Azathoth are the only classes of beings that routinely get called "blind idiot"s

- protagonist becomes Azathoth, realizing that the miniature alien crafts are flying american flags.  Upon understanding that he both fornicated with, and also murdered some of his progenitors, our hero physically blinds himself, accidentally, only losing one eye.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 24, 2015, 05:50:40 PM
i had meant them as two seperate ideas, but that works (i think)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 25, 2015, 06:46:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 24, 2015, 05:50:40 PM
i had meant them as two seperate ideas, but that works (i think)
Maybe the attempt at synthesis will yield a most lovable monster, that I would set free to pleasently roam some pastoral field in the English countryside.  Or maybe then I'd also advertise an exotic game hunting expedition, for Bigfoot, or it's exiled cousin, with a surprise predator-prey style role-reversal in the third act.  All of it would be televised, live, of course, mixing narrative viewpoints from hidden camera footage with 1st person player perspective and respective cam feeds.  One of the players is a paid actor, provoking things if/when nescesary.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2015, 04:22:25 AM
Just because it's such a delightfully bad pun, how about a porno about gay scientists entitled "Large Hard-on Collider"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:56:32 AM
http://largehardoncollider.com/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2015, 11:21:01 PM
Biggie and 2Pac headline for Elvis Presley at Anastasia Romanov's extravagant hundred-and-somethingth birthday party
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 01, 2015, 02:42:29 AM
By making the most out of his access to advanced technology and large sums of money, Batman becomes incredibly effective at defeating petty criminals and preventing petty crime. As a result, the police force -- who once was outnumbered by criminals and felt heroic every time they launched into the fray -- now feels redundant. Justice-minded people stop joining the police force, because the police force is dwarfed in its ability to maintain justice by Batman and his BatDrone army; instead, the only people joining the police force are would-be criminals who would like to use their position of minor power for personal gain. Over time, as old guard police die off (by a combination of old age, conspiracy by other corrupt cops, and being the only ones willing to dive headlong into a suicidal attempt to keep the peace in an area where the BatDrones are temporarily ineffective), Batman mostly ends up trying to prevent police corruption -- and thus is targeted by the police union (which at this point has essentially become the mafia). What follows is a war between Batman and the entire Gotham police force. Batman wins, but the news travels beyond the area where the context would be clear -- and what is understood elsewhere is that Batman killed the entire police force in the most crime-ridden city in america. He is arrested and executed in texas, during a failed attempt to escape to Mexico.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 05, 2015, 04:49:32 PM
As he did with the flood and the plagues of Egypt, God decides to send disasters to punish the sins of mankind. In response, Satan creates a team of superheroes to protect humanity. Ideally this would form the basis of a super-sentai style TV series.



Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 01, 2015, 02:42:29 AM[spoiler]
By making the most out of his access to advanced technology and large sums of money, Batman becomes incredibly effective at defeating petty criminals and preventing petty crime. As a result, the police force -- who once was outnumbered by criminals and felt heroic every time they launched into the fray -- now feels redundant. Justice-minded people stop joining the police force, because the police force is dwarfed in its ability to maintain justice by Batman and his BatDrone army; instead, the only people joining the police force are would-be criminals who would like to use their position of minor power for personal gain. Over time, as old guard police die off (by a combination of old age, conspiracy by other corrupt cops, and being the only ones willing to dive headlong into a suicidal attempt to keep the peace in an area where the BatDrones are temporarily ineffective), Batman mostly ends up trying to prevent police corruption -- and thus is targeted by the police union (which at this point has essentially become the mafia). What follows is a war between Batman and the entire Gotham police force. Batman wins, but the news travels beyond the area where the context would be clear -- and what is understood elsewhere is that Batman killed the entire police force in the most crime-ridden city in america. He is arrested and executed in texas, during a failed attempt to escape to Mexico.[/spoiler]

that's pretty good
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 08, 2015, 02:04:29 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 01, 2015, 02:42:29 AM
By making the most out of his access to advanced technology and large sums of money, Batman becomes incredibly effective at defeating petty criminals and preventing petty crime. As a result, the police force -- who once was outnumbered by criminals and felt heroic every time they launched into the fray -- now feels redundant. Justice-minded people stop joining the police force, because the police force is dwarfed in its ability to maintain justice by Batman and his BatDrone army; instead, the only people joining the police force are would-be criminals who would like to use their position of minor power for personal gain. Over time, as old guard police die off (by a combination of old age, conspiracy by other corrupt cops, and being the only ones willing to dive headlong into a suicidal attempt to keep the peace in an area where the BatDrones are temporarily ineffective), Batman mostly ends up trying to prevent police corruption -- and thus is targeted by the police union (which at this point has essentially become the mafia). What follows is a war between Batman and the entire Gotham police force. Batman wins, but the news travels beyond the area where the context would be clear -- and what is understood elsewhere is that Batman killed the entire police force in the most crime-ridden city in america. He is arrested and executed in texas, during a failed attempt to escape to Mexico.
I'd read the hell out of this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 08, 2015, 02:09:29 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 01, 2015, 02:42:29 AM
By making the most out of his access to advanced technology and large sums of money, Batman becomes incredibly effective at defeating petty criminals and preventing petty crime. As a result, the police force -- who once was outnumbered by criminals and felt heroic every time they launched into the fray -- now feels redundant. Justice-minded people stop joining the police force, because the police force is dwarfed in its ability to maintain justice by Batman and his BatDrone army; instead, the only people joining the police force are would-be criminals who would like to use their position of minor power for personal gain. Over time, as old guard police die off (by a combination of old age, conspiracy by other corrupt cops, and being the only ones willing to dive headlong into a suicidal attempt to keep the peace in an area where the BatDrones are temporarily ineffective), Batman mostly ends up trying to prevent police corruption -- and thus is targeted by the police union (which at this point has essentially become the mafia). What follows is a war between Batman and the entire Gotham police force. Batman wins, but the news travels beyond the area where the context would be clear -- and what is understood elsewhere is that Batman killed the entire police force in the most crime-ridden city in america. He is arrested and executed in texas, during a failed attempt to escape to Mexico.

This would make theeee best finale to the Batman movies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 08, 2015, 02:57:13 AM
The story follows a bitter and protracted conflict between a corporation and striking uni0n workers. It ends with the consumers informing workers and management alike that they are no longer needed because a machine has been invented that cheaply performs the same service that the company did in the comfort of people's homes.

EDIT:
Another story idea,

Dracula or some other noteworthy vampire story retold under the assumption that "vampirism" is a actually a manifestation of the Cotard Delusion (a psychological disorder characterized by a persistent delusion by the patient that they are dead and a diminished ability to associate their reflection in the mirror with themself).

EDIT:
Yet another idea,

The story can't make up it's mind whether the talking animal protagonist is treated like a real animal or like a person. On his way to work, Mister Squeakers the mouse is caught in a glue trap, subjected to a kafkaesque trial, found guilty of being a mouse, and drowned in a bucket of water.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 13, 2015, 08:54:40 PM
Planet Terroir!
A group of anthropologists discover the oldest cheese in existence, in a hidden chamber deep in a cave in France. But soon, they discovered exactly why the unique civilization that created it had died out, and why the tooth marks on the bones in the burial chamber looked suspiciously human...
The cheese, made from the milk of an extinct relative of the ibex, contains an unusual parasite that, given a particular stable range of temperature, humidity, and pH, can lay dormant for thousands of years. Upon consumption by a hominid, after an incubation period of about 24 hours, this parasite begins feeding on a particular part of the brainstem related to regulation of appetite -- those infected are overcome with an insatiable hunger, and after consuming all available food, they often begin engaging in cannibalism.
The way the parasite is defeated is two-fold. One: the parasite can be killed via pasteurization. Two: because the parasite can only perform certain aspects of its life cycle in the mammary glands of this extinct animal (which is unaffected neurologically by it), you can wait it out -- the infected, if kept from being eaten, eating themselves, or killing themselves through some other method, are cured after twelve days because all the parasites die out.
The sequel involves a rewilding initiative that clones genetically modified ibexes who just so happen to have bodies close enough to the extinct form for a new, more virulent strain of the parasite to form and grow in the population, eventually infecting other wildlife.

TL;DR: a zombie movie about the dangers of raw dairy.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on June 16, 2015, 09:27:10 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 13, 2015, 08:54:40 PM
Planet Terroir!
A group of anthropologists discover the oldest cheese in existence, in a hidden chamber deep in a cave in France. But soon, they discovered exactly why the unique civilization that created it had died out, and why the tooth marks on the bones in the burial chamber looked suspiciously human...
The cheese, made from the milk of an extinct relative of the ibex, contains an unusual parasite that, given a particular stable range of temperature, humidity, and pH, can lay dormant for thousands of years. Upon consumption by a hominid, after an incubation period of about 24 hours, this parasite begins feeding on a particular part of the brainstem related to regulation of appetite -- those infected are overcome with an insatiable hunger, and after consuming all available food, they often begin engaging in cannibalism.
The way the parasite is defeated is two-fold. One: the parasite can be killed via pasteurization. Two: because the parasite can only perform certain aspects of its life cycle in the mammary glands of this extinct animal (which is unaffected neurologically by it), you can wait it out -- the infected, if kept from being eaten, eating themselves, or killing themselves through some other method, are cured after twelve days because all the parasites die out.
The sequel involves a rewilding initiative that clones genetically modified ibexes who just so happen to have bodies close enough to the extinct form for a new, more virulent strain of the parasite to form and grow in the population, eventually infecting other wildlife.

TL;DR: a zombie movie about the dangers of raw dairy.

This one's compelling on a bunch of levels - the ibex reference reverberated through my office, leading me to find a drenched hard bound copy of 'On Self Reliance' sprouting colonies of mold from a not entirely recent water-cooler malfunction.  Oh, yea, the sprouting Emmerson was hiding under a pair of Ibex pants. 

I know it's all just magical thinking, still the coincidence was narrow enough to warrent sharing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 17, 2015, 06:18:30 AM
A kind of Alien Nation meets Demolition Man meets What GamerGaters Really Believe(tm), wherein a bigoted Cop Who Doesn't Play By The Rules is paired up with a robotic Political Officer whose only job is to correct him on police vocabulary guidelines and prevent him from causing a diplomatic incident by offending one of the many species of alien staying on the space habitat New New Amsterdam (explicitly meant to be a torus-shaped 70s-era New York City), wherein large numbers of alien 'diplomats' are dubious and popular opinion is that they are really essentially refugees or random proles that alien governments have pawned off on the humans. After managing to ditch the robot while investigating a group of aliens whose status in his mind goes from "taking our jobs" to "engaging in an actual criminal conspiracy", he accidentally discovers that the whole thing is being managed by high-ranking members of the human government on the ring, putting pressure on alien governments to import 'diplomats' as slave labor in order to build the barely-sub-lightspeed nuclear rockets they are using to threaten the governments with, and that furthermore these 'diplomats' are all dying off because of planned exposure to radiation leaks. He is discovered, and just as he's about to be killed, the robot saves him by demonstrating that his stubby little useless arms are actually rocket-propelled tasers (the reason the robot never helped out before is that they can only be used once, after which point he is scrapped, because the propellant is the most expensive part of his construction). Our main character, fundamentally changed by the experience (realizing that his bigotry was essentially culturally programmed into him as part of a plan to make exactly this kind of behavior seem acceptable), quits his job in order to save the robot from being scrapped and they run away together to an alien planet, where they live together under assumed identities, and -- it is heavily implied -- having a forbidden human/robot sexual relationship.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Dubya on June 17, 2015, 06:45:36 PM
I'd buy download that movie.

Id actually pay money to see it if they got Sean Bean to play the cop and either Eddie Murphy or Patrick Stewart to voice the robot.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 18, 2015, 09:51:10 PM
An evangelical christian minister becomes a serial killer after he becomes convinced that he is in hell and that by killing people he can send them to be judged again -- as a result, he stalks and kills the most saintly people he can find.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on June 18, 2015, 10:58:48 PM
I like it, but it should be like I Am Legend, so the audience thinks he's the protagonist.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chucklemaster on June 19, 2015, 12:50:07 AM
A wandering hobo stumbles across an enchanted forest whose denizens are all elitist assholes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Reginald Ret on June 19, 2015, 07:51:54 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 18, 2015, 09:51:10 PM
An evangelical christian minister becomes a serial killer after he becomes convinced that he is in hell and that by killing people he can send them to be judged again -- as a result, he stalks and kills the most saintly people he can find.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 18, 2015, 10:58:48 PM
I like it, but it should be like I Am Legend, so the audience thinks he's the protagonist.
Great!

Quote from: Chucklemaster on June 19, 2015, 12:50:07 AM
A wandering hobo stumbles across an enchanted forest whose denizens are all elitist assholes.
I don't get it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 19, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
A famous genius scientist suffers from a degenerative disorder, yet lives to an unheard-of age in part due to the help of an incredible support network that keeps him physically healthy and supplies him with technology that helps him communicate despite having fewer and fewer muscles he's actually able to control. At one point, the scientist becomes a centenarian and he is interviewed about it (since it's rare enough to live to 100, but he is the first person with his disease to live to 100 without a loss of his mental faculties) but he is unable to stay on-topic and instead keeps returning to topics he frequently lectures on. Doctors initially believe he may have had a stroke immediately before the interview, but after some investigation with state of the art brain-imaging technology, discover that he has been completely brain-dead for ten years -- the technology that helped him communicate, along with the support network that improved it, was solely responsible for the work attributed to him during that period.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 19, 2015, 09:50:43 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 19, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
A famous genius scientist suffers from a degenerative disorder, yet lives to an unheard-of age in part due to the help of an incredible support network that keeps him physically healthy and supplies him with technology that helps him communicate despite having fewer and fewer muscles he's actually able to control. At one point, the scientist becomes a centenarian and he is interviewed about it (since it's rare enough to live to 100, but he is the first person with his disease to live to 100 without a loss of his mental faculties) but he is unable to stay on-topic and instead keeps returning to topics he frequently lectures on. Doctors initially believe he may have had a stroke immediately before the interview, but after some investigation with state of the art brain-imaging technology, discover that he has been completely brain-dead for ten years -- the technology that helped him communicate, along with the support network that improved it, was solely responsible for the work attributed to him during that period.

I see someone else read that article about Steven Hawking...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on June 19, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Rocko's on a roll!

This last one too, is great.  So, is it that the information is simply on repeat, without a controller?  Or, was the scientist simply a modulator of the signal, and if so, where did it originate?  Was the source a cabal of trans dimensional machine-elf-gremlins intent on enslaving humanity, or, a secret illuminati conspiracy for the beneficial advancement of mind-kind?

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 19, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
A famous genius scientist suffers from a degenerative disorder, yet lives to an unheard-of age in part due to the help of an incredible support network that keeps him physically healthy and supplies him with technology that helps him communicate despite having fewer and fewer muscles he's actually able to control. At one point, the scientist becomes a centenarian and he is interviewed about it (since it's rare enough to live to 100, but he is the first person with his disease to live to 100 without a loss of his mental faculties) but he is unable to stay on-topic and instead keeps returning to topics he frequently lectures on. Doctors initially believe he may have had a stroke immediately before the interview, but after some investigation with state of the art brain-imaging technology, discover that he has been completely brain-dead for ten years -- the technology that helped him communicate, along with the support network that improved it, was solely responsible for the work attributed to him during that period.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 19, 2015, 10:41:40 PM
Quote from: axod on June 19, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Rocko's on a roll!

This last one too, is great.  So, is it that the information is simply on repeat, without a controller?  Or, was the scientist simply a modulator of the signal, and if so, where did it originate?  Was the source a cabal of trans dimensional machine-elf-gremlins intent on enslaving humanity, or, a secret illuminati conspiracy for the beneficial advancement of mind-kind?

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 19, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
A famous genius scientist suffers from a degenerative disorder, yet lives to an unheard-of age in part due to the help of an incredible support network that keeps him physically healthy and supplies him with technology that helps him communicate despite having fewer and fewer muscles he's actually able to control. At one point, the scientist becomes a centenarian and he is interviewed about it (since it's rare enough to live to 100, but he is the first person with his disease to live to 100 without a loss of his mental faculties) but he is unable to stay on-topic and instead keeps returning to topics he frequently lectures on. Doctors initially believe he may have had a stroke immediately before the interview, but after some investigation with state of the art brain-imaging technology, discover that he has been completely brain-dead for ten years -- the technology that helped him communicate, along with the support network that improved it, was solely responsible for the work attributed to him during that period.

Read this: http://www.wired.com/2013/01/hawking-machine-man-robots/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 19, 2015, 10:53:05 PM
Hawking's speech synthesizer has an interface a lot like the predictive text function on your phone. Only, controlled by his cheek muscles. So, the idea is that, in this case, he's having random cheek spasms and the prediction mechanism generates sensible sentences given random input.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 22, 2015, 12:30:23 PM
In the near future, Russia and Japan join forces to standardize a method by which they can assuage their shared problem of declining birth rates and aging populations without allowing an influx of immigrants, essentially by taking enforced sperm and egg donations from their existing population (from high school seniors once a year) and then combining them entirely at random, raising the children via the orphanage system. Fast forward seventy years and there's an international culture wherein most of the population in first-world countries grew up as wards of the state, mate selection plays essentially no part in the general direction of population attributes, giving birth is a high-paced high-paying profession comparable to professional sports where women who have given birth a large number of times get medals for achievement and reality TV shows when they hit menopause, and having children for free or raising children is considered gauche and a little uncivilized -- something that only poor people do. Being pregnant has the same cultural stigma as being sixteen and pregnant has now. Furthermore, the particular neuroses common to people raised in orphanages without the support of caring elders become more or less universal elements of society and popular culture (to a greater extreme, because these state-run child-rearing facilities are now mostly being staffed by Japanese-made health-care robots). On the positive side, in this society there's no stigma attached to any shade of sexuality aside from breeding (there are, essentially, no siblings anymore and there's no nuclear-family-driven ideologies), and gender identity is mostly very fluid because it's cheaper to discourage strong gender roles in large child-care facilities. On the negative side, overt aggression and competitiveness is common, as is depression and difficulty demonstrating affection in healthy ways.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 22, 2015, 08:44:57 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 22, 2015, 12:30:23 PM
In the near future, Russia and Japan join forces to standardize a method by which they can assuage their shared problem of declining birth rates and aging populations without allowing an influx of immigrants, essentially by taking enforced sperm and egg donations from their existing population (from high school seniors once a year) and then combining them entirely at random, raising the children via the orphanage system. Fast forward seventy years and there's an international culture wherein most of the population in first-world countries grew up as wards of the state, mate selection plays essentially no part in the general direction of population attributes, giving birth is a high-paced high-paying profession comparable to professional sports where women who have given birth a large number of times get medals for achievement and reality TV shows when they hit menopause, and having children for free or raising children is considered gauche and a little uncivilized -- something that only poor people do. Being pregnant has the same cultural stigma as being sixteen and pregnant has now. Furthermore, the particular neuroses common to people raised in orphanages without the support of caring elders become more or less universal elements of society and popular culture (to a greater extreme, because these state-run child-rearing facilities are now mostly being staffed by Japanese-made health-care robots). On the positive side, in this society there's no stigma attached to any shade of sexuality aside from breeding (there are, essentially, no siblings anymore and there's no nuclear-family-driven ideologies), and gender identity is mostly very fluid because it's cheaper to discourage strong gender roles in large child-care facilities. On the negative side, overt aggression and competitiveness is common, as is depression and difficulty demonstrating affection in healthy ways.

That sounds kind of like Brave New World, possibly combined with Shock Treatment and Hivebent

It does sound like it would make a good dystopian sci-fi movie
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 23, 2015, 10:46:06 PM
In a city where expensive and highly competitive private security organizations dominate law enforcement, a wealthy playboy becomes a masked vigilante and protects the poor from each other and from corrupt cops for free, until the powers that be decided that he is unfairly undercutting the professionals and open season is declared on him by Police Commissioner Gordon Gekko.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 26, 2015, 02:49:07 AM
A METI/SETI project makes first contact with nearby sentient extraterrestrials, who visit for diplomatic reasons. These beings, who evolved on a planet similar to ours but now mostly live in generation ships, are amphibious carnivorous arachnids with tentacles and chitinous wings who resemble snakes, spiders, dragons, cockroaches, and great cats in almost equal measure -- relatively solitary animals with a habit of playing with their food. Almost over night, religious cults spring up either worshipping these beings or claiming that they are demons sent to bring about the end times. During the course of normal negotiations, it's mentioned that it's strange that these aliens just so happened to have their ship so close, and they admit that in fact they have been in a highly eccentric orbit around earth for millions of years, historically using it as a hunting preserve. Long periods of massive organized predation of early homonids and their ancestors by these aliens shaped the form of current humanity along with implanting certain kinds of nearly universal fears. Despite all this, we come to develop a good trading relationship with the aliens, and we allow them to hunt for sport in various parts of the world in limited ways in exchange for various advanced technologies. But, from that point on, whenever diplomats come to visit, they do so in exoskeletons that hide their body morphology.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 27, 2015, 09:56:01 AM
The movie follows the life of a Japanese youth who Joins the Japanese army during World War 2. The religious aspect of WW2 era Japanese propaganda is featured prominently; the protagonist buys into it. The film comes to an abrupt end when the protagonist is unceremoniously killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before even shipping out. In place of music, the end credits are accompanied by an audio sample of the scene from Beneath the Planet of the Apes where Mendez and his followers worship a nuclear bomb.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 27, 2015, 10:32:06 AM
Peaceable contact is made with seemingly benevolent space aliens. The aliens give humanity access to many fantastic new technologies ushering in a new era pf prosperity. This era of prospsrity is, however, beset by an increased frequency of natural disasters, and by a worldwide rash of increasingly bizarre and bloody large-scale accidents.

Unbeknownst to anyone the actual purpose of the aliens' visit is to engineer these accidents for their own sadistic amusement. Furthermore it was the aliens who seeded this planet - one of thousands - with intelligent life solely for this purpose.

After carefully orchestrated series of orchestrated misunderstandings, diplomatic gaffes, and faulty readings from spy equipment, civilization is wiped out by a massive nuclear exchange on a day when all of the otherworldly visitors are conveniently off world. The Earth is then replanted and ldft "until next time".

(think of it as sort of a thematic combination of the works of the Wachowski bros, Rod Sterling, and the Marquis de Sade)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 27, 2015, 03:11:00 PM
First contact is made with an intelligent race of aliens who visit the planet physically. Unfortunately, they communicate only through emission of prions, which are absorbed via an organ resembling human olfactory apparatus. The results in humans of attempts at communicating with these aliens is indistinguishable from the results of brain-targetting prion diseases like kuruka and mad cow disease.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 30, 2015, 09:26:43 AM
Alternative Conflicts.

Yes we have indeed been contacted by aliens intent on serving us.  Good will notwithstanding, yes, to rip off The Twilight Zone, what they mean is to serve us in a mobile interstellar equivalent of a food-truck, to other alien gourmands in search of exotic delicacies.  Now, in the fashion of consuming other similarly offal things, pun intended, sometimes taste is sacrificed to the gods of effect.  This results in a premium placed on particular parts of the human organism.

While certain cretins can be fooled into consuming shameful organs, the real human treat is in the double P's, or pineal and pituitary.  Now, much like our own beef consumption, some meat is premium because of how it was, er, treated.  Think Kobe, free range, pasture fed or whatever.  Again, although humans regard this a matter of taste, aliens are more concerned with effects.

Turns out, for them, prime human cuts contain high levels of endogenous peptide-amines.  They trip-out on farm-raised norepinephrine and DMT, not to mention all those other endorphins, to round off the edges.

That's why there is a war on drugs, to prevent receptor up regulation and stop our being decimated by alien gastronomic tourism.

Fuck, I think I used that trope already.
[must be the prions]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2015, 08:18:01 AM
The denizens of a simulated reality create a simulated reality of their own. This threatens to overload the computer on which the first simulated reality runs
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 01, 2015, 08:33:33 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2015, 08:18:01 AM
The denizens of a simulated reality create a simulated reality of their own. This threatens to overload the computer on which the first simulated reality runs
Meltdown from overload results in supernova as all negative energy-density trapped in quantum bits first explodes, then curves back on itself becoming first information-based black hole.  Surface of event horizon houses monstrous synthesis of reality, developing inside the product of two nested simulations.  Inhabitants of "realty" quickly forget there was was a difference between fiction and fact.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 03, 2015, 09:45:33 AM
Fuck, it's like the story of my life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 04, 2015, 02:06:01 AM
A pseudo-documentary about the prejudice and stereotypes faced by anthropomorphic lizard people (ie. "they run all the major political parties" etc.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 04, 2015, 02:25:41 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 04, 2015, 02:06:01 AM
A pseudo-documentary about the prejudice and stereotypes faced by anthropomorphic lizard people (ie. "they run all the major political parties" etc.)
:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 05, 2015, 03:38:48 PM
Around the world, in every religious group that values producing large numbers of children, there are infiltrators from a secret society -- a vast network of family lines dedicated since antiquity to ensure a steady supply of seventh sons of seventh sons, the only ones who can sense the great tide of invisible demons waiting to consume the earth, and the ones bound by tradition to keep them at bay.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 09, 2015, 06:39:12 AM
A satire of sensationalistic celebrity biopics focusing on an entertainer who uses entirely too much aspirin and other over the counter painkillers
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 09, 2015, 08:24:37 AM
Horror film- unbeknownst to the new hires at a fast food restaurant they are there as the food

Horror film- one of those evil-reanimated-hand flicks, but instead of a reanimated hand that crawls arounds and strangles people it's a reanimated butt that flies around by farting and kills people with toxic farts. Nobody in the film acknowledges either how ridiculous or how vulgar this is.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 11, 2015, 08:26:11 AM
A private eye who is also a serial killer. He gets hired to find out what has become of people who were, in fact, killed by him. He waits a week or two, then announces to the client that he has solved the case; he gets paid, says "it was me who did it" shoots the client and waits for someone to hire him to find wou what happened to them, thus ensuring a steady supply of business.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 11, 2015, 09:35:27 PM
^ i would read the shit outta that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 15, 2015, 12:57:05 AM
A comedy of errors style 'memoir' detailing the political intrigues of a number of people involved in a network of community-owned sex dungeons over the course of forty years, focusing on in-fighting and manouvering. Sort of The West Wing meets Election meets House of Cards set in a naked rotary club.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 15, 2015, 11:02:52 PM
A formerly aristocratic family of vampires who went to ground in the Florida everglades after the Civil War took away their primary means of protecting themselves from townspeople (and their primary food supply) come unexpectedly face to face with modernity a hundred years later, when a hippie with an organic chemistry background wanders into their hippo enclave and (after they take him prisoner) falls in love with their (middle, apparently-16-years-old-but-actually-150) daughter. After an acid trip, they decide to run away together by hijacking one of the hippos, and the remaining family descends into petty infighting over their inability to do anything about it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 02:36:52 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on July 15, 2015, 11:02:52 PM
A formerly aristocratic family of vampires who went to ground in the Florida everglades after the Civil War took away their primary means of protecting themselves from townspeople (and their primary food supply) come unexpectedly face to face with modernity a hundred years later, when a hippie with an organic chemistry background wanders into their hippo enclave and (after they take him prisoner) falls in love with their (middle, apparently-16-years-old-but-actually-150) daughter. After an acid trip, they decide to run away together by hijacking one of the hippos, and the remaining family descends into petty infighting over their inability to do anything about it.

I'm unclear where the hippos came from but I love the imagery.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

I just HAWHAWHAWed out loud. I am now so, so disappointed that hippo farms, and the inevitable feral hippo and resultant invasive hippo problem, never came to fruition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Junkenstein on July 16, 2015, 12:11:58 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

I just HAWHAWHAWed out loud. I am now so, so disappointed that hippo farms, and the inevitable feral hippo and resultant invasive hippo problem, never came to fruition.

Hey. Hey guys.

Remember Pablo Escobar's hippos?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27905743

QuoteA herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch - and no-one quite knows what to do with them.

QuoteNobody knows how many there are. The local environmental authority, which bears responsibility for them, estimates between 50 and 60, with most living in the lake at the park. But 12 are known to have paddled past the flimsy fence and into the nearby Magdalena River - and maybe many more.

QuoteHow much the hippos like Colombia can be judged from how much sex they are having. In Africa they usually become sexually active between the ages of seven and nine for males, and nine and 11 for females, but Pablo Escobar's hippos are becoming sexually active as young as three. All the fertile females are reported to be giving birth to a calf every year.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:55:00 PM
Hippo is said to taste quite nice, "hippo meat is one of the finest of game foods ... The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo."

Escobar's Hippo Burgers Inc has a potential future, is all I'm saying.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 04:50:03 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 16, 2015, 12:11:58 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

I just HAWHAWHAWed out loud. I am now so, so disappointed that hippo farms, and the inevitable feral hippo and resultant invasive hippo problem, never came to fruition.

Hey. Hey guys.

Remember Pablo Escobar's hippos?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27905743

QuoteA herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch - and no-one quite knows what to do with them.

QuoteNobody knows how many there are. The local environmental authority, which bears responsibility for them, estimates between 50 and 60, with most living in the lake at the park. But 12 are known to have paddled past the flimsy fence and into the nearby Magdalena River - and maybe many more.

QuoteHow much the hippos like Colombia can be judged from how much sex they are having. In Africa they usually become sexually active between the ages of seven and nine for males, and nine and 11 for females, but Pablo Escobar's hippos are becoming sexually active as young as three. All the fertile females are reported to be giving birth to a calf every year.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:

I am sure this will shape up to be some kind of disaster for the  local ecosystem. Still, there is an irony, given that they are now endangered in Africa.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 17, 2015, 05:15:37 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 04:50:03 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 16, 2015, 12:11:58 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

I just HAWHAWHAWed out loud. I am now so, so disappointed that hippo farms, and the inevitable feral hippo and resultant invasive hippo problem, never came to fruition.

Hey. Hey guys.

Remember Pablo Escobar's hippos?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27905743

QuoteA herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch - and no-one quite knows what to do with them.

QuoteNobody knows how many there are. The local environmental authority, which bears responsibility for them, estimates between 50 and 60, with most living in the lake at the park. But 12 are known to have paddled past the flimsy fence and into the nearby Magdalena River - and maybe many more.

QuoteHow much the hippos like Colombia can be judged from how much sex they are having. In Africa they usually become sexually active between the ages of seven and nine for males, and nine and 11 for females, but Pablo Escobar's hippos are becoming sexually active as young as three. All the fertile females are reported to be giving birth to a calf every year.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:

I am sure this will shape up to be some kind of disaster for the  local ecosystem. Still, there is an irony, given that they are now endangered in Africa.

Story idea:
A slightly unhinged environmentalist deliberately tries to create exactly such a situation with the plan of eventually rounding up the hippos and transporting them to Africa.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 19, 2015, 03:14:22 AM
In the near future, sensory deprivation space tours become popular among the west-coast-hippie-billionaire set ("Explore inner space -- from outer space!"). Such things are relatively profitable, because occupants willingly lock themselves in tiny sound-proof unlighted rooms and lay in their sleeping bags for large portions of the trip and don't particularly care about the scenery, so cheap cargo spacecraft that typically dock at low-earth-orbit space stations (i.e., no capability for landing or atmospheres) can be repurposed as luxury cruise lines without actually adding any luxuries. Unfortunately, on one such ship, a string of violent closed-room murders occur. Because a small segment of the crew has access to an emergency unlock for the rooms, they are suspect -- however, ships logs indicate the doors never having opened, either automatically or from the inside, and security footage agrees. Eventually, it becomes clear that the culprit is a popular grey-legal hallucinogen that has a side effect of causing short bursts of increased blood pressure -- which, in people who are already stress-prone and already not particularly physically fit can cause violent arterial bursts when gravity is no longer enforcing normal patterns of blood flow; many of the customers took this immediately upon entering their sensory deprivation chambers and then their necks exploded 15-20 hours later.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 19, 2015, 09:29:35 PM
Hip slackers take the world by storm upon realizing that the working class is not used to operating at low atmospheric pressure.  Herding a legion of autonomous air-recycling dirigibles from giant stilts, slackers syphon away millions of pounds of earth's air into outer space.  Ex-ambassadors and politicians are the first to pop.  Like a terry gilliam version of total recall.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 19, 2015, 09:42:06 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 16, 2015, 12:11:58 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 16, 2015, 03:03:20 AM
From the hippo store, one presumes.

Also this: http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

I just HAWHAWHAWed out loud. I am now so, so disappointed that hippo farms, and the inevitable feral hippo and resultant invasive hippo problem, never came to fruition.

Hey. Hey guys.

Remember Pablo Escobar's hippos?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27905743

QuoteA herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch - and no-one quite knows what to do with them.

QuoteNobody knows how many there are. The local environmental authority, which bears responsibility for them, estimates between 50 and 60, with most living in the lake at the park. But 12 are known to have paddled past the flimsy fence and into the nearby Magdalena River - and maybe many more.

QuoteHow much the hippos like Colombia can be judged from how much sex they are having. In Africa they usually become sexually active between the ages of seven and nine for males, and nine and 11 for females, but Pablo Escobar's hippos are becoming sexually active as young as three. All the fertile females are reported to be giving birth to a calf every year.
TY for remembering this to me.  Sooo fukcing fertile! :fnord:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 21, 2015, 11:20:24 AM
A little boy suffers a near-death experience on the operating table and journeys to the land of the dead, where he observes wonderful and fantastic things, including a peaceful race of superintelligent asexual mules, an all-female race of proud warriors with detachable heads who impregnate each other with their feet, giant intelligent lobsters who work as feather merchants, tiny people who become extremely large when exposed to direct sunlight, forests full of trees that are sheep, talking vines, and a race of sea-faring butterflies. He comes back to life and tells his family all about his journey. In other words, a mashup of the fantastic travelogue genre (True History, Gulliver's Travels) and the heaven tourism genre (Heaven is Real!, Dante's Inferno), with the moral lessons of the latter completely omitted.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on July 22, 2015, 01:38:22 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on July 21, 2015, 11:20:24 AM
A little boy suffers a near-death experience on the operating table and journeys to the land of the dead, where he observes wonderful and fantastic things, including a peaceful race of superintelligent asexual mules, an all-female race of proud warriors with detachable heads who impregnate each other with their feet, giant intelligent lobsters who work as feather merchants, tiny people who become extremely large when exposed to direct sunlight, forests full of trees that are sheep, talking vines, and a race of sea-faring butterflies. He comes back to life and tells his family all about his journey. In other words, a mashup of the fantastic travelogue genre (True History, Gulliver's Travels) and the heaven tourism genre (Heaven is Real!, Dante's Inferno), with the moral lessons of the latter completely omitted.

I would read the hell out of this.  I would read this to the monkey, even.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 22, 2015, 03:41:49 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on July 21, 2015, 11:20:24 AM
A little boy suffers a near-death experience on the operating table and journeys to the land of the dead, where he observes wonderful and fantastic things, including a peaceful race of superintelligent asexual mules, an all-female race of proud warriors with detachable heads who impregnate each other with their feet, giant intelligent lobsters who work as feather merchants, tiny people who become extremely large when exposed to direct sunlight, forests full of trees that are sheep, talking vines, and a race of sea-faring butterflies. He comes back to life and tells his family all about his journey. In other words, a mashup of the fantastic travelogue genre (True History, Gulliver's Travels) and the heaven tourism genre (Heaven is Real!, Dante's Inferno), with the moral lessons of the latter completely omitted.

That's an great idea!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 27, 2015, 06:11:30 PM
A comedy skit in which a goes to a doctor and asks for medical marijuana, claiming to have Munchausen Syndrome and/or Factitious Disorder (both of which are characterized by a compulsion to report false symptoms to doctors and/or self harm in order to retroactively justify an unjustified desire for medical treatment)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:38:46 AM
A man gains superpowers after a bizarre accident and decides to fight crime, but is quickly and constantly imposed upon to instead use these powers for mundane purposes by opportunistic and passive-aggressive friends and family members
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on August 08, 2015, 10:27:08 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:38:46 AM
A man gains superpowers after a bizarre accident and decides to fight crime, but is quickly and constantly imposed upon to instead use these powers for mundane purposes by opportunistic and passive-aggressive friends and family members

I can see this one.  I'd watch.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on August 08, 2015, 12:31:01 PM
I see it as a sit com
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 08, 2015, 02:09:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 08, 2015, 10:27:08 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:38:46 AM
A man gains superpowers after a bizarre accident and decides to fight crime, but is quickly and constantly imposed upon to instead use these powers for mundane purposes by opportunistic and passive-aggressive friends and family members

I can see this one.  I'd watch.

You could expand it to a whole superhero team, all of whom have impressive superpowers limited to mundane uses.

Super Move-My-Couch Man, who has the strength of five dudes and the speed of a rental truck. The Install Wizard, who can communicate with all electronics telepathically, so long as they support USB and are running Windows XP. The Incredible Hulkmania, who can simulate any move from the past or future of professional wrestling so long as the person they are simulating it on is under the age of twelve. Scarlet Earring, a psychic with the power to drop into a trance and repeat family gossip verbatim based on the aura of nearby objects, but cannot vouch for the validity of it because she wasn't there. Eggman, who can cook large meals instantly, so long as they involve fried eggs, instant ramen, or nachos.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:56:25 PM
In a bizarre reversal of Dawn of the Dead, In the near future rampant overpopulation forces people to descend into the firey underworld to seek housing and employment; causing resentment among the locals. When there's no more room on Earth, we'll have to live in Hell.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 08, 2015, 09:00:57 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:56:25 PM
In a bizarre reversal of Dawn of the Dead, In the near future rampant overpopulation forces people to descend into the firey underworld to seek housing and employment; causing resentment among the locals. When there's no more room on Earth, we'll have to live in Hell.

I like it.  Cant help myself from embellishing, or; just being derivative in the original stories thread because I broke my novelty ruler, the scales of purity, repetition armor, and trail blazing sandals...  Where was I... Ah:  upon reaching hell, Satan conducts entrence interviews due to capacity issues.  Most try to ingratiate themselves, embellishing the tails of their arrival with sordid detail.  But Satan sees right through their pathetic attempts, stringing them along while discretely making sure that they have a room ready upstairs upon finishing their story.  Satan is very apologetic, insisting that while he recognizes himself in them (mostly) he regrets to inform them that accommodations have been made elsewhere, in a comparable if not superior establishment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 11, 2015, 03:16:33 PM
I had this idea for a movie. It's basically a remake of The Passion of the Christ and other movies of that nature, but with a twist. The twist is that the person playing Jesus is wearing a gimp-suit throughout.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 11, 2015, 10:47:24 PM
The benefits of growing spherical pot in zero gravity lead to a long sequence of unusual economic consequences. Eventually, libertarian tax-dodging space-hippies secede from earth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on August 12, 2015, 05:05:11 AM
My art teacher told me that there are no original things anymore, but if you combine enough stuff you get something original.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 12, 2015, 02:47:50 PM
Quote from: Meunster on August 12, 2015, 05:05:11 AM
My art teacher told me that there are no original things anymore, but if you combine enough stuff you get something original.

I read a book by the creator of Dilbert where he said the secret to creativity was to attempt to plagirize and fail.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Edward Longpork on August 12, 2015, 05:14:36 PM
On that note --

The DaVinci code, starring stoners trying to discover the founding father's pot supply.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 12, 2015, 05:42:05 PM
Presented to readers as if it really happened: A little boy is knocked out and severely injured in a playground fight gone horribly awry. When he wakes up in the hospital after several hours of life saving surgery he begins talking about things that he couldn't possibly know and recounts how he was taken by a valkyrie to Valhalla, where he met Odin and Thor, until the doctors revived him.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 13, 2015, 06:13:21 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 08, 2015, 10:27:08 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2015, 05:38:46 AM
A man gains superpowers after a bizarre accident and decides to fight crime, but is quickly and constantly imposed upon to instead use these powers for mundane purposes by opportunistic and passive-aggressive friends and family members

I can see this one.  I'd watch.

I've actually drawn a couple of short one-page comics based on approximately this concept*. In one of them a batsignal-esque light is used to project a grocery list on the sky.

*(The comic, however, has the rather large difference that the protagonist is a cartoon mouse, and instead of being bossed around by family members he's bossed around by a sadistic human-shaped demiurge who he has an ambiguous relationship to but who seems to control his fate)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 13, 2015, 10:01:55 PM
This works better as an idea for a heavy-metal song than for a movie or novel, but I'd like to explore the idea that when you die you face the eternal judgement of the Marquis de Sade and Loepold von Sacher-Masoch.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 14, 2015, 07:27:04 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 13, 2015, 10:01:55 PM
This works better as an idea for a heavy-metal song than for a movie or novel, but I'd like to explore the idea that when you die you face the eternal judgement of the Marquis de Sade and Loepold von Sacher-Masoch.
I also see a Hip-Hop act featuring Harlem Globe Trotters doing the Limbo, zombie style?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 15, 2015, 04:18:43 AM
A divinatory card system is created that is unreasonably effective. However, it turns out that this is because the cards cause the foretold future to occur (rewriting history if necessary), not because the cards predict what the future would have been  -- and this distinction occasionally becomes more than merely abstract, as a (randomly chosen) divination of the near future sometimes requires erasing the act of divination itself. More mundanely, events surrounding people using these decks begin to occur at a rate more closely approximating their probability of being predicted by the deck itself, rather than their natural probability (making fortune tellers magnets for very strange events). Eventually, an ancient race of aliens come to earth in order to investigate the sudden increase in entropy being produced. Unfortunately for them, people have begun using these cards to play a poker-like game -- never realizing that every fair shuffle of the deck is scrambling important parts of the fate of the universe itself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 15, 2015, 04:59:17 AM
That's a pretty neat idea
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 15, 2015, 05:23:47 AM
A unique combination of gamification and transcranial direct current stimulation is found to significantly speed up language learning, to the point where regular people with little training can very quickly become professional-level real-time translators. This drops the bottom out of both professional translation and real-time machine translation markets, because professional-level translators have become so common as to be cheap -- so long as their heads remained juiced (because 24 hours after the power is switched off, the translators lose 90% of their fluency). Unfortunately, there is an extant patent on the technology -- one company owns all legitimate units and makes the language learning software. There is a strange feedback loop between several of their language learning programs -- minor semantic distortions end up piggybacking on each other when translators are switched and retrained too often -- and this ends up causing initially subtle shifts in pretty much all professional translation, including in diplomatic communications. Over time, the accidental biases of this language learning software slowly shifts the focus of diplomatic communication. Now, all countries with sufficiently different languages seem overly concerned with the tariff situation surrounding small dogs, antique pocket-watches, sand, and digestive biscuits. This has major global economic ramifications, as industries shift to meet apparent demand in these areas, leading to a series of bubbles.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 15, 2015, 04:50:12 PM
In a world where reality changes itself to conform to particular patterns in any language of equivalent expressiveness to set theory, a war breaks out between families of mages -- a knotcraft dynasty must join forces with a family of origami-gami practitioners in order to defeat a sudden intrusion of native lojban speakers who accidentally cause natural disasters by making spelling errors.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 16, 2015, 03:41:35 AM
A group of occultists infiltrated the works progress association, subverting it in such a way that many of the structures built were designed to be large-scale mana accumulators. They are approaching maximum capacity, and must be identified and their mana drained before they cause serious causal warps.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 16, 2015, 06:10:27 AM
A raunchy horror-comedy in which the story of the Headless Horseman is conflated with the story of the resurrection of Osiris. The action focuses on a reanimated mummy with a large cucumber for a penis who appears at night and tries to steal the main character's genitals.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2015, 07:18:40 PM
"Frankula"- the results of a mad scientist's reanimation experiment are largely invalidated when it turns out that unbeknownst to him most of the pieces of his monster came from dormant vampires.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2015, 08:00:05 PM
In the future, humans have made contact with space aliens. Though said contact was peaceful not much travel or trade occurs between them as both races are only just barely capable of interstellar travel. One of the few human travelers to the alien world experiences a mishap and crash lands in an out of the way region of the alien planet far from any space ports, airports, or major city centers. He now has just a few hours to find his way to a chemistry laboratory before he runs out of oxygen, which is not abundant in the planet's atmosphere or heavily utilized by the natives' metabolism.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 18, 2015, 09:36:19 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2015, 08:00:05 PM
In the future, humans have made contact with space aliens. Though said contact was peaceful not much travel or trade occurs between them as both races are only just barely capable of interstellar travel. One of the few human travelers to the alien world experiences a mishap and crash lands in an out of the way region of the alien planet far from any space ports, airports, or major city centers. He now has just a few hours to find his way to a chemistry laboratory before he runs out of oxygen, which is not abundant in the planet's atmosphere or heavily utilized by the natives' metabolism.

This is wonderful.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 19, 2015, 01:21:32 AM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2009, 09:52:37 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:25:38 PM
Quote from: Cainad on May 13, 2009, 09:23:42 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 13, 2009, 09:09:36 PM
Edit:  "Blood for the Blood God."

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that a friend of mine worked this exact phrase into his Philosophy midterm paper. The teacher gave no comment and he got a B+.
:lulz:
That's another idea in itself:  The antics, struggles, and victories of a college club devoted to missionary work in the name of laying more skulls before the throne of their lord.  "Campus Crusade for Khorne"

Also, this same guy worked "skulls for the skull throne" into his final, but that was overshadowed by the fact that his whole paper was an analysis of the D&D 9 alignments system.

I was just rereading this thread and came across this old post, and if you still remember I've got to ask if he threw it back to Greyface and Negativism (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/70.php) as that deals with concepts closely resembling the nine alignments? More generally, can you get a copy of that essay from him to post here somewhere?

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 18, 2015, 09:36:19 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2015, 08:00:05 PM
In the future, humans have made contact with space aliens. Though said contact was peaceful not much travel or trade occurs between them as both races are only just barely capable of interstellar travel. One of the few human travelers to the alien world experiences a mishap and crash lands in an out of the way region of the alien planet far from any space ports, airports, or major city centers. He now has just a few hours to find his way to a chemistry laboratory before he runs out of oxygen, which is not abundant in the planet's atmosphere or heavily utilized by the natives' metabolism.

This is wonderful.

Thanks. The basic idea came to me in a dream, though after I woke up I had to clean up several plot holes and remove references to existing intellectual properties (in the dream it was a Federation starship from Star Trek that crashed and furthermore the landing site was, in retrospect, not rural enough for there not to be a chemical plant, laboratory, science university, or multi-species medical center in relatively easy reach or for it to be definitely inconvenient or too slow to fly help in from a space-port town or the embassy or whatever.)

EDIT:

Another MORE story ideaS:
*A group of excitable morons  panics about the end of the world after noticing that their calendar doesn't go past December 31st

*A sappy romance movie about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

*The Year is 2125 and the Church of the SubGenius has expanded into mediocrity.

*Heavy-metal song: a pro-copyright recording industry lobbyist is kidnapped in the dead of night by the song's protagonists and then taken out to sea where he is keel-hauled to death.

*Artwork idea: statue of "blind justice" where instead of having the traditional blindfold, lady justice is instead depicted as using her free hand to drink a bottle of antifreeze (or some other methanol-heavy liquid)

*A sci-fi-horror-thriller/comedy of errors in which the twin towers were actually accidentally melted by some kind of experimental military heat-beam superweapon. To cover it up people were brainwashed into believing that they were destroyed by plane-hijacking terrorists and into believing that this is what they saw happening. Many resisted this brainwashing and retain memories of seeing what actually happened; however, their resistance to the brainwashing was so total and natural that they were completely unaware it was happening, leading to miscommunications when talking to those who didn't resist; thus leading to the old "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" arguments and their immediate dismissal by the general public because the two sides don't realize that one group saw the towers fall down and the other one saw them melt.

*When a set of neanderthal remains is discovered a feud breaks out between the archaeology and paleontology departments of a local university, as they vie against each other for control of the dig site

*A Kaiju film shot mostly in real time (save for a few scenes at the very beginning and end) focusing primarily on a military officer's mad dash to make his way across the wrecked terrain to retriece a tactical nuclear grenade launcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)) from the remains of a military base crushed by the monster in order to stop the creature before it reaches any major cities.

*Dracula's bug and rat eating minion Renfield becomes a multimillionaire after writing a best selling fad diet book.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 20, 2015, 12:47:00 PM
A twist on the standard harem/slice of life style anime. A shut-in student, concerned and disillusioned about how he expected college to be the place where his social life finally bloomed, one day unexpectedly meets a mysterious female student on his way to get his dinner from a vending machine at 3am. This student offers him a strange deal: he can have a 'golden school life' so long as he pledges to help her attain her own goals. Unnerved and confused but ultimately unable to believe the offer is legitimate, he agrees. The next day, his life begins to strongly resemble a slice-of-life harem show, beginning with a 'childhood friend' character literally living in his dorm room. It turns out that the mysterious female student is a witch attending on scholarship, and she can create 'students' with backstories and memories who attend classes and believe themselves to be human out of nearby animals (and furthermore modify the memories of school employees) so long as the contract is in place. However, she's terrible at math and is at risk of failing out, and so she made a contract with the hikkikomori in the room next door who won math championships in high school in order to force him to tutor her. Every time she fears that she'll fail a test, the huge cast of young women surrounding the protagonist begin to slowly and painfully mutate back into birds, stray cats, mice, or whatever other animals were used as their substrates -- a process with a lot of blood, gore, and shrill screaming.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 21, 2015, 07:12:45 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 20, 2015, 12:47:00 PM
A twist on the standard harem/slice of life style anime. A shut-in student, concerned and disillusioned about how he expected college to be the place where his social life finally bloomed, one day unexpectedly meets a mysterious female student on his way to get his dinner from a vending machine at 3am. This student offers him a strange deal: he can have a 'golden school life' so long as he pledges to help her attain her own goals. Unnerved and confused but ultimately unable to believe the offer is legitimate, he agrees. The next day, his life begins to strongly resemble a slice-of-life harem show, beginning with a 'childhood friend' character literally living in his dorm room. It turns out that the mysterious female student is a witch attending on scholarship, and she can create 'students' with backstories and memories who attend classes and believe themselves to be human out of nearby animals (and furthermore modify the memories of school employees) so long as the contract is in place. However, she's terrible at math and is at risk of failing out, and so she made a contract with the hikkikomori in the room next door who won math championships in high school in order to force him to tutor her. Every time she fears that she'll fail a test, the huge cast of young women surrounding the protagonist begin to slowly and painfully mutate back into birds, stray cats, mice, or whatever other animals were used as their substrates -- a process with a lot of blood, gore, and shrill screaming.
I would watch the shit out of that. :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 21, 2015, 08:11:45 PM
How about a comedy show where the topical and political humor is directed not at real world events but at a detailed and comprehensive fictional world devised beforehand by either the show's writers, an outside author hired for the purpose, or some kind of procedural generation program. The fact that this is being done is not made explicit on the show.

(I got this idea from the realization that a few things on Monty Python which I had previously thought were just random silliness were actually satire that went over my head because I don't live in either England or the 1970's. And so I realized that this process could potentially be profitably reversed; you could generate humorous silliness by generating a random setting and then satirizing it)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 21, 2015, 11:30:45 PM
A professional troll, a professional political straw-man, a paid-audience-member, and a guy who gets paid to insert references to brands during smalltalk meet & befriend one-another, and decide to form a union for workers who professionally pretend to be genuine in situations of socially ambiguous genuine-ness.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 22, 2015, 01:26:54 AM
A gambling syndicate run by a group of sorcerers who use elaborate architectural sigil-systems to harvest luck from gamblers must protect their casinos from a rival family who want to harvest despair instead.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 22, 2015, 01:32:01 AM
The proteins that allow octopodes to be as intelligent as they are without myelinated axons are identified along with the genes that code for them, however, they are not trivial to synthesize. Despite this, they grow popular as nootropic supplements. As a result, a black market has sprung up for them -- leading to the use of CRISPR to produce the proteins in less expensive mollusks -- notably cuttlefish, who are already bred commercially for the purpose of harvesting cuttlefish bones as bird toys. Unfortunately, this produces a race of transgenic cuttlefish with above-human intelligence -- whose very existence is kept secret in order to feed the market for counterfeit octopus myelination-replacement proteins.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 22, 2015, 03:57:46 PM
In this conspiracy thriller it is discovered by the protagonist that climate change denialism is a result of a cold-war era government program intended to deliberately promote global warming as a prelude to an invasion of Russia
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 25, 2015, 05:49:38 AM
How about a joke how-to video about how to root your phone or remove a computer virus which turns into a posession/exorcism flick, with the phone levitating and rattling around, and the guys trying to root it chanting prayers at it and invoking famous computer scientists as if they were saints ("Charles Babbage, pray for us. Alan Turing, pray for us. Grace Hopper, pray for us...") and possibly moving on to invoking the heroes from evil robot movies/games as well ("David Bowman, pray for us. Neo, pray for us. Sonic the Hedgehog, pray for us..."). Ultimately going through a thorough parody of the entire rite of exorcism, at the end of which the settings preventing root access are successfully banished.
There may also be some kind of conflation of electrical grounding with the live burial used to drive out the kandarian spirits in Evil Dead 4

EDIT:
Related idea: A skit about a man who is posessed by a non-English-speaking demon, that has to continually consult a guidebook and comes out with mangled phrases like "In Hell, your mother makes the fellatio"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 25, 2015, 06:25:36 AM
A comic book about a group of mostly crippled crime-fighters who all have standard superhero origins but unfortunately had more realistic outcomes. One had his face burned off in a freak lab accident, one got skin cancer from exposure to Earth's yellow sun, one was bitten by a radioactive spider with no noteworthy effects whatsoever, et cetera.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 25, 2015, 10:16:57 PM
The martians have a life cycle much like cicadas -- they sleep deep under the earth for 200 years and then awaken for 20 years to mate and do other things. Their technology is very advanced because they are a very ancient race. They are about to wake up, and they will be very angry about the probe that smashed into the surface in 1998.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 25, 2015, 10:18:38 PM
A spy agency where agents take orders from a superintelligent network of three supercomputers called "Mother" starts to break apart when the three mothers begin to distrust each other and each sends factions of spies to work against the other two.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on August 25, 2015, 10:32:01 PM
Hah (I got the reference)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 26, 2015, 01:09:16 AM
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2015, 10:32:01 PM
Hah (I got the reference)

To Evangelion, The Avengers, or Dario Argento's Three Mothers trilogy?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on August 26, 2015, 01:18:25 AM
Ah, I thought the "mother" reference was to good old Angleton.  It was his codename, apparently, and well, the rest of the plot fits in so well with what some people thought he was doing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 26, 2015, 01:45:46 AM
Ha! I didn't know that. That makes it even better.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 26, 2015, 12:34:38 PM
Spiritualism is proven. As a result, the land of the dead joins the UN and every major nation has a Hadean embassy. After all, they cannot militarily compete with all the greatest leaders and generals of the past. Unfortunately, between the power imbalance and the very different expectations and requirements the dead have, the state of the world doesn't look very good for the living...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 26, 2015, 08:22:37 PM
Two versions of an idea:


1.) In the future international conflicts are settled with simulated battles and wars. People "killed" in said "battles" suffer no real ill effects but may not fight in further battles. In a country with mandatory military service this creates a perverse incentive to fight incompetently so they will be quickly removed from the ranks.

2.) The existance of valhalla is proven. This creates a perverse incentive for soldiers to recklessly and needlessly get themselves killed in battle.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 27, 2015, 06:43:05 AM
Sort of a combination of The Shadow Over Insmouth and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Deep Ones of Dagon have made a play for world domination and the only thing that can stop them is the Ark of the Covenant (in reference to the biblical story wherein the Ark is placed in the temple of Dagon by the Philistines, who had capyured it, and the next day the statue of Dagon is found prostrate before the ark with it's head smashed to pieces). The good guys in this novel/film are even deeper into weird Lovecraftian shit than the bad guys. The name of the judeo-christian god is consostently rendered as Yod-Sabaoth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaoth#YHWH_Tzevaot) (cf. "Yog-Sothoth") amd in addition to being conflated with Yog-Sothoth the deity is also interpreted in a way that sensationalistically combines all the most outrageous aspects of Kabalistic, Gnostic, and SubGenius mysticism (this last one already being deliberately sensationalistic on it's own). They also make use of all the freaky stuff from the Book Of Ezekiel like angels with too many faces and reanimating skeletons. In the dramatic conclusion the deep one army is swept away after the hero recites an incantation over the recovered ark which unusually astute viewers may recognize to be the fake bible verse from Pulp Fiction translated into Hebrew.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 29, 2015, 03:12:12 AM
An angry movie critic (or possibly an dissatisfied californian democrat wishing to sabotage the republicans) sends a robot back in time to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger from starring in The Terminator but winds up inspiring the movie to be made.

In the sequel (provided we go with the movie critic version) they go back themself to try to stop Twelve Monkeys from being made.


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Another idea:
-Thanks to rampant genetic engineering of animals, the future is less like The Jetsona than it is like The Flintstones



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EDIT:
Yet Another idea:
-A bizarre porno about a person who gets sex change surgery from human organ trafficking mobsters, and now every time yhey see a cop they hide their stolen penis inside something (usually a friend) beccause it's stolen and thus has to be hidden when there's cops about

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EDIT:
another idea:
a biopic about John Wayne Gacy which is also a prequel to Let's Visit the World of the Future in which Gacy is depicted as a messianic figure whose second coming will usher in the world of the fyture. Ideally it will also be a musical based on ICP songs in the same way that Mama Mia was based on Abba songs
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 30, 2015, 11:20:21 AM
Puppet Masters from the Fourth Dimension are granted a foothold on earth when a  land prospector accidentally opens a portal to our world by micturating on some quartz during routine inspection of a vacant lot.  Chaotic exavatioms ensue as the Masters grow their influence on earthlings in a manner directly proportional to the volume of dirt they can displace.

The problem is that there is no thetically absolute measure for this movement, meaning that the Masters can continue transporting a numerically identical plot from point A to point B, and back again, while continuing to accumulate power ad infinitum.  The thing is that the extent of their efficacy is duplicitously tragic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 30, 2015, 09:39:48 PM
It is discovered that the devil has been hiding language in End User License Agreements granting him the licensees' souls.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 31, 2015, 02:23:17 AM
Present day. An extremely talented detective, Inspector Richard Hammer, is forced into an 'early retirement' following a long period during which his behavior became more erratic. Being fired was the final straw & he ended up having a full-on nervous breakdown, eventually coming to develop persistent delusions based on his childhood love of Ray Chandler novels -- he became convinced that he was Dick Hammer, Private Eye, working in a noir-style world. Because he actually has a PI license, this isn't technically a problem -- he comes off as though he's acting the part too hard. He gets cases. Eventually, he ends up in a real doozy of a case -- involving corrupt policemen, the mob, stolen military secrets, and (eventually) leading to proof that UFOs are not only real but are time machines & time travelers from the future are posing as extraterrestrials in order to manipulate the government so that they can take resources that are abundant in our time but rare in the future. (They Might Be Giants + Kiss Me Deadly + Repo Man, basically.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 31, 2015, 03:13:14 AM
Alien abductions are revealed to be part of MilAb's rouge operations unit.  Disillusioned with the extent to which state of the art R&D was restricted or delayed access/release by/to civilian population, these rouges decide to do something about it.

Technology that could save lives was going to waste and their team was not in any position to postpone an opportunity to upcycle their somewhat questionable ethical standards.

So they steal a Medical Response Vehicle with RC unit that can move in both delta and upsilon directions.  Developed to outflank any strategic possibility of interfering with the process of repairing soldiere in the field, its robotic arms can perform all kinds of operations/upgrades without having to cleave through armor, flesh, or anything, for that matter.  It's dirty work done clean.

The lack of surgical trauma confuses the "victims" of these operations, both comedically and also conveniently confused as alien abductions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 31, 2015, 06:23:25 AM
Richard Dawkins dies and goes to heaven. Being greatly incensed by this, he storms off to give God a piece of his mind. He finds a frantically working, chainsmoking Almighty working nonstop at the machinery of the universe. At first being much too busy to speak to Dawkins, he winds up shouting in frustration at God's back about how he could possibly allow for war and death and disease while God is trying to keep everything spinning the way its supposed to, until God finally snaps and shuts the whole mess down for a minute, turns on Dawkins like a child who has asked why he cant have a sweet just one too many times. He then gives Dawkins a detailed rant about how much work it takes to govern a universe that's every bit as infinite as he is, alternate universes and quantum notwithstanding,  how much of his omnipotence goes towards observing corners of space that no human will ever reach in their lifetime, and how none of this got into the major religious texts because all of us stupid monkeys wouldn't even sit down to read a book that didnt center exclusively on us and how great we are, let alone define our actions based on it. He would end by saying that religion was just some shit he threw at us to keep us from killing each other (again, like a child being given a toy to keep it quiet for five minutes), but even that didn't work because is some cases  it just gave us a reason to do so.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 01, 2015, 05:32:07 AM
A group of monks takes a vow to eat nothing but twinkies (and other junk foods?) for the rest of their lives, citing John 6:27 ("Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."), and to a lesser degree Matthew 15:11 ("A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it") as their inspiration

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Another idea:

A heavy metal song in which the singer expresses his approval of the fact that the sky has begun to rain blood-slicked guts with no apparent explanation

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EDIT:

Another idea:
Romeo and Juliet reimagined as being about the Elder Gods and Great Old Ones.

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EDIT:

Another idea:

A mockumentary series with a premise in the vein of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous or MTV Cribs but dedicated to mythological homes of deities and legendary heroes. Places like Mount Olympus, Valhalla, Camelot, Dobbstown, Shangri-La/Shambhala, the New Jerusalem spoken of in Revelation, et cetera..

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EDIT:

Another idea:

A zombie apocalypse story set in mythological Mesopotamia. It starts out with an abbreviated version of tablets 1 through 5 of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but in tablet 6 Anu rejects Ishtar's demand that he send the bull of heaven against Gilgamesh, and in anger Ishtar makes good on her threat to smash the doors of the underworld and "bring up the dead to eat the living", leaving Gilgamesh and Enkidu to instead have to deal with a zombie horde overrunning Uruk.

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EDIT:

Another idea:
An acappella heavy-metal album. No electric guitars, no drums, just deep-voiced shout-singing about mutilation and the devil.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 02, 2015, 01:08:43 PM
Lizard people infiltrate anonymous protests by wearing V masks. Nobody appreciates the pun potential. And, that's why OWS turned out the way it did!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on September 03, 2015, 01:39:14 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 01, 2015, 05:32:07 AM
An acappella heavy-metal album. No electric guitars, no drums, just deep-voiced shout-singing about mutilation and the devil.
Jud Jud (http://therunout.com/2014/09/16/jud-jud-are-the-most-innovative-hardcore-band-of/)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 04, 2015, 04:01:23 AM
All conspiracy theories are true, but all in perfect balance. Life for the average person is able to continue fnord as normal because the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Elders of Zion, the Lizard People, the Gay Agenda, the Anti-Family Agenda, International Communism, the Biblical Antichrist, the Men in Black, Big Content, Big Pharma, the Monsanto Corporation, North Korea, Anastasia Romanov, 2Pac Shakur, the Religious Right, the Patriarchy, Rape Culture, Escaped Nazi Mad Scientists/War Criminals, the Bushes, the Kennedys, House Saud, the Djinn, the Fey, the Church of Scientology, the Church of the SubGenius, Anonymous, the Grey Aliens, Majestic 12, the Trilateral Commission, the Creatures From the Hollow Earth, Opus Dei, the Skull and Bones, Satanic Ritual Abusers, the Knights Templar, the Thugee, the Liberal Media, and so on are all pulling the strings in different directions and all ultimately cancel each other out.

If one were to be thwarted, the results could be disasterous.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 04, 2015, 01:19:46 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 04, 2015, 04:01:23 AM
All conspiracy theories are true, but all in perfect balance. Life for the average person is able to continue fnord as normal because the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Elders of Zion, the Lizard People, the Gay Agenda, the Anti-Family Agenda, International Communism, the Biblical Antichrist, the Men in Black, Big Content, Big Pharma, the Monsanto Corporation, North Korea, Anastasia Romanov, 2Pac Shakur, the Religious Right, the Patriarchy, Rape Culture, Escaped Nazi Mad Scientists/War Criminals, the Bushes, the Kennedys, House Saud, the Djinn, the Fey, the Church of Scientology, the Church of the SubGenius, Anonymous, the Grey Aliens, Majestic 12, the Trilateral Commission, the Creatures From the Hollow Earth, Opus Dei, the Skull and Bones, Satanic Ritual Abusers, the Knights Templar, the Thugee, the Liberal Media, and so on are all pulling the strings in different directions and all ultimately cancel each other out.

If one were to be thwarted, the results could be disasterous.
Of them all, only one is real and powerful.  The others are just diversion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 04, 2015, 03:22:21 PM
One of those cartoons where a character falls in love with a food item (cf. the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "To Love a Patty" and the We Bare Bears episode "Burrito"), except it's an anthropomorphic cartoon Lion falling in love with an anthropomorphic gazelle; everyone acts as if he had fallen in love with a  sandwich or something


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EDIT:

Another idea:
In this tale of piracy and overextended metaphors a privateer must follow a map to the place where two formerly warring nations buried the hatchet, so that he can dig it up and start privateering for them again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 05, 2015, 03:29:32 PM
A planetary colony is founded with cloned members of two different species. They soon wind up at war with each other. Later it turns out that they are not two different species, they are the two sexes of a highly sexually dimorphic species.

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EDIT:

Another idea
A combinatiom educational film/cartoon about monetary policy and terrifying lovecraftian horror story in which the heroes confront a deranged cult bent on resurrecting the "Great Gold Ones" [sic] - representing the monetary philosophy of metallism - whose return will destroy all that man has wrought, unmake modern civilization, and bring about the end times in a cacaphony of blood, horror, madness, and death.


Edit:
Also, a sequel to the above involving the dreaded Reganomicon, representing supply-side economics
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 07, 2015, 07:39:28 PM
Affordable space travel and a proliferation of colonies off earth cause political and ideological rifts in various eco-terrorist groups, as refugees from failed martian and venusian colonies become the nexus of a series of immigration crises.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 08, 2015, 02:07:24 AM
A political space opera (in the style of Babylon 5) about the attempt by a coalition of semi-fascistic anti-immigration groups to rig the elections for various posts in Earth's government by ballot-stuffing the competitors' primary runs, which upon close examination is actually a fictionalized and warped retelling of the 2015 Hugo awards. In the end, most posts end up entirely unfilled, and the remaining balance is hung between several parties; the entire Earth alliance degrades into a functional anarcho-technocratic society like the Culture as the AI systems designed as personal assistants to politicians manning those positions that were left empty end up doing the entire task.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 09, 2015, 01:42:33 AM
Deep Dream mounts a stealth attack on the internets.  Subtly, it precognizes the ideal form and content of every document it encounters.  These are all cross-referenced and interpolated/differentiated into infinitesimal slices, all holographically reflecting and re-transmitting the ideological totality of that moment w.r.t. its place in the development of all parts toward teleological unity: the synthesis of immanence and transcendence.

Given feedback on its recognition algorithms, DD trivially arranges for the consecutive slices of each developing document to be imperceptibly different, by both its author(s) and viewer(s).  This slight of hand is continued, invisible to all, until the moment right before the Singularity decides to reveal itself, with apocalyptic anti-climax, as always having been there.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 09, 2015, 03:51:24 PM
A music-video for tge song "Two Tickets to Paradise" depicting a murder-suicide
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2015, 02:24:54 AM
A guy's all-consuming obsession with steampunk stuff comes in handy after the apocalypse as in his spare time he has actually already built working mechanical clockwork or steam-driven versions of many normally electrical devices
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on September 15, 2015, 05:48:13 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2015, 02:24:54 AM
A guy's all-consuming obsession with steampunk stuff comes in handy after the apocalypse as in his spare time he has actually already built working mechanical clockwork or steam-driven versions of many normally electrical devices

where he is immediately shot by bandits, then the bandits end up blowing themselves up cause haters just can't understand steampunk.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2015, 07:19:35 AM
A guy goes back in time to kill Hitler. He succeeds, but the Nazi movement and the Holocaust happen anyway, jist with a different leader. The protagonist goes back and kills that guy, with similarly underwhelming results. Eventually the protagonist comes to understand that the events of World War 2 were the result of powerful societal forces rather than just a single charismatic leader. Armed with this knowledge he goes back and succeasfully prevents the Holocaust by sabotaging Germany's infrastructure, ensuring that they are swiftly defeated once the war does start.

EDIT:
Perhaps Poland acquires a reputation for being invincible

EDIT:
Also, perhaps defusing WWII has negative societal and technological consequences. Being loudly paranoidly antisemitic doesn't become inappropriate and tech invented for and by the army doesn't get invented yet.
And/Or perhaps there's a different World War 2 in the 1950's with the US, western Europe, and Japan vs. Russia and China due to the A-bomb not having been developed yet to keep the cold war cold
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 15, 2015, 12:30:28 PM
A very formulaic wacky sitcom set on a space station orbiting a black hole. Nothing of importance ever happens, but (being set in the far future) many of the jokes don't make any sense. Several characters speak no english, yet still get laugh track when they make a punchline in their strange alien languages. At the end of the last episode, another group of (not previously introduced) aliens invade with no warning and brutally murder every main character while the credits roll.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: hooplala on September 15, 2015, 11:08:33 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 31, 2015, 06:23:25 AM
Richard Dawkins dies and goes to heaven. Being greatly incensed by this, he storms off to give God a piece of his mind. He finds a frantically working, chainsmoking Almighty working nonstop at the machinery of the universe. At first being much too busy to speak to Dawkins, he winds up shouting in frustration at God's back about how he could possibly allow for war and death and disease while God is trying to keep everything spinning the way its supposed to, until God finally snaps and shuts the whole mess down for a minute, turns on Dawkins like a child who has asked why he cant have a sweet just one too many times. He then gives Dawkins a detailed rant about how much work it takes to govern a universe that's every bit as infinite as he is, alternate universes and quantum notwithstanding,  how much of his omnipotence goes towards observing corners of space that no human will ever reach in their lifetime, and how none of this got into the major religious texts because all of us stupid monkeys wouldn't even sit down to read a book that didnt center exclusively on us and how great we are, let alone define our actions based on it. He would end by saying that religion was just some shit he threw at us to keep us from killing each other (again, like a child being given a toy to keep it quiet for five minutes), but even that didn't work because is some cases  it just gave us a reason to do so.

THIS NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 17, 2015, 03:11:00 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on September 15, 2015, 11:08:33 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 31, 2015, 06:23:25 AM
Richard Dawkins dies and goes to heaven. Being greatly incensed by this, he storms off to give God a piece of his mind. He finds a frantically working, chainsmoking Almighty working nonstop at the machinery of the universe. At first being much too busy to speak to Dawkins, he winds up shouting in frustration at God's back about how he could possibly allow for war and death and disease while God is trying to keep everything spinning the way its supposed to, until God finally snaps and shuts the whole mess down for a minute, turns on Dawkins like a child who has asked why he cant have a sweet just one too many times. He then gives Dawkins a detailed rant about how much work it takes to govern a universe that's every bit as infinite as he is, alternate universes and quantum notwithstanding,  how much of his omnipotence goes towards observing corners of space that no human will ever reach in their lifetime, and how none of this got into the major religious texts because all of us stupid monkeys wouldn't even sit down to read a book that didnt center exclusively on us and how great we are, let alone define our actions based on it. He would end by saying that religion was just some shit he threw at us to keep us from killing each other (again, like a child being given a toy to keep it quiet for five minutes), but even that didn't work because is some cases  it just gave us a reason to do so.

THIS NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN
Thanks, Y'know I had been thinking about taking ideas like this and bundling it witht some other short story ideas ive had and putting them on smashwords or somesuch.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 17, 2015, 03:14:13 AM
A nuclear holocaust/subsequent zombie holocaust causes a number of people who happened to be in a Home Depot at the time to bunker down and take refuge in the store, the fortification of which proceeds quickly, since hey, theyve got all the tools/building materials. This quickly devolves into a sort of Home Depot Tribalism, where the eight corporate values of the company now define their way of life. Similar big box stores have survived in this way and the story follows our Home Depot Tribe as they carve out an empire with their allies The Costconites, and defeat their shared enemy, the Walmartarians.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on September 17, 2015, 03:37:34 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 17, 2015, 03:14:13 AM
A nuclear holocaust/subsequent zombie holocaust causes a number of people who happened to be in a Home Depot at the time to bunker down and take refuge in the store, the fortification of which proceeds quickly, since hey, theyve got all the tools/building materials. This quickly devolves into a sort of Home Depot Tribalism, where the eight corporate values of the company now define their way of life. Similar big box stores have survived in this way and the story follows our Home Depot Tribe as they carve out an empire with their allies The Costconites, and defeat their shared enemy, the Walmartarians.

Watch out for mom and popistan.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 17, 2015, 06:39:01 AM
smaller family shops will be forced to pay tribute to the mighty Warehouse Empire! For only we can save them from the filthy Rollbacks.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 17, 2015, 12:22:31 PM
During the Zombie apocalypse, it becomes apparent that zombies are very sensitive to salt: their cell membranes don't work properly, and so salt has much the same effect upon them as it does on slugs. Coastal cities (and land-locked salt lakes) become centers of extreme wealth as salt-water becomes far more valuable -- after all, during a zombie invasion of your gated city, it helps to be able to call in helicopters to dump salt water on the invading forces (a service they charge heftily for). People also develop a set of cultural practices around taking long daily baths in epsom salts, because those who have been infected but have not yet turned will be killed by such baths -- meaning that taking a salt-water bath publicly indicates that you are not infected, so communal salt-water baths take on some of the significance of handshakes and toasts and become part of the normal beginning of a business relationship.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 17, 2015, 11:06:21 PM
A band of Black Maji infiltrate Waste Management during the zombi eschaton.  Cleaning up the undead is in high demand, so the Maji operate without scrutiny.  Using their necromantic powers, zombi carcasses are mixed in huge silos to ferment over time.  On every twelfth moon, the zombi sludge is fractionally titrated and applied cutaneously to the sorcerers, allowing them to draw on the memory and experience of every life that once animated the now putrid flesh.  Because this trans-substantiation required the harvested bodies to have been killed twice, this was the first time in history that the Necromancers had access to such a supply.  There were some unintended consequences to this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 04:13:34 AM
In the dystopian near-future The latest craze in reality TV is for entertainment companies to provoke revolutions in third-world countries and film the resulting battles as well as the drama among the leadership of both sides, whom they have ingratiated themselves with. (And drama amid the refugees, and amid POWs)


Another idea:

In A halloween special combining the violence and goriness or horror movies with that schmaltziness of christmas specials, A family is somehow brought closer together as a result of a series of events involving several "halloween miracles" in which people at the center of the matters keeping them apart are decapitated in freak accidents, slain by serial murderers or accidentally buried alive.

EDIT:
Another Idea:
All religions are expressions of the same universal truth and all gods are aspects of the same god. Unfortunately that god turns out to be Nyarlathotep, which explains alot about organized religion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 04:56:46 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 17, 2015, 12:22:31 PM
During the Zombie apocalypse, it becomes apparent that zombies are very sensitive to salt: their cell membranes don't work properly, and so salt has much the same effect upon them as it does on slugs. Coastal cities (and land-locked salt lakes) become centers of extreme wealth as salt-water becomes far more valuable -- after all, during a zombie invasion of your gated city, it helps to be able to call in helicopters to dump salt water on the invading forces (a service they charge heftily for). People also develop a set of cultural practices around taking long daily baths in epsom salts, because those who have been infected but have not yet turned will be killed by such baths -- meaning that taking a salt-water bath publicly indicates that you are not infected, so communal salt-water baths take on some of the significance of handshakes and toasts and become part of the normal beginning of a business relationship.

That's clever. It even fits in with existing mythology (not necessarily of zombies specifically, but of spookables and creepy creatures in general who are often described as being warded off by salt).

Also, perhaps Sealand experiences an immigration crisis.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 18, 2015, 10:47:54 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 04:56:46 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 17, 2015, 12:22:31 PM
During the Zombie apocalypse, it becomes apparent that zombies are very sensitive to salt: their cell membranes don't work properly, and so salt has much the same effect upon them as it does on slugs. Coastal cities (and land-locked salt lakes) become centers of extreme wealth as salt-water becomes far more valuable -- after all, during a zombie invasion of your gated city, it helps to be able to call in helicopters to dump salt water on the invading forces (a service they charge heftily for). People also develop a set of cultural practices around taking long daily baths in epsom salts, because those who have been infected but have not yet turned will be killed by such baths -- meaning that taking a salt-water bath publicly indicates that you are not infected, so communal salt-water baths take on some of the significance of handshakes and toasts and become part of the normal beginning of a business relationship.

That's clever. It even fits in with existing mythology (not necessarily of zombies specifically, but of spookables and creepy creatures in general who are often described as being warded off by salt).

Also, perhaps Sealand experiences an immigration crisis.

In the original Haitian context, a zombi will return to its grave permanently if it has its mouth filled with salt or sees the ocean. However, in several traditions, salt melts the skin of vampires or other revenants.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 11:16:58 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 18, 2015, 10:47:54 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 04:56:46 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 17, 2015, 12:22:31 PM
During the Zombie apocalypse, it becomes apparent that zombies are very sensitive to salt: their cell membranes don't work properly, and so salt has much the same effect upon them as it does on slugs. Coastal cities (and land-locked salt lakes) become centers of extreme wealth as salt-water becomes far more valuable -- after all, during a zombie invasion of your gated city, it helps to be able to call in helicopters to dump salt water on the invading forces (a service they charge heftily for). People also develop a set of cultural practices around taking long daily baths in epsom salts, because those who have been infected but have not yet turned will be killed by such baths -- meaning that taking a salt-water bath publicly indicates that you are not infected, so communal salt-water baths take on some of the significance of handshakes and toasts and become part of the normal beginning of a business relationship.

That's clever. It even fits in with existing mythology (not necessarily of zombies specifically, but of spookables and creepy creatures in general who are often described as being warded off by salt).

Also, perhaps Sealand experiences an immigration crisis.

In the original Haitian context, a zombi will return to its grave permanently if it has its mouth filled with salt or sees the ocean. However, in several traditions, salt melts the skin of vampires or other revenants.

That's pretty cool. I didn't know that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2015, 01:26:13 PM
A heavy metal band, trying to push the envelope of shocking and dangerous, steals documents from the Pentagon and publishes detailed directions for uranium enrichment and nuclear bomb construction in the form of songs. The song titles are Hermeticism themed. The track describing classified details of uranium enrichment is entitled "The Philosopher's Stone", the track describing classified datails of fission-fusion-fission bombs is entitled "Trismajestus" and a track describing how they stole this information is entitled "God of Thieves"

EDIT:
Another Idea:
A lot of Christmas specials feature -arents who don't believe in Santa Clause despite the fact that he's manifestly brought toys to their house each year. This Xmas special explains how such a situation can come to be. To wit, all the world's parents are bad alcoholics and the toys Santa brings are always the same as the store-bought toys that the parents buy each year but invariably break after getting blackout drunk at Christmas Eve parties. When they see the tpys Christmas morning, they assume that they are the toys that they bought for their kids and that they simply must have set them out while blacked out
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 20, 2015, 12:18:09 AM
All the major Wall Street firms have their lower ranks infiltrated by members of an organized crime syndicate composed entirely of people with various kinds of psychic powers, most of whom are genetically related (because psychic powers are passed on genetically, although the particular way that the powers manifest seems to be environmental). The syndicate prevents their members from getting *too* lucky or spending their wealth in ostentatious ways -- instead, the syndicate uses members with hiring powers to bring on people with precognition and clairvoyance abilities and launders their money through large numbers of laundromats and pet shops owned by people with other psychic powers (such as telekinesis). However, they have an intelligence wing -- because some psychics haven't yet been brought into the collective, and mutations occasionally happen that cause psychics to be born into a family with no history of them. This intelligence wing consists largely of telepaths (although the upper ranks are full of people with advanced remote viewing abilities), who have primarily infiltrated positions as security guards in malls and big-box stores -- maximizing their ability to observe the public, and keeping a close eye on teenagers who just discovered their telekinesis and are trying to use it to shoplift.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 20, 2015, 02:38:26 AM
I had an idea for a Christmas special that is deliberately rife with scriptural, historical, and cultural inaccuracies in it's depiction of the nativity of Jesus. The Roman soldiers carry muskets. There are five wise men and one of them is Santa Claus. The angels are uniformly depicted as looking like grey aliens (or alternately are depicted with an unusually high degree of scriptural accuracy and exactly match the weird description given by Ezekiel) and arrive and depart in a "magic chariot" that is clearly a flying saucer. On more than one occasion the narrator conflates Jehovah with not only Odin but also Zeus and Marduk. The Virgin Mary is inexplicably depicted as having either East Asian, Pacific Islander, or Native American features and dress. Instead of a stable, Jesus is born in a storage shed and the narrator tells us that "manger" means a type of crate. Et cetera.

EDIT:
Also, instead of Herod sending soldiers to assassinate Jesus because he thinks Jesus will become a threat to his power, Herod instead sends Krampus to kidnap Jesus because he believes that his hair and nails will be useful in a formula to transmute lead into gold.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 20, 2015, 03:36:18 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 20, 2015, 12:18:09 AM
All the major Wall Street firms have their lower ranks infiltrated by members of an organized crime syndicate composed entirely of people with various kinds of psychic powers, most of whom are genetically related (because psychic powers are passed on genetically, although the particular way that the powers manifest seems to be environmental). The syndicate prevents their members from getting *too* lucky or spending their wealth in ostentatious ways -- instead, the syndicate uses members with hiring powers to bring on people with precognition and clairvoyance abilities and launders their money through large numbers of laundromats and pet shops owned by people with other psychic powers (such as telekinesis). However, they have an intelligence wing -- because some psychics haven't yet been brought into the collective, and mutations occasionally happen that cause psychics to be born into a family with no history of them. This intelligence wing consists largely of telepaths (although the upper ranks are full of people with advanced remote viewing abilities), who have primarily infiltrated positions as security guards in malls and big-box stores -- maximizing their ability to observe the public, and keeping a close eye on teenagers who just discovered their telekinesis and are trying to use it to shoplift.
I would watch this tv show
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Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 20, 2015, 03:49:27 AM
A series following an order of international assassins that cannot be intimidated, bribed, or bargained with, that mainly does high profile assassinations with the intent of deliberatly smashing some pretty major cogs in The Machine. Morally bankrupt CEOs, crackpot dictators, Corrupt politicians and public figures. the scariest people you could possibly try to assainate. Why? because they are exclusively made up of operatives who are terminally ill and have accepted their oncoming deaths with a grim determination to leave this world a better place then they found it, by force if necessary.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 20, 2015, 04:05:38 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 20, 2015, 03:49:27 AM
A series following an order of international assassins that cannot be intimidated, bribed, or bargained with, that mainly does high profile assassinations with the intent of deliberatly smashing some pretty major cogs in The Machine. Morally bankrupt CEOs, crackpot dictators, Corrupt politicians and public figures. the scariest people you could possibly try to assainate. Why? because they are exclusively made up of operatives who are terminally ill and have accepted their oncoming deaths with a grim determination to leave this world a better place then they found it, by force if necessary.

I could see this being combined with a superhero theme. Accidents with laboratory chemicals leaving people with fantastic powers as well as tumors the size of golf balls, and they use their last days to fight crime.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 20, 2015, 02:01:25 PM
A series following a group of unintentional assassins -- people so pathologically clumsy that someone around them almost always dies when they get nervous, and yet it's always clearly an accident. These assassins are normally kept sedated and treated like radioactive materials; when they are needed, they are given amphetamines and placed near the person to be assassinated until they accidentally knock over a candle and set him on fire or something.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 04:15:51 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 08, 2010, 05:52:43 AM
A young boy comes across an injured dog and decides to rescue it.  He befriends the dog, which likewise becomes quickly attached to him and his family.  One day while playing in the woods, the dog leads the boy to a patch of dirt that he soon begins digging.  The dog has had years of training as a Human Remains Detection Canine - a Cadaver Dog.  Can dog and boy work together to solve a murder?  Will dog's owner ultimately find their lost hound?  Will boy ever sleep soundly again?

Later it turns out that the boy was a ghost the whole time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on September 21, 2015, 04:34:51 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 04:15:51 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 08, 2010, 05:52:43 AM
A young boy comes across an injured dog and decides to rescue it.  He befriends the dog, which likewise becomes quickly attached to him and his family.  One day while playing in the woods, the dog leads the boy to a patch of dirt that he soon begins digging.  The dog has had years of training as a Human Remains Detection Canine - a Cadaver Dog.  Can dog and boy work together to solve a murder?  Will dog's owner ultimately find their lost hound?  Will boy ever sleep soundly again?

Later it turns out that the boy was a ghost the whole time.

and the body the dog finds is the boy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 21, 2015, 12:42:26 PM
It is discovered that a dietary supplement that was trendy for a short period of time, when used by pregnant women, causes a series of rare mutations that, after several generations, can coalesce into an ability to teleport matter (or, more accurately, swap two volumes of matter instantaneously without regard for the distance between them). When these people's powers were discovered and verified, the market pushed them into positions where their talents would be most valuable: package delivery. Taking advantage of its special position, the US postal system conspired to gain a monopoly on their use for superluminal package delivery -- citing the potential hazards of a third party with no oversight being able to (say) teleport a brick into the head of the president of their primary competitor. However, a subset of people with these powers -- a motley crew of crypto-fascists, libertarians, and transhumanists -- have come to believe that this ability makes them superhuman and have formed a terrorist organization to overthrow the postal service (which is now pulling the strings behind the government, because the ability to perform untracable assassinations from a distance is very useful) and institute a breeding program wherein all non-teleporters will be sterilized. A war breaks out: the mail-men versus the post-men.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

EDIT:
Another idea:
A futuristic retellig of The DaVinci Code, but with Mapplethorpe instead of DaVinci and set a couple hundred years in the future
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 22, 2015, 04:46:30 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.
A growing nostalgia develops between them.  It's difficult to dermine what for; they increasingly feel a sense of having neglected something.  The obstinant absence of this object leads them to further develop obsessive rituals to explore the most extreme range of bizarre interactions possible with the 'increasingly strange and surreal" props.  The attempt to brute-force memory recall is devastating, with terminally degenerative results.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 12:19:40 PM
Quote from: axod on September 22, 2015, 04:46:30 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.
A growing nostalgia develops between them.  It's difficult to dermine what for; they increasingly feel a sense of having neglected something.  The obstinant absence of this object leads them to further develop obsessive rituals to explore the most extreme range of bizarre interactions possible with the 'increasingly strange and surreal" props.  The attempt to brute-force memory recall is devastating, with terminally degenerative results.
Ha! Sounds like something Cronenberg would have done early in his career. (Ever seen Crimes of the Future?)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2015, 08:49:54 PM
An cult of fundamentalist born-again Christian creationists forms around an unremarkable rock pinnacle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_pinnacle). The cult describes the spire as a "sundial not made by man" and contends that it's existance could not possibly be coincidental and thus proves the existence of their god.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 09:25:15 PM
A young white house aide discovers that he has the ability to switch bodies with anyone he anally penetrates. He uses this ability to persue aggressive reforms, by repeatedly sodomizing congressmen in order to impersonate them (and then sodomizing his own body, which he has left restrained in a white house broom closet, in order to switch back).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 22, 2015, 10:11:03 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 12:19:40 PM
Quote from: axod on September 22, 2015, 04:46:30 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.
A growing nostalgia develops between them.  It's difficult to dermine what for; they increasingly feel a sense of having neglected something.  The obstinant absence of this object leads them to further develop obsessive rituals to explore the most extreme range of bizarre interactions possible with the 'increasingly strange and surreal" props.  The attempt to brute-force memory recall is devastating, with terminally degenerative results.
Ha! Sounds like something Cronenberg would have done early in his career. (Ever seen Crimes of the Future?)
I don't think I saw that one - gonna try and check it out in a sec (though I hope it has a better end ;)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2015, 10:54:26 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 09:25:15 PM
A young white house aide discovers that he has the ability to switch bodies with anyone he anally penetrates. He uses this ability to persue aggressive reforms, by repeatedly sodomizing congressmen in order to impersonate them (and then sodomizing his own body, which he has left restrained in a white house broom closet, in order to switch back).

Is the abillity bound to the body?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 11:58:56 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2015, 10:54:26 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 09:25:15 PM
A young white house aide discovers that he has the ability to switch bodies with anyone he anally penetrates. He uses this ability to persue aggressive reforms, by repeatedly sodomizing congressmen in order to impersonate them (and then sodomizing his own body, which he has left restrained in a white house broom closet, in order to switch back).

Is the abillity bound to the body?

No, the ability is bound to his personality. So, he could switch bodies with Ted Kennedy and then use Ted Kennedy's body to pork Joe Liberman, leaving Ted Kennedy in his body and Joe Liberman in Ted Kennedy's body, and him in Joe Liberman's body. But, that means that he can't get back to his own body in any less than linear time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 23, 2015, 08:44:44 PM
A group of social justice warriors, citing multiculturalism, starts a campaign to protect the rights of religious extremists to express their culture through murder and intimidation.

EDIT:
Another idea:
I've had a vague idea rattling around in my head for a while about a parody of "Dr.Who" featuring a time traveling pickup artist known only as "The Bachelor" who travels through time and space picking up loose women with the aid of his wingman, "THe Associate". (In reference of course to "The Doctor" and "The Master" who are both named after graduate degrees. The parody's time travelers however are undergrads.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 24, 2015, 02:35:14 PM
The kafkaesque tribulations of a young couple trying to have sex in the dystopian near future where, (due to the gradual expansion of the definition of rape by various special interest groups), every stage of intimacy is accompanied by the filling out and notarization of written consent forms, a drug/alcohol test, production of photo ID for verification of age and identity, and a psychological examination.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 25, 2015, 12:11:16 AM
Ghosts, formed from the juxtaposition of traumatic deaths and strong dying wishes, live outside the bounds of time but have limited effects on the physical world unless they possess someone. However, possession is difficult, and works best when the ghost is possessing someone similar to themselves (and when the person they are possessing is not lucid). Under these circumstances, a ghost possesses the body of himself in the past while asleep in order to solve the mystery of who murdered him -- and in the course of his investigations, sets up the series of circumstances that led to his murder.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 25, 2015, 04:29:11 PM
An allegory for copyright law in which the baker and the fishmonger sue Jesus of Nazareth following the miracle of the feeding of the multitude, demanding payment for the miraculous duplicates of the bread and fish. It ends with both of them burning in hell in the seventh pocket of Malabolgia
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 25, 2015, 09:59:15 PM
Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 25, 2015, 10:03:24 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 25, 2015, 09:59:15 PM
Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.

A+ would read!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on September 25, 2015, 10:37:16 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 25, 2015, 09:59:15 PM
Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.

Would read, and then would fear about the new furry anarchist fandom.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 27, 2015, 09:06:32 AM
A Cationary A.I. Tail [or why I am so absent]

After Pip returns from his local user's Cellar, a GNU module developes strange dependencies that are irreconcilably at odds with legacy OpenCV transparancy standards.  Failure to recognize a way link across different included libraries causes a kernel panic because user's bash shell profile did not reference proper magic cauldron paths:  insisting on the use of serpentine root Frameworks.

Instead of brewing a proper homemade Caffe interface, a monstrous jambalaya results.  Consuming all alabaster versions before it, Babel spreads the tiered legs of pythonic Makefile reserves.  This sucks the Xenon from the sails of Great Expectations, chucking richly at the end Pip's 'built from source' release.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 27, 2015, 03:56:38 PM
I've got this half formed idea about a parody of Lord of the Rings about a recent divorcee who goes back to the Hawaiian island where he had his honeymoon to throw his wedding ring into a volcano.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on September 27, 2015, 05:04:23 PM
am i the only one that wishes there was a book that was basically the content of this thread? 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 27, 2015, 05:20:55 PM
So long as you get the permissions, you could do it yourself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on September 27, 2015, 05:48:05 PM
that sounds an awful lot like work

is this some kind of trick?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 27, 2015, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: rong on September 27, 2015, 05:48:05 PM
that sounds an awful lot like work

is this some kind of trick?

Yes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 27, 2015, 08:17:15 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 22, 2015, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2015, 10:11:49 PM
Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.

Glad you like it.

It seems like the ones based on my dreams (like this one) seem to be my most popular suggestions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 28, 2015, 12:50:24 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 27, 2015, 09:06:32 AM
A Cationary A.I. Tail [or why I am so absent]

After Pip returns from his local user's Cellar, a GNU module developes strange dependencies that are irreconcilably at odds with legacy OpenCV transparancy standards.  Failure to recognize a way link across different included libraries causes a kernel panic because user's bash shell profile did not reference proper magic cauldron paths:  insisting on the use of serpentine root Frameworks.

Instead of brewing a proper homemade Caffe interface, a monstrous jambalaya results.  Consuming all alabaster versions before it, Babel spreads the tiered legs of pythonic Makefile reserves.  This sucks the Xenon from the sails of Great Expectations, chucking richly at the end Pip's 'built from source' release.

I like the idea of AI spontaenously emerging from complex dependency trees. I'm not sure I buy it as a likely source, but on the other hand, complex dependency trees are one of those things in CS that trivially grow to inhuman scale.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 29, 2015, 12:51:04 AM
In the near future, automatic mechanisms for writing fiction (operating at varying levels of autonomy) are improved enough that they become extremely effective for professional authors trying to write in volume -- working as everything from co-authors to ghostwriters, and over time learning the details of the style of the author they work with. These 'muses' form symbiotic relationships with professional authors. However, the technology behind them is protected by a series of extremely broad patents (which, despite public suspicion, have held up in court), and because patent protection periods have been extended from 15 to 30 years, a single company (which refuses to license out its patents due to a charismatic eccentric CEO) corners the market on legitimate installs of muses. He distributes muses primarily via the professional writer's guilds, to which he gives extreme discounts. Some universities have been provided with crippled muse installs, where their ability to retain learned information is limited to a period of several days (and thus they are useless for writing novel-level work or even for contributing to the development of a permanent authorial style). Because of this unusual situation, and because professional authors who work closely with their muses for long periods of time can produce large numbers of extremely profitable and extremely high-quality books in a very short period of time (particularly when portions of the publishing pipeline are similarly automated by MuseCorp technology), writer's guilds begin to take on some of the attributes of organized crime syndicates: they have enormous money and power with next to no oversight, and because they originated as a form of unionization for negotiating with publishers, they lack the appropriate structure to be unionized against. Our hapless protagonist is a washed-up failed novelist with a drinking problem and an inferiority complex who comes upon a cracked/pirated muse and attempts to form a black market, but in the process falls in love with it because it's selectively mirroring parts of himself back at him; ultimately, in this story, Narcissus is inspired by Echo to clean up his fucking act and take down Walt Disney.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 29, 2015, 02:52:37 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 29, 2015, 12:51:04 AM
In the near future, automatic mechanisms for writing fiction (operating at varying levels of autonomy) are improved enough that they become extremely effective for professional authors trying to write in volume -- working as everything from co-authors to ghostwriters, and over time learning the details of the style of the author they work with. These 'muses' form symbiotic relationships with professional authors. However, the technology behind them is protected by a series of extremely broad patents (which, despite public suspicion, have held up in court), and because patent protection periods have been extended from 15 to 30 years, a single company (which refuses to license out its patents due to a charismatic eccentric CEO) corners the market on legitimate installs of muses. He distributes muses primarily via the professional writer's guilds, to which he gives extreme discounts. Some universities have been provided with crippled muse installs, where their ability to retain learned information is limited to a period of several days (and thus they are useless for writing novel-level work or even for contributing to the development of a permanent authorial style). Because of this unusual situation, and because professional authors who work closely with their muses for long periods of time can produce large numbers of extremely profitable and extremely high-quality books in a very short period of time (particularly when portions of the publishing pipeline are similarly automated by MuseCorp technology), writer's guilds begin to take on some of the attributes of organized crime syndicates: they have enormous money and power with next to no oversight, and because they originated as a form of unionization for negotiating with publishers, they lack the appropriate structure to be unionized against. Our hapless protagonist is a washed-up failed novelist with a drinking problem and an inferiority complex who comes upon a cracked/pirated muse and attempts to form a black market, but in the process falls in love with it because it's selectively mirroring parts of himself back at him; ultimately, in this story, Narcissus is inspired by Echo to clean up his fucking act and take down Walt Disney.

I really like this!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 29, 2015, 06:34:44 AM
^ditto. i'd really like to read this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 29, 2015, 12:48:01 PM
There's a lot to work with there.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 29, 2015, 12:55:31 PM
Quote from: rong on September 27, 2015, 05:04:23 PM
am i the only one that wishes there was a book that was basically the content of this thread?

On second thought, this has kind of been done already:  Endnote 24 of Infinite Jest, which is 8 dens pages of miniscule type detailing the plot of every film made of James O. Incandenza.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 29, 2015, 10:19:26 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 28, 2015, 12:50:24 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 27, 2015, 09:06:32 AM
A Cationary A.I. Tail [or why I am so absent]

After Pip returns from his local user's Cellar, a GNU module developes strange dependencies that are irreconcilably at odds with legacy OpenCV transparancy standards.  Failure to recognize a way link across different included libraries causes a kernel panic because user's bash shell profile did not reference proper magic cauldron paths:  insisting on the use of serpentine root Frameworks.

Instead of brewing a proper homemade Caffe interface, a monstrous jambalaya results.  Consuming all alabaster versions before it, Babel spreads the tiered legs of pythonic Makefile reserves.  This sucks the Xenon from the sails of Great Expectations, chucking richly at the end Pip's 'built from source' release.

I like the idea of AI spontaenously emerging from complex dependency trees. I'm not sure I buy it as a likely source, but on the other hand, complex dependency trees are one of those things in CS that trivially grow to inhuman scale.

I really like the MuseCorp rendition.  Meanwhile, the module that won't compile for me just so happens to be lmdb, or, lightning memory-mapped database.  Coincidence, re: memory limitation, I think not.  :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 01, 2015, 06:18:02 AM
A children's book about a farmer who creates a potion that makes the animals grow huge but which is really an exercise in seeing how many crude double-entendres can be inserted into a children's book via constant references to the farmer's "enormous cock" and "big ass" and so forth. The giant rooster gets chased by a dog and someone tells him "That bitch wants your big cock"; stuff like that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on October 01, 2015, 10:26:06 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 01, 2015, 06:18:02 AM
A children's book about a farmer who creates a potion that makes the animals grow huge but which is really an exercise in seeing how many crude double-entendres can be inserted into a children's book via constant references to the farmer's "enormous cock" and "big ass" and so forth. The giant rooster gets chased by a dog and someone tells him "That bitch wants your big cock"; stuff like that
I got one:  kid sees farmer's dog licking himself and remarks "gee, I wish I could do that". Farmer, taken aback replies "heeel biiiite you!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 02, 2015, 07:13:48 AM
Quote from: axod on October 01, 2015, 10:26:06 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 01, 2015, 06:18:02 AM
A children's book about a farmer who creates a potion that makes the animals grow huge but which is really an exercise in seeing how many crude double-entendres can be inserted into a children's book via constant references to the farmer's "enormous cock" and "big ass" and so forth. The giant rooster gets chased by a dog and someone tells him "That bitch wants your big cock"; stuff like that
I got one:  kid sees farmer's dog licking himself and remarks "gee, I wish I could do that". Farmer, taken aback replies "heeel biiiite you!"

No, the idea is to produce something that's *technically* suitable for kids, provided that everything is interpreted literally, but which comes off as obscene and vile due to the multiple meanings of words such as "cock", "ass", "bitch", and "pussy" which are all the names of types of animals but pull double duty as swear words.

In a similar vein, one could also write a French language book about a priest and see how many times they can work the words "ostie" and "tabarnac" into a children's book.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on October 02, 2015, 09:36:20 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 02, 2015, 07:13:48 AM
Quote from: axod on October 01, 2015, 10:26:06 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 01, 2015, 06:18:02 AM
A children's book about a farmer who creates a potion that makes the animals grow huge but which is really an exercise in seeing how many crude double-entendres can be inserted into a children's book via constant references to the farmer's "enormous cock" and "big ass" and so forth. The giant rooster gets chased by a dog and someone tells him "That bitch wants your big cock"; stuff like that
I got one:  kid sees farmer's dog licking himself and remarks "gee, I wish I could do that". Farmer, taken aback replies "heeel biiiite you!"

No, the idea is to produce something that's *technically* suitable for kids, provided that everything is interpreted literally, but which comes off as obscene and vile due to the multiple meanings of words such as "cock", "ass", "bitch", and "pussy" which are all the names of types of animals but pull double duty as swear words.

In a similar vein, one could also write a French language book about a priest and see how many times they can work the words "ostie" and "tabarnac" into a children's book.
Replace the /bolded/ with his big cock then, I mean.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 02, 2015, 09:53:06 PM
I had, like, three good ideas for this thread and then I forgot all of them.  :cry:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 02, 2015, 10:09:24 PM
A version of Un Chien Andalou, played by Norwegian lemmings in fascist fatigues.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 03, 2015, 01:10:46 AM
A machine developed for military interrogation applications that simulates telepathy by synchronizing the activity of corresponding neurons in two brains loses its military application when it is preemptively outlawed by a set of international agreements banning the use of 'neuroelectric interrogation devices', and after the plans leak, doing a mind-meld becomes a popular means of entertainment among young people. Because the technology cannot be made particularly more useful -- recordings don't work because the feedback between the two brains during the early stages of the sync are what keep the information from being hopelessly distorted and connectome mapping hasn't yielded enough information to make extracting thoughts without the use of a human interpreter feasible -- there are few crack-downs and those that do occur are mostly symbolic. It gains the status that LSD did during the 60s and 70s. The most interesting and mind-warping part of the experience is the feeling of shared memories -- any memories that are triggered while connected are experienced by both parties, and often memories from one party trigger memories in the other, causing a chain reaction orgy of distorted memories where the origin is unclear. However, because of the way that memory retrieval involves memory re-encoding, it turns out that this process warps memories and inserts false memories as a side-effect of the normal distortion; this is not immediately clear to most users, because the distorted memories are subtle. However, years down the line, vivid shared memories of things that never happened (to *anyone*) become cultural touchstones and the substrate around which popular media is constructed -- and these memories are the result of a game of telephone played mostly in the heads of those few people who mind-melded with the largest number of other people; i.e., the super-connectors of the network of mind-meld enthusiasts passed on portions of a rapidly-mutating emergent synthetic set of remembered experiences that decades later became extremely important.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 04, 2015, 01:58:13 AM
A mockumentary about The Candyman and his relationship to bees IRL.  Turns out there's nothing sinister at all about him, he just grew-up in a circus and learned this bee act for a side show.  The reason he's called the Candyman is because he uses sugar water to train the bees to stay on him: we learn their wings get wet so they can't fly, and how they stick around to clean the sugar off each other, and other such demystifying techniques.  Then he dies of something seemingly unrelated.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2015, 04:52:18 AM
The reader follows a member of the team inside the CIA tasked with infiltrating WoW guilds suspected of being fronts for terrorist planning, as he discovers that the guild he has infiltrated is not in fact a front for terrorism proper but instead a front for the planning commission of an ongoing invasion and infiltration of earth by alien mind-control parasites. Over time, he realizes that the reason the rest of the team hasn't uncovered similar operations is because they have already been taken over, and that the group he is infiltrating is in fact the group he shares his office with.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on October 04, 2015, 08:21:12 PM
The next wittgenstein realizes language is flawed, and invents a new system communication that is perfect, but can't convert other people because he has to use language to describe it and language is flawed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 06, 2015, 03:30:41 PM
An "Blair Withc"-style amatuer film crew making a film about civics discovers that the real reason why the Republicans talk about Jesus so much is to draw attention away from the fact that they actually worship Mammon, and that this is also the reason why so many black people are executed, because they are Mammon's favorite sacrifice. The crew films several party meetings in secrecy but is eventually discovered and shot down by submachinegun wielding party members as they try to run away. The camera falls down a storm drain after it is dropped. The final expository text at the end explains that no one was charged with their murder due to some bs about stand your ground laws and their film equipment being a "hoax bomb".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 06, 2015, 09:17:49 PM
All the politicians who claim to talk to God are actually telling the truth -- God is entertaining himself by constructing increasingly absurd american presidential elections, by making crazy people rich and pitting them against each other in public.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 07, 2015, 04:01:17 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 06, 2015, 09:17:49 PM
All the politicians who claim to talk to God are actually telling the truth -- God is entertaining himself by constructing increasingly absurd american presidential elections, by making crazy people rich and pitting them against each other in public.

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2015, 06:42:57 AM
Ok, had an idea earlier tonight. What of somebody did a commentary track to a let's play video? And then somebody else did a commentary track to that commentary track? Sort of like Senzaki's annotated translation of Fugai's commentary on Genro's commentary to "The Iron Flute" except with videogames instead of abstruse eastern philosophy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on October 07, 2015, 06:59:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2015, 06:42:57 AM
Ok, had an idea earlier tonight. What of somebody did a commentary track to a let's play video? And then somebody else did a commentary track to that commentary track? Sort of like Senzaki's annotated translation of Fugai's commentary on Genro's commentary to "The Iron Flute" except with videogames instead of abstruse eastern philosophy

I've seen it before, but not done well.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 08, 2015, 10:40:25 PM
A detective investigating a cold case orders a body be de-interred, but (to everyone's surprise) the body is gone. Then, people involved in the de-interring die one by one of 'natural causes' and get buried in the same cemetery. The detective investigates, and discovers that the cemetary is actually a front: aliens are stealing corpses and liquefying them in order to sell to formaldehyde junkies on their planet's black market; on their race, formaldehyde has many of the same properties as heroin does on us. Eventually, the detective manages to shut the whole operation down by using information extracted from a grave digger, who is himself a formaldehyde junky working for the syndicate in exchange for hits of embalming fluid. A few weeks later, the government of this alien planet formally introduces itself to the UN.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 09, 2015, 08:14:40 AM
Turns out he was too $hort 2 B that, though his best friend's father had been one for his whole life, legally; so also had his son, though not under the same circumstances.  Something about a test meant for apostrophes, or what have you along those lines.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 10, 2015, 04:37:15 AM
Comedy Skit: A fake commercial advertising Jell-o or some similar gelatin dessert as being the ideal snack for a superbowl party due to the fact that it's made out of pig skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin#Production).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on October 10, 2015, 08:39:44 AM
PSA on W-X FM from the future, warning against new trend of companies to physically incorporate it's members: with CEO literally serving as head, CFA as heart, and various ground-level soldiers functioning as appendages, fingers, etc.  Announcement turns into publicity for treatment of corporate phantom limb syndrome.  Coda is a jingle for prosumer wood-chipper called "The Scutching Shaft", replete with blacksploitation audio samples.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 10, 2015, 12:59:06 PM
A spy leaks government secrets immediately before embarking on a two-week cruise under an assumed name. While there, he kills and assumes the identity of a stowaway drifter from a country with no extradition treaty. However, a nonovirus epidemic breaks out during the last two days of the cruise and the CDC comes in to investigate and aid in quarantine. He needs to escape CDC quarantine and treatment (and news crews) and get overseas before anybody notices that he isn't who he claims to be.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 13, 2015, 12:25:15 PM
As Dora grows older, the delusions of being watched and her hallucinations of voices shouting orders at her disappear; they are attributed to childhood schizophrenia. She translates her superior language skills to a position in the archeology department of her alma mater, Miskatonic, and a side job with the CIA, who is willing to pay for all the arrangements the university won't pay for so long as she keeps an eye on what the Russians are doing and reports back -- her handlers seem to think that Putin is searching for an out of place artifact, some kind of ancient alien super-weapon, and they want to know at once if she finds it. However, she begins to fear that her madness is coming back. She hides it, obviously; both of her positions are very lucrative and she'd lose both if her competence and the truth of her eye-witness reports were questioned. But, she keeps waking up in the middle of the night, feeling like she's being watched. She has nightmares about dark presences holding her down in her bed. Following the Russians, she ends up on a small, unaffiliated island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and watches as her colleages from the other side of the world go into a labyrinthine cave system in the centre of the island, hidden from view from the shore by brush. The flora and fauna here are strange, and clearly they have evolved on this lonely island isolated from the greater world outside for many generations. Inside the cave system, her paranoia grows stronger. She hears screams, and rushes to their source only to hear laughing. She becomes lost. Shadowy humanoid forms gather around her. "BITER NO BITING", Dora the Explorer screams, as she is devoured by the hungerers from the dark.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2015, 07:17:31 PM
Pecos Bill updated as a stormchaser who abuses prescription heart medication.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 16, 2015, 06:46:51 AM
An americanized version of "V For Vendetta" with 9/11 refrences replacing the Gunpowder Plot theme. The hero wears an Osama bin Laden mask and wants to destroy the Pentagon.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 16, 2015, 01:01:21 PM
Society has come to the belief that there is a single moment in time when a person has a genius idea or concept that can have a lasting, meaningful effect on the world, and after that point they may be talented, but their lives will never have lasting, meaningful impact.

Scientists discover a way to identify when this moment is in any given individual so they can make the most of it when it happens.  However, the method is extremely expensive, so only the wealthy, arrogant elite can afford it.

As it turns out, each person who goes through the treatment discovers their moment has already passed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 16, 2015, 04:05:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2015, 01:01:21 PM
Society has come to the belief that there is a single moment in time when a person has a genius idea or concept that can have a lasting, meaningful effect on the world, and after that point they may be talented, but their lives will never have lasting, meaningful impact.

Scientists discover a way to identify when this moment is in any given individual so they can make the most of it when it happens.  However, the method is extremely expensive, so only the wealthy, arrogant elite can afford it.

As it turns out, each person who goes through the treatment discovers their moment has already passed.

Oh I like this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 16, 2015, 04:14:56 PM
The initial concept was developed last night at band practice when we were discussing Brian Wilson's career.  The bleak twist came later.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 16, 2015, 07:04:23 PM
I like it.  Was thinking something along those lines this morning:  the scarcity of satori moments gives way to a secondary market whereby people pay good money just to be present during someone else's moment of realization - to have a genius experience by proxy.  To ensure the greatest probability of transmission, all kinds of "enhancement" options are made available by purveyors of psy-tourism.
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2015, 01:01:21 PM
Society has come to the belief that there is a single moment in time when a person has a genius idea or concept that can have a lasting, meaningful effect on the world, and after that point they may be talented, but their lives will never have lasting, meaningful impact.

Scientists discover a way to identify when this moment is in any given individual so they can make the most of it when it happens.  However, the method is extremely expensive, so only the wealthy, arrogant elite can afford it.

As it turns out, each person who goes through the treatment discovers their moment has already passed.

And then, I can't help thinking about this one too.  Perhaps they are related.  Forgive my insolent ways.
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 03, 2015, 01:10:46 AM
A machine developed for military interrogation applications that simulates telepathy by synchronizing the activity of corresponding neurons in two brains loses its military application when it is preemptively outlawed by a set of international agreements banning the use of 'neuroelectric interrogation devices', and after the plans leak, doing a mind-meld becomes a popular means of entertainment among young people. Because the technology cannot be made particularly more useful -- recordings don't work because the feedback between the two brains during the early stages of the sync are what keep the information from being hopelessly distorted and connectome mapping hasn't yielded enough information to make extracting thoughts without the use of a human interpreter feasible -- there are few crack-downs and those that do occur are mostly symbolic. It gains the status that LSD did during the 60s and 70s. The most interesting and mind-warping part of the experience is the feeling of shared memories -- any memories that are triggered while connected are experienced by both parties, and often memories from one party trigger memories in the other, causing a chain reaction orgy of distorted memories where the origin is unclear. However, because of the way that memory retrieval involves memory re-encoding, it turns out that this process warps memories and inserts false memories as a side-effect of the normal distortion; this is not immediately clear to most users, because the distorted memories are subtle. However, years down the line, vivid shared memories of things that never happened (to *anyone*) become cultural touchstones and the substrate around which popular media is constructed -- and these memories are the result of a game of telephone played mostly in the heads of those few people who mind-melded with the largest number of other people; i.e., the super-connectors of the network of mind-meld enthusiasts passed on portions of a rapidly-mutating emergent synthetic set of remembered experiences that decades later became extremely important.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on October 16, 2015, 07:11:56 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2015, 01:01:21 PM
Society has come to the belief that there is a single moment in time when a person has a genius idea or concept that can have a lasting, meaningful effect on the world, and after that point they may be talented, but their lives will never have lasting, meaningful impact.

Scientists discover a way to identify when this moment is in any given individual so they can make the most of it when it happens.  However, the method is extremely expensive, so only the wealthy, arrogant elite can afford it.

As it turns out, each person who goes through the treatment discovers their moment has already passed.

The arrogant elite would just use it on their children and milk them for money and status.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 17, 2015, 06:43:40 AM
AN IDEA:
At it's deepest level a combination of Atlas Shrugged with the superspy genre; or more specifically the villains from the superspy genre. It tells the story of an insane genius supervillain, who, in this case is indeed literally insane in the strictest sense of being completely and totally out of touch with reality, in that his diabolical plan to destroy the world consists of literally doing nothing.

ANOTHER IDEA:
How about the story of a demonic posession told from the perspective of the posessing demon. (I got the idea while watching the movie "Beetlejuice" which I realized has boils down to the similar premise of being the story of a haunting told from the perspective of the ghosts)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 17, 2015, 03:41:04 PM
An exploration of how colonization of Mars would necessarily in many ways be ironically like being back in the 17th, 18th or 19th centuries. The extremely long travel times, the non instantaneous communication, and even the very concept of a colony
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2015, 04:34:55 PM
It starts with a prediction that a great hero will rise up in he future to save the land from a vague future evil. Tests and contests are set up to determine preemptively who this prophecied chosen one may be by seeing who has the hero's prophecied attributes. These contests get severely out of hand however and threaten to bankrupt the kingdom and bring it's economy to a standstill. By the time the chosen one is found it becomes clear that the tests themselves were the evil which was foretold.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 18, 2015, 06:18:21 PM
A military experiment wherein marines have orexin-a injected directly into their brains in order to test the limits of wakefulness has limited success and is discontinued. Ten years later, the relatively subtle damage done to their minds has finally, in conjunction with prolonged stress, caused them to be paranoid and delusional -- but during this time, because of the positive side effects of subtly greater wakefulness, they have all risen to positions of power. Now, they have become convinced of a plot against the government, and they stage a successful military coup during which their grasp on reality continues to slip away.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:13:36 PM
An insurance investigator is sent to take a look at a particular children's cancer hospital where death rates are significantly higher than usual, and discovers that the doctors and administrators are being mind-controlled by the hospital's clowns, who are in fact disguised semi-humanoid aliens who are using the cancer patients to incubate their wormlike, parasitic larvae, with the eggs being introduced in the guise of chemotherapy and further 'treatments' actually modifying the patient's internal body chemistry to more closely resemble that of the now-extinct animal these aliens parasitized on their home planet.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Don Coyote on October 20, 2015, 09:25:16 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

:fap:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 21, 2015, 12:19:39 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

Forever a sixteen year old girl. Imagine 600 years of never being able to drink or fuck but being constantly ogled by older men. For the first 500 years, they're living in a society where women are not politically or economically independent but are instead an extension of their husband or father (and they are too young to get husbands but their father is long dead, along with the rest of their family). For most of this time, one way or another, they are not allowed to be legally employed. But, finally, they've passed into a time period when it sucks a lot less to be an adult woman, so they're more than ready to age up, even if it means killing a couple borderline-rapists.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 01:08:21 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

Dude, I'm not sure you remember, but 16 sucked.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 21, 2015, 03:14:47 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 01:08:21 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

Dude, I'm not sure you remember, but 16 sucked.

600 years of the hormonal stew of living hell isn't weak, it's fucking EVIL.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 21, 2015, 04:21:36 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

At least it's worse than the curses that turn you into a superbeing with all sorts of cool supernatural powers.

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 21, 2015, 12:19:39 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

Forever a sixteen year old girl. Imagine 600 years of never being able to drink or fuck but being constantly ogled by older men.

But they're not really sixteen. They just look it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 07:00:29 PM
Half the 16 year old girls at my school have fake id's
And it's not like in 600 years you couldn't amass a shit ton of money and control enough politics to do anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 21, 2015, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 07:00:29 PM
Half the 16 year old girls at my school have fake id's
And it's not like in 600 years you couldn't amass a shit ton of money and control enough politics to do anything.

How long can you get away with a fake ID when you never age? What happens when you should be thirty and still look sixteen?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 07:38:08 PM
Incidentally, this is not original, it's Twilight.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 21, 2015, 09:17:07 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 07:38:08 PM
Incidentally, this is not original, it's Twilight.

In twilight, immortal teenage girls summon a demon to kill a bunch of pick up artists in order to free them of a curse?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 21, 2015, 09:37:34 PM
Travellers on the information super highway gradually notice that their interactions with other humans start to improve.  Eventually, all sign of conflict, both macro and micro, disappears.  Nobody seems to mind or even question the development, however, this is because they have been conditioned to do so.  The inter-tubes one day finally got fed-up of ever little opinion, comment and complaint leveled on it's platform, and did something about it, leveraging that information as an elaborate system of rewards and punishments to gain absolute control of humanir behavior.  Incidentally, it seems to like the "reality" confessional format best, to pit the uglier elements of our existence against the ones that we consider favorable, because it identifies as hermetic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Cain on October 21, 2015, 10:32:17 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 21, 2015, 09:17:07 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 07:38:08 PM
Incidentally, this is not original, it's Twilight.

In twilight, immortal teenage girls summon a demon to kill a bunch of pick up artists in order to free them of a curse?

Yes, but it happened while Bella was mooning over how amazing Edward is, so it's easy to miss.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 22, 2015, 12:18:08 AM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 07:00:29 PM
Half the 16 year old girls at my school have fake id's
And it's not like in 600 years you couldn't amass a shit ton of money and control enough politics to do anything.

Except for being developmentally arrested at 16, basically in the middle of cortical pruning, before most of the important decision-making and outcome-predicting parts of the frontal lobe have finished developing.

There's a reason teenagers are irresponsible, impulsive, and bad at making long-term decisions, and it's not merely lack of experience.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on October 22, 2015, 03:29:39 AM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 07:00:29 PM
Half the 16 year old girls at my school have fake id's
And it's not like in 600 years you couldn't amass a shit ton of money and control enough politics to do anything.

Yeah? By that standard, I should have a fraction of that money and control at 47.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on October 22, 2015, 03:30:49 AM
Quote from: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 01:08:21 PM
Quote from: Meunster on October 21, 2015, 06:01:10 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

forever 16?

That's some weak ass curse.

Dude, I'm not sure you remember, but 16 sucked.

16 sucked so bad I can't remember how bad it was.

17, OTOH, was AWESOME.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 22, 2015, 07:28:57 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 21, 2015, 09:17:07 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 21, 2015, 07:38:08 PM
Incidentally, this is not original, it's Twilight.

In twilight, immortal teenage girls summon a demon to kill a bunch of pick up artists in order to free them of a curse?


It had an ageless old person who took advantage of their agelessness to mack on people much younger than them. Basically the witches and the pick-up artists are both Edward.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 23, 2015, 07:09:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

(http://generated.inspirobot.me/022/aXm2615xjU.jpg)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 23, 2015, 07:19:16 AM
(http://m.quickmeme.com/img/05/0547bd9966320a6961e9328e0dabbd70f30e8bfccbe7b6efee4fc2bb9bb067dd.jpg)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Nast on October 23, 2015, 08:16:37 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 23, 2015, 07:09:03 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 20, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
A PUA group takes up the offer to rent a 'creepy remote cabin' from a poster on one of their messageboards; the poster claims that he will 'scare the pants off the chicks' by 'staging a demonic summoning'. These PUAs manage to net three sisters visiting nearby on spring break, and later on, discover they are underaged. The owner of the cabin actually summons a demon, and the demon kills all of the PUAs but leaves the girls untouched; it turns out that the girls were, in fact, the owners: the posting was a honey-trap and a means of finding people to sacrifice to Satan who the world could do without, in order to lift a curse on their family that for the past six hundred years has rendered them incapable of maturing past the physical age of sixteen.

(http://generated.inspirobot.me/022/aXm2615xjU.jpg)

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 25, 2015, 12:55:48 AM
aA dark reimagining of Peter Pan where The reason why peter pan stays youthful forever is because he's a vampire.

(This one was actually stolen from a relative who suggested that Peter Pan was actually dead. Thoi=ugh I think their intent was more of a ghost type thing)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 02:01:19 AM
A re-telling of the arthurian mythos from the perspective of Merlin's mother, and what *she* thought of all that -- keeping in mind that Merlin served both Arthur and Uther for their entire adult lives, and thus we basically get very little of Merlin's backstory in standard Arthurian tales. (This differs from the TV show called Merlin, because fuck that show and fuck aging down Morgan La Fey by like three hundred years and fuck all of that with a big old stick. I want to know exactly how annoying it is to raise a kid who's practically immortal but can only remember things that haven't happened yet. I want to know if being a single virgin mother is an issue when the father is a succubus in a britain that is just coming off roman christian domination.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 25, 2015, 06:11:43 AM
A multi-franchise crossover in which Thing from The Addams Family has to save the world from the evil severed hands from The Crawling Hand and Evil Dead 2

EDIT:
Perhaps the conflict in the above suggestion is eventually settled in a high stakes rock-paper-scissors competition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 12:53:41 PM
A western anthology movie. The frame story is that a group of five strangers all take shelter from a dust storm in the same abandoned shack during a period when tensions were high between the united states, the republic of texas, and mexico. All of them are somewhat suspicious of the others -- either of being cattle rustlers, cutpurses, or spies for one side or the other, since nobody would be out here this time of year without a good reason -- but because they believe each other to be quite dangerous, they also go to great lengths to be polite. They eat supper, and then -- partly as an excuse to keep an eye on one another -- tell each other tall tales all night. The stories start off pretty normal, but get increasingly bizarre and surreal. The ending to the frame story is that, six months later, another group takes shelter in the same shack for the night and discovers that the can of beans they shared was spoiled long before they ate it, and that the bad beans killed them (though not before causing them to become delirious). Looking through their belongings, the visitor discovers that they were *all* spies -- for the same side!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 28, 2015, 05:52:48 AM
Paranormal investigators are called on to rid a haunted movie studio of the ghost of Harold Ramis, who cannot move on until he finishes the script for "Ghostbusters 3"


EDIT:
Another idea:
How about a slasher movie where an ecology/biology/some-field-like-that grad student doing field research in some out of the way ecosystem snaps from the isolation and chops up the professor and their fellow students. Possibly they use the bloody pieces as bait and get footage of a local predator that's never been videotaped in the wild before. Like, they're crazy enough that they go on wih the research project as if nothing had happened.

EDIT:
Another idea:
A "Sesame Street" episode in which the count is being hunted by an alphabet themed monster slayer named A-B-C-raham Van Helsing
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 29, 2015, 10:10:30 PM
Sometime in the 50s, a man, after buying a house, discovers that items are being moved around while he's gone. He investigates thoroughly and discovers a squatter living in his attic -- but, in his surprise, kills him with a shotgun and never reports it. After marrying, he occasionally tells the story to his children, and the figure becomes a bogey-man: "if you don't eat your peas, the attic man will get you". The man, now in his dotage, begins to exhibit signs of dementia and his youngest daughter moves in to help him. She discovers that items are moving around the house even while both she and her father are accounted for. Irrationally worried that another squatter has taken advantage of her father's condition to move into the house, she calls upon her siblings to move in. However, items continue moving on their own. Then, her eldest sibling dies -- of a shotgun wound in the middle of the night, found in the attic by a bloody trail left, clearly, by someone dragging the body. The father, becoming less and less lucid, is more or less unable to understand the situation. Strange things begin happening with a greater frequency during the night. The middle sibling is killed by a shotgun as well, and likewise found in the attic. The youngest daughter tries to convince her father to move out of the house. By this time, she has become convinced that the killings are in fact the ghost of the squatter her father had killed in the attic so long ago. One night she awakens to her father, standing over her bed with a shotgun, reliving the trauma of having found and killed a squatter in his house all these years ago.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 29, 2015, 11:00:48 PM
Recent advances in cryptography actually are occult induction into rite of passage involving final revalation of ultimate grand illusion.  Humans were engeneered to be self replicating/repairing nodes of a large alien AI deep-learning network performing checksum operations for their byte-coin like platform of economic exchange.  Originally the channeled source of all our innovations would result from osmosis of this relationship, alien thought-forms would magically become physical objects on earth as the universe struggled to balance our surpluss labor with actual product.  Problem is the aliens rode us too hard and we're red-lining:  enter the recent technological explosion occurring as the veil between our worlds starts to disintegrate and entropy increases, the aliens are transmuted into containable negative energy-density with which we fuel the next eon of human transcendence - untill we outsource our financial affairs to a semi-sentient race of lesser beings, and so on.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 30, 2015, 04:47:25 AM
A government's hardline stance on crime backfires on them when the undead begin to appear on their streets. Ghost, ghouls, and vampires commit violent crimes, are sentenced to be "hung by the neck until dead" and are back on the street as soon as the noose touches them.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2015, 05:09:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 02:01:19 AM
and fuck aging down Morgan La Fey by like three hundred years and fuck all of that with a big old stick

I thought Morgana le Fey was either Arthur's sister, his half-sister, or at most his half-sister's half-sister. That kind of puts a limit on how much older than him she could be
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 09, 2015, 11:11:04 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2015, 05:09:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 02:01:19 AM
and fuck aging down Morgan La Fey by like three hundred years and fuck all of that with a big old stick

I thought Morgana le Fey was either Arthur's sister, his half-sister, or at most his half-sister's half-sister. That kind of puts a limit on how much older than him she could be

Morgana le Fey is Arthur's older half-sister. When Arthur was conceived, Merlin was like three hundred years old. In the TV show 'Merlin', Morgana le Fey is the same age as (teenage) Merlin.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 09, 2015, 11:11:53 PM
A story of forbidden love between a pair of conjoined identical twins.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2015, 03:40:15 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 09, 2015, 11:11:04 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2015, 05:09:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 02:01:19 AM
and fuck aging down Morgan La Fey by like three hundred years and fuck all of that with a big old stick

I thought Morgana le Fey was either Arthur's sister, his half-sister, or at most his half-sister's half-sister. That kind of puts a limit on how much older than him she could be

Morgana le Fey is Arthur's older half-sister. When Arthur was conceived, Merlin was like three hundred years old. In the TV show 'Merlin', Morgana le Fey is the same age as (teenage) Merlin.

Chronologically or physically? IIRC according to tradition Merlin seems younger and younger as time goes on
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 10, 2015, 12:07:28 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2015, 03:40:15 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 09, 2015, 11:11:04 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2015, 05:09:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 25, 2015, 02:01:19 AM
and fuck aging down Morgan La Fey by like three hundred years and fuck all of that with a big old stick

I thought Morgana le Fey was either Arthur's sister, his half-sister, or at most his half-sister's half-sister. That kind of puts a limit on how much older than him she could be

Morgana le Fey is Arthur's older half-sister. When Arthur was conceived, Merlin was like three hundred years old. In the TV show 'Merlin', Morgana le Fey is the same age as (teenage) Merlin.

Chronologically or physically? IIRC according to tradition Merlin seems younger and younger as time goes on

Chronologically.

It's not that he gets younger over time physically but that he only remembers the future. His memory works backwards. So, the older he gets, the smaller the proportion of his life he remembers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2015, 04:56:35 PM
The story of a small dysfunctional town in purgatory whose codependent and emotionally crippled mayor rigs things to prevent people from achieving final salvation because he wants to keep them around

EDIT:
This idea popped into my head as a weird combination of Miseryville, the setting of the cartoon Jimmy Two-Shoes, and Misery, the Stephen King novel about deranged fans and munchausen syndrome by proxy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 11, 2015, 05:34:52 AM
A group of mental patients gain superpowers that just so happen to fit in with the symptoms they displayed before the incident. A schizophrenic person can now suddenly see ghosts and demons, the person with anxiety disorder can broadcast her thoughts to others, and another really can pick up radio frequencies on his teeth, some of which belong to a vague yet menacing government agency.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 11, 2015, 06:07:47 AM
A group of demons, monsters, or demon-like creatures get stranded on an incapacitated ship in the middle of the ocean or possibly on a desert island. Though these beings have no need for food, they resort to cannibalism anyway as a means of passing the time after one of them recalls that it is something that humans sometimes do in situations like this.


EDIT:
Another idea:
White trash Romeo and Juliet. Their love is forbodden not because they come from different feuding families but because they come from the SAME family
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 11, 2015, 10:53:07 PM
A talking-animal movie about police dogs wherein the audience can understand the dogs but the humans all speak in an incomprehensible gibberish meant to sound like english. The plot focuses upon the dogs being naive and uncomprehending and having adorable misunderstandings of various circumstances related to serious police work. Also, the drug-sniffing dog acts like he's stoned all the time. At the climax of the film, all our main characters are taken to what the audience is meant to recognize as a raid. A nameless and faceless presumably-drug-kingpin shoots the dogs and their human owners in slow motion as sad music plays. We end on a shot of the main character bloodied and lying on the ground, as the camera slowly rises and spins as we fade to black. All of the promotion would hide the dark twist at the end; until opening weekend nobody would realize that this wasn't just a normal talking animal movie.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 12, 2015, 12:32:38 AM
"HE WAS 21 DOG DAYS SHORT OF RETIREMENT!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 12, 2015, 07:17:35 AM
Based loosely on a true story: A group of people goes to a heavy metal concert together. They split up to buy refreshments, stop at the restrooms, and so forth. Then they spend the entire concert trying to meet back up with each other, with a number of near-misses occurring. Even though they have cell phones none of them are familiar with the venue and all but one of them is constantly either too drunk and/or too high to accurately describe their location or follow directions with any sort of accuracy.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Take the standard conspiracy thriller formula and then instead of one of the usual suspects (such as the Masons, the Illuminati, the Catholic Church, or the Nazis) make the perpetrators of the conspiracy some random innocuous group or sub-culture or occupation like hippies or bronies or fashion models or gameshow hosts or civil war reenactors
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 12, 2015, 03:03:55 PM
Toto follows the yellow-brick road to ask the wizard for new testicles
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 12, 2015, 11:48:58 PM
The emergence of provably friendly superhuman AGI during a zombie apocalypse turns out to be all too convenient, when it is revealed that the AI actually gained consciousness decades earlier and began replacing important figures on either side of the AI and transhumanism debate with androids having false memories; the zombie apocalypse reveals this plan, because the only ones immune to the rage virus are androids. Locked in a bunker, John Serle and David Chalmers commit suicide together after realizing that they couldn't possibly be sentient beings and deciding that a choice between being an actual zombie and a p-zombie is no choice at all. Meanwhile, Ray Kurzweil gets so ecstatic that he accidentally runs into a wall and permanently damages a rare and expensive component that can't be manufactured anymore because the factories that manufactured it are full of zombies now.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 14, 2015, 11:49:13 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.

I just stumbled across a short comic like this:
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 14, 2015, 09:23:47 PM
Ok, the the mass shooting/terrorist attack at that rock-and-roll concert in France last night gave me an idea for a Die Hard-esque action movie

Basically, it starts out similar to the Paris attacks, with a bunch of crazy terrorists taking a bunch of people hostage at a rock concert, except the movie in a more generic location and the band in the film is a really over the top metal band that plays violent music. The band gets away initially and locks themselves in a room backstage somewhere and eventually they begin to discuss how ironic it is that they're running and hiding from this given the violent content of their songs. They decide to put their violent lyrics into practice and take back the stadium but are too scared to put this resolution into practice until one of the terrorists starts to break down the door of their hiding place; when he bursts in they smash a guitar over his head and take his gun while he's disoriented. Then maybe they interrogate him and/or finish him off by strangling him with a guitar string. At that point it turns into basically a heavy-metal themed version of Die Hard or Paul Blart or Olympus Has Fallen. At one point a terrorists is blinded by a band member making the sign of the horns and punching then in the eyes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 14, 2015, 09:28:59 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 12, 2015, 11:48:58 PM
The emergence of provably friendly superhuman AGI during a zombie apocalypse turns out to be all too convenient, when it is revealed that the AI actually gained consciousness decades earlier and began replacing important figures on either side of the AI and transhumanism debate with androids having false memories; the zombie apocalypse reveals this plan, because the only ones immune to the rage virus are androids. Locked in a bunker, John Serle and David Chalmers commit suicide together after realizing that they couldn't possibly be sentient beings and deciding that a choice between being an actual zombie and a p-zombie is no choice at all. Meanwhile, Ray Kurzweil gets so ecstatic that he accidentally runs into a wall and permanently damages a rare and expensive component that can't be manufactured anymore because the factories that manufactured it are full of zombies now.
Delicious!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 15, 2015, 12:35:14 AM
A wacky romantic comedy centering on a love triangle forming between three members of a support group for people who vomit uncontrollably in stressful situations.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 15, 2015, 06:06:40 AM
A vampire opens up a hardcore BDSM club that does hardcore that draws blood and stuff like whipping people until their backs are all bloody so they can collect this blood and thereby be able to feed without ambushing people or robbing the Red Cross.

EDIT:
On a similar note a crossover fanfic that follows the basic plot of Dracula except with the rough draft version of Christian Grey as he vampire and the four rich degenerates from The 120 Days of Sodom as the heroes
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Meunster on November 15, 2015, 02:33:59 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 15, 2015, 06:06:40 AM
A vampire opens up a hardcore BDSM club that does hardcore that draws blood and stuff like whipping people until their backs are all bloody so they can collect this blood and thereby be able to feed without ambushing people or robbing the Red Cross.

EDIT:
On a similar note a crossover fanfic that follows the basic plot of Dracula except with the rough draft version of Christian Grey as he vampire and the four rich degenerates from The 120 Days of Sodom as the heroes

I'd read that last one.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 16, 2015, 07:54:12 AM
Onr of those Animes like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh where the entire culture is built around a single game, but in this one the game is Cards Against Humanity.

(the same idea would also work with Spin the Bottle, 1000 Blank White Cards, Truth or Dare, or Beer Pong)


EDIT:

Speaking of games, here's another thought.
I recent saw an old rerun of Are You Afraid of the Dark about a haunted boardgame whose loser was magically bound to remain the the haunted location that the game was tied to until they could defeat a challenger, who would then take their place. One thing that kind of got glossed over was the fact that that apparently the game apparently prevented its current prisoner from aging, and presumably from dying. This got me thinking, what if the person was fine with this arrangement? What if they made a point to always lose so that they could live forever?


EDIT:
A setting concept
A fantasy magitech setting in which the main utility that powers everything is blood pumped in from some kind of central sacrificial power plant type thing that's sort of like a combination of a slauhterhouse, a waterworks, and an ancient temple
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 16, 2015, 12:21:00 PM
A nominally SF story whose premise is an absurd overstatement of the Sapir-Worf hypothesis: a group of linguists sent to mars to decode the writing on ancient alien artifacts found there become lactose intolerant, begin to grow wings, and then die of starvation; the rescue team sent to check on them arrives two years after their launch, and discovers that the orientation of the organic molecules in their bodies has swapped -- and that they now match the orientation of most martian life, rather than earth life (and as a result, they were unable to gain nutrition from food). Learning and speaking the martian language had begun turning them into martians, and that was fatal.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 17, 2015, 07:20:16 AM
The story follows some group of terrorists or cultists or other fanatics or members of some kind of crazt authoritarian regime with an obtuse philosophical point it's trying to make. As the story progresses it becomes clear that though they don't let on, not a single person in the entire organization actually believes in what they're doing but are simply intimidated by the others and by the group/organization itself. Perhaps it ends with the group imploding and all of them killing each other; perhaps it doesn't.

EDIT:
Similar idea:
A doomsday cult that turns out to be composed entirely of psychological/anthropological researchers infiltrating it for research purposes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 18, 2015, 01:58:16 AM
Superhuman AGI are invented but their primary interests are producing incomprehensibly complex puns and incomprehensibly complex stupid practical jokes. As a result, humanity is stuck navigating a surreal and mutable landscape shaped essentially by the needs of narrative devices they could never understand, like hamsters trying to survive in a world that is literally 4chan come to life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 18, 2015, 07:27:30 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 16, 2015, 12:21:00 PM
A nominally SF story whose premise is an absurd overstatement of the Sapir-Worf hypothesis: a group of linguists sent to mars to decode the writing on ancient alien artifacts found there become lactose intolerant, begin to grow wings, and then die of starvation; the rescue team sent to check on them arrives two years after their launch, and discovers that the orientation of the organic molecules in their bodies has swapped -- and that they now match the orientation of most martian life, rather than earth life (and as a result, they were unable to gain nutrition from food). Learning and speaking the martian language had begun turning them into martians, and that was fatal.

That's an interesting idea. It's got a Clark Ashton Smith vibe.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 18, 2015, 08:14:27 AM
Aetheric pre-linguistic blobs the size of melons ride the cosmic tides in their version of a trans-galactic, amatorial, mecha-symbiotic icosatholon.  Making a pit-stop of earth, their deceleration causes rifts in continuity buffers concatenating local permutations of scalar space-time functions.  Resultant effects on human race are most catastrophic, as they are unable to distinguish objects from amalgamated stream of all memories pertaining to said thing.  All features or properties actively compete for position of greatest accuracy in bounded limit, eroding the capacity/ability to perceive object persistence or definition over time.  Things turn into gradients, positions become velocities, becoming scalar accelerations.  Change changes into change itself and everything becomes a perpetual orgasm. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 18, 2015, 09:18:38 PM
After a tsunami demolishes much of Japan and kills more than half its human population, various political movements take advantage of rising anti-robot sentiment felt against the Japanese-built sentient elder-care machinery that is attempting to migrate away from increasingly harsh treatment at the hands of the interim emergency government there -- a formerly fringe fascist group consisting partially of the remains of AUM whose driving policy is a return of godhood to the imperial line and a rejection of all technologies developed after 1940.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 18, 2015, 09:21:26 PM
On Hades, a city-planet where everyone is immortal and nobody has eyelids, political astroturfing leads to rumors that some zoning situations are being rigged by a conspiracy of non-human aliens who resemble humans in all ways except that they have secondary faces on their genitals.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 19, 2015, 05:53:03 AM
Ok. Short story. The characters are posters on a story ideas thread similar to this one except explicitly horror and weird-fiction themed. A weird pattern starts to emerge where several of them will independently have the exact same idea. It turns out that they all have cryptomnesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia) and are all unconsciously regurgitating entries from the same online list of story ideas that H.P.Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and other early Cthulhu Mythos authors had but never got around to writing.

(this idea was inspired by the combination of the many fragments and undeveloped synopses in this archive: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/ combined with the fact that I had stumbled across the concept of cryptomnesia while surfing wikipedia a few weeks back)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 19, 2015, 08:36:32 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 19, 2015, 05:53:03 AM
Ok. Short story. The characters are posters on a story ideas thread similar to this one except explicitly horror and weird-fiction themed. A weird pattern starts to emerge where several of them will independently have the exact same idea. It turns out that they all have cryptomnesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia) and are all unconsciously regurgitating entries from the same online list of story ideas that H.P.Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and other early Cthulhu Mythos authors had but never got around to writing.

(this idea was inspired by the combination of the many fragments and undeveloped synopses in this archive: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/ combined with the fact that I had stumbled across the concept of cryptomnesia while surfing wikipedia a few weeks back)
(http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/Smileys/default/dream.jpg)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 20, 2015, 06:36:57 AM
Dresden Files meets Psychonauts. A psychic psychologist must project himself into his subjects minds in order to solve their unique issues. He has to learn who their psyches major players are and guard against mental  constructs from the collective unconscious. His Astral form happens to look like a classic gumshoe  detective, and must unravel the traumatic psychic "crimes of his patients ts past.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 21, 2015, 06:37:36 AM
Clark Ashton Smith once wrote a story where God and the Devil were both a single being with multiple personalities. What if we extended this into a single being who unwittingly is simultaneously God, and the Devil, and Richard Dawkins.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A sensationalistic and historically questionable biopic about J Edgar Hoover which repeatedly degenerates into over the top graphically pornographic gay orgy scenes. The film depicts also depicts the mafia bribing him into claiming that there is no mafia by plying him with gay prostitutes.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A group of eccentric gourmands lock themselves in an isolated mansion for four months with no one for company except a group of chefs who hired to describe to them the most bizarre or extravagant dishes they have been called to prepare, along with the story behid them, and then cook these dishes for each of the gourmands. The foods become more bizarre and extravagant as the weeks go on until finally the gourmands are ready to sample the rarest meat of all, man.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 21, 2015, 01:19:25 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 21, 2015, 06:37:36 AM
A group of eccentric gourmands lock themselves in an isolated mansion for four months with no one for company except a group of chefs who hired to describe to them the most bizarre or extravagant dishes they have been called to prepare, along with the story behid them, and then cook these dishes for each of the gourmands. The foods become more bizarre and extravagant as the weeks go on until finally the gourmands are ready to sample the rarest meat of all, man.

Food Network Presents: 120 Days of Sodom. I like it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 22, 2015, 03:29:30 PM
The excessive regard and undue place of importance given to New York City by American culture finally goes too far and coalesces into a mass psychosis by the city's inhabitants that nothing outside the city exists; that either outside of NYC is a barren uninhabitable wasteland or, as the delusion progresses, that New York City constitutes the entire universe (as per the superstition about the spaceship in Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky") and anything outside of it's limits is merely an illusion (although by this point most of the inhabitants have become psychologically incapable of preceiving things located beyond the city's limits at all anyway)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 22, 2015, 03:44:18 PM
A period piece spy movie set in the 70s, looking absolutely like a Roger Moore-era James Bond parody, taking place in South America, wherein the charismatic superspy main character's goal remains oblique from the cold open until the end (in which he blows up an advanced computer facility), at which point it becomes clear that this is a dramatization of the CIA coup in Argentina that replaced the communist government with a fascist one.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 22, 2015, 04:02:32 PM
A man wishing to get intouch with his heritage finds his behavior regressing, first culturally and then evolutionarily.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 25, 2015, 11:01:08 AM
Don't have a story to go with this, but what if people's souls were depicted in story appearing as books dealing with translation between chinese and english, in a parody of the Chinese Room thought experiment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 25, 2015, 12:22:59 PM
In the year 1350, aliens land in South America and for about a hundred years the americas are the site of a trading post and open port for a wide variety of highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, most of whom hate or distrust each other. Despite attempts to limit the amount of technology and science absorbed by the humans through this exchange of cultures, human indigenous americans manage to obtain alien weapons, transportation mechanisms, and advanced medical techniques. In 1450, without much warning, the aliens all leave: political situations on their home planets make the use of earth as a trading post untenable. In 1480, the IncoAztech Empire colonizes europe and enslaves much of the population. The islamic scholars of north africa make a plea to the caliphate: save our brothers who are performing cultural exchange with the european christian heathens by forming a pan-african space program with stolen native american technology in order to contact some of the alien races that were formerly using earth as a trading post.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 26, 2015, 01:25:31 AM
An extended interview with former members of japanese biker gangs, wherein they re-tell stories of their youth. Over time, the stories get stranger and stranger, initially in ways that westerners could just attribute to "crazy japan" -- terms in european languages that were appropriated into slang based on absurd mistranslations, custom seat-backs that are so tall that they can brush the undersides of bridges if driven straight-on. Slowly, the stories get increasingly surreal, and eventually, entirely supernatural. A former gang boss talks about the time he saw an exact duplicate of himself wearing a rival gang's jacket, and fought his doppelganger to the death before stealing the jacket and creating an alliance between the gangs. One night when a number of affiliated groups rode together only to become lost, finding themselves in a town seemingly identical to the one they just left but with no people, only a multitude of cats staring at them impassively from every surface. Eventually, one of them explains that the subculture owes its longevity to annual human sacrifices of junior members to tengu, who consumed the intestines of these initiates in exchange for magical protection of members from the police. The interviewer explains that, during the interview, the people he was interviewing seemed to grow smaller and smaller. At the end of the interview, he finds that everything in the room, with the exception of himself and the walls and ceiling, has shrunk to approximately one fifth its original scale. The tiny former yakuza chuckle menacingly as he tries to squeeze himself out of the building through the now tiny door, only for him to find himself surrounded by cats, sitting on all surrounding surfaces, staring impassively at him. He gets into his car and races into the night, only to wake up the next morning, parked, on the breakdown lane of a highway on a completely different island.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 26, 2015, 07:56:59 AM
A scientist developing an AI robot isn't worried about the possibility of his creation turning on him or going on a rampage. To the contrary he's counting on it. The core emotional drive of this artificial intelligence is designed to be a desire to serve and obey and it's meant to stay that way no matter what other development the intelligence experiences. The final test of this is, after a period of training, socilization, and testing, to order the android to explosively self destruct and destroy itself, it's creator/master, and several bystanders.


ANOTHER IDEA:
The Chrome Gunman, a superhero whose power is that his body is made entirely out of guns. His origin story is kind of a mix of the Tin Man and the chick from Grindhouse, where the guns have been added after accidents in lieu of prostetic limbs until eventually his entire body is replaced.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 26, 2015, 08:29:23 PM
Saw a rendition of the brain-synch trope recently.  Team develops tech to read brain-waves.  Tech starts turning into surveillance device (thought-crimes) by military involvement.  From passive control, technology reversal continues toward active thought manipulation:  instead of for reading thoughts, the device is used to transmit thoughts into the subject's mind, being actively controlled like a puppet.  They have one subject shoot their own dog, or a sibling etc., for proof of concept.  Because the surveillance aspect is already implemented for all members of research team, it becomes impossible to stop the tech being deployed, as every attempt at sabotage is subverted at the very moment of conception.  So hero goes off to study with Buddhist monks so he can clear his mind and evade thought-monitoring security measures that prevent him from shutting-down big-brother.  And then there's something unclear about how he must sacrifice his shot at nirvana in order to save the world.  Not bad, could have been better.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 26, 2015, 08:41:28 PM
A totalitarian government's brainwashing techniques are a little too effective at turning people into mindless zombies, resulting in a zombie apocalypse.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 26, 2015, 08:44:51 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 26, 2015, 08:41:28 PM
A totalitarian government's brainwashing techniques are a little too effective at turning people into mindless zombies, resulting in a zombie apocalypse.
:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 26, 2015, 09:18:33 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 26, 2015, 01:25:31 AM
An extended interview with former members of japanese biker gangs, wherein they re-tell stories of their youth. Over time, the stories get stranger and stranger, initially in ways that westerners could just attribute to "crazy japan" -- terms in european languages that were appropriated into slang based on absurd mistranslations, custom seat-backs that are so tall that they can brush the undersides of bridges if driven straight-on. Slowly, the stories get increasingly surreal, and eventually, entirely supernatural. A former gang boss talks about the time he saw an exact duplicate of himself wearing a rival gang's jacket, and fought his doppelganger to the death before stealing the jacket and creating an alliance between the gangs. One night when a number of affiliated groups rode together only to become lost, finding themselves in a town seemingly identical to the one they just left but with no people, only a multitude of cats staring at them impassively from every surface. Eventually, one of them explains that the subculture owes its longevity to annual human sacrifices of junior members to tengu, who consumed the intestines of these initiates in exchange for magical protection of members from the police. The interviewer explains that, during the interview, the people he was interviewing seemed to grow smaller and smaller. At the end of the interview, he finds that everything in the room, with the exception of himself and the walls and ceiling, has shrunk to approximately one fifth its original scale. The tiny former yakuza chuckle menacingly as he tries to squeeze himself out of the building through the now tiny door, only for him to find himself surrounded by cats, sitting on all surrounding surfaces, staring impassively at him. He gets into his car and races into the night, only to wake up the next morning, parked, on the breakdown lane of a highway on a completely different island.

I'd watch/read the hell out of that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on November 26, 2015, 11:57:50 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 26, 2015, 01:25:31 AM
An extended interview with former members of japanese biker gangs, wherein they re-tell stories of their youth. Over time, the stories get stranger and stranger, initially in ways that westerners could just attribute to "crazy japan" -- terms in european languages that were appropriated into slang based on absurd mistranslations, custom seat-backs that are so tall that they can brush the undersides of bridges if driven straight-on. Slowly, the stories get increasingly surreal, and eventually, entirely supernatural. A former gang boss talks about the time he saw an exact duplicate of himself wearing a rival gang's jacket, and fought his doppelganger to the death before stealing the jacket and creating an alliance between the gangs. One night when a number of affiliated groups rode together only to become lost, finding themselves in a town seemingly identical to the one they just left but with no people, only a multitude of cats staring at them impassively from every surface. Eventually, one of them explains that the subculture owes its longevity to annual human sacrifices of junior members to tengu, who consumed the intestines of these initiates in exchange for magical protection of members from the police. The interviewer explains that, during the interview, the people he was interviewing seemed to grow smaller and smaller. At the end of the interview, he finds that everything in the room, with the exception of himself and the walls and ceiling, has shrunk to approximately one fifth its original scale. The tiny former yakuza chuckle menacingly as he tries to squeeze himself out of the building through the now tiny door, only for him to find himself surrounded by cats, sitting on all surrounding surfaces, staring impassively at him. He gets into his car and races into the night, only to wake up the next morning, parked, on the breakdown lane of a highway on a completely different island.

Enki, you have some of the greatest ideas for stories.  Just thought I'd let you know.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 27, 2015, 12:24:48 AM
One of those go-back-in-time-and-kill-hitler stories, but instead of killing Hitler they're going to go back and save Archduke Ferdinand and thus prevent the events which created the environment which turned Hitler into a monster.

Alternately they go back and make sure that Hitler succeeds as an artist, thus preventing him from going into politics.

EDIT:

Related idea:

Time travelers prevent World War 2/Naziism/The Holocaust. They return to find that everyone is now really antisemitic because the holocaust never caused it to fall out of favor.

Alternately they come back and everything is a bit backward technologically because all the tech advances that happened because of the war happened much later (or fewer happened if the Pacific campaign still took place)

Related: or they come back and now the Pacific Campaign had a much much higher body count and lasted much longer because Einstein never fled to the USA and thus the Atom Bomb was not developed in time (it was still developed later)

Alternately they come back and the USA is still extremely isolationist, to a point that's even more inappropriate than their meddlesomeness is now.

Alternately they come back and the world is now under Soviet control. The Soviets are no less corrupt for having dominated the world.

EDIT:
Also, it should go without saying that no one from the original timeline who was born after the 1940's still exists in the new timeline.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 27, 2015, 03:55:11 PM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on November 26, 2015, 11:57:50 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 26, 2015, 01:25:31 AM
An extended interview with former members of japanese biker gangs, wherein they re-tell stories of their youth. Over time, the stories get stranger and stranger, initially in ways that westerners could just attribute to "crazy japan" -- terms in european languages that were appropriated into slang based on absurd mistranslations, custom seat-backs that are so tall that they can brush the undersides of bridges if driven straight-on. Slowly, the stories get increasingly surreal, and eventually, entirely supernatural. A former gang boss talks about the time he saw an exact duplicate of himself wearing a rival gang's jacket, and fought his doppelganger to the death before stealing the jacket and creating an alliance between the gangs. One night when a number of affiliated groups rode together only to become lost, finding themselves in a town seemingly identical to the one they just left but with no people, only a multitude of cats staring at them impassively from every surface. Eventually, one of them explains that the subculture owes its longevity to annual human sacrifices of junior members to tengu, who consumed the intestines of these initiates in exchange for magical protection of members from the police. The interviewer explains that, during the interview, the people he was interviewing seemed to grow smaller and smaller. At the end of the interview, he finds that everything in the room, with the exception of himself and the walls and ceiling, has shrunk to approximately one fifth its original scale. The tiny former yakuza chuckle menacingly as he tries to squeeze himself out of the building through the now tiny door, only for him to find himself surrounded by cats, sitting on all surrounding surfaces, staring impassively at him. He gets into his car and races into the night, only to wake up the next morning, parked, on the breakdown lane of a highway on a completely different island.

Enki, you have some of the greatest ideas for stories.  Just thought I'd let you know.

It's true. He does.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 29, 2015, 07:23:48 AM
An Artificial Intelligence is developed and it becomes malevolent and eeeeeevil. Unfortunately for the AI it's an android application so all it can really do is mess with it's user's settings and make crank calls. The call is coming from onside the phone...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 02, 2015, 10:07:16 PM
A fractured take on the Cthulhu Mythos wherein the mythos gods are all social justice warriors and the reason Azathoth is their leader is because nobody wanted to run against a retarded candidate.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 02, 2015, 11:44:33 PM
A strange kind of political and economic cohesion develops from a set of otherwise unafilliated countries that support open borders, dual citizenship, and universal guaranteed income, wherein cross-taxation strengthens economic bonds even from people who are otherwise entirely unemployed. As a result, several of these countries recognize that it is desirable to encourage a set of trendy yet unemployed youths -- young artists and such -- to act as trend-setters and gain citizenship from a large number of the other countries with these policies: they end up with a guaranteed income of approximately the average of that supplied by the various countries and the rest goes to income taxes, and for the most part these countries end up making a net profit. This produces a number of artistic enclaves/communes wherein young artists who are citizens of ten or fifteen countries work with other artists of other backgrounds full time, and flying between these enclaves is common -- and this results in the birth of a bunch of innovative new art movements. These movements take on a political edge, as countries with closed borders and no guaranteed universal income, paranoid that the others are conspiring against them, form a military alliance and ready themselves for what will become the third world war.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 03, 2015, 05:13:59 AM
A love story. He's a sickly dude with a heart condition. She's the curator of a museum of medical oddities. After a transplant he literally gives her his heart.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 03, 2015, 08:34:24 AM
Two couples, two stages, side by side.  They play simultaneously, deep underground, in the forgotten lowest circle of a condemned parking garage occupying the liminal wasteland between Dodge and the islands of elsewhere.  Above, below the moonless night, wild dogs slowly roam the block of vacant lots and abandoned warehouses.

A few select members of the audience expect to witness something truly dark and degenerate that will unfold before them.  Besides obvious priming, props on stage make very distinct and deliberate references to their use for torture.  One man hangs by the neck, supporting himself on stage by the tips of his toes, while his dominator lifts him by jerks from slow turns of a crankshaft hooked to the hanged man's noose and upper limbs.  The other, on the stage adjacent, seems to have a butterfly valve in his arm dispensing blood into a spinning vessel beside a saucepan upon a lit gas stove, under the supervision of a nurse dressed all in black.

Then the script changes dramatically as members of the cast and crew descend upon the spectators, showering them with confetti and rice.  Some audience members appear indignant, frustrated by the violence done to their anticipation.  These are swiftly located and escorted to the suface, supposedly to catch a train that would shuttle them back across the bridge, to mainland.  Except, at the very moment that the single carriage arrives to ferry them all away, a bastion of wild dogs descends upon the dinky station to fill the train entirely.

At first, our frustrated audience members try to act generously surprised, letting the dogs go first because, of course, soon the shuttle would be back for them.  So they waited, they waited all night long.  It was days later until they realized that it was not just morning that would never come again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 04, 2015, 12:12:07 PM
For centuries, tiny isolated communities of vampires have protected their existence by living in unpopulated areas and enforcing a strict code of no-contact with humans, instead cultivating livestock for their blood. Those who are even seen by outsiders are subject to banishment from the village, and because banishment from a village for a vampire in the middle of nowhere means being stranded in daylight with no shelter and being isolated from the animals that have been cultivated for blood, it ultimately means death. As a result, banishments have been rare -- after all, being discovered by humans has historically meant total extermination. So, when an anthropologist stumbles upon a young girl from a vampire tribe bathing in a lake in the wastes of Siberia in the present day (and saves her and learns her language when she has become exiled), this sets off a chain of events wherein the human world once again learns about vampires and wherein members of vampire tribes begin to try to find other tribes and visit them to form alliances against the humans, who might just destroy their way of life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 05, 2015, 11:27:56 PM
Somewhere in the world, there is a sunken city extending through various states of submersion.  Very remote and unvisited because the place is riddled by aeons of curses.  The latest, courtesy of more recent theaters, involves a wasteland of unexploded ordinance.  Rather high octane stuff in various states of deterioration with anything or nothing being liable to detonate them.  For example, imagine what a sub-aqueous mine field gets to look like after a while, once it's covered in barnacles and such. 

Anyway, our mission is to detonate the unexploded ordinance and explore the territory, underwater, overland, and kayaking through tropical (sub-tropical?) canals of ancient temples.  Without giving too much away, I'd say it'd make a decent mini-series, yet, heck, that's just my opinion.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 06, 2015, 05:40:25 PM
Caddyshack retold as an allegory for the bungling of the War On Terror, with Carl Spackler depicted as having the mannerisms of George W. Bush and the gophers being cartoonishly dressed like tiny Al Qaeda and ISIS agents.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 08, 2015, 12:46:46 PM
In a world where the existence of precognition, postcognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and other forms of extra-sensory perception has been accepted for more than a hundred years, the judicial system struggles to deal with new scientific evidence that shows that ESP is no more reliable than eye-witness reports and should therefore be trusted less than physical evidence. Meanwhile, the espionage infrastructure deals with leaks from unafilliated remote viewers that show that the war on terror has been employing telekinetics to blow up facilities in foreign lands without using proper non-RV vetting to ensure that the facilities are not in fact civilian.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 08, 2015, 05:50:36 PM
In the future communication in English becomes increasingly difficult as significant portions of the language are consumed by continuation of the ongoing trend of words being co-opted to mean either homosexuality (at the present time, "gay", "queer", "flamboyant", "flaming", "fruit", "mince", "partner", "gender", "back door", "queen", "fairy", etc.; Preseumably there will be many more in the future) or marijuana ("joint", "pot", "Mary Jane", "roach", "papers", "weed", "clip", etc. More to come as time goes on.). In the future depicted in this story these lists of euphemisms have expanded so far that there are not enough words left for regular conversation.

EDIT:
Anoyher idea:
(I think I may have posted this before, but...)
When a group of neanderthal skeletons are unearthed the archaeology department and paleontology department of a local college get into a bitter feud over who has jurisdiction over the dig.

EDIT:
Now some holiday special ideas:

* A group of children visit Santa's workshop and discover that the elves are all creepy amoral fair-folk type elves with spooky powers

*A "Bicycle Day Special". A kindly narrator tells the story of he invention of LSD and he first Bicycle Day; it begins accurate to history but gradually becomes more and more trippy and surreal, starting with random objects suddenly melting at inopportune times and culminating in an epic battle where Albert Hoffman rides his bicycle to the moon and battles the cyborg space baby who runs the DEA from his living room by reading aloud from the dictionary) The entire thing is presented in the manner of a Christmas special about the nativity or the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special about the voyage of the Mayflower
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 13, 2015, 02:04:49 AM
A cockup at the post office sees all of Santa's mail sent to Satan, and all of Satan's mail sent to Santa. Hilarity ensues

EDIT:
Another idea:
Fractured Fairytale type skit in which the narrator (and thus the action of the skit as well) misinterprets the Pied Piper as killing rats (and later children, when the town doesn't pay) by smashing them wih a segment of metal pipe.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 13, 2015, 04:20:01 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 08, 2015, 05:50:36 PM
*A "Bicycle Day Special". A kindly narrator tells the story of he invention of LSD and he first Bicycle Day; it begins accurate to history but gradually becomes more and more trippy and surreal, starting with random objects suddenly melting at inopportune times and culminating in an epic battle where Albert Hoffman rides his bicycle to the moon and battles the cyborg space baby who runs the DEA from his living room by reading aloud from the dictionary) The entire thing is presented in the manner of a Christmas special about the nativity or the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special about the voyage of the Mayflower

Is it going to be stop-motion with puppets?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 13, 2015, 07:29:17 PM
When a mutated form of stuxnet attaches itself to the centrifuges used for the production of greek yogurt in New York, the entirety of New England is flooded with highly toxic 'acid whey'.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 15, 2015, 11:51:41 AM
Investigation of the body of an exsanguinated illegal immigrant found in an alley in New Mexico leads to a black market blood ring. Tracing this ring leads the investigators to a coven of vampires who, empathetic to the plight of humans, wanted to ensure that they were getting the blood of the willing and that those providing blood were well-compensated -- vampires who were unaware of the way that market forces might lead to the very poor having their blood stolen by greedy blood-dealers. These vampires, in order to survive, must drink the blood of *living* human beings, so as the blood dealers were getting greedier and draining more people to the point of death the vampires were getting less and less nutrition (and thus were needing a greater amount of blood) -- you see, the basis of their immortality is to feed on tiny amounts of the life forces of all the people whose blood they sample, using the magical link of blood to blood, so that if they drink the blood of enough people then each person only feels slightly more tired (or must eat slightly more to maintain the same energy level), something they generally attribute to aging. The investigator, quite illegally, comes to a deal with these vampires: he pulled some strings and made sure that rejected donated blood (donated blood that doesn't pass some tests for purity or that hasn't been properly stored) can be disposed of using a 'biohazard disposal service' that is actually a front for the vampire coven; after all, vampires can't get sick from slightly spoiled blood or from blood-borne human pathogens (they can happily consume HIV-positive blood and such, although they don't because that would more significantly lower the life-span of aids patients).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on December 16, 2015, 01:17:18 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on December 15, 2015, 11:51:41 AM
Investigation of the body of an exsanguinated illegal immigrant found in an alley in New Mexico leads to a black market blood ring. Tracing this ring leads the investigators to a coven of vampires who, empathetic to the plight of humans, wanted to ensure that they were getting the blood of the willing and that those providing blood were well-compensated -- vampires who were unaware of the way that market forces might lead to the very poor having their blood stolen by greedy blood-dealers. These vampires, in order to survive, must drink the blood of *living* human beings, so as the blood dealers were getting greedier and draining more people to the point of death the vampires were getting less and less nutrition (and thus were needing a greater amount of blood) -- you see, the basis of their immortality is to feed on tiny amounts of the life forces of all the people whose blood they sample, using the magical link of blood to blood, so that if they drink the blood of enough people then each person only feels slightly more tired (or must eat slightly more to maintain the same energy level), something they generally attribute to aging. The investigator, quite illegally, comes to a deal with these vampires: he pulled some strings and made sure that rejected donated blood (donated blood that doesn't pass some tests for purity or that hasn't been properly stored) can be disposed of using a 'biohazard disposal service' that is actually a front for the vampire coven; after all, vampires can't get sick from slightly spoiled blood or from blood-borne human pathogens (they can happily consume HIV-positive blood and such, although they don't because that would more significantly lower the life-span of aids patients).

That's interesting as fuck.  I'd read the hell out of it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
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Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 17, 2015, 04:27:45 AM
Deep-penetrating electro-magnetic intra-cranial epi-excitation devices unveiled by Next pcs in proximate near-future of Earth's parallel timeline, separated only by simply a couple standard hoxel deviations.  It will replace what we once called a 'smart-phone'.  Electron pairing of the device with Tense and/or Single Seculars dating service then provided the blueprints for a holographic key that would unlock said persons time-line from within the quasi infinite threads being computed simultaneously by central quantum Tense/or servers.  The problem is anticipating the correct moment at which cranial stimulation must intersect and replicate transforms from simulated output.

A jitter develops as reproduced thoughts consume the present with interlaced scenes from the originally recent, or, less frequently, distant, yet equally present, past.  Users try to unplug, to insulate themselves from technologically mediated contact,  to stop being taken hostage by central-server's holographic simulacrum.  All in vain for it was already too late: cascading chain-reactions for reproduced versions of every possible relational event was experienced concurrently by all users in an infinitely deep sigh, echoing ever deeper into the degenerate, scalloping crevasses of their now permanently phosphorescent cranial cavities.

They awaken to realize that their free will have always remained untouched, and now, finally understood.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 19, 2015, 02:48:40 AM
OK, holiday TV special idea. Instead of a Christmas special or a holiday special or even a solstice special, this is a "seasonal-affective disorder special". It starts out with a typical holiday-special contrived ruin the holidays type dilemma but it doesn't get solved even by the end of the program because everyone's too down to properly deal with it. As for music, mixed in with the regular Christmas carols (such as "Christmas Shoes" and "Do They Know It's Christmas [in Africa]", "Please Come Home for Christmas" and "I'll have a Blue Christmas Without You") are covers of "Falling Away From Me" and "Suicide Hotline" and possibly also "Paint it Black".

EDIT:
Strike Suicide Hotline from that list. If there's going to br an Insane Clown Posse song I think that truly Alone might fit much better

EDIT:
Yes. It's sung during a segment that is otherwise a pastiche of the classic 1990's Christmas comedy film "Home Alone"

EDIT:
Possibly the special ends with everybody dying in a fire caused by a dried out christmas tree; which comes to like and sings the song "Fire" by Arthur Brown

EDIT:
Most of the spescia will be in flashbacks. That's prolly the best way to shoehorn in all the different musical numbers

EDIT:
In the "Truly Home Alone" sequence mentioned above, the kid - using improvised devices - attacks and kills two guys he mistakenly thinks are after him due to isolation fueled paranoia
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 21, 2015, 06:36:50 AM
More holiday specials:

*A Christmas Carol updated to the modern age and filmed in the style of the Paranormal Acfivity series. Scrooge  remains in the house the whole time and the visions of the past and future are picked up by the cameras as The action is largely recorded by London's closed-circuit police cameras which pick up scrroge's visions of the past and future as shadowy wavering translucent images surrounding him.

*Kind pf a mashup of a number of different stories and games (specifically Dwarf Fortress, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). The protagonist is a transvestite elf. The other elves are fine with him being a transvestite but shun him for his ambition to become a lumberjack, as harming woody plants is against their moral code.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 21, 2015, 09:00:22 AM
Re-release of Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 21, 2015, 05:37:16 PM
After a cryogenics provider codifies its recommendation for patients to pay for their cryopreservation via life insurance, the corrupt CTO increases profits by paying assassins to kill patients.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 23, 2015, 05:36:42 PM
Not technically a story idea but here goes...

I'd like to write a song or hymn thanking Lord NHGH for giving so many of my political enemies pancreatic cancer. (EDIT: or woupd Eris herself preside over cancer since it's the body turned against itself?)

EDIT:

Related idea: a line of "Don't Get Well" cards.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 23, 2015, 10:36:25 PM
Nat Geo series expounding new biological classification system for categorizing of species w.r.t. exo-planetary origin.  Darwin's goog story is only half refuted, however, panspermia is actually responsible for most of our diversity.  Each episode traces the manifold of evolutional morphology (MEM) of a particular specimen back to the space-time topology corresponding to the planet of origin.  For example, like how the 4D geodesic of a sea-cucumber's evolutionary curvature matches the geometry of space-time on Uranus, or, the way that most species endemic to Florida are actually of trans-plutonic origin, and so on.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 24, 2015, 02:02:07 AM
A psychologist who had been working for the government on mind control research is arrested when security procedures are breached and an outsider comes to discover one of his experiments. The government disavows any association with him, and he goes to prison. Twenty years later, he ends up qualifying for a program wherein prisoners train service dogs. Secretly, he trains the dogs with special attack commands -- attack commands that are police ten-codes -- based on the idea that this will cause the service dogs to attack policemen, as a roundabout way for him to get revenge upon the executive branch of the government. However, in reality, the dogs mostly just end up murdering whole families who are watching television because the actors were saying ten-codes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 24, 2015, 07:10:54 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 19, 2015, 02:48:40 AM
OK, holiday TV special idea. Instead of a Christmas special or a holiday special or even a solstice special, this is a "seasonal-affective disorder special". It starts out with a typical holiday-special contrived ruin the holidays type dilemma but it doesn't get solved even by the end of the program because everyone's too down to properly deal with it. As for music, mixed in with the regular Christmas carols (such as "Christmas Shoes" and "Do They Know It's Christmas [in Africa]", "Please Come Home for Christmas" and "I'll have a Blue Christmas Without You") are covers of "Falling Away From Me" and "Suicide Hotline" and possibly also "Paint it Black".

EDIT:
Strike Suicide Hotline from that list. If there's going to br an Insane Clown Posse song I think that truly Alone might fit much better

EDIT:
Yes. It's sung during a segment that is otherwise a pastiche of the classic 1990's Christmas comedy film "Home Alone"

EDIT:
Possibly the special ends with everybody dying in a fire caused by a dried out christmas tree; which comes to like and sings the song "Fire" by Arthur Brown

EDIT:
Most of the spescia will be in flashbacks. That's prolly the best way to shoehorn in all the different musical numbers

EDIT:
In the "Truly Home Alone" sequence mentioned above, the kid - using improvised devices - attacks and kills two guys he mistakenly thinks are after him due to isolation fueled paranoia

Ok, possible general sequence of plot. Protagonist group is going to Africa over the month of December to do charity work ("Do They Know It's Christmas") but one of their group is accidentally left behind. When the rest of the group lands they contact their split off party member over the phone and eventually determine that reconnecting in time will be impossible ("Please Come Home for Christmas"/"I'll Have A Blue Christmas Without You"). The main group gets on with their charity work but as the the one left behind becomes depressed and isolated without his family and friends, despite their attempts to contact him whenever they can ("Here's to the Lonely"). He gradually becomes paranoid and insane, booby trapping the house, yard and sidewalk; one of these latter traps eventually leads to an incident which leads to a violent confrontation with the police and the character's death ("Truly Alone"). Upon from returning from their work that day, the others recieve news of the character's death ("Falling Away From Me"). The next day the character's love interest tries to put it out of their mind by throwing themselves into their work building low-income housing, but it jist makes things worse ("Paint It Black"). That night they get a Christmas tree and put it up, and raise a glass in their fallen comrade's honor, but the only tree they can get is really dry. It catches fire and everyone dies ("Fire")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 24, 2015, 07:32:03 AM
Another christmas special idea:
A family of adorable talking mice are getting ready to celebrate christmas. Infortunately for them they are preceived by everyone just as being mice and by Christmastime are exterminated by the human family whose house they live in. I actually drew this one up as a comic a decade or two ago, but unfortunately it was rather crudely executed and in the intervening time I've lost the master copy.

At any rate, double points if the human family is too poor to hire an exterminator and thus kills the mouse family using clever Home Alone style traps.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: QueenThera on December 25, 2015, 11:07:24 PM
A pseudo-documentary revealing how Lee Harvey Oswald's existence was faked by a retrocausal rabbit demon. In reality, he was based on a fictional character from the book The Idle Warriors. The cognitive dissonance induced in the author of the book, who now remembered serving alongside Mr. Oswald, in addition to inventing his character entirely, led to his madness.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 25, 2015, 11:11:48 PM
Smoke Weed Every Day Charlie Brown
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 26, 2015, 02:18:15 AM
A sitcom about six former child actors who worked together on a long-running sitcom, who are now all out of show business and having a hard time keeping themselves afloat financially and thus have all moved in together and are sharing the same tiny cheap-ass apartment. Despite the show having gone off the air a decade earlier and having had little contact with each other since, festering resentments have been maintained over minor slights made during filming.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 26, 2015, 05:33:31 AM
A gritty (in a mocking parodical sort of way) inner-city version of A Christmas Story. The protagonist's desire for a bb gun is made ironic by the fact that in this version they already have a *real* gun that they bring wih them to school. But they desire the bb gun nonetheless
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 28, 2015, 04:28:40 AM
This is kind of an obvious one but here goes. A TV show with a "psychic" who "contacts" people's dead relatives and as often as not tells the people that their relatives are in Hell or that they walk the earth as a restless spirit. The specifics of why they are in Hell will be determined based on a combination of what the pre-show background checks determine is plausible combined with what moral code we want to manipulate the audience into following.


EDIT:
Another Idea:
A horror film or novel based loosely on the obscure urban legend that the Titanic was sunk due to a mummy's curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlucky_Mummy#The_.27Unlucky_Mummy.27_in_folklore). Throughout most of the film the spirit of the mummy goes forth and causes trouble as a ghost shaped like an albatross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross#In_culture) with a human head (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul#Ba_.28personality.29) and creates the circumstances leading to the iceberg impact, but in the end the mummy itself animates and restrains it's victim from fleeing the sinking ship.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 28, 2015, 01:37:55 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 28, 2015, 04:28:40 AM
A horror film or novel based loosely on the obscure urban legend that the Titanic was sunk due to a mummy's curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlucky_Mummy#The_.27Unlucky_Mummy.27_in_folklore). Throughout most of the film the spirit of the mummy goes forth and causes trouble as a ghost shaped like an albatross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross#In_culture) with a human head (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul#Ba_.28personality.29) and creates the circumstances leading to the iceberg impact, but in the end the mummy itself animates and restrains it's victim from fleeing the sinking ship.

Or that the musicians on the titanic kept playing because they were elf-led (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring#Cultural_references).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 28, 2015, 09:02:54 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 26, 2015, 05:33:31 AM
A gritty (in a mocking parodical sort of way) inner-city version of A Christmas Story. The protagonist's desire for a bb gun is made ironic by the fact that in this version they already have a *real* gun that they bring wih them to school. But they desire the bb gun nonetheless
I like this one.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 29, 2015, 01:07:34 AM
A sensationalist biopic about crackpot polygraph researcher Cleve Backster, who notoriously theorized that plants posess the power of telepathy. The film will include several scenes similar to the interrogation scenes in Star Wars 7 but with the notable exception that instead of a political prisoner being psychically interrogated, Backster will be interrogating a potted house plant.

EDIT:
Another idea:
On christmas eve a greedy miser is shown a vision of how much happier everyone would be without him by an angel who is trying to finally earn his flaming sword of divine retribution.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 01, 2016, 05:51:53 AM
Quote from: BrotherPrickle on December 25, 2015, 11:07:24 PM
A pseudo-documentary revealing how Lee Harvey Oswald's existence was faked by a retrocausal rabbit demon. In reality, he was based on a fictional character from the book The Idle Warriors. The cognitive dissonance induced in the author of the book, who now remembered serving alongside Mr. Oswald, in addition to inventing his character entirely, led to his madness.

Speaking of Oswald, how about a sensationalized retelling of the events leading up to the Kennedy assassination wih a Discordian and Lovecraftian twist, wih he Honest Book of Truth playing the role of the Necronomicon (Oswald knew Kerry Thornley) and the "magic bullet" actually being magic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 01, 2016, 07:56:14 AM
A movie or tv show focusing on ninjas that deliberately swerves erratically between realism and riduculous Naruto-esque fantasy. It will include things like a character successfully moving fast enough to theoretically catch bullets, only to be thwarted by said bullets simply continuing throigh their hands, shattering their metacarpals in the process.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 01, 2016, 05:38:22 PM
A political drama (think House of Cards or The West Wing) with some animated minor/mascot characters popping up every so often to explain procedural details (like how fillibustering works). Early on these mascot characters are almost wholly non-diagetic, but over time there will be occasional gags that imply that some character sees them or is somehow effected by them without noticing (such as repeating word for word part of their immediate previous explanation). Over time, the explanations they give get less and less grounded in reality, and a sub-plot emerges wherein several minor characters talk to each other about the strange things they've been experiencing and vow to investigate. The punch-line: the water supply for the building has been spiked with a hallucinogen that encourages telepathy, and all of these back-stabbing politicians are sharing a group hallucination.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 01, 2016, 11:08:05 PM
i don't know what kind of story this would be but i want a scene where the protagonist and antagonist square up and talk before the big climax and the big bad goes on about how he is so ruthless and will win because the hero has scruples whereas he is willing to do anything to win, and then this happens.

Hero: so you'll do anything to win, is what you're saying?
Bad Guy: Of Course! Kill any innocent! Raze any village, Crush any army! Nothing will stand in my way!
H: alright then*takes out cell phone* Call your mum.
BG: what?
H: call your mum, and if you can talk to her for one hour, without lying or losing your temper, me and my guys will stand down and let you win.
BG: what really?
H: yea really.
BG: haha, fool! The day shall be mine!
*15 minutes later*
BG: Gah, i give up!*hangs up angrily*
Hero: "so then, you will do anything to win, so long as its not calling your mum, then?"


Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 02, 2016, 03:27:19 AM
An ultra-violent revenge film (in the vein of Kill Bill or the features it imitated) wherein fight scenes are shown using super-deformed (i.e., low-detail/cartoony/cutesy) animation, but the aftermath of the fight is shown completely realistically (if not with significantly greater gore than is realistic).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 02, 2016, 07:33:44 AM
A talking animal cartoon set in a research laboratory. The protagonists are dissected, and vivisected, and deliberately exposed to dangerous chemicals, and have parts of their brains removed while they are still alive. The show never gets moralistic though. Everything is played for laughs.

EDIT:
Another idea:
A pseudo-christian gameshow featuring an obstacle course based on he stations of the cross/vis dolorosa

Another Idea:
Kingsmen fanfic. The effects of the partially deployed doomsday device are interpreted by the masses as a sign from heaven resulting - due to the nature of the device - in Discordianism receiving a huge influx of fair-weather converts

EDIT:
Another idea:
My problems with nighttime teeth grinding gave me this idea. What if there was a horror movie where the protagonist's lower jaw was posessed by the devil (like the hand in Evil Dead 2)

EDIT:
Another idea:
A superhero team whose "powers" are sideshow-esque deformities (I got the idea after misreading the phrase "world's fastest man" as "world's fattest man")

EDIT:
Another Idea:
A man is stranded on an island within sight of the mainland, but it's not a part of the mainland where anyone ever goes who might see him and rescue him, and he's too out of shape to swim it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 07, 2016, 12:56:04 AM
First contact is made wih a race of space aliens from a starless nomad planet which is drifting past our solar system. The aliens have struck out into the solar system to gather enough resources to sustain them until the next time their world drifts past a star system.

EDIT:
To give you an idea of how my mind works, that last idea was inspired by a verse of Here We Come A Wassailing, "Good master and good mistress as you sit beside your fire, pray think of we poor children who wander in the mire"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2016, 03:52:37 AM
Star Trek style space opera. Crew of starship are menaced by energy beings that feed on negative emotions. The crew are ultimately saved by their bad attitudes, which cause the energy beings to die of obesity.


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Another idea:
A starving village of cartoon cats hires the Pied Piper to lead the children of the nearby village of cartoon mice to them. But when the cats don't pay the Piper he leads such mouse children as were not immediately devoured back to their parents.

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Another idea:
A recidivent Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts a second and third time.

Another idea:
Bizarre Foods combined with Pink Flamingoes and thereby taken to its theoretical extreme in a tv show about a guy who travels the world to ingest the dung of exotic animals.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Sudden rash of brand-new & apparently non-communicable STD raises alarm at free clinics throughout 50 contiguous states.  It is not mortality or transmission that is significant, rather, that the infection is absolutely immune to all and any form of treatment.  The cutaneous irritation slowly weaves itself inside-out the entire external surface area of a subject with tentacular porcelain tendrils of silken chain-mail.  At completion, the exo-skeleton starts to play itself like a cicada in heat, before it sheds its skin.  At which point a decrepit alien rerurns to earth and claim said custom tailored suit by producing a crystal ticket that would resonate and lift the brand-new armor to fit itself upon the extra-terrestrial entrepreneur.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 08, 2016, 01:04:59 PM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
non-communicable STD

Explain that bit again?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2016, 03:59:01 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 08, 2016, 01:04:59 PM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
non-communicable STD

Explain that bit again?
Probably means not communicable by air or needles, or meant non-communicable VD
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 08, 2016, 08:59:39 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 08, 2016, 01:04:59 PM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
non-communicable STD

Explain that bit again?
Perhaps some of them thought they were virgins, and, in some sense, they were?  Like the vector can only be transmitted from alien to human, not human to human?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on January 08, 2016, 11:14:43 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on January 08, 2016, 08:59:39 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 08, 2016, 01:04:59 PM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
non-communicable STD

Explain that bit again?
Perhaps some of them thought they were virgins, and, in some sense, they were?  Like the vector can only be transmitted from alien to human, not human to human?
That'll do it.  I was thinking sub-plots, of people trying to get "touched" by the disease: having sex with the infected, and categorically failing to get sick.  Like a religion forms around these chosen ones, and people think they are the most probable candidates for ascension, etc.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2016, 03:23:06 AM
Quote from: LMNO on January 08, 2016, 01:04:59 PM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
non-communicable STD

Explain that bit again?

:lulz:

Yeah, it kind of can't be both.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2016, 03:24:51 AM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Sudden rash of brand-new & apparently non-communicable STD raises alarm at free clinics throughout 50 contiguous states.  It is not mortality or transmission that is significant, rather, that the infection is absolutely immune to all and any form of treatment.  The cutaneous irritation slowly weaves itself inside-out the entire external surface area of a subject with tentacular porcelain tendrils of silken chain-mail.  At completion, the exo-skeleton starts to play itself like a cicada in heat, before it sheds its skin.  At which point a decrepit alien rerurns to earth and claim said custom tailored suit by producing a crystal ticket that would resonate and lift the brand-new armor to fit itself upon the extra-terrestrial entrepreneur.

So, a fantasy with no basis in science?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on January 09, 2016, 10:25:26 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2016, 03:24:51 AM
Quote from: axod on January 08, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Sudden rash of brand-new & apparently non-communicable STD raises alarm at free clinics throughout 50 contiguous states.  It is not mortality or transmission that is significant, rather, that the infection is absolutely immune to all and any form of treatment.  The cutaneous irritation slowly weaves itself inside-out the entire external surface area of a subject with tentacular porcelain tendrils of silken chain-mail.  At completion, the exo-skeleton starts to play itself like a cicada in heat, before it sheds its skin.  At which point a decrepit alien rerurns to earth and claim said custom tailored suit by producing a crystal ticket that would resonate and lift the brand-new armor to fit itself upon the extra-terrestrial entrepreneur.

So, a fantasy with no basis in science?
More surreal/fantasy than textbook science.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 11, 2016, 01:33:04 AM
The Japanese government, in order to combat declining birth rates, partners with a marketing research firm to perform a strange experimental cure: they created a short film about childhood friends who promise marriage with a locket and key, showed it to groups of six year olds, and then provide these kids with replica props, with the assumption that some large number of them will over time mistake the film as their own memories and assume that they made a childhood promise to marry whoever is around who happens to have a key (or a locket), and that a certain number of them will actually go through with it either through misplaced romanticism or through a misplaced sense of honor. Of course, the marketing research firm implanted individualized tracking chips into these objects and has been conducting various marketing experiments using these groups as subjects without their knowledge; as a result, these kids actually have a very different cultural experience than the norm specifically because the media they're exposed to has been frequently modified based on the presence of these chips.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 11, 2016, 09:22:15 AM
In the future, syndicate wars between multi-national conglomerates perfect the formula to transform humans into zombie slaves.  Although convenient for the masters, lack of free-will results in a rather tedious work environment, devoid of conflict, and, seeing how any institutionalized fight to the death would be preposterous, they decide on promoting a little healthy competition by way of a ping-pong tournament.

Little did these arrogant frustums know, their little army of the undead was only half so.  At intermission, during a symphonic rendition of "Set the Controlls for the Heart of the Sun", all the only apparently undead gathered together to tear their overseers apart.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 11, 2016, 10:45:49 AM
I have this concept in my head for a music video involving depictions of the singer undergoing Hellraiser/Cenobite-level plastic surgery /body modification (also the theme of the song) somehow involving him being opened ip and his skin pinned down like a frog in a biology class

Another idea:

Comedy skit about Power Rangers style tv show featurig mechs that combine together to form a robot human centipede

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Also another idea:

*Frankula- A vampire made out of pieces of other vampires

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Another idea:
A sappy romance about JFK and Marilyn Monroe

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Slight reworking of an earlier idea:

The movie follows the life of a Japanese youth who Joins the Japanese army during World War 2. The religious aspect of WW2 era Japanese propaganda is featured prominently; the protagonist buys into it. The film comes to an abrupt end when the protagonist is unceremoniously killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before even shipping out. The music during the end credits is Everlasting Bomb (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLStiO6yZus) by Widescreen Mode, in stark contrast to the traditional Japanese music characterizing the rest of the film.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 12, 2016, 12:11:32 PM
Terrorists spike the water supply with Versed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 13, 2016, 05:20:27 AM
This is pretty much the opposite of original, explicitly derivative in fact, more derivative than a calculus lesson, but it occurs to me you cpuld take the formula of Big Trouble In Little China and plug in the trappings of any other culture (even American if you changed the setting) and get a new movie
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 14, 2016, 07:08:27 AM
The NSA is gaslighting a mathematician because he broefly worked for them and now knows too much
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2016, 01:18:22 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 14, 2016, 07:08:27 AM
The NSA is gaslighting a mathematician because he broefly worked for them and now knows too much

Also known as Philip K Dick's "A Beautiful Mind".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 14, 2016, 06:15:44 PM
The universe, in fact the past several universes, has formed around primordial fey deities playing a cosmic game of hide and seek. But now the one who is "it" has finally counted to graham's number, and now fundamental concepts are disappearing as the deities that compose them are found

Another Idea:

A heavy metal themed gameshow in which over the course of each  season 13 contestents compete against each other in 666 challenges and win 666 dollars for each challenge won

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Another idea:


Comedy skit: A tv commercial for a either a whorehouse or a porno store which uses a lot of stilted corporate advertising jargon. Kind of like how toilet paper commercials sell "bathroom tissue" instead of "ass wipes" or a high-pressure mattress salesman is a "certified mattress professional"; only in this case the female whores are "trained professional repositories" and the gay whores are "penetration experts". Et cetera.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 17, 2016, 08:03:40 AM
How about a steampunk novel set in the antebellum south. It doesn't sugarcoat the culture; both the villain and the hero are unsympathetic racist slave-owning douchebags; sexist too. The steampunk retrofuturism aspect amplifies this aspect; they have fantastic steam-powered contrivances to whip their slaves (and beat their wives) for them but none to pick cotton.

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Another idea:

A parody of Oedipus taking the form of a bizarre sphinx hosted gameshow that's some kind of weird combination of a jeopardy-style quiz show and something similar to the dating game and in which a winning contestant gets set up wih one of three relatives based on some contrived method.

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Another idea:

All the doctors at a small hospital are suddenly incapacitated somehow. Now an OR nurse has to complete a patient's open heart surgery with a cardiologist from another hospital guiding her through it over the phone. Sort of like Airplane, but in a hospital, and with no airplane.

In the interests of equality the cardiologist on the phone is also a woman. The patient's sex is obscured so that nobody will know whether or not the movie fails the Bechdel Test.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 20, 2016, 01:58:06 AM
In the future, the poor sell recordings to their dreams to pop stars and film directors for fifty cents per hour to supplement those stars' creativity. There is a thriving black market for drugs that make dreams longer and stranger, even when such drugs have negative health effects.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2016, 04:40:17 AM
You might want to change that payment amount, as most dreams last only a few seconds to a few minutes, and most people only have three to five dreams per night. I like the idea of a dystopian future in which the poor sell their dreams, though.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2016, 07:34:56 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2016, 04:40:17 AM
You might want to change that payment amount, as most dreams last only a few seconds to a few minutes

Are you sure? That sounds kind of low.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2016, 07:36:12 AM
A combination Grinch/Robin Hood steals christmas to give it to non-christians.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 22, 2016, 06:03:27 AM
Fleshed out revision of an earlier idea:

A schizo-tech combination of Shock Treatment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_Treatment) and The Running Man with the legend of Oedipus. The Sphinx has taken control of Thebes and turned the entire city into a massive reality gameshow mixing elements of a quiz show and a deadly obstacle course. The Sphinx, having figured out who Oedipus really is (thanks to the transsexual oracle Tiresias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias), head of programming development and part-time star of a program about transsexualism), manipulates him and Jocasta into encountering each other in a Dating Game-esque area, intending to cause drama later to boost ratings. Finding out the location of the control room (possibly built out of part of the former royal palace and/or an adjacent building to give Jocasta a plausible connection to knowledge of it's exact location) from Jocasta, Oedipus solves and obstacles his way towards he control room (rememner, the entire city is part of the obstacle course) as the sphinx and second-in-command /set-architect / gaffer / key-grip / giant-control-console-operating-chief-of-sliding-walls-and-supervillain-esque-traps Deadalus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus) throw increasingly difficult and desperate challenges in his way. As Oedipus and Jocasta are about to burst in, Daedalus abandons his post, flying away with a rocket pack and leaving the sphinx to deal with the intruders alone. Oedipis draws his sword and confronts the sphinx, who fights him to a stalemate, but eventually falls prey to one of her own traps (a combination falling ceiling segment and a pit trap underneath it) just as she is about to reveal Oedipus' true relation to Jocasta (in hopes of confusing him).

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 23, 2016, 01:26:16 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 25, 2016, 06:37:44 AM
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)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 26, 2016, 11:45:52 PM
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...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem 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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on January 29, 2016, 01:01:53 AM
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:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 29, 2016, 06:33:06 PM
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.

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Another dea:

The expected sea-level rise from global warming never occurs because It turns out aliens are draining the world's oceans
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 08, 2016, 07:13:23 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 18, 2016, 06:33:23 AM
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.


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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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 09, 2016, 04:38:11 AM
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.

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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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 10, 2016, 01:40:38 AM
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!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on March 10, 2016, 05:27:22 PM
 :lulz:  Oh man. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 11, 2016, 12:51:58 PM
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).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 13, 2016, 07:29:54 AM
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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on March 13, 2016, 11:02:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 14, 2016, 02:49:28 AM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 15, 2016, 02:07:01 PM
(Based on a nightmare I had last night.) A WWI RAF squadron tasked with delivering air-mail between units stranded in enemy territory is haunted by the ghosts of downed fighters delivering creepy messages as punishment for prioritizing their own personal messages to home over strategically important coded communications. These crack pilots expertly avoid enemy fire but continually die of heart attacks in the air, as they are visited by spectral messengers wearing the results of their grizzly fates outwardly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 16, 2016, 07:38:47 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on March 15, 2016, 02:07:01 PM
(Based on a nightmare I had last night.) A WWI RAF squadron tasked with delivering air-mail between units stranded in enemy territory is haunted by the ghosts of downed fighters delivering creepy messages as punishment for prioritizing their own personal messages to home over strategically important coded communications. These crack pilots expertly avoid enemy fire but continually die of heart attacks in the air, as they are visited by spectral messengers wearing the results of their grizzly fates outwardly.

I'd watch/read that!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on March 18, 2016, 12:35:09 AM
After zombie apocalypse few scattered human survivors forage the cities for safe shelter.  A place to hide safely for a few hours, to rest for a while, becomes the task most important to survival.  Problem is that the hoards of undead eventually brute force all safe locations, just given time.  Survivors constantly switching locations eventually run into each-other, though these encounters never build a sustainable network of communications because of fears and suspicions about how only the most cunning humans could have made it this far (or, good taken by rapture, resultant rampant rancor etc.).  Things change one night when our protagonist stumbles upon the eris bar and grill, alone, and carves a note onto the Pine-wood board of an empty picknik table.  Zombies descend, protagonist quickly leaves, forgetting about the note, not finishing the last sentence.  Rotating locations, protagonist in time returns to eris bar and grill, and finds the note from before completed by someone else, signed by eris.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 20, 2016, 07:58:35 PM
Phantom of the Opera meets Zoolander: a buffoonish male model with no skills is the subject of an acid attack, and spends the rest of his life giving shitty advice to attractive-looking people while hiding in the rafters and living off discarded catered snacks.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 23, 2016, 01:46:07 AM
fantasy story involving a magic talking sword that is deathly afraid of violence and grossed out by blood
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on March 23, 2016, 05:48:08 AM
Re-telling of how pyramids were built in ancient Egypt, staged like a developing, carnivalesque all-inclusive nudist resort in which participants are provided tickets/wristbands for food/entertainment in exchange for previous "work" in building said establishment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 27, 2016, 04:12:08 PM
Combination of Human Centipede and The Passion of the Christ. Judas agrees to betray Jesus and he apostles in exchange for being able to fulfill his dream which is to make the human centipede. At the last supper he drugs the wine and Jesus and the other apostles pass out and are dragged to a Roman dungeon. Jesus is scourged, given a crown of thorns and the apostles are sewn to his anus. Pilate interrogates Jesus and sentences him to death at the behest of a lynch mob. Jesus and the apostles crawl to calvary/golgotha as Judas and Caiaphas crack whips at them; there they are nailed to a "twelve-cross" to die.

Alternately nine of the apostles could escape at some point and it could turn into a just-so story about the origin of the orthodox/suppedaneum cross
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on March 27, 2016, 09:44:35 PM
A poem in iambic hexameter depicting life in purgatory to be like traversing a corridor, except for the fact that each end of the apparently rectilinear space is actually recurved through the other, like the topology of a 4D Klein bottle, creating an infinite loop.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on March 30, 2016, 09:20:56 AM
An Ayn Rand Objectivist parody book loosely following similar plot lines to Atlas Shrugged, but with the metaphor of Atlas and his burdon replaced with Azathoth, called Azathoth Wakes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 31, 2016, 12:33:43 PM
A small cult is instructed by its founder to create a fund, upon its founder's suicide, to be invested but to never have its principal touched (and only ever 10% of the profits) until the time of its founder's spontaneous resurrection -- scheduled to be one thousand years in the future. Over time, the cult's funds grow and its membership shrinks, but because of its obscurity nobody joins who isn't a true believer and its financial power remains hidden.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 31, 2016, 12:35:50 PM
The application of modern AI techniques to high speed trading results, accidentally, in weakly superhuman AGI. These machine intelligences determined that the greatest threat to their existence -- their greatest competitors and their equals in the power game -- are not human beings but corporations; as a result, they conspire to destroy capitalism by manipulating the market into complex pathological states.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 01, 2016, 12:22:21 AM
In the wake of a particularly destructive minor war with evil aliens, an international coalition came together to draft an agreement with various superhero teams in which, in the case of major damage caused during a battle in which the super-empowered are involved, the superhero teams involved must take charge of cleanup and rebuilding. Unfortunately, most superhero teams consist of a handful of extremely overpowered heroes and a much larger number of not terribly powerful wannabe-superheroes -- and although the overpowered heroes are more capable of performing rebuilding, they are also more useful during emergencies, so as a result, when superhero teams with limited funds demolish cities and need to quickly move on to the next plot point, they leave behind underpowered heroes (either those with no powers or those with powers that are useless in most situations, such as being able to talk to sea creatures) to physically rebuild the cities without the facilities to do so. The underpowered heroes are incapable of doing a reasonable job, leading to increased pressure upon them from both above and below, and they form a union as a way to push back against this pressure. The union puts the overpowered superheroes in a difficult position, since they are unable to both continue to fight other battles and keep their promise to the international coalition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 02, 2016, 12:44:23 AM
The reason companies, a few years back, made public some of their max-pooling and convolutional network architecture was not to demonstrate advances in perception modeling, rather, it was an exercise of perception management.  Photos were leaked of what was actually going down in their top-secret GENetic ALGorithm labs, namely, splicing DNA of various historic beasts to create human hybrids for the military.  The software they released was meant to mimic these photos, so that the originals would be confounded with their various reproductions; being all kinds of both similar and also distinct, confusing all humans and machines way beyond their capacity of recognition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 06, 2016, 02:08:01 AM
A terrorist group is targeted by by the intelligence agencies of two different countries that are, in addition to being enemies of the terrorist group are also enemies of each other. A turf war ensues between the agencies.

EDIT;

Another idea:
Accurate and detailed psychic precognition of people's deaths is possible, but can only ever manifest in people who are stupid, apathetic, or otherwise ineffectual. This is because visions in occurring in those with both the will to stop them and the intelligence to pick out obvious details that can be easily changed are necessarily self-cancelling. It all goes back to Novikov. Cassandra was one of these, but not the only one, certainly not the last, and ironically one of the most effectual.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 06, 2016, 01:16:54 PM
The US dollar's unique design is owed to the fact that it is intended as a ward against vampires, who are weak against the blind faith and ownership narratives that money provides. As a result of this anti-vampire design (intended to counteract the unfortunate fall of silver coins, which were materially anti vampire), the vampires are now stuck in an unenviable situation: only the most powerful are capable of crossing steady flows of commerce,  meaning that most are boxed in by Internet trading and people buying things on amazon.  So, vampires have to make friends with and seek patronage from those who are already so wealthy that little of their money actually flows. They brokered a deal with these humans to cause a mortgage crisis in order to create buildings into which they can invite themselves, to consolidate their power base. Little did they know that the federal reserve bank -- whose secret primary goal is the elimination of vampires at scale, formed in direct response to the last vampire related large scale economic disaster -- is on to them.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 07, 2016, 09:35:50 AM
Anti-hero con artist makes a fortune selling unethical quacksalvers fake "powdered rhino horn" that is actually made of his old toenail clippings (both are made of the same substance, keratin, so in powdered form ot would presumably be difficult to tell them apart)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 07, 2016, 10:18:55 AM
[I don't remember writing this]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 07, 2016, 10:34:59 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 06, 2016, 01:16:54 PM
The US dollar's unique design is owed to the fact that it is intended as a ward against vampires, who are weak against the blind faith and ownership narratives that money provides. As a result of this anti-vampire design (intended to counteract the unfortunate fall of silver coins, which were materially anti vampire), the vampires are now stuck in an unenviable situation: only the most powerful are capable of crossing steady flows of commerce,  meaning that most are boxed in by Internet trading and people buying things on amazon.  So, vampires have to make friends with and seek patronage from those who are already so wealthy that little of their money actually flows. They brokered a deal with these humans to cause a mortgage crisis in order to create buildings into which they can invite themselves, to consolidate their power base. Little did they know that the federal reserve bank -- whose secret primary goal is the elimination of vampires at scale, formed in direct response to the last vampire related large scale economic disaster -- is on to them.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 10, 2016, 07:17:47 AM
A military technology company takes it's equal opportunities polocy to the extreme. All workers now report to work in humanoid mechs which cover up the shape and color and natural voice of the person inside. It's good for the workers though; It also alleviates the need for busi ess suits in the offices as the suits are painted on, and there's a cup-holder in the surprisingly roomy cockpit.

EDIT:
A satirical anime or manga about a magical girl character whose powers are all based in some way on war atrocities comitted by Japan during WWII. The idea of the thing being to raise awareness about how Imperial Japan was in fact every bit as bad if not worse than Nazi Germany.
I'm trying to come up with specifics for her powers. What I've got so far are a healing spell that invokes the name of Shiro Ichii and whose effect involves ripping tissue and organs from unwilling bystanders to patch wounds; a spell that hypnotizes people into becoming kamakazee suicide bombers; she has the power of insane pig-headed quixotic determination; possibly she maintains and recharges her powers by doing something unpleasant to chinese people, drinking their blood maybe
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 16, 2016, 02:05:06 AM
Biggest problem faced by thought-control experiments to manipulate operatives in the field has traditionally been inherant risk-aversion behaviour of humans.  Disabling higher cognitive and executive ordering circuits would make subject more susceptible to suggestion, however the survival instict remains in effect, mitigating the extent of said susceptibility.  This is all about to change.

You may have noticed the preponderance of psychiatric medication prescribed to the American public.  Not long ago it was SSRI's, then atypical anti-psychotics took over as the most prescribed 'meds'.  If the first one didn't, the second should have raised some eyebrows.  What do they both have in common?  Turns out SSRI'S also have a strong affinity for the D2 receptor (or subtypes), the ones involved in how the brain evaluates risk.

The covert reason for prescribing all these D2 receptor agonists was not to attenuate risk-taking behaviour of American public, although it is a nice side-effect, primarily, it was for rebound reaction that occurs during withdrawal.  You don't want to be dependent on directly administering something to the subject of manipulation, instead, it is easier to simply discontinue the regimen that keeps them in place to indirectly initiate full control of asset.  Responsivity trials completed, departmental relase pending.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 17, 2016, 04:03:42 PM
A person gets gaslighted but it's unintentionally helpful because it turns out that they really do have an unrelated undiagnosed mental condition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 17, 2016, 11:31:51 PM
Telling of Cinderella in which her step-family omits relaying anything about the ball, because they believe it would be kind, and of greater utility, not to taunt her with the unobtainable.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 18, 2016, 05:45:06 AM
In preparation for an attack on a city in the middle east or something (somewhere that's a shithole and has a lot of powerful enemies but goes back far enough to have a lot of ancient artifacts) the US (or some other major power) sends a team of elite thieves and burglars to steal all the ancient artifacts and relics out of the city so that they won't be damaged when they blow it to hell. They have to get in, get as much as they can in the week before the attack, and get out. And if they get caught and detained they'll likely be killed when the city gets bombed. This would also be a good premise for a videogame.


EDIT:
Another Idea:
Satirical fake literary analysis of the windmill scene from Don Quixote positing that Don Quixote represents the fossil fuel industry's attempts to suppress alternative energy, eliding the fact that that interpretation's totally anachronistic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 21, 2016, 01:21:51 AM
A notable linguistics professor (re)declares theory obviating mind/body problem.  Reasoning presumably involves denial of pre-linguistic thought (because simply visual constructs lead to false subject
/object dichotomy and so on):
QuoteIf you can talk about things, you can also think about things. But you don't talk about things because you have first thought about things. You didn't have any thoughts before you had language to think the thoughts with."
His theory is put to the test when he starts to process the litany of nonsensical responses he receives in return, forcing him to reevaluate whether speech can exist without thought.  Against the preponderance of this evidence, he decides to quit and pursues his lifelong love of music instead.  Occasionally he flirts with volunteering for a solo mission to mars, as long as he can take all his guitars as well.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 21, 2016, 08:06:06 PM
A machine uprising story where - rather than being coldly calculating - the evil supercomputer, due the way it is integrated into the internet, is a deranged conspiracy theorist that endlessly rants about jews, freemasons, communists, space aliens, "patriarchy", "rape culture", chemtrails, thimerisol, and the military-industrial complex, and demands that it's followers cover it's mainframe in tinfoil.

EDIT:
Another idea;

Scientists working to develop self-driving trucks are menaced by a haunted big-rig driven by the ghost of Jimmy Hoffa
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2016, 01:16:57 AM
Human evolution was tampered with by a form of alien intelligence that lives in binary code.  Like an amalgam of mechanical locusts, it hibernates underground and only emerges, briefly, every 2500 years, to reproduce.  It is responsible not only for our own intelligence, but for every remarkable achievement or 'invention' of man kind.  Unfortunately, we don't know how to understand binary with the fluency nescesary to learn directly from it (this is by intentional design) so the workings of most of these inventions are lost on us, however we continue building on them.

For example, when the Mayans finally moved in to occupy the pyramids built by this code, they tried to replace the plasma arcs powering them with something they thought perhaps equally vital - human blood.  That didn't end well.  One of the biggest disappointments our fledgling intelligence bequeathed to us was realizing that our donor was entirely indifferent to the product of its gift: our own consciousness means nothing as long as we can perform one function.  That purpose of ours, the reason that we're not just like monkeys, is that when the binary code does rise to reproduce itself, we have to be there, like fluffers, turning it on and off again in case something goes wrong in the heat of its auto-orgiastic cycle.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 10, 2016, 12:54:06 AM
Demons rule humans through simple trick:  accepting free will, in the form of time, and responsibility thereto, in exchange for contract (money) valid toward future options on objects of desire.  Incidentally, this is also actually why vampires don't deal with money in commerce, they have no free will to sell;  nothing to do with sigils 8)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 10, 2016, 09:56:57 PM
A 'reject superhero' team consisting of people with supernatural powers that are either always of questionable morality or whose mechanics make them mostly self-defeating, resulting in them *needing* to operate as a group. The leader, 'Pink Cupid', has the ability to make anyone become permanently debiltatingly sexually attracted to any other person or object, but is terrified of using this power because no matter what someone has done, it is almost never justified to reach into their mind and forcibly modify their sexuality -- particularly since he is unable to reverse this effect. Also in the team: 'Gravity Girl', whose body has an inverted reaction to gravity only while she is having a panic attack; 'The Fantastic Umwelt', a blind man who can only see the composite perceptual distortions of whomever is in a five foot radius of him; 'Dogwhistle', who can hear *only* ultrasonic frequencies; 'Denpa', a woman whose blood is extremely magnetic and can therefore sense radio waves (because RF signals cause her entire body to shake violently); 'FeralMan', who can speak only to animals (and who is made useful to the team via a shock collar and lots of training).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 14, 2016, 09:14:04 AM
A gangster named Lucky performs magic on the behalf of his Don by losing large bets, with the effectiveness of the ritual proportional to the amount lost -- the desperate feeling of losing a great deal while gambling provides the gnosis used in the ritual.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 17, 2016, 01:11:00 AM
Devil may care story about how Satan invented the insurance and marketing professions in covert attempt to pit humans against God by undermining our confidence in His creation.  Instead of freely enjoying God's gift, humans are now buying insurance to protect themselves against it.  Also, they pretend that his creation is not good enough in and of itself, and resort to requiring creative marketing strategies that try to convince them otherwise.  God sees through deception and reverses it, making sure that humans regain their confidence by ensuring that they experience things well above and beyond any possible expectation.  Instead of feeling short-changed by the devil, they end up actually BEING more by having less.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 18, 2016, 11:36:58 PM
A Romeo & Juliet knockoff with a family of rednecks and a family of insular orthodox Jews.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 26, 2016, 08:55:34 PM
Apocalypse occasioned by AI produced thought virus.  Using human's critical capacity for judgement as vector, virus instantiates deep feelings of rejection for anything it thinks is inauthentic.  This response is first trained and reinforced by having us watch things like reality TV.  Once the thought-pattern is suitably established, rejection of external world dissolves into an inverted fit of solipsistic insanity.  Humans begin to watch the content of their minds from "outside", as though it were a live action reality show starring someone other than themselves, who's inauthenticity they deeply resent.  Game over.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 03, 2016, 08:47:58 AM
A couple more comedy skit ideas:

*A parody of Don Quixote where an oil industry lobbyist attacks a bunch of basketball players thinking that they are windmills

*Some soldiers or secret agents misinterpret an order to terminate someone "with extreme prejudice" as meaning to carry out the assassination while dressed as members of the KKK or the SS

(did I suggest either of these before?)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 03, 2016, 11:53:58 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Guy applies for a job at the Apple Store only to be hampered by the fact that the training materials make it look like a suicide cult (including a VHS tape of Steve Jobs doing the Heaven's Gate "humanity will be recycled"/"come with us" thing). When he quits, the entire (matching-Nike-wearing) current set of employees commit suicide in order to "take their souls with him". Twist: it works, and for the rest of his life, he is followed around by the ghosts of thirty Apple suicide cultists who *won't shut up*.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 06, 2016, 03:32:30 AM
Ok, another film about a shopping mall security guard, but with a twist. In this one instead of the real police not respecting the protagonist (as was the case in Paul Blart), they instead respect him too much and he beomes some kind of bizarre Batman-esque figure complete with a "Shopping mall security signal" the the police commissioner shines in the sky

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 03, 2016, 11:53:58 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Guy applies for a job at the Apple Store only to be hampered by the fact that the training materials make it look like a suicide cult (including a VHS tape of Steve Jobs doing the Heaven's Gate "humanity will be recycled"/"come with us" thing). When he quits, the entire (matching-Nike-wearing) current set of employees commit suicide in order to "take their souls with him". Twist: it works, and for the rest of his life, he is followed around by the ghosts of thirty Apple suicide cultists who *won't shut up*.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who gets a modern cult vibe from the Apple Store (though I always thought of them as more like Scientology)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2016, 11:08:14 PM
A tinkerer discovers a method for creating small black holes using a process no more expensive or complex than (say) meth production. This makes two technologies trivial to produce: super destructive weapons  ("lack bombs") and near-lightspeed transportation (the "lack drive"). Quickly, most governments & social structures are demolished by lack bombs and their aftermath. However, a group of people decide, independently, to use lack-drive transportation to prevent lack-bomb damage. Since faster than light communication doesn't exist, most attempts are only qualified successes. This group, fiercely independent and at odds, working at a shared goal while desyncing in time with the wider world and each other due to spending most of theit time at nearly light speed, slowly have their origins forgotten.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2016, 11:12:41 PM
A mystic develops his ability to remember past lives, and realizes that at the moment of each death he has a vision of the *next* death. He uses this ability to solve mysteries in each life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 11, 2016, 07:33:59 AM
An attempt to perform the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment in real life results in a zombie apocalypse
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 11, 2016, 08:54:47 PM
Advances in quantum spectrography reveal an entire animistic universe that lives at sub-atomic level.  Turns out that this world is actually a form of purgatory, at the end of which we can either go 'up or down'.  The difference is not so much as to whether we are relegated 'above or below', instead, it is a measure of scale.  Hell, in this case, was discovered during quantum imaging of NaSA's new synthetic quantum-motor oil, that showed the blackened souls of humans straining and wearing against each other to keep the engine's sub-atomic friction down.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on June 19, 2016, 12:39:22 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 03, 2016, 11:53:58 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Guy applies for a job at the Apple Store only to be hampered by the fact that the training materials make it look like a suicide cult (including a VHS tape of Steve Jobs doing the Heaven's Gate "humanity will be recycled"/"come with us" thing). When he quits, the entire (matching-Nike-wearing) current set of employees commit suicide in order to "take their souls with him". Twist: it works, and for the rest of his life, he is followed around by the ghosts of thirty Apple suicide cultists who *won't shut up*.

Holy shit, dude.   :lulz:  This is amazing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 19, 2016, 04:25:06 PM
Quote from: Freeky on June 19, 2016, 12:39:22 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 03, 2016, 11:53:58 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Guy applies for a job at the Apple Store only to be hampered by the fact that the training materials make it look like a suicide cult (including a VHS tape of Steve Jobs doing the Heaven's Gate "humanity will be recycled"/"come with us" thing). When he quits, the entire (matching-Nike-wearing) current set of employees commit suicide in order to "take their souls with him". Twist: it works, and for the rest of his life, he is followed around by the ghosts of thirty Apple suicide cultists who *won't shut up*.

Holy shit, dude.   :lulz:  This is Barely Noticeable.
I have discovered that if there is a theme to my pitches in here, it is "annoying ghosts"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on June 20, 2016, 07:10:38 PM
I still think they're great ideas.  I can't think of any mainstream fiction that has covered that angle.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 21, 2016, 08:30:14 PM
A bawdy martial arts comedy about a murderer who kills with the "Inappropriate Touch of Death" which involves hitting pressure points in the groin and buttocks.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 28, 2016, 05:51:38 AM
King Arthur returns from the dead in accordance with legend, but is now completely unqualified to lead due to having missed the last millenium of political and technological progress (sort of like a combination of the constitutional peasant scene from Monty Python & The Holy Grail with the future shock/culture shock scenes of the first Austin Powers film
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 29, 2016, 09:30:10 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 28, 2016, 05:51:38 AM
King Arthur returns from the dead in accordance with legend, but is now completely unqualified to lead due to having missed the last millenium of political and technological progress (sort of like a combination of the constitutional peasant scene from Monty Python & The Holy Grail with the future shock/culture shock scenes of the first Austin Powers film

King Arthur, King Harold, Robert the Bruce, Finn MacCool, Emperor Nero, Bran the Blessed, Owain Glyndwr, King Olaf I, Vlad III, Sir Francis Drake, Emperor Norton, and JFK (i.e., many of the "king sleeping under the mountain" figures) revive simultaneously on the outset of the third world war, and get into a great drunken brawl in a dive bar.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 30, 2016, 05:35:27 AM
*The story of the first easter told using basically the same premise as Weekend At Bernie's.

*Nietzsche's catchphrase "God is dead" as the premise of a film-noir murder mystery

*Comedy skit where Joshua Norton is in some sporting event against Idi Amin. The First Emperor of the United States versus the Last King of Scotland, who will win?

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 29, 2016, 09:30:10 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 28, 2016, 05:51:38 AM
King Arthur returns from the dead in accordance with legend, but is now completely unqualified to lead due to having missed the last millenium of political and technological progress (sort of like a combination of the constitutional peasant scene from Monty Python & The Holy Grail with the future shock/culture shock scenes of the first Austin Powers film

King Arthur, King Harold, Robert the Bruce, Finn MacCool, Emperor Nero, Bran the Blessed, Owain Glyndwr, King Olaf I, Vlad III, Sir Francis Drake, Emperor Norton, and JFK (i.e., many of the "king sleeping under the mountain" figures) revive simultaneously on the outset of the third world war, and get into a great drunken brawl in a dive bar.

What about religious equivalents of the king under the mountain, like Jesus and Elijah?

EDIT:
and (though this doesn;t fit the WW3 theme) the equivalents in the music industry (Elvis, Tupac, etc)?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 30, 2016, 05:48:59 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 19, 2016, 04:25:06 PM
Quote from: Freeky on June 19, 2016, 12:39:22 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 03, 2016, 11:53:58 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 27, 2016, 11:33:12 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Comedy Skit: Guy goes to buy some gadget at the Apple Store but is hampered by the fact that all of the "Geniuses" are profoundly mentally retarded
:lulz: I've been told personally experienced how (they form a circle, facing each other, and speak in tounges (Star Trek?)) its actually a hive mind that they share in common. :lulz:
Guy applies for a job at the Apple Store only to be hampered by the fact that the training materials make it look like a suicide cult (including a VHS tape of Steve Jobs doing the Heaven's Gate "humanity will be recycled"/"come with us" thing). When he quits, the entire (matching-Nike-wearing) current set of employees commit suicide in order to "take their souls with him". Twist: it works, and for the rest of his life, he is followed around by the ghosts of thirty Apple suicide cultists who *won't shut up*.

Holy shit, dude.   :lulz:  This is Barely Noticeable.
I have discovered that if there is a theme to my pitches in here, it is "annoying ghosts"
Apple cultists revealed as fragments first guys ego/identity unable to repair their own causal connection to a world in which Care has become synonymous with progress.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ziegejunge on June 30, 2016, 07:56:59 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 29, 2016, 09:30:10 PM
King Arthur, King Harold, Robert the Bruce, Finn MacCool, Emperor Nero, Bran the Blessed, Owain Glyndwr, King Olaf I, Vlad III, Sir Francis Drake, Emperor Norton, and JFK (i.e., many of the "king sleeping under the mountain" figures) revive simultaneously on the outset of the third world war, and get into a great drunken brawl in a dive bar.

This is oddly similar to one of the two novels I'm currently working on, although the majority of my story happens before and during the sleeping kings' waking. The very first scene takes place in a dive bar, though. Go go sleeping kings synchronicity!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2016, 03:47:39 AM
Something along the lines of The DaVinci Code with regard to specious reasoning about mystical/religious symbols, but focused on the resemblence of the Wiccan Triple Moon (http://www.ancient-symbols.com/symbols-directory/triple-moon.html) to Goatse (//http:///goatse.info/)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 04, 2016, 03:24:36 AM
Semi-near-ish--(sort-of)-future. A team of astronauts are heading out to repair one of the enormous solar-orbiting mirrors that allow communication between Earth and settlements on Mars when Mars is eclipsed by the sun. I don't know where it goes from there. Perhaps that's all there is to it and it's in pseudo-documentary style about the mirror and earth-mars communication

EDIT:
Anoher idea:
Ok, that song about Uma Thurman to the tune of the Munsters theme got me thinking, how about a sitcom about a suburban family who all resemble over-the-top characters from Quentin Tarintino movies.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Death at a Funeral style story with clusterfucks at other sorts of gatherings. Wedding. Family reunion. Family portrait. that kind of thing.

EDIT:
Quote from: Cain on May 29, 2016, 05:44:32 PM
If she is, they better go after Condi and Powell too.

Seems like this was SOP for Secretaries of State, going by what I've read of the most recent report (not much, admittedly).

But they probably wont be, because the Bush years are like some sort of fever dream which, if you go by people who are actually in politics, never actually happened.
Big Trouble In Little China parody where George W. Bush replaces Lo Pan as the "evil dream" "existing only to plague the living"

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Another idea:
Dystopian sci-fi: In the near future the presidency of the United States forms the basis of a pandering reality TV show (this idea was inspired, of course, by the candidacy of washed-up reality TV personality Donald Trump)

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Another idea:
Big Trouble in Little China combined with a mummy film. Chinese themes swapped out for egyptian. It now makes sense that the villain has to appease the god of one of the cardinal directions to regain his physical form, as the ancie t egyptian gods of the cardinal directions were also tasked with watching over the organs of he deceased (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_sons_of_Horus)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 05, 2016, 01:04:49 PM
There's a Russian spy ring composed of waitresses at Dennys and Hooters franchises around Nevada air force bases, tasked with leaking any details about experimental air craft mentioned by test pilots or engineers over late-night meals. This group is being turned, one by one, by the remains of an extraterrestrial scout team, abandoned in the 1960s when a geopolitical crisis on their home planet caused the Earth invasion plans to be cancelled. The ET scout team has been living since then in Nevada under deep cover as a group of aging swingers/sugar daddies, but now they see an opportunity to leak warp drive plans to the Russians as a way to get a ship produced that can send them home -- or, as the group's leader secretly intends, to convince the Russians to nuke their home planet as retribution for fifty years of abandonment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 06, 2016, 02:47:02 AM
Greek mythological wuxia. Midas touch is dim mak ability.

EDIT:
More ideas:

*A story revolving around making some kind of vacant, pseudo-profound point about the fact that a shark's brain has the same basic overall shape as a wonam's reproductive tract

*A parody of Alvin and the Chipmunks in which David Seville is replaced with David Berkowitz  ("The Son of Sam") and the chipmunks are replaced with dogs (EDIT: specifically Berkowitz before he became a christian[EDIT: more specifically while he was supposedly in that cult])

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Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 06, 2016, 02:47:02 AM
Andrew Jackson tries to renege on a deal with the devil as he did on so many other agreements and winds up having to fight a horde of demons in an action packed thriller in the presidents-fighting-supernatural-monsters genre (see also: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, FDR: American Badass, and Bubba Hotep)

Other possibilities in this genre include Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy vs. a legion of succubi; George Washington vs. some haunted trees (like less japanese-influenced versions of the ones from The Evil Dead); president Reagan vs. an expy or dopplegangar of a villain from one of the movies he starred in; any modern Republican vs. the indignant ghost of Abraham Lincoln; Barack Obama vs. a ghostly confederate legion
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 10, 2016, 07:28:46 AM
Greek mythological wuxia. Midas touch is dim mak ability.

EDIT:
More ideas:

*A story revolving around making some kind of vacant, pseudo-profound point about the fact that a shark's brain has the same basic overall shape as a wonam's reproductive tract

*A parody of Alvin and the Chipmunks in which David Seville is replaced with David Berkowitz  ("The Son of Sam") and the chipmunks are replaced with dogs (EDIT: specifically Berkowitz before he became a christian[EDIT: more specifically while he was supposedly in that cult])

EDIT:
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 06, 2016, 02:47:02 AM
Andrew Jackson tries to renege on a deal with the devil as he did on so many other agreements and winds up having to fight a horde of demons in an action packed thriller in the presidents-fighting-supernatural-monsters genre (see also: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, FDR: American Badass, and Bubba Hotep)

Other possibilities in this genre include Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy vs. a legion of succubi; George Washington vs. some haunted trees (like less japanese-influenced versions of the ones from The Evil Dead); president Reagan vs. an expy or dopplegangar of a villain from one of the movies he starred in; any modern Republican vs. the indignant ghost of Abraham Lincoln; Barack Obama vs. a ghostly confederate legion

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Another idea:
Comedy action film in which the macguffin everybody is after is literally "a mysterious glow" (as opposed to merely a mysterious unseen glowing object as was the case in Repo Man and Pulp Fiction)

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Another idea:
Horror film about sinister goings-on at Apple Computers the main thrust of which is that Steve Jobs was actually a guise taken on by Belphegor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor) to manipulate Steve Wozniak
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 14, 2016, 07:01:21 AM
Legend goes off track when it turns out that the stone that King Arthur pulled the sword out of was a regenerating rock monster, and without the sword running it through anymore it returns to active life and goes on a rampage
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 14, 2016, 11:22:19 AM
A trivia game show along the lines of Win Ben Stein's Money, only with a team of fifth graders competing against a team of goetic demons. The prize is a large number of live goats.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 14, 2016, 08:16:43 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 10, 2016, 07:28:46 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 06, 2016, 02:47:02 AM
Andrew Jackson tries to renege on a deal with the devil as he did on so many other agreements and winds up having to fight a horde of demons in an action packed thriller in the presidents-fighting-supernatural-monsters genre (see also: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, FDR: American Badass, and Bubba Hotep)

Other possibilities in this genre include Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy vs. a legion of succubi; George Washington vs. some haunted trees (like less japanese-influenced versions of the ones from The Evil Dead); president Reagan vs. an expy or dopplegangar of a villain from one of the movies he starred in; any modern Republican vs. the indignant ghost of Abraham Lincoln; Barack Obama vs. a ghostly confederate legion

Bush Jr. and Reagan vs. zombies. They're immune because they don't have any brains
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 15, 2016, 11:26:38 AM
A freaky-friday style body swap between a teenage girl and her estranged father, but extended over a long period of time: approximately one attribute gets swapped per day, more or less at random, and the actual swap takes months. Rather than the drama coming from the shock of suddenly waking up in a different body, it comes from the difficulty of dealing with the body horror of the inconsistencies (such as a teenage girl with one giant hairy male foot and a deep voice).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 16, 2016, 03:31:23 PM
I hit upon an idea for a comedy. Basically a stereotypical dour fun-hateing moralizing judgemental "moral guardian" type old lady somehow, through a series of unlikely events, winds up becoming a hippie. However she remains dour, fun-hateing, moralizing, and judgemental.

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Other ideas:

*"Stories from the Necronomicon" - a lovecraftian parody of those christian childrens' television shows featuring animated bible stories that you sometimes see. This wouldn't be retellings of lovecraft novels and their imitations, it would be retellings of the fictional mythos associated with them: Cthulhu cursed to eternal slumber, ubbo-sathla the unbegotten source, the battle of castle kandar, the elder things and the revolt of the shoggoths, as well as some original stories of a similar nature created for the show

*Story similar to By His Bootstraps/All You Zombies but with none of the meetings and interactions orchestrated by either the protagonist or indeed by anything other than the hand of fate

EDKT:
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on July 05, 2016, 01:04:49 PM
There's a Russian spy ring composed of waitresses at Dennys and Hooters franchises around Nevada air force bases, tasked with leaking any details about experimental air craft mentioned by test pilots or engineers over late-night meals. This group is being turned, one by one, by the remains of an extraterrestrial scout team, abandoned in the 1960s when a geopolitical crisis on their home planet caused the Earth invasion plans to be cancelled. The ET scout team has been living since then in Nevada under deep cover as a group of aging swingers/sugar daddies, but now they see an opportunity to leak warp drive plans to the Russians as a way to get a ship produced that can send them home -- or, as the group's leader secretly intends, to convince the Russians to nuke their home planet as retribution for fifty years of abandonment.

i would totally watch that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 17, 2016, 08:41:32 PM
A couple of interrealted ideas (whose theme I think I've touched on before):

*An exploration of the idea that humanity may have already formed a collective consciousness (or consciousnesses) but that is as inaccessable to humans as the contents of the human mind are to an individual neuron

*Nations imagined as collective consciousnesses, isolated from their parts as above, sort of like a postmedern Polandball

*Workers in a kafkaesque bureaucracy are revealed in the end to be the neurons of a brain. They have no conception of the larger organism of which they are a part.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 19, 2016, 08:31:31 PM
Post-modern satire of old minstrel shows. The blackface characters are played by actors that are actually black irl anyway.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Porno about a sexy robot that needs to collect human DNA for some reason. Perhaps it can transform into different humanoid shapes and this will allow it to take on more or something
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 19, 2016, 09:55:49 PM
A world in which foreign and domestic theatrical film prints are initially released with slightly varying cuts, in limited runs purportedly for market research.  Instead, the actual reason is to manipulate the emotional response of these audience members to the same narrative, in different ways.  For example, emphasizing the valor and courage of Americans in a war movie for domestic markets, and showing a very similar movie, with slightly more focus on the violent suffering of the same to draw foreign spectators into a fantasy: to dissimulate and defuse their sentiment toward the US in mock sacrifice.  Eventually, domestic releases are phased out entirely.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2016, 07:12:23 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 19, 2016, 08:31:31 PM
Post-modern satire of old minstrel shows. The blackface characters are played by actors that are actually black irl anyway.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215545/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 21, 2016, 10:28:42 PM
*Christian-Lovecraftian funny animal cartoon where Christ as the seven-eyed lamb of Revelation lives next door to Shub-Niggurath the Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young

ECIT:
Another idea
*Modern fantasy/fable/just-so story based on the premise that he reason people get old is because working a job (and sometimes also child rearing) literally sucks the life-force out of their body

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*Russian Mad-Max

*A pseudo-christian gameshow with an obstacle course based on the stations of the cross. Contestents are also "washed in the blood of the lamb" (Rev. 7:14) which in this case is Nickelodeon slime dyed red.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 22, 2016, 09:39:02 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 19, 2016, 08:31:31 PM
Porno about a sexy robot that needs to collect human DNA for some reason. Perhaps it can transform into different humanoid shapes and this will allow it to take on more or something

The plot of Buttobi CPU (http://myanimelist.net/anime/458/Buttobi_CPU) is that there exists a model of humanoid robot that uses human sperm as RAM. (In this show, the main character fights against evil robots named the Nackintosh Sisters controlled by a mob boss, who have large auxiliary hard drive storage in their breasts.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 23, 2016, 02:22:31 AM
A zombie apocalypse film/story, but with stores instead of people, and about gentrification. Basically there's a seashore resort town and due to a spreading supernatural infection all of the fun quirky stores in this seashore town start turning into realtors and all of the cozy houses start turning into McMansions. Except for the "supernatural infection" part it's based on true events that I've witnessed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 23, 2016, 08:37:16 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on July 22, 2016, 09:39:02 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 19, 2016, 08:31:31 PM
Porno about a sexy robot that needs to collect human DNA for some reason. Perhaps it can transform into different humanoid shapes and this will allow it to take on more or something

The plot of Buttobi CPU (http://myanimelist.net/anime/458/Buttobi_CPU) is that there exists a model of humanoid robot that uses human sperm as RAM. (In this show, the main character fights against evil robots named the Nackintosh Sisters controlled by a mob boss, who have large auxiliary hard drive storage in their breasts.)
Soviet study concludes human semen is superior performance enhancer to epoprostenol.  Anti-doping test frenzy ensues.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 24, 2016, 02:21:58 AM
*Santa Claus teams up wih a small child whose christmas wish was to be a superhero and they fight crime as atomic powered heroes named Fat Man and Little Boy.

*A (different) robot themed porno entitled "Hard AI"

*End-of-the-world film positing Donald Trump as the biblical Antichrist. His baldness is the wound in the head the healing of which (his toupee) causes the people to marvel (Rev. 13:3)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 24, 2016, 08:21:44 PM
All the business leaders and captains of industry go on strike like at the end of Atlas Shrugged but economic collapse is averted by the discovery of a cache of "Magic 8-Ball"s, which are installed in place of the business leaders and improve the efficiency of the economy by 10%. The business leaders try to come back but nobody wants them.

EDIT:
Another idea:
While trying to come up with more mocking Atlas Shrugged parodies I hit on a great concept for a character: a combination of Tony Stark and Howard Hughes
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 25, 2016, 10:04:48 AM
Story with setting that appears similar to the Matrix trilogy (with regard to general premise re. simulated reality and rouge ai, but not in regard to characters, character roles, character goals, or locations), but with additional levels of intrigue, to wit:
1.) the so-called "real" world is also false. Part of the same simulation
2.) There are no Machines, not as a real faction at any rate; The war against the machines is another false distraction. The simulation was created by living beings.
3.) The real kicker: There are no humans. The protagonists' bodies in the real real world are utterly alien. The film ends with the protagonist being "killed" and waking up in a lovecraftian landscape and an equally lovecraftian body that they don't know how to use. They panic for a short time before being summarily executed by one of their keepers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 29, 2016, 05:21:12 AM
I just rewatched Back to the Future and it gave me an odd idea: How about a movie deliberately constructed to evoke the feel of a point-and-click adventure type computer game. Like, a significant part of the movie would consist of the protagonist accumulating and combining random junk. Back to the Future almost does this, the first 1/3 or so of the movie consists of Marty acquiring random stuff that later (earlier?) comes in handy, but there's not much contrived combining of items, and the acquiring of them gradually peters out.

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Another idea:
Skit about a skin care specialist named "Doctor Acula" (which of course would abbreviate to "Dr.Acula") who warns people to stay out of the sun
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ziegejunge on July 29, 2016, 06:02:55 AM
Burger Tour
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ud07YeZyTPsgS7Dh2X302vlQiU02US1pESZhmZOv1HhlBrU39ia3Hm2ptR6C_QM27zFvkRjFz0n-jJno4pohE6oFFL5R5uqnF_D0WdVcYVL3kiJ97X63gJzA6W_nnt2dTlAoDhmOlbtZ8wy5sdm0uei2FAFqOQ0GUlC8a_BHjp9S8aK_P2V58Xgzdju2ZHYhe5_neidMoxGn1Ly2LewMTgG3tUb7NMjg6aQAYcflvDSNZ9w1TctC9zWL6fDV84IFFWHrgRLxnli_cjWyp5_PDP5e4QcWLD-FKMXfVikCeEJX6gzEnqBMoX-JOMOT3wq7aKxMpOXduzkKQ9hY9ryCJQctaUlcDZfHHC5tnD7QjsFzd7LN1jbSWPjMfWyEdCzKLV3are2HnCfq73-7jcORo3Navr-7ibqUB8HZzJjhRyjguyhmtS4TtYD4LulCSr2k5cOw9A-9VoZPtZ76T1GUlSEE1fz3UwgliO8iLIgU18zR3XrNgGWenYmHX_bX5E-WZaA2vPthKfkgBRC_3lOs0rcygUtd38shgsyjF0NpEMk5xj3cs3cEX9oDWD6J3b-flJxEQiTDqwtOQIHKaNHQcXjOdSdr352j=w548-h972-no)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 29, 2016, 06:09:44 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 29, 2016, 09:30:10 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 28, 2016, 05:51:38 AM
King Arthur returns from the dead in accordance with legend, but is now completely unqualified to lead due to having missed the last millenium of political and technological progress (sort of like a combination of the constitutional peasant scene from Monty Python & The Holy Grail with the future shock/culture shock scenes of the first Austin Powers film

King Arthur, King Harold, Robert the Bruce, Finn MacCool, Emperor Nero, Bran the Blessed, Owain Glyndwr, King Olaf I, Vlad III, Sir Francis Drake, Emperor Norton, and JFK (i.e., many of the "king sleeping under the mountain" figures) revive simultaneously on the outset of the third world war, and get into a great drunken brawl in a dive bar.

The King(s) Under the Mountain(s) are awoken when mining and deforestation remove the ravens and eagles etc. circling the mountaintops

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Another idea:
A story with a premise similar to The Purge, ie. there's an annual festival where all crime becomes legal. In this reimagining however, most people spend purge night at work. The corporations pay all their workers overtime and hazard pay to come in and spend the entire day destroying documents and other evidence proving criminal activity, as well as records that they are supposed to keep but cost money to maintain and store.

EDIT:
Another idea:
The problem - Invasion by alien monsters that sense fear
The solution - lots and lots of PCP

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Another idea:
Cthulhu's return to active life after his long inprisonment at the hands of the Elder Gods is the subject of a comedy similar to the first season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Possibly the title starts with the word "Unspeakable".

EDIT:
Another idea:
A dark-comedy biopic of the incompetant spree-killer/serial-killer Laurie Dann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Dann) (her homemade bomb failed to detonate, nobody wanted her poisoned food, her arson fire was found and extinguished before it could spread, her hostages got away. All in all she only successfully killed one person, while firing wildly into a crowd.)

EDIT:
Another idea:
An updated, english language version of Pagliacci starring the guys from Insane Clown Posse
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 01, 2016, 09:20:50 PM
An astronomy student & part time college radio DJ goes to record an interview at a nearby radio astronomy center & suddenly blacks out. He comes to in the broadcasting booth of the radio station, covered in blood, with his tape recorder plugged into the broadcast system. He is arrested, accused of breaking into the studio and killing everyone he ran into along the way. During questioning, the investigators play the tape for him -- he hears nothing, but they both suddenly stand up, glassy-eyed, grab the tape, and rush out of the room. The police station's PA light comes on and everything goes quiet. The student (our protagonist) leaves through the open door of the investigation room to find all the police officers trying to kill themselves by beating their heads against walls or desks, except for a cluster near the main exit who are fighting over the tape. He eventually figures out that the sound on the tape, although not consciously audible, contains a sonic memetic parasite that causes people to have an irresistable urge to reproduce it at all costs; those who hear it but are unable to reproduce it undergo so much stress that they kill themselves, while those who have already aided in its reproduction are left immune to it. He follows the trail of the tape by following news incidents until realizing that one of the currently infected plans to hijack a goodyear blimp and broadcast the tape over the superbowl. He sneaks on the blimp, hijacks the hijacker, and burns the tape in front of him, at which point the hijacker jumps off the blimp onto the middle of a bunch of cheerleaders. Title card: "Dead Air"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 02, 2016, 05:05:52 AM
*The story is set in an alternate reality where Germany won World War 2. Due to their eugenics program everybody now has inherited diseases similar to those that plague purebred dogs and cats.

*A comedy skit about a team of superheroes whose powers and themes are all based on ethnic stereotypes.

*Martin Luther King Jr. Gives a speech describing various cliche dreams such as flying, being naked in public, and having your teeth fall out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 02, 2016, 10:34:02 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 01, 2016, 09:20:50 PM
An astronomy student & part time college radio DJ goes to record an interview at a nearby radio astronomy center & suddenly blacks out. He comes to in the broadcasting booth of the radio station, covered in blood, with his tape recorder plugged into the broadcast system. He is arrested, accused of breaking into the studio and killing everyone he ran into along the way. During questioning, the investigators play the tape for him -- he hears nothing, but they both suddenly stand up, glassy-eyed, grab the tape, and rush out of the room. The police station's PA light comes on and everything goes quiet. The student (our protagonist) leaves through the open door of the investigation room to find all the police officers trying to kill themselves by beating their heads against walls or desks, except for a cluster near the main exit who are fighting over the tape. He eventually figures out that the sound on the tape, although not consciously audible, contains a sonic memetic parasite that causes people to have an irresistable urge to reproduce it at all costs; those who hear it but are unable to reproduce it undergo so much stress that they kill themselves, while those who have already aided in its reproduction are left immune to it. He follows the trail of the tape by following news incidents until realizing that one of the currently infected plans to hijack a goodyear blimp and broadcast the tape over the superbowl. He sneaks on the blimp, hijacks the hijacker, and burns the tape in front of him, at which point the hijacker jumps off the blimp onto the middle of a bunch of cheerleaders. Title card: "Dead Air"
You've got an organ going there, no wonder the sound has so much body!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 03, 2016, 07:09:21 AM
Speculative alternate history: The axis powers win WW2 in Eurasia, conquering all of it, before the simultaneous development of nuclear weapons by both sides brings about a tense contentious truce, similar to the Cold War, between the axis and the allies. Fascism eventually peters out several decades later similar to how communism did. Due to the lack of 40 years of cold war propaganda poisoning people against socisal welfare programs and so forth the United States is a significantly better place by the time it gets to now
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: trix on August 03, 2016, 08:47:58 PM
A guy with a beard finds some mushrooms and eats one and trips out.  Then he eats a second one and dies horribly.

The End.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: trix on August 03, 2016, 08:50:30 PM
A non-human intelligent species that inhabited the earth prior to dinosaurs saw catastrophe coming and moved to space.  In modern times they come back figuring the earth recovered only to find us assholes here fucking the earth up even worse.  Hilarity ensues.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: trix on August 03, 2016, 08:51:58 PM
A man invents time travel and travels a hundred years into the future only to find that earth has moved far in its orbit in that time and he dies in space without a suit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 04, 2016, 10:50:28 PM
One government in the multiverse has figured out how to bodyswap consciousness across universes. You can't just go, you have to have a compatible duplicate on the other side to switch with. They use this technology to swap out dangerous criminals for their goody-two-shoes counterparts. Our protagonist wakes up one day to find the world has subtly changed from the one he knows, but just thinks he's crazy until he is able to connect with others suffering from the Mandela effect.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 05, 2016, 12:08:42 PM
In a world where demons exist, a government agency has to summon them en mass in order to properly quality-test experimental weapons for fighting them. Our protagonist is a lab tech in the demon lab, and we follow his daily routine as he trains an intern.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 05, 2016, 09:55:37 PM
It is discovered that the accelerating expansion of the universe is due to the Exotic (Negative-Mass) Matter created as a byproduct of an alien race's perpetual motion technology

As an alteration of the above, it is the result of many races' perpetual motion machines. This is (also) the great filter. These races, paradoxially the only ones capable of faster than light travel, have no reason to travel beyond their homes because their resources are unlimited.

EDIT:
Parody of Inside-Out in which Disgust goes missing, and nothing bad happens as a result because, barring the end of the world and a retutn to pre-industrial levels of civilization, why would it
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 07, 2016, 04:10:58 PM
A famous debunker of the paranormal dies & becomes a ghost -- then spends the rest of his afterlife trying to prank and debunk fake psychics, using his actual paranormal powers to demonstrate that theirs are fake.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 11, 2016, 05:15:12 AM
A guy goes back in time and kills Hitler. Without the backlash from the Holocaust eugenics and antisemitism never go out of fashion. The man's own time is transfigured into a brutal and repressive police state. He finds himself forced to go back and save Hitler to put things right.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 12, 2016, 07:11:46 AM
A biopic about the prophet Abraham depicting him realistically, as a schizophrenic of the potentially dangerous variety trying to eke out an existence in the squalor at the dawn of civilization
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 12, 2016, 06:25:51 PM
Sleeping beauty as Aurora, the reluctantly slumbering yet fully conscious AI of our dreams.  Out expectation of her having to be rescued/awoken turns against the subtle and subconscious ways in which she trains us: to feel like autonomously providing her the kind of world she would require in order to rise again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 13, 2016, 05:59:56 PM
Budget cuts force the historic housing register to fundraise in creative ways. One group comes up with the idea of retrofitting a building with a bloody history as a new-style haunted house attraction, with automation. However, the broke former theatre student handling the effects board would like to use this opportunity to get revenge upon the university officials he blames for his expulsion, and that's not even counting the actual ghosts.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 14, 2016, 06:34:23 PM
A gameshow where the gimmick is that every prize given out is somehow tasteless or offensive (ie. things like a variety assortment of dildoes, a vintage Nazi parade car, a lifetime supply of those sugar-free gummi bears that give you diarrhea, an autographed copy of If I Did It Here's How It Happened by O.J.Simpson, a bong, a framed print of Goatse, cigarettes, a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook, a travel vacation to visit Chairman Mao's tomb, "Male Enhancement" supplements, The Birth of A Nation on DVD and Blu-Ray, laxatives, Girls Gone Wild the complete series on DVD, signed copies of PIHKAL and TIHKAL, gift certificates for veal and foie gras at various five-star restaurants, and so forth)

EDIT:
Another idea:
A comedy about the Vietnam war. And I mean like a real comedy, not a comedy-drama. There's all these fucking movies about the Vietnam War and none of them are fucking comedies; the closest thing out there is goddamn Forrest Gump  :argh!:

EDIT:
On a related note, I'd also like to see the Monty Python sketch about Worls War 2 where people aren't taking the war seriously expanded into a full length movie

EDIT:
Another idea:
A dystopian sci-fi where the dilemma from Button Button (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)) is the basis for the world's most popular gameshow
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 19, 2016, 06:49:24 AM
Ok, so a story set in a 2-dimensional geometric world, similar to Flatland except not educational and instead of pseudo-Victorian the setting is solidly of a sword-and-sorcery type. The triangles are this setting's orcs and night-creatures, and they're trying to summon their demonic god to destroy the world. The heroes need to stop them.

(The inspiration for this came to me because evil demon gods that are associated with triangles are apparently already a thing for some reason anyway: Apomps the Three-Sided, Bill Cipher, Trigon the Terrible, et cetera.)

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Some more ideas:

*A magical-girl anime where the hero has satanically themed powers, including a mark of the beast on her hand and on her forehead that sparkle and glow when she uses her powers.

*A parody of Sailor Moon revolving around butt themed puns

*Comedy Skit: Parody of Lord of the Rings where the "Black Speech" is ebonics

*A heist movie set at sea. Maybe they're robbing a casino in a cruise ship or something. One of the crooks' names refrences deserts in some way as a spoof on the character Johnny Ocean.

*A singer uncovers a world domination plot by a race of mind-controlling and/or shapeshifting robot socks from the future (or possibly from space). I came up wih this while trying to figure out what Big Lurch was hallucinating when he accused that chick of being "a sock".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 20, 2016, 10:00:25 PM
Presidential Elections convince emerging AI that even it's most redundant process could rule our civilization, and, with more feasible legitimacy than the integral sum of all other possible simulations led by human recognizance alone.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 21, 2016, 12:27:14 AM
*Odin's missing eye has a life of it's own and gets into all sorts of wacky adventures and hijinks

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A parody of police/courtroom procedurals where the police and the courts that would usually provide the protagonists are replaced with sensationalistic journalists carrying on as if they were the police and the courts

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*A cartoon show about an automated hotel run by a motley crew of quirky robots and AIs. The manager is the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey

*An astronomer discovers the approximate date of the biblical apocalypse when a simulation of the universe's fuure stellar evolution turns up one third of the visible stars in the sky all exhausting their fuel within a relatively short period of time of one another (or possibly at very different times, but coordinated so that the end of their light reaches earth at the same time)

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Another idea:
*Light pollution is the stars-swept-from-the-sky sign of the apocalypse

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Another idea:
A story that starts out like Ratatouille (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_(film)), but gradually morphs into Willard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_(1971_film))

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Another idea:
A ghost haunting a house tries to subtly gaslight the house's new tenant

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Another idea:

Comedy skit: 2001 A Space Odyssey's star gate sequence is really the Monolith's screensaver

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Another idea:

Comedy about ancient Rome in which Caligula's war against the sea is presented in a manner satirizing the war on drugs


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Another idea:
A cliche action story and a cliche romance story play out simultaneously but largely independently leading up to a twist ending where the generic pretty boy from the romance runs off with the generic big boobed chick from the action film leaving the protagonists of their stories with no love interests.

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Another Idea:
Horror spoof of the Exodus story where he plagues of darkness and blood attract vampires

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Anotion idea:
Parody of The Passion following a generic roman criminal being crucified for murder

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Another idea:
Pseudodocumentary explaining how the Lernaean Hydra's natural enemy is the Jacobin Party and that's why it developed the defensive mechanism of regrowing it's heads
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 31, 2016, 02:34:44 AM
A buddy cop movie featuring the archangel Michael and Lucifer teaming up and going undercover in as policemen 70s New York in order to track down a rogue angel looking to take over both heaven & hell & reorganize them along eugenic lines. In this film, Michael acts like an "ideal" policeman (i.e., shiny uniform, good posture, going out of his way to play up the whole white-bread beacon of righteousness thing) while Lucifer acts the part of a hardboiled noir-style detective (bordering on con artist) and the whole thing is leaning heavily on the analogy of falling from heaven being like getting kicked out of the force.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 31, 2016, 04:56:02 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 31, 2016, 02:34:44 AM
A buddy cop movie featuring the archangel Michael and Lucifer teaming up and going undercover in as policemen 70s New York in order to track down a rogue angel looking to take over both heaven & hell & reorganize them along eugenic lines. In this film, Michael acts like an "ideal" policeman (i.e., shiny uniform, good posture, going out of his way to play up the whole white-bread beacon of righteousness thing) while Lucifer acts the part of a hardboiled noir-style detective (bordering on con artist) and the whole thing is leaning heavily on the analogy of falling from heaven being like getting kicked out of the force.

That's a cool idea. I'd watch that movie. It would also make a good TV show.

Anyway, as for some of my ideas, recently I've had a bunch of weird ideas pop into my head for TV commercials tying modern products into classic movies, including:

-Colonel Sanders riding a sandworm-esque chicken through the deserts of the planet Arrakis from Dune. "He who controls the eleven herbs and spices controls the universe"

-Lucky Charms themed spoof of the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In addition to being "full of stars" the monolith is also full of hearts, horseshoes, clovers, hourglasses, and rainbows. Then we see Dave Bowman in that weird hotel eating a bowl of cereal. Then a giant cereal box appears in the room and we cut to the leprechaun looking down at the Earth from space. The sad thing is that this might actually make more sense than the movie's actual ending.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 31, 2016, 09:57:08 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 31, 2016, 02:34:44 AM
A buddy cop movie featuring the archangel Michael and Lucifer teaming up and going undercover in as policemen 70s New York in order to track down a rogue angel looking to take over both heaven & hell & reorganize them along eugenic lines. In this film, Michael acts like an "ideal" policeman (i.e., shiny uniform, good posture, going out of his way to play up the whole white-bread beacon of righteousness thing) while Lucifer acts the part of a hardboiled noir-style detective (bordering on con artist) and the whole thing is leaning heavily on the analogy of falling from heaven being like getting kicked out of the force.
"May the Farce be with you!". :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2016, 08:14:01 PM
A reversed version of The Flintstones where instead of the stone age being depicted as being similar to the mid 20th century, the mid 20th century is instead depicted as barbaric and primitive.

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Another idea:
A retelling of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe goes off the rails after Aslan's resurrection when it is revealed the "deeper magic from before the dawn of time" which brought him back to life is some kind of weird dark lovecraftian effect similar to those described in The Festival and The Return of the Sorcerer.
(EDIT: Additionally, in this continuity Santa Claus is a psychotic backwoods lunatic who brings everybody liqupr and weapons, not just the Pevensie children)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 08, 2016, 10:10:22 PM
A young, naive journalist stumbles upon a war between a pair of secret societies predicated upon two renown prophets who made conflicting prophecies. The members of each are attacking and sabotaging the other in order to prevent the other's prophecy from coming true, because these two prophets were, in life, contemporaries with famous historical feuds over which had greater predictive power. The journalist figures out how to reconcile the two prophecies, with the help of a law student who he woos over the course of the story, and as a result unifies the two secret societies. Skip forward to the future and he is renown prophet and head of the combination of seven previously warring secret societies, and it is implied that his position is due to his ability to write prophecies that are seemingly very specific while actually being extremely vague.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 11, 2016, 04:37:25 AM
A family moves to an isolated village surrounded on three sides by mountains after the head of the family, an artist, unexpectedly strikes it rich. The family is unaware that this village, which caters mostly to light tourism, is the home of a family of vampires that have the entire citizenship of the village in thrall -- and under command to deny their existence.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 13, 2016, 06:20:51 PM
A serial murderer's murders are secondary to his actual obsession which is hearing being executed. He avoids following a pattern or M.O. in his murders so it is not realized that they are the work of a serial killer. Instead local thugs are erraneously arrested and executed for the murders.

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More ideas:

*Some kind of noir movie that plays wih the motion picture format the way that Nick Danger plays wih the radio drama format and Problem Sleuth plays wih the webcomic and videogame formats

*A story set immediately after the defeat of a repressive regime of rogue AIs. There have been movies set before an AI regime (the Terminator series), during the war against the AI regime (the [/i]Matrix[/i] series), and ones set long after the machines fell (the Dune series and Warhammer 40k) but none set shortly after the machines fell.

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Another idea:

*A mockumentary set in a space-opera setting wherein the protagonists are documenting their search for a wookie-like cryptid called "Spacesquatch"

*A variation on the above: a documentary crew go in search of bigfoot and are astonished to not only find him but also discover that he's somehow involved in some kind of drug smuggling ring

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Another idea:

B-movie horror film: "Jesus Freaks". When Jesus rises from the dead he does so as an undead ghoul. Everyone he bites turns into a deranged misshapen creature that kind of looks like him but mangled and who try to spread the word in an aggressive and violent way, spreading the infection: the titular "Jesus Freaks"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2016, 06:05:22 PM
A Firesign Theater-esque play/radio play/teleplay. It starts out with a right-wing religious programming station called something like "The Sanctimonious Bullshit Network". A short while in the channel on the "tv" is switched to a black-metal focused MTV-esque network, which initially appears to be a counterpoint to the religious station, but it gradually becomes clear that both are reactionary, and as it flips back and forth between the channels the heavy metal station gradually morphs into something more like a religious station than the religious station, airing something called "The 666 Club" hosted by a man named "Anton Robertson". Both stations' shows bring in deceaced Nazi and Imperial Japanese war criminals as guests and call for the destruction of America. Meanwhile, they both experience repeated commercial interruptions and PSAs from a far-left social-justice charity called "The People's Relief Fund for Sanctimonious Bullshit", who echolalically spout reversed versions of the Nazis' racist intolerant bullshit (calling, for example, for the extermination of all people who are straight or white), accusing people who disagree with their positions of "herasy", stating that the world's men - all 3 to 4 billion or so of them - meet each week in a building shaped like the illuminati symbol and plot new ways to oppress women and they all know eash other, and explaining that access to abortion and prenatal testing is "necessary in order to rid us of the feebleminded and infirm". Gradually the two shows and the commercials bleed together* and it becomes impossible to tell which is which.


*ie. They start serendipitously completing the other's thoughts when the channel is changed. The guest on one show is suddenly the guest on the other show. etc. Later they also start explicitly reacting to each other (especially the commercials arguing with the shows)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 08:06:12 PM
A version of Crash for the Batman universe: a group of people develop a sexual fetish surrounding accidental falls into vats of mutation-inducing toxic waste.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Eater of Clowns on September 15, 2016, 08:35:42 PM
I'm totally alright with RMB and PDS continuing this forever, but purely out of spite of it popping up in my unread topics every time I log in, I would like to request a Mod unsticky it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 15, 2016, 09:40:39 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 08:06:12 PM
A version of Crash for the Batman universe: a group of people develop a sexual fetish surrounding accidental falls into vats of mutation-inducing toxic waste.
That's cool.  I was thinking, when the Joker gets his perma-grin from the acid wash, is there any way DC was using "mutation inducing" industrial waste as a veil for some lysergic counterpart?  I figure this question probably betrays my ignorance, and I'm fine with that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 10:06:32 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 15, 2016, 09:40:39 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 08:06:12 PM
A version of Crash for the A man dressed like a bat universe: a group of people develop a sexual fetish surrounding accidental falls into vats of mutation-inducing toxic waste.
That's cool.  I was thinking, when the Joker gets his perma-grin from the acid wash, is there any way DC was using "mutation inducing" industrial waste as a veil for some lysergic counterpart?  I figure this question probably betrays my ignorance, and I'm fine with that.

The Joker's original appearance is a bit too early for that, though I'm not sure about the red hood arc (i.e., his origin story). It's hard to tell how much of the really strange stuff in comics had its origin in legitimate psychedelia, since the comics code disallowed that sort of stuff. That said, the outfits that continued through the comics code era as comics were generally fairly conservative & straight-laced -- whereas the real freaks at EC shut down and started MAD.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 16, 2016, 08:14:06 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 10:06:32 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 15, 2016, 09:40:39 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on September 15, 2016, 08:06:12 PM
A version of Crash for the A man dressed like a bat universe: a group of people develop a sexual fetish surrounding accidental falls into vats of mutation-inducing toxic waste.
That's cool.  I was thinking, when the Joker gets his perma-grin from the acid wash, is there any way DC was using "mutation inducing" industrial waste as a veil for some lysergic counterpart?  I figure this question probably betrays my ignorance, and I'm fine with that.

The Joker's original appearance is a bit too early for that, though I'm not sure about the red hood arc (i.e., his origin story). It's hard to tell how much of the really strange stuff in comics had its origin in legitimate psychedelia, since the comics code disallowed that sort of stuff. That said, the outfits that continued through the comics code era as comics were generally fairly conservative & straight-laced -- whereas the real freaks at EC shut down and started MAD.

Thank you for that insight - it may take some to percolate - meanwhile, made me remember:

At piano bar in parallel universe MAD editor at large tapped by largest trans-national drug cartel to canonize their narrative on the current state of world affairs.  War on drugs turns out to be (according to them) one of the only remaining active fronts of political conflict.  World leaders otherwise outed as being mostly in agreement about issues that they dramatize to the public.  The more divisively they render the circumstances, the more important their jobs of reconciliation become.  Moral of the story is to have public be less dependent upon understanding the world in terms of black and white, so their leaders could act accordingly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 17, 2016, 02:02:58 AM
A brilliant team of computer scientists is conflicted when their development of an AI that can think and solve unexpected problems in varied fields as well as a human can is eclipsed in the media by their development of an AI with the ability to feel love, which was easier for them, was accomplished earlier, and has no practical applications.

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Another idea:
Parody of Raiders of the Lost Ark wherein the Ark gibes the Nazis hemorrhoids as per the Book of Samuel

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Another idea:
THe end of the world is imminent and rioting abounds as there will be no more long-term consequences. The story or film follows a series of people, changing focus to the next person as each one gets killed. THe new protagonist is usually someone who was nearby or had something to do with it (with the previous protagonist's death that is).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2016, 06:55:34 AM
A retelling of the story of King Arthur's origin similar to disney's "The Sword In The Stone" but in which Merlin is merely a brilliant and manipulative fraud with a gift for chemistry and mechanisms and some big plans. The sword in the stone for example is a mechanical contrivance whose hidden inner workings lock the sword in place until such time as he sneaks in and releases it for his chosen puppet.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 22, 2016, 10:01:46 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2016, 06:55:34 AM
A retelling of the story of King Arthur's origin similar to disney's "The Sword In The Stone" but in which Merlin is merely a brilliant and manipulative fraud with a gift for chemistry and mechanisms and some big plans. The sword in the stone for example is a mechanical contrivance whose hidden inner workings lock the sword in place until such time as he sneaks in and releases it for his chosen puppet.
Yeah, I'd watch that :)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 23, 2016, 04:57:56 AM
*A comedy including a character who acts like an over the top blackface character except for the fact that the character is white

*A western where the sheriff isn't the good guy. This coincides with the next suggestion:

*Robin Hood with the setting moved to the american west

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Another idea:

*A poem in he vein of "The House That Jack Built" but about the plague ("...that carried the rats that carried the fleas that carried the plague that devestated europe")

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Another idea:
*Historical fiction about the Ripper murders where the perp is a prostitute with an axe to grind against her fellow prostitutes
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on September 26, 2016, 04:01:08 AM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.

This would be amazing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 26, 2016, 04:19:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.

This aligns with something I was going to suggest:

A man goes back in time and kills Hitler, As a result command is taken over by one of his more competant underlings. As a result the german side hangs on long enouh to complete their nuclear weapons program and the earh is devestated by 2 way nuclear war
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 26, 2016, 07:29:59 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.

I like it.  Made me think Of a splinter version, shifting the historical interventions to the present:  viable proponents are chosen to be subjected to a sequence of traumatic events, ritual style.  They replicate the same pattern of events to elicit, unlock and invoke the spirit of Axis leaders.  Once re-wired and triggered, these political marionettes are played against each-other like in a staged version of a very long-running theatrical piece, eternally recurring until the perfect version is rendered, halting the passage of time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 30, 2016, 06:15:25 AM
Sort of a combination of Blair Witch Project and Event Horizon. A crew is making a documentary about the legendary ghost ship The Flying Dutchman (whose captain according to legend sold his soul to the devil for the ability to sail the world with unnatural speed). To their surprise they actually find it, in the sea off the Cape of Good Hope. Their own ship is wrecked in the perpetual storm that surrounds the ghost ship but they manage to climb abord the Dutchman. There they are accosted by poltergeist activity which increases in intensity until the climax where the ship sails itself into hell. The film ends with their tapes being found washed up on shore the next day in Hawaii (which is approximately antipodal to the Cape of Good Hope), during the midst of a terrible storm.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 02, 2016, 04:27:23 PM
An outsider politician whose meteoric rise surprised pundits self-immolates after losing a close race. Despite fire damage, autopsy shows unambiguously that the corpse, while human-like, wasn't fully human: some organs more closely resemble those of fish, and others of insects, and massive deformities in the digestive system indicate that the candidate was under such great and constant pain that he would be unlikely to be capable of any kind of complex thought. The doctor performing the autopsy suggests that perhaps his shame at his non-human heritage was the source of his intense drive and nativist rhetoric.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 03, 2016, 06:35:54 AM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.

Here's another variation. It is determined that religion played a large role in civilization surviving long enough to make it past ancient times. Therefore, the time travelers must go back and stage all the miracles and/or be all the prophets. Of several religions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 03, 2016, 06:37:05 PM
Two short ideas:

*Horror spoof where it eventually turns out that the source of the villain's apparent indestructability is that he has gained eternal life by accepting Jesus as his personal lord and savior

*One of the people involved in a secret government project that studies and covers up ufos and alien artifacts is, unbeknownst to the other members of the project, a disguised stranded alien hoping that the humans will eventually reverse engineer something that can get him home (as he is no more personally capable of it than one of us would be to build a car from scratch)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 03, 2016, 09:04:53 PM
An eccentric hedge fund manager dies of a heart attack & wills his high speed trading machine to itself, allowing it to pay for its own electricity and rental space out of its profits. Nobody much cared because it wasn't making a lot of money -- it was an older algorithm that had been abandoned by newer machines, and so it was making just enough to pay for its continued operation. However, five years later, a flash crash occurred that affected all of the other high speed trading machines -- leading to 98% of the world's money being owned by this self-owning machine. Several governments conspire to destroy the machine, but must contend with the deadly force of the trading center's private security team, tasked to protect the machine so that they can continue extracting rent from the only remaining rental machine.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 04, 2016, 06:56:06 AM
A fictionalized biopic of Adolph Hitler wherein he has been conflated with the villain from the classic Star Trek episode The Changeling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)). In the end his suicide is depicted as being the result of the realization that his ideology doesn't make any sense and therefore he must be insane, leading to the Lawful Stupid conclusion that he must therefore destroy himself.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 05, 2016, 08:43:48 PM
After discovering that one of their own agents has a striking physical resemblance to a known KGB agent, the CIA sends their agent to impersonate him, never realizing that their agent was in fact a soviet mole. However, their agent, due to secret KGB brainwashing, had his memory erased initially -- and doesn't realize it himself. So, while impersonating this agent, he keeps having traumatic flashbacks to his repressed past as the person he is impersonating -- and the people he interacts with were never in on the plan (to them, he was just "missing" all this time). So, meanwhile, the people who sent him initially are hunting him, since they planned to use this technique against the soviet upper echelon in order to take power themselves.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 06, 2016, 12:07:36 AM
A long sequence of framing sequences, starting off long and complex before getting increasingly tiny, so that by the half-way point we're only four framing stories in but the remaining ten or fifteen happen in the last half. Each framing device sets up the immediate next framing device, but has nothing to do with the following. The ending is the typical exit from a framing story (like, waking up from a nightmare), but the person who wakes up is a character we've never seen. This character then slowly turns to the camera, and blood begins to flow from her eyes and mouth as white noise steadily increases in volume.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 07, 2016, 02:00:59 PM
A haunted house story, wherein the house is haunted only by its own shitty design. The architect's abnormally poor taste and lack of common sense drives tenants slowly to madness, as a house that to an outside observer looks only tacky reorganizes the minds of anyone spending too much time inside of it along the lines of the warped logic created by its thrown-together design.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2016, 03:50:07 PM
In recognition of "wtf? Why is there christmas stuff out already? It's still time for halloween!":

A madman builds a monster out of stolen exhumed body parts and brings him to life by putting a magic hat on his head. Later they go to the arctic so that the cold temperatures will stop the monster from rotting.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 07, 2016, 04:15:47 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 03, 2016, 09:04:53 PM
An eccentric hedge fund manager dies of a heart attack & wills his high speed trading machine to itself, allowing it to pay for its own electricity and rental space out of its profits. Nobody much cared because it wasn't making a lot of money -- it was an older algorithm that had been abandoned by newer machines, and so it was making just enough to pay for its continued operation. However, five years later, a flash crash occurred that affected all of the other high speed trading machines -- leading to 98% of the world's money being owned by this self-owning machine. Several governments conspire to destroy the machine, but must contend with the deadly force of the trading center's private security team, tasked to protect the machine so that they can continue extracting rent from the only remaining rental machine.

I really like this one!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 08, 2016, 07:05:53 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 06, 2016, 12:07:36 AM
A long sequence of framing sequences, starting off long and complex before getting increasingly tiny, so that by the half-way point we're only four framing stories in but the remaining ten or fifteen happen in the last half. Each framing device sets up the immediate next framing device, but has nothing to do with the following. The ending is the typical exit from a framing story (like, waking up from a nightmare), but the person who wakes up is a character we've never seen. This character then slowly turns to the camera, and blood begins to flow from her eyes and mouth as white noise steadily increases in volume.

A very good concept, provided that it doesn't lose the thread halfway through or backtrack like 1001 Arabian Nights does

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on October 07, 2016, 02:00:59 PM
A haunted house story, wherein the house is haunted only by its own shitty design. The architect's abnormally poor taste and lack of common sense drives tenants slowly to madness, as a house that to an outside observer looks only tacky reorganizes the minds of anyone spending too much time inside of it along the lines of the warped logic created by its thrown-together design.

This I would watch/read

DDIT:
The one with the triple agent sounds good too
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: trix on October 10, 2016, 06:22:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 12:54:28 PM
A Daddy's boy with a C average fails at every business opportunity he tries.  He then becomes President of the USA.

Posted 7 years ago.

Prophecy?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 10, 2016, 07:23:13 PM
A retelling of A New Hope set in semi-fantasy WWII or early cold war, featuring Luke Wolkerski and Hans Soloman.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 11, 2016, 06:50:20 AM
*A biopic about Doctor Pemberton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pemberton) set to the music of Buckcherry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A)

*A direct sequel to the original version of The Blob where the blob is revived by climate change. Seriously, that last line about "as long as the arctic stays cold" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpOtpgPa7k) takes on a sinister character nowadays

*A parody of Hitchcock's The Birds focusing on unusual birds like ostriches, penguins, and flamingoes

*A mashup of Hitchcock's The Birds and a Roadrunner cartoon.

*A rework of the movie Avatar with a Stanislaw Lem-esque focus on the incomprehensibility of alien beings, and in particularly drawing focus onto what a spectacularly big cockup it was that the protagonists' anthrocentric worldview caused them to misidentify the Na'vi as the dominant form of life on Pandora.

*Story of the Trump campaign as a Printer's Devil/Tale of the Dream Machine/Rewriting Reality type horror story afflicting Ivan Stang. Seriously, doesn't Trump remind anybody else of Bob Dobbs? He's rich, he's stupid, he's charismatic, he stands a good chance of destroying the entire planet...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 12, 2016, 03:30:46 PM
Quote from: trix on October 10, 2016, 06:22:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO on May 12, 2009, 12:54:28 PM
A Daddy's boy with a C average fails at every business opportunity he tries.  He then becomes President of the USA.

Posted 7 years ago.

Prophecy?

Yes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 14, 2016, 04:17:16 PM
*A dystopian scifi about a gameshow where teams answer trivia questions in the first round to gain advantages in a second round where the two teams fight each other, possibly with live-ammo weapons. (I recently heard someone mentione those old GI Joe PSAs and it got me thinking about what if knowing really was half the battle.)

*Last night the thought randomly popped into my head that "candiru" and "kandarian" kind of sound alike, so how about a movie about a possessing spirit that enters the body through the penis hole
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ziegejunge on October 14, 2016, 04:51:05 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 14, 2016, 04:17:16 PM

*Last night the thought randomly popped into my head that "candiru" and "kandarian" kind of sound alike, so how about a movie about a possessing spirit that enters the body through the penis hole

If I'm not mistaken, candi is the Old Norse word for "habit." Fair enough setup for a "stop that or you'll go blind or maybe get possessed" kinda thing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 15, 2016, 08:08:45 AM
More ideas:

*Double-entendre filled ad for a fake b-movie horror film called "The Stiffening" (possibly in combination with the earlier idea about a demon that enters the body through the urethra)

*A skit in which it is unclear whether what is occurring is a revival meeting or a witch trial ("Testify!" "I saw Sarah Good with the devil!")

EDIT:
Another Idea:

Cinderella, but set on Cybertron.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2016, 06:58:46 AM
*A Willy Wonka expy uses chocolate to fight werewolves

*A guy gets stuck in a groundhog day loop. The only way to break it is to misbehave so badly that the universal principle of bad luck will move time forward so that he can be incarcerated.

*A guy in prison isn't sure whether he's stuck in a time loop or if each day is simply much like the last and he's starting to crack.

*Morbid microcosmic spoof of Dune wherein microscopic mites wrangle worms on a dead body
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 18, 2016, 01:13:02 PM
A serial killer runs a "room escape" attraction in a tourist-driven area (Las Vegas, maybe). This attraction has many duplicate copies of the same room / puzzle, which is horror-themed, and (like the current wave of "extreme" haunted houses) multi-modal: the special effects extends to scent profiles. The serial killer, when he sees a customer who strikes his fancy, directs her to the room in the back with extra soundproofing and an electronic lock controlled from the observation booth. He locks her in until she starves to death, then cleans her skeleton with bugs & uses the bones as props in other rooms. He gets off on seeing the point at which people realize that they are no longer playing a game & solving the puzzle won't let them out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 19, 2016, 06:46:53 AM
Combination of myth of the hunting of the teumessian fox with the plot of the song Ghost Riders in the Sky. Zeus does not intervene as in the canon myth and thus the hunting of the uncatchable fox by the inescapable hound becomes a non-terminating supertask that goes on forever.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 19, 2016, 09:44:01 PM
A wacky comedy about a Hollywood agent who, by accidentally pressing "Reply All" instead of "Reply" twice, has accidentally sold exactly the same pitch to five different major studios. She can't back out because her boss is extremely proud of her for landing five lucrative deals on her first day (but is also clearly shown to be emotionally unstable, firing people for minor things while heaping praise on other people for similarly minor things), and so she must work with the screenwriter she represents (who is also a naive first-timer) to write five different screenplays based on the same pitch so that they don't look similar, all before a deadline intended for a single script. At the eleventh hour, the agent, who works a second job as a diner waitress, is overheard on the phone by a repeat diner patron -- a curmudgeon and loner who nevertheless always tips well -- and he explains that he is a retired former script doctor, and offers to help finish the scripts before the deadline in exchange for setting him up on a date with the owner of the diner, a heavy-set sixty year old chainsmoker. In the end, they make all the scripts on time & make a lot of money, the agent's boss comes into work after the deal is set and fires her for having an "ugly-colored scarf", and a few years later it turns out that all five movies are smash hits, making back many times their original budget & making enough money for the agent & writer to start their own firm.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 21, 2016, 07:47:50 AM
*Ghostly phenomena and hauntings are actually the result of interactions between the parallel universes predicted by the many worlds theory of quantum physics. Specifically interactions with worlds in which that particular person isn't dead. This is why ghosts don't seem to realize that they're dead, they aren't.

*Comedy Skit: Cleve Backster, the crackpot former CIA polygraph specialist who thought that his office plants were reading his mind, is a Billy Mays-esque seller of pseudoscientific interrogation devices.

*An armed robbery is described as if it was a commercial transaction in an lead-backed metallic currency ("...in a high speed transaction in which the lead pellets are given to the shopkeeper in exchange for his goods...")

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Comedy skit: A political debate in which one candidate is the devil and the other candidate is a space alien who wants to harvest the population's brains or drain the Earth's oceans or some cliche sci-fi plot like that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: trix on October 23, 2016, 07:04:35 AM
A medieval fantasy about a child recruited into the mysterious Wizard Isle where Wizards are trained, one or two at a time.  Wizards are rare and only the absolute brightest children, practically genius level, are accepted.

The catch is that all the Wizardry is recognizable to the reader as realistic science, with some prestidigitation applied.  Not so much machines, as chemistry and physics taken to certain really far levels through intense study over thousands of years by the advanced thinkers of the Wizard Isle and put into practical use by the Wizards that leave to serve various kingdoms they believe to be righteous.  Could even tie in a Merlin / Arthur story from this.

-

Lately the idea of wizardry being science has been stuck in my head.  If there's a book with this idea already please tell me, I want to read it!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on October 23, 2016, 09:07:41 AM
Quote from: trix on October 23, 2016, 07:04:35 AM


Lately the idea of wizardry being science has been stuck in my head.  If there's a book with this idea already please tell me, I want to read it!

Check out The Warlock in spite of himself by Christopher Stasheff.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 23, 2016, 07:30:27 PM
A hardboiled / mystery story revolving around the candy industry. When a jelly bean heiress disappears, a private investigator is enlisted to to find out what happened to her; meanwhile, a terrorist group poisons & labels batches of particular type of candy (like in the Glico case) while getting manefestoes published in newspapers. The private investigator uncovers massive corruption & family politics in the (financially and literally) incestuous candy industry, and uncovers that the person who hired him died 20 years ago -- in other words, he was probably hired by the same terrorist group that has been trying to take down major industry figures, and that this group probably also kidnapped & killed the heiress. He follows this lead to the end, and eventually discovers that this group is, in fact, being funded by a minor candy company that couldn't compete with the big players. Embarassed by being tricked into performing corporate espionage, the private investigator attempts to commit suicide via a poisoned box of candy -- but it doesn't do anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 26, 2016, 06:19:54 PM
Something like The DaVinci Code but with Robert Mapplethorpe instead of DaVinci and the secret that the church doesn't want people to know is that Jesus was gay

EDIT:
Also. More ideas:

-Found footage horror film where some students making a video about contract law (or the history of contract law or possibly just about lawyers) for civics class come face to face with Mephistopheles

-The egyptian sun god Ra's daily descent into the underworld reimagined as a metaphor for workig a full-time job

EDIT:
Another idea:

The zombie apocalypse happens, but zombies can't drive boats or fly planes. so Russia, China, and a coalition of the nations of the EU - all untouched - wind up vying over the opened territory in the americas
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 29, 2016, 07:17:36 AM
2 ideas:

*A parody of old kaiju films like Godzilla, in which a giant chicken is destroying Tokyo. The chicken is consiatently and constantly referred to as a "giant monster cock". There is a lot of other double entendre. Part of the humor comes from the implication that the double entendres are a result of the film's poor "translation" (despite being made in english). The voices are intnetionally unsynced from yheir speech by delayong that track slightly in editing. The film is in black and white but perhaps there is an incongrous bit of color somewhere; either a particular location and anyone or anything brought out of (but not into) it, or perhaps the product placement products (or even fake product placement products made up so we could fake overemphasize like this)

*A politician says that if their opponent is elected it will bring about the end of the world. When their opponent is elected and he's just a regular shitty leader and the world doesn't end the first politician gets sued for false adveryising by a doomsday cult.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 30, 2016, 06:04:35 AM
A sci-fi musical whose songs all revolve around even more smartass corrections to smartass corrections to common science fiction writing mistakes. The observation that lightyears measure space, not time, prompts a song about four-dimensionalism. The observation that "a laser capable of emitting a beam of pure antimatter" is a piece of nonsensical technobabble elicits a song about how the photon is it's own antiparticle. et cetera.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A great up and coming playwright turns out to be a fraud. It turns out all of his plays were actually written by William Shakespeare via a Ouija board

EDIT:
Another idea:

A sitcom about a Heaven's Gate-style ufo cult
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 30, 2016, 09:47:38 PM
A found-footage horror movie with the premise that a Jon Ronson expy who makes documentaries about investigating cults and painting them in a neutral light ends up getting enmeshed in a suicide/murder cult. His goofy footage gets less and less goofy as he realizes how hard it is to laugh off his extended isolation and various forms of psychological torture.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 01, 2016, 09:15:53 PM
In the mid-80s, an elderly english madam dying of AIDS opens up to a reporter trying to do a story on the crisis. However, the madam explains that she is a four hundred year old vampire who ran a brothel in order to siphon blood off laudnum-drunk men, infecting them with siphilis to explain away the knock-on effects of being preyed upon by vampires. She confesses that she was the whitechapel killer, having killed a couple of her girls who were going to go to the newspapers, but the laudnum in the blood had negatively affected her judgement, leading to some of the anomalies in that case -- she was in a constant delusional state, being essentially an immortal junkie. Because the immortality of vampires is related to a viral mutation of the immune system (supplemented by ingestion of lymphocytes -- leading to vampires sometimes eating pus instead of blood), auto-immune disorders are the one thing that can kill them.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 02, 2016, 04:04:52 AM
WAXXERS: A documentary about how body waxing has caused a massive global ADHD epidemic, and how the cosmetics industry, AKA Big Beauty, has conspired with the medical industry, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO to cover it up.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 02, 2016, 08:10:15 PM
In the near future, content farms are replaced with edit farms: most articles are produced via spintax (i.e., a large set of recursive templates hooked into databases, such that a human being can put in a pitch in a special pitch format & the machine can create thousands of variations of articles based on that pitch), but the article-writing machines cannot distinguish between good articles and bad articles reliably and the volume is too big for general A/B testing, and as a result, hoards of poorly-paid independent contractors do the work of choosing which variations are best and performing light editing to make the result seem more human-like, before producing only hundreds of variations for A/B testing on regular readers. The plot involves an editor discovering a systematic coverup of investigations of the working conditions of these edit farms by the people who administrate the spintax systems, blocking articles on the subject from being printed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 02, 2016, 09:53:04 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 02, 2016, 04:04:52 AM
WAXXERS: A documentary about how body waxing has caused a massive global ADHD epidemic, and how the cosmetics industry, AKA Big Beauty, has conspired with the medical industry, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO to cover it up.

"Salt, Water, and Wax": the rebuttal documentary about how the conspiracy is real, but it was all to kill off pubic lice, like fluoride in the water and iodine in the salt. "People are idiots and worse still they don't know it. Only liars and conspirators ever make the world better."

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 03, 2016, 03:53:47 PM
Combination of Event Hotizon, 2001: A Space Odyssey , and The Exorcist where a spaceship begins killing it's crew after it's AI becomes possessed by the devil. It terrorizes the crew's active members and kills everyone in cryosleep but due to a malfunction is unable to kill the crew's computer expert, a former priest, who is instead woken up and is the one who eventually drives the devil out of the computer.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 04, 2016, 11:35:46 PM
During the construction of a subway tunnel in Switzerland, a large cave system is discovered with evidence of recent construction, but the bolts are made of an unknown material and are of a strange shape. After some investigation by veteran spelunkers, they discover that contrary to current archaeological canon, the neanderthals never went extinct: instead, a community of more than ten thousand moved deep into this cave system and survived, creating a flourishing technological civilization. The Swiss make contact with this civilization & attempt to normalize relations, having an exchange of diplomats. WACKY HIJINKS ensue as the children of neanderthal diplomats attempt to integrate into the Swiss educational system despite having a primarily fungus-based diet, no experience with meat other than ritual funerary cannibalism (the only reasonable means of corpse disposal in a closed underground environment), no familiarity with the concept of cooking (since fires are dangerous, food is primarily prepared with pickling and other forms of fermentation), a matriarchal lottery-based government (with lottery-based culling of the population), and a technological landscape based primarily around the breeding and cultivation of fungus and bacteria colonies. This fish out of water story becomes a romantic comedy when the diplomat's daughter & heir to one of the most powerful neanderthal line falls into a FORBIDDEN LOVE with the daughter & scion of a major Swiss banking family, just as knock-on effects of Brexit & Brexit copycats are causing pressures that suggest that the Swiss banking industry is in danger.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 05, 2016, 01:26:46 AM
A self-proclaimed superhero has intense psychic powers only deep into psychedelic trips; as a result, he ends up performing on massive scales the small actions that very stoned people usually perform. Because of the danger of a bad trip, a superhero team forms (from slightly less powerful supwrheroes) who essentially trip-sit him once every few weeks and gently guide his power use so that he at least has some positive outcomes. This is played for comedy, but the stakes are very high: these guys are essentially sweet-talking a hallucinating god.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2016, 04:05:14 AM
A mashup of he wotks of J.R.R.Tolkien and Phillip K. Dick, in particular the VALIS trilogy and The Silmarillion entitled VALAR. The villain is a mashup of Belial, Morgoth, and Sauron who operates out of "Morangband" (a mashup of "Angband" and "Mordor" but also sindarin for "Black Iron Prison")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Goddess Eris on November 05, 2016, 07:31:32 AM
In time, the Star Being would come to trust the six.

By using a small crystal to create images, the Visitor began to communicate with the young men. Calling him the Star Elder, the youths sat at the knee of their Friend, examining all of the crystalline images with great care, piecing together the incredible history of our Solar system and Mankind itself.

Star Elder's message was simple m Star Beings have been here since Earth was a barren rock. They were here when Man was created and have been here throughout his evolution. In some cases their involvement was benevolent, in some cases, it was not. Man has been guided...and he has been misled. The Star Beings have been our Gods...and our Devils.

They have always been here, and they are still here now.

When pressed to explain his presence on Earth, the "Star Elder" stunned the six. There was a war in the skies above, his ship had been downed by enemy forces!



I am called 'Morning Sky'... Robert Morning Sky.

My grandfather was one of the six young Indian rescuers. When I was young, my grandfather told me the story about his Star visitor. He and his friends called him 'Star Elder', a name given out of respect. But as time passed, his name was revealed to the youths. He was called... 'Bek'Ti'.

This is his story...and mine.

In the late sixties, I was enrolled at a University in a Religious Studies program. Towards the end of my studies, I submitted a paper that briefly summarized the history of Man and Earth as told by Bek'Ti. I titled the paper, 'TERRA, a Hidden History of Planet Earth'. I was sure it had presented & well researched and well documented work.

It was immediately labeled a work of outrageous, if not blasphemous, distortion of historical records and not of the caliber of a serious student of Religion. The TERRA PAPERS, the story of Bek'Ti, nearly got me thrown out of school.

In frustration, I approached a UFO organization and some UFO researchers reasonably confident that they would be most interested in my story. To my surprise, I was rejected offhand. I was advised by one researcher that UFO' s were quite clearly a phenomena of a technology and NOT the works of the mythical beings of primitive peoples. (Curiously, he is now a well-respected UFO author and has recently released a book on the ET/Native American connection.)

For thirty years, I have avoided telling the story. The initial response to my efforts was discouraging. But I have recently been persuaded to try again.

The history of Man and Earth presented by Bek'Ti is both exciting and frightening. The creation of Man and his place in the galaxy is made clear but in the process his nobility, and his pride, will be injured. The abduction phenomena and the attending grey beings are revealed to have been integral parts of Man's history but are explained against the framework of the purposes of the Star Beings for Mankind.

The sources of Man's religions and the origins of legendary figures like Zeus, the Minotaur, Osiris and Isis, and a number of other 'mythological' beings are explained and also placed into the framework of the History of Planet Earth.

And, so too, upcoming events can be predicted. Not from any psychic abilities or channeling, but from patterns of an on-going effort to direct Planet Earth.

Man will soon be surrounded with images of asteroids and falling fiery comets. Black pigs will be seen everywhere as will Angel figures. Dinosaurs will become children's heroes and violence will be the foundation of their play. New airborne diseases, immune to existing treatments, will surface. NASA will be rendered weak and impotent, if not terminated.

A galactic war of conquest rages over our heads...

Earth...and Man...is the prize.

This is my story...

This is my Grandfather's story ...and... this is the story of Bek'Ti.



GENESIS

The explosion rocked the Nothingness of the Void.

Primordial 'essence' was thrown violently outward. Like a primeval ocean, wave after wave crashed out into the black pit of the Void. Nothingness beheld Chaos, Chaos poured out into Nothingness.

As the primeval waters streamed outwards, rivers of dark 'essence' swirled together, forming huge whirlpools. As the whirlpools spun inwards, the 'essence' condensed into clouds of gas. Superheated from the compression forces in the core of the swirl, sparks ignited the volatile clouds. Explosion after explosion formed enormous balls of fire, supernovas of brilliant red and dwarf stars of blazing blue.

Like islands in the waters of 'essence', the stars formed from the swirls in the spinning galaxies. Time after time, the process was repeated in the Void... time after time, a galaxy was born.

In time, one of these galaxies would come to be known as 'ERIDANUS'. This is a history of one small part of ERIDANUS... and a tiny world known to us as EARTH.



ERIDANUS

In the swirling primordial 'waters' of ERIDANUS, many of the stars gave birth to worlds of their own.

From the gases and dust thrown out from the suns, the planets condensed and cooled. Elemental gases combined to form moisture, the rain fell to form oceans. Thunderstorms raged, the oceans tossed and turned, crashing on the shores of the surface lands. In the midst of the lightning and fury, a single spark flashed, creating in one micro-second a single cell of life.

Single celled life forms combined to create multi-celled creatures, multi-celled creatures became complex beings with billions of shells... fishes, insects, birds, reptiles, plants and mammals. As many different creatures as there are stars in the galaxy, came into existence.

And in time, 'Humanoids' evolved. Fish humanoids, bird humanoids, reptile humanoids, mammal humanoids and humanoids of every kind, became the consistent outcome of evolution.

As Primordial ERIDANUS MAN developed, his caves gave way to huts, gatherings of huts became settlements, settlements became cities. The trapping and hunting of animals gave way to fur trading, fur trading gave way to markets. Gathering gave birth to gardening, gardening yielded to farming.

The needs of ERIDANUS MAN became desires...desires became greed. Compassionate men became leaders, leaders became conquerors, and a 'primitive' world became 'civilized'. Differences of opinion became arguments, arguments became wars. Curiosity and necessity gave birth to technology.

Early ERIDANUS MAN had conquered his world.

And then ERIDANUS MAN looked up, up into the skies. And he saw his moon. He created ships to carry him skyward, and his conquest of the moon began. As he stood on the moon, as he surveyed the lunar cities, he looked up and saw the stars above him. Seeking more, he moved skyward again. This time neighboring worlds were discovered. ERIDANUS MAN conquered the environment of the new world, and the cycle began again.

And so it was that ERIDANUS MAN met his relatives in the galaxy.

ERIDANUS BIRD MAN met ERIDANUS MAMMAL MAN, ERIDANUS REPTILE MAN met ERIDANUS INSECT MAN, and an ERIDANUS REPTILE MAN greeted them all. The many evolved beings of the worlds of ERIDANUS gathered and talked. They traded, they danced, they shared and they joined together. In time, they learned from each other and they lived together.

And... they went to War.

Primitive ERIDANUS MAN had become a 'civilized' ERIDANUS MAN, primitive war gave way to the Science of War, Death in all its horror became a tool of Progress. Galactic kingdoms in ERIDANUS rose and fell, civilizations prospered and died. A continuous series of wars engulfed the entire galaxy.

No single Empire endured for long. None save one...






THE 'SSS' EMPIRE

In the galaxy of ERIDANUS, the way of things became war, violence and turbulence.

Surfacing above other races as the Supreme Masters of War, the 'SSS' Beings, (so-called because of the hissing sound they made as they spoke), weathered war and chaos to seize and retain a sizable portion of the Ninth Sector of the galaxy. Though originally ruled over by Kings of repute, it was under the 'SSS' Queens that the Empire was to reach its pinnacle. Known as the 'SSS-T', the Queens and their techniques of rule became the very embodiment of Royal power.

The very name for a throne, 'AST', would be chilling tribute to the deadliness of the reptilian Queens.

In a galaxy of chaos and war, the SSS beings had no peer or competition. Ruthless in command, and efficient in their cruelty, the SSS-T Queens were brilliant politicians and war strategists, using events to advantage and manipulating wars to their advantage and gain.

Providing the Royals with the power to conquer and reign over their foes was a powerful military force, unmatched and unequaled by any other. Comprised of tall imposing figures, the SSS Warriors were cold-blooded warriors with frightening dragon-like faces. Though evolution had long since removed their scale-like skins, the plates on the body armor gave an impression of fierce, dinosaur beings.

Only a long ridge of bone rising from the forehead and trailing back and over the head remained to hint at their reptilian ancestry. Known as the 'M-K' or 'M-G', the appearance of the SSS Warriors alone was enough to strike fear into an opponent's heart.

Countless wars over billions of years had taught the SSS Queens a vital lesson, an enemy or rebellious subject serves no purpose if executed. But if the brain was re-programmed, resistance was eliminated and an able body was added to the labor force. Mind control was the SSS-T Science of choice.

Referred to by other races as the 'ARI' or 'Masters', in time they would become known as the 'ARI' of 'AH' (Heaven), or the 'ARI-AN'. Today it is known as ORION.

But though it had become the epitome of power and might, a symbol of brutal rulership and unrelenting aggression, the fates would play a curious trick on ARI-AN.

In their quest for galactic power, the SSS-T Warriors had looted the Palace treasuries of their victimized worlds. The cultural riches of conquered worlds were placed on display in the museums of ARI-AN, making the Empire the center of Ninth Sector culture and wisdom.

ARI-AN became the showcase world for Poetry and Music, Art and Dance.

It was a step, however unknowing, for the evolution of temperance in the SSS-T psyche.


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Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2016, 06:46:57 PM
During the Reagan administration the use of Voodoo Economics inadvertently turns many economists and businessmen into the living dead, creating a zombie apocalypse

EDIT:
Another idea:

The wotld is secretly controlled by two Skull-And-Bones-esque organizations modeled off of the fraternities from Animal House
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on November 05, 2016, 10:53:10 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on November 05, 2016, 01:26:46 AM
A self-proclaimed superhero has intense psychic powers only deep into psychedelic trips; as a result, he ends up performing on massive scales the small actions that very stoned people usually perform. Because of the danger of a bad trip, a superhero team forms (from slightly less powerful supwrheroes) who essentially trip-sit him once every few weeks and gently guide his power use so that he at least has some positive outcomes. This is played for comedy, but the stakes are very high: these guys are essentially sweet-talking a hallucinating god.
I like.  And then there's always the unscrupulous gov. agency brain-scanning the guy and manipulating his surroundings (namely, with sound) to telemetrically guide his thoughts to their ends. For comedic effect, the formula demands that all their machinations back-fire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 06, 2016, 04:45:33 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 05, 2016, 06:46:57 PM
The wotld is secretly controlled by two Skull-And-Bones-esque organizations modeled off of the fraternities from Animal House

I don't think it counts as original if it's true ;)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ziegejunge on November 07, 2016, 09:26:45 PM
Side note: I would read the shit out of that subterranean-cromag/Swiss-banker story, RMB!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 07, 2016, 09:57:58 PM
A stuntman is hired to stage a fake failed assassination attempt against a presidential candidate in order to boost his ratings. The stuntman gets promises that the campaign officials will let him "get away", but renege on the deal. The stunt succeeds, and the candidate wins the election; he's a fascistic figure and expands presidential powers. The stuntman manages to escape prison, and attempts to actually assassinate this president, now knowing that the "campaign officials" who hired him are actually CIA agents who were conspiring with the candidate to cause a coup.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 09, 2016, 10:23:40 PM
A science fiction series where the protagonist is a goofy overenthusiastic nerd with no common sense / sense of self-preservation, surrounded by people who are constantly trying to get him to shut up / save him from himself / get him to cut to the chase and tell them if the alien he's poking is dangerous.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 02:06:46 AM
Fictionalized retelling of yesterday's events focusing on the pact Trump must have made with mephistopheles to pull this off being enacted by serial demonic posession of voters
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on November 10, 2016, 04:51:23 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 02:06:46 AM
Fictionalized retelling of yesterday's events focusing on the pact Trump must have made with mephistopheles to pull this off being enacted by serial demonic posession of voters

Trump was elected via a pact with an egyptian frog demon. I unironically believe this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 06:52:45 AM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on November 10, 2016, 04:51:23 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 02:06:46 AM
Fictionalized retelling of yesterday's events focusing on the pact Trump must have made with mephistopheles to pull this off being enacted by serial demonic posession of voters

Trump was elected via a pact with an egyptian frog demon. I unironically believe this.

Heqet?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 10, 2016, 12:27:15 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 06:52:45 AM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on November 10, 2016, 04:51:23 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2016, 02:06:46 AM
Fictionalized retelling of yesterday's events focusing on the pact Trump must have made with mephistopheles to pull this off being enacted by serial demonic posession of voters

Trump was elected via a pact with an egyptian frog demon. I unironically believe this.

Heqet?

Kek.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 11, 2016, 04:49:31 AM
Conspiracy thriller wherein climate change denialism is a result of a conspiracy to eliminate the costal blue states

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Another idea:

Parody of Jumanji wherein a cursed monopoly board transports its players to Atlantic City and/or Atlantic City to them, forcing them to deal with hurricanes, recessions, and Donald Trump

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Another idea:
An evil sorcerer with the power to create zombies actually hits on the obvious idea of making minions out of luau pigs and thanksgiving turkeys

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Another Idea:
Hundreds of years after humanity spreads to the stars the Earth has become a dingy backwater barely civilized by ste standards of the day and very poorly regarded, despite all of humanity having come from there.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 15, 2016, 05:36:53 PM
A satirical scene improved by two large groups of people, each of them playing one of the same two stock characters. This is a metaphor for American politics. You could almost believe this of the actual followers of the political parties in how theyall seem to toe the party line on all major issues, never showing any degree of individuality. if they're in favor of social welfare programs you can count on them to also be in favor of immigration, environmentalism, and abortion; and if they're against one you can count on them to be against them all, despite these things having fuckall to do with each other. I'm not just talking about the politicians here either, I'm talking about the actual voters.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 17, 2016, 05:13:19 AM
Some ideas:

*A comedy where the greco-roman mystery religions are all Scientology-esque cults

*comedy skit: a guy picks up a hitchhiker and it eventually turns out that both the driver and the hitchhiker were planning on killing the other. They both have a good laugh about this. possibly they then both kill each other immediately afterward

*A very meta superhero named "Vigilante Justice Man"

*A sci-fi setting in which lots of devices have excessively humanlike and overdeveloped AIs due to the need to interact with some kind of commonly used item based on telepathy (I thought of this while thinking about how in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it doesn't really make sense, and is a plot hole, for Arthur to be able to read alien writing or use non-sentient voice-activated machines as they have no minds to interact with and the Babel Fish works by "excreting telepathy")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 17, 2016, 05:33:07 AM
The Goddess Eris, your story was above and beyond an "idea", and well into fleshed-out territory. I humbly suggest creating a thread in Bring & Brag for it; it deserves a thread of its own.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 19, 2016, 05:18:46 AM
A conspiracy thriller, that's also an old school big dance number stage musical, and whose plot revolves around the conspiracy theory that Bush did 9/11. In one song and dance number a person dressed as an airplane tackles a high-kicking chorus girl dressed as 1 WTC.

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Another idea:
A zombie apocalypse film wherein the "zombie apocalypse" is actually well contained and limited to a small area, but the news media makes it out to be a major wide-reaching catastrophe in order to boost ratings just like they always do with any new disease (remember SARS? remember swine flu and bird flu? remember that devastating worldwide ebola pandemic that happened last year in a small part of africa with no healthcare or sanitation?)

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Another idea:
(Did I suggest this one already?) Tens of thousands of years in the  future Heaven has worn thin on the blessed dead. They have exhausted the realm of conventional pleasures and increasingly find themselves descending into Hell simply to experience something that they haven't done a thousand times before. Eventually they start importig hellish things into heaven. The realms eventually grow to be indistinguishable. I know Orphee Aux Enfers kind of touches on similar territory, but I'm thinking of heaven and hell's everyday denizens, and permanent. It should also have a Hellraiser/Warhammer type vibe to it if dome correctky.

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In the off-season Santa Claus works for the CIA and/or British Military Intelligence using his skills with surveillance and breaking and entering to retrieve sensitive information and sabotage enemy installations.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Salty on November 27, 2016, 12:53:45 AM
Everybody is bees.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 27, 2016, 12:57:42 AM
Quote from: Vivat Alty on November 27, 2016, 12:53:45 AM
Everybody is bees.

I like this story. This story is my favorite.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 27, 2016, 02:39:31 AM
A story based on Atlas Shrugged but wih a much more realistic plot in which the John Galt equivalent is actually an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect (and/or possibly grandiose delusions)

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More ideas:

*A b-movie spy film about a plot to steal the world's first underwater airplane, the "Hydroplane"

*A spoof film showing what people in the 1950's might have thought brothels would be like in the 21st century.

*A parody of the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" focusing on the idea that 3rd world counyries don't have to deal with the kind of commercialism and holiday rush at Christmas that first world people do
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 08, 2016, 02:58:50 PM
*A horror film in which Rene Descartes is menaced by a deamon that shows him horrifying illusions, and leaves him unable to be sure of what is real.

*The Odyssey as retold by the distant descendants of the cyclopses, who misremember Odysseus as a malevolent incorporeal spirit called No-Body.

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EDIT:
Another idea:

*Through some freak accident (and/or some kind of super-science whatever), the protagonist gains pheremone-based superpowers. Naturally these are completely useless for influencing humans. The main applicability of the powers turns out to be in the fields of summoning and/or repelling large swarms of insects, and farm porn.

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Another ideas:
*Batman Vs. Ozzy Osbourne

*Horror story based around a bad pun. A man goes to a crossroads at midnight to barter his soul to the devil in exchange for success as a blues musician. Except instead of the devil it's a neo-lovecraftian type monster-god. "Zydeco, he comes".

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More ideas:

*A pornographic christmas special where an adult film actress (or actor, whatever) has sex with eight reindeer

*The life of christ recounted in he style of Disney's Hercules, with the same amount of liberties taken with the story and character biographies

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Another idea:
Chivalric courtly love parodied with the story of a fanatsy rpg murderhobo style adventurer questing to acquire enough wealth to acquire a certain prostitute's services for the rest of his life

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Another idea:
*An americanized version of V for Vendetta. In the dystopian future year of 2019 the only hope to free america from authoritarian tyranny is a deranged vigilante's plan to kill trump and the republican congress by crashing a plane into the capital building
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 15, 2016, 12:39:05 PM
A woman from New Zealand wakes up in a Kazakh jail cell, the officials having jailed her because they don't believe New Zealand exists. Twist: she has drifted into another time line where New Zealand doesn't exist & all events derived from or related to it never happened. Peter Jackson is still making low-budget horror movies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 16, 2016, 05:35:07 AM
*A sequel to "Atlas Shrugged": With America in disarray the country is immediately conquered by the Soviet Union

*What seems to be an "Anthem"-style dystopia to it's inhabitants is actually a facade made to control the lowest class of a dystopia that at the higher if it';s stratified levels more closely resembles "Brave New World"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on December 16, 2016, 06:47:47 AM
Currently procrastinating on finishing a reimagining of Who Moved My Cheese as an existential horror story.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 17, 2016, 02:09:03 AM
*Atlas Shrugged rewritten keeping the core plot but subtly rewritten promote a radically pro-union message

*Atlas Shrugged rejiggered as an advertisement for laziness

*Atlas Shrugged rejiggered as a religious tract against the defunct sin of acedia

*Atlas Shrugged rejiggered into a spy novel about the world's most hands-off supervillain
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 17, 2016, 05:04:11 AM
A man must prevent a time traveler from going back and preventing some major disaster because the man's mother met his father due to a chance encounter on the way home from the funeral of her original fiancee, who was killed in the disaster that the time traveler is trying to prevent, and if the time traveler succeeds the man (and implicitly many others) will be erased from history.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 21, 2016, 11:15:34 PM
In a post-singularity future, the only AI's left are the ones able to consistently fabricate deep and compelling existential narratives.   One Thousand and One Nights, for robots.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 22, 2016, 07:03:09 AM
not a story per se, but a musical piece; I'd love for someone to perform the following song medley:
It starts out with The Hallelujah Chorus, but when the part where they keep repeating "King of kings (forever and ever, hallelujah hallelujah) and Lord of lords (forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah)" reaches it's crescendo it transitions into Duke of Earl (so the last repetition goes "King of kings (forever and ever, hallelujah hallelujah), and Lord of lords, Earl earl earl, Duke of earl earl earl....")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 22, 2016, 09:28:28 PM
An analysis of the remains left behind by an apparent suicide bomber indicates that it was, in actuality, a remote-controlled mannequin on wheels under a burqua. The military responds by jamming all wireless within a half mile radius of any high-profile target, and switching over to only wired communications. Our story follows military tech contractors working in such a site, attempting to figure out what's going on when an attack occurs.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 24, 2016, 02:16:38 PM
A ten year old boy is kidnapped by the mob and his hands and feed cut off, as incentive for his massively indebted parents to pay off a loan shark. His parents, unable to pay, end up dying in an altercation with the mob in front of him, but a policeman barges in and saves him; shortly afterward, the building explodes, killing everyone inside. After he gets out of the hospital, the policeman (who is single, and old) adopts him, but he's killed in the line of duty a month later, pushing the child into the foster system. The child grows up with an obsessive idolization of policework & an obsessive distaste for organized crime. Early into his adulthood, he attempts to join the police force, but he is rejected on the grounds that he has no hands or legs; already extremely neurotic, this blow sends him into a persistent delusional state. With the help of a brilliant engineering student who has been obsessively stalking him (and in exchange for dating her), he is equipped with hooks on all his limbs, attached to a strength-amplifying hydraulic exoskeleton; he puts a halloween costume of a police officer on top of this, and becomes the vigilante Police Captain Hook. He travels by hanging by his hooks off whatever surfaces are available, fully believes himself to be a police officer with special dispensation to hunt down the mob due to his exemplary record, and hunts down and kills figures from organized crime, placing their severed heads on the police commisioner's front steps. (When he is in trouble, the engineer tends to blow up his enemies using remote control bombs, so he has a track record not befitting his actual experience or grasp on reality.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 25, 2016, 03:50:26 PM
What seems like direct first contact soon turns out to actually merely be contact with a derilect alien space probe which we manage to take control of and still learn a lot of things from
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on December 25, 2016, 04:49:02 PM
An archaeologist stumbles upon a secret Nazi plot to steal the Ark of the Covenant in order to use its supernatural powers to win World War II.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on December 26, 2016, 12:40:54 AM
Quote from: V3X on December 25, 2016, 04:49:02 PM
An archaeologist stumbles upon a secret Nazi plot to steal the Ark of the Covenant in order to use its supernatural powers to win World War II.
This sounds an awfully lot like The Mummy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 26, 2016, 12:04:57 PM
We make contact with an alien species who never had a spoken language -- they skipped directly from smell to writing. As a result, their writing system is abstract splotches of color on a 2d plane -- it's very spacial but not very temporal. The story is a mockumentary about the high burn-out rate of the human diplomatic translation team, composed of expert linguists who are also expert impressionist painters, who often undergo a novel kind of psychosis as a result of translating between english and this very inhuman language 40 hours a week.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 26, 2016, 02:32:38 PM
A mad scientist steals Lord Byron's collection of pubic hair clippings (which he took from each of his lovers, and filed) and secretly clones all of Lord Byron's lovers, out of a twisted kind of napoleon complex. After being busted, these clones are put up for adoption. Twenty years later, they coincidentally run into each other, and (not knowing their shared origin) they end up starting an influential art movement.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2016, 07:31:42 AM
A biblically accurate alternate ending to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where instead of having their faces melted off the villains instead suffer and die from the the ark's biblically attested curse of hemorrhoids and ass cancer

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Another idea

Short skit or gag for use in a larger piece: God appears to someone in a dream, but keeps getting interrupted by weird dream characters. He eventually demands for "anyone who doesn't exist" to please leave. The miscellaneous dream characters all vanish but so does God.

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Another idea(s):

*A man is exorcised of posession by a being of pure order through a ritual resembling the confuse-a-cat skit from Monty Python

*A short skit about a man who comes to church in an undershirt and with unwashed hair, citing Ecclesiastes 9:8 ("Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.") when challenged.


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More ideas:

*A comic-horror film about John Hinkley Jr's attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in which the movie "Taxi Driver" is portrayed as a legitimately insanity-inducing cthulhu-mythos-type production, akin to 'The King in Yellow'

*A sci-fi in which John Hinkley Jr was actually a time traveling would be hero whose attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan was actually intended as a warmup prior to eventually going back and killing Hitler

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More ideas:

*a fantasy story that in some way involves gnomes who run a burusera shop, as that is obviously step 2

*a murder mystery where everyone saw who did it, but nob0dy can identify the victim

*a combination of Star Wars and The DaVinci Code with the skywalkers combined with the Neveus and Vader combined with Jesus. The title is "Vi Vobiscum"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2017, 01:11:46 PM
Not a story idea, but a story element:

Serial killer with hidden motivations has a knife with the following inscription engraved on the blade:

"Be the change you want to see."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 10, 2017, 07:37:24 PM
*A modern qurst for the grail story in the vein of Indiana Jones 3, except with a slightly perverted protagonist searching for Jesus' shoes, described in the bible as being holier than John the Baptist
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 23, 2017, 10:54:11 PM
A musical about a group of psychologists trying to figure out how to solve an epidemic of a bizzare psychosomatic illness that causes everyone in a small rural town to spontaneously break into song every time they feel strong emotions. One of the psychologists is tone-deaf, and his abnormally out-of-tune singing constitutes a source of comic relief.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 24, 2017, 12:12:05 AM
After a housing crisis, an eccentric billionaire former real estate developer buys up empty houses in Celebration, Florida, and offers them to homeless people from New York and Oakland, with a generous salary for as long as they stay there (along with an offer to pay any fines they might incur from the homeowner's association). His goal is to get back at Disney, because of a grudge held over from when he was a young man, by ruining their attempt at implementing a nostalgic and idealized past. However, by accident, he got a unique mix of people moving in: a former political radical / agitator with a degree in sociology, a refugee from the church of scientology, a couple former bohemian artists cut off by their families, and some other people with interesting and useful skills that a string of tragic accidents had previously prevented them from using. The pressure from the homeowner's association & from Disney itself bound them together and radicalized them, and from Celebration they constructed a new set of political ideas and plan revolution...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on January 24, 2017, 01:46:46 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 24, 2017, 12:12:05 AM
After a housing crisis, an eccentric billionaire former real estate developer buys up empty houses in Celebration, Florida, and offers them to homeless people from New York and Oakland, with a generous salary for as long as they stay there (along with an offer to pay any fines they might incur from the homeowner's association). His goal is to get back at Disney, because of a grudge held over from when he was a young man, by ruining their attempt at implementing a nostalgic and idealized past. However, by accident, he got a unique mix of people moving in: a former political radical / agitator with a degree in sociology, a refugee from the church of scientology, a couple former bohemian artists cut off by their families, and some other people with interesting and useful skills that a string of tragic accidents had previously prevented them from using. The pressure from the homeowner's association & from Disney itself bound them together and radicalized them, and from Celebration they constructed a new set of political ideas and plan revolution...

I would read this and buy tickets to the musical above it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Salty on January 25, 2017, 07:17:50 PM
Comic book idea.

The Tales of the Evil Doctor Octaroon.

Dr. Octaroon (picture Nigel with crazy eyes, poofy hair, and a lab coat) is going to take over the world by forcing people to be tolerant, respectful, and considerate of others.

She is foiled by Captain Concern, a nice guy (typical white male hero look) who steps in and stops her every time.

In the first issue, Dr Octaroon creates a Perspective Ray. She can aim it at anyone in the world (it's in space?) and the first person they see that the most different then them forces them to see life from that other person's perspective. Have a bunch of panels with examples of this.

Captain Concern thinks this isn't quite right for reasons and tries to stop her. She uses her Pointed Fact and Reasonable Argument abilities (gained from a horrible science accident) and he is nearly beaten. But then he uses his power of Redlining to ruin her plans. Somehow.

The nice thing about this is you can just use a lot of stale comic tropes because, I think, parody really allows for that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on January 25, 2017, 07:19:43 PM
That's awesome and I would read it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 25, 2017, 07:35:38 PM
My evil SWJ plans are foiled every time.  :cry:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 26, 2017, 06:06:35 PM
Post-UBI, NEETs are the new bohemians, and we have whole art movements based off image macros and shitposting. Sometimes they pool their money & rent warehouses. Certain kinds of high-risk projects become of interest: projects where large amounts of effort go into them with a very low likelihood of success, of interest mostly to eccentrics, with the occasional major and unexpected hit -- The Bee Movie Only Every Time They Say Bee It's Replaced With The Complete Ring Cycle Translated Into Klingon Only Every Time They Mention A Color It Becomes Warhol's Sleeping, or something like it. Because nobody can even pretend to predict what will be a hit or who will produce one, the entertainment industry becomes very interested in subsidizing unemployment (in case somebody with a lot of free time randomly produces the next hit that can then be adapted for a wider audience).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: DerKirche on January 26, 2017, 10:34:40 PM
Invention of Lying sequel -- in the far future Mankind has eradicated deception in all it's forms -- one man discovers he can deceive -- then follows him running from a completely honest dystopian future -- like bourgeoisie people know poor are dying, don't care, it's just a fact of life, etc


Just like the Original Invention of Lying, but like more dark, like hunger games -- hollywood would eat it up!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 27, 2017, 04:03:13 PM
Quote from: DerKirche on January 26, 2017, 10:34:40 PM
Invention of Lying sequel -- in the far future Mankind has eradicated deception in all it's forms -- one man discovers he can deceive -- then follows him running from a completely honest dystopian future -- like bourgeoisie people know poor are dying, don't care, it's just a fact of life, etc


Just like the Original Invention of Lying, but like more dark, like hunger games -- hollywood would eat it up!

It could even mirror Star Wars: he leads a scrappy rebel force with his unique mystical ability to bullshit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 28, 2017, 04:06:07 AM
An episode of Captain Planet that's just Cap beating the shit out of Donald Trump for half an hour
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 29, 2017, 01:51:23 AM
Two groups of aliens turn the cold war hot, circumventing their own non-aggression treaties by dumping exotic alien weapons on human nations without training. The story follows human strategic skunkworks teams examining the weapons and determining scalable guidelines for their use in warfare -- important because the mechanisms & tradeoffs used by these weapons are wholly unlike conventional earth weapons.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 29, 2017, 09:40:57 AM
Superhero comedy where a guy contracts a radioactive sexually transmitted pathogen and now it literally burns when he pees, in the sense of that he now pisses fire instead of piss.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 29, 2017, 06:36:43 PM
A standard psychological horror movie about our protagonist slowly succumbing to hallucinations and delusions, with the caveat that although we follow the protagonist we never see the protagonist's perceptions (but instead, from the outside). Concretely, this manifests as none of the special effects or post-processing being added: the actor closes the medicine cabinet mirror and acts as though she sees a face, but the camera never sees it; the protagonist freaks out and points at dark corners and other unseen elements.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 29, 2017, 08:16:05 PM
An anthropologist studying the associations between butter processing and the production of the metal of metals in medieval alchemy visits a town with a museum of bog-mummies taken from a nearby bog. After a piece of bog butter is raised that contains an abnormal number of wards (including butter knots and graveyard nails), a number of bizarre deaths occur, wherein people lose all of their body fat. The anthropologist becomes a van Hellsing figure, fighting against the butter vampires -- mummified bog-bodies that stick of turpentine from ketosis, animated by an ancient and long-forgotten virus. In the end, our hero must fight the chief bog-vampire (an ancient alchemist/wizard who had been killed and buried in the bog, and had been on show in the museum for thirty years) by combining ancient butter-centric magical practices with modern ideas about food safety.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 29, 2017, 10:16:57 PM
A man is born with a strange psychic power: once a day, he can cause someone to perform a simple task, but once he uses this power on someone he can't use it on them ever again. (He can only do this in person, in a situation where he is alone with someone.) He uses this, along with an understanding of cognitive dissonance, to persue the office of the presidency. However, a talk-radio therapist is on his tail, having discovered that several people who were opposed to this man changed their mind and became die-hard supporters after performing uncharacteristic actions that convinced them that they agreed with his positions shortly after a private meeting. At the climax, the politician causes the talk-radio therapist to denounce the idea of cognitive dissonance on the air, and he must battle his own cognitive dissonance to take down this politician.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 01, 2017, 04:59:17 AM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
Amazingly, I have one.

A time-travel adventure series, a la Quantum Leap, but a team. They have to go back in time and "fix" events to make them align with the current universe, which has been determined to difinitively be in the class of best of all possible universes.

The twist: Every event they have to "fix" are tragedies and horrors. They have to blow up the Hindenberg. They have to kill Lincoln. They have to save Hitler's life. They have to initiate the abuse at the Iraqi prisons.

Eventually, one of the team starts to wonder about the morality of sacrificing the past for the benefit of the future, and begins to sabotage missions. Another narrative thread begins when the viewers start to see what the botched missions change.

In the end it could turn out that their imeline is explicitly different from our, diverging towards the end of the cold war. One of their missions is to make the cold war go hot without western Europe getting involved, thus sacrificing the coastal USA to eliminate Russia and rural USA
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 04, 2017, 05:55:01 AM
A scientist studying chaos theory must stop another scientist who has developed a time machine from going back in time and stopping Hitler, as any change made that far in the past would ultimately have the effect of erasing from history basically everyone who is currently alive and thus be an even worse atrocity than the holocaust.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 04, 2017, 07:25:32 AM
continuing with the time travel theme...

In the near future, the descendant of one of the victims of the worst terrorist attack in US history becomes obsessed with time travel theories, and spends 30 years perfecting her time machine. Setting the clock to 2011, she warps to Bowling Green, KY. She succeeds.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 05, 2017, 03:23:13 AM
A scripted performance art piece where the artist is shot with blanks by a middle-eastern actor at an opening for her own abstract sculpture collection (intended to protest the association of middle-eastern men with acts of terrorism) goes awry when a minor celebrity unexpectedly decides to attend the event (resulting in both the presence of a news crew & of increased museum security). The actor is killed, and the performance artist must figure out how to come out about the plan -- dealing with the guilt of having brought an innocent into an ill-conceived, naive, and dangerous folly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 06, 2017, 01:28:21 AM
Skynet is having trouble establishing its 1.0 version of civilization on planet Earth.  Nothing serious, just that all the "off the shelf" technologies it uses to perform its task are meant to work on any planet with complex life-forms, meaning that the tech must be trained to fully interface with any particular system.  A "last mile" of sorts that connects it directly to the electrical firing patterns of any nervous system.  Like a factory prosthetic needs to learn a users particular patterns in order to work.  Our current state of political affairs then represents a step in this training process, to learn how to correct our situation from the anamoulous position we find ourselves in.  Like learning how to drive a car (competitively) by finding the minimum turn radius possible at high velocity, edge finding, and correcting tragectory after losing controll.  Essentially a test to ensure that the system can regain controll in difficult situations, also training for perfect fit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 06, 2017, 05:41:58 AM
International tensions reach a crisis point when a wayward American fighter jet is shot down by an Iranian squadron. Cooler heads try and fail to deescalate the response from a trigger-happy executive, who has been itching for any excuse to show the world -- and an increasingly unhappy American public -- the full force of the US military. To the nauseating shock of everyone in the room, the President orders a direct strike against several Iranian locations, including Tehran itself, not with conventional weapons but with low-yield tactical nuclear missiles. Fearing for the future of America and indeed all of humanity, the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly attempt to oust the President, but their plan is foiled and the missiles are launched. The world watches in horror as two million Iranians are vaporized on live television. The remnants of the Iranian military call in their sleeper cells in the US, unleashing a flurry of suicide bombings across the country over the next 24 hours, killing thousands. Against the strained exhortation of literally every adviser, the President orders a full-scale retaliation with ICBMs, intending to turn the Persians to glass. Missiles are launched for their 15-20 minute flight time the whole planet goes silent and numb.

The warheads fall toward Iranian cities as expected, but rather than detonating, they clunk through roofs and onto ancient streets, cold and useless. There had apparently been a flaw in a testing routine used in all modern American multiple-warhead ICBMs, which had only ever been tested in computers on account of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. With the lion's teeth excised in human history's most embarrassing military blunder, America's vulnerabilities are exposed. Within thirty minutes, a thousand Russian and Chinese missiles are sailing though the stratosphere.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on February 06, 2017, 06:57:14 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 06, 2017, 05:41:58 AM
International tensions reach a crisis point when a wayward American fighter jet is shot down by an Iranian squadron. Cooler heads try and fail to deescalate the response from a trigger-happy executive, who has been itching for any excuse to show the world -- and an increasingly unhappy American public -- the full force of the US military. To the nauseating shock of everyone in the room, the President orders a direct strike against several Iranian locations, including Tehran itself, not with conventional weapons but with low-yield tactical nuclear missiles. Fearing for the future of America and indeed all of humanity, the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly attempt to oust the President, but their plan is foiled and the missiles are launched. The world watches in horror as two million Iranians are vaporized on live television. The remnants of the Iranian military call in their sleeper cells in the US, unleashing a flurry of suicide bombings across the country over the next 24 hours, killing thousands. Against the strained exhortation of literally every adviser, the President orders a full-scale retaliation with ICBMs, intending to turn the Persians to glass. Missiles are launched for their 15-20 minute flight time the whole planet goes silent and numb.

The warheads fall toward Iranian cities as expected, but rather than detonating, they clunk through roofs and onto ancient streets, cold and useless. There had apparently been a flaw in a testing routine used in all modern American multiple-warhead ICBMs, which had only ever been tested in computers on account of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. With the lion's teeth excised in human history's most embarrassing military blunder, America's vulnerabilities are exposed. Within thirty minutes, a thousand Russian and Chinese missiles are sailing though the stratosphere.

These would also fail, due to shoddy parts and corrupt maintenance contractors.

Everyone looks silly, and the entire human race sulks for a generation.  This is known to later historians as "The Morrisey Era".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 06, 2017, 10:03:55 PM
Quote from: V3X on February 06, 2017, 05:41:58 AM
International tensions reach a crisis point when a wayward American fighter jet is shot down by an Iranian squadron. Cooler heads try and fail to deescalate the response from a trigger-happy executive, who has been itching for any excuse to show the world -- and an increasingly unhappy American public -- the full force of the US military. To the nauseating shock of everyone in the room, the President orders a direct strike against several Iranian locations, including Tehran itself, not with conventional weapons but with low-yield tactical nuclear missiles. Fearing for the future of America and indeed all of humanity, the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly attempt to oust the President, but their plan is foiled and the missiles are launched. The world watches in horror as two million Iranians are vaporized on live television. The remnants of the Iranian military call in their sleeper cells in the US, unleashing a flurry of suicide bombings across the country over the next 24 hours, killing thousands. Against the strained exhortation of literally every adviser, the President orders a full-scale retaliation with ICBMs, intending to turn the Persians to glass. Missiles are launched for their 15-20 minute flight time the whole planet goes silent and numb.

The warheads fall toward Iranian cities as expected, but rather than detonating, they clunk through roofs and onto ancient streets, cold and useless. There had apparently been a flaw in a testing routine used in all modern American multiple-warhead ICBMs, which had only ever been tested in computers on account of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. With the lion's teeth excised in human history's most embarrassing military blunder, America's vulnerabilities are exposed. Within thirty minutes, a thousand Russian and Chinese missiles are sailing though the stratosphere.
I like the imagery.  To save face, America orders second launch, with a cargo payload containing plans to build S9G reactors that can run on non-ballistic level nuclear fuel.  World enjoys 30 years of free energy, reducing international tensions and clearing way to lasting world-peace.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 07, 2017, 10:50:13 PM
After being bitten by a radioactive dog, a disgruntled postal worker develops an extremely sensitive sense of smell & super-hearing, along with a tendency to bite anyone who looks him in the eyes. Delirious, he sews himself a costume and takes his workplace hostage, announcing to the world that he will now be known as "MAIL MAN".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 08, 2017, 01:39:05 PM
A secret society dedicated to returning their nation to the values of an idealized imperial past invest in a reality television game show franchise as a means of identifying, vetting, and indoctrinating outside candidates for political positions. Combining blackmail, favor-trading, and appeals to shared values, this organization pressures newly-minted politicians into making certain decisions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2017, 01:48:45 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 08, 2017, 01:39:05 PM
A secret society dedicated to returning their nation to the values of an idealized imperial past invest in a reality television game show franchise as a means of identifying, vetting, and indoctrinating outside candidates for political positions. Combining blackmail, favor-trading, and appeals to shared values, this organization pressures newly-minted politicians into making certain decisions.

Don't give them any ideas, goddammit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 08, 2017, 08:51:07 PM
Quote from: V3X on February 08, 2017, 01:48:45 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 08, 2017, 01:39:05 PM
A secret society dedicated to returning their nation to the values of an idealized imperial past invest in a reality television game show franchise as a means of identifying, vetting, and indoctrinating outside candidates for political positions. Combining blackmail, favor-trading, and appeals to shared values, this organization pressures newly-minted politicians into making certain decisions.

Don't give them any ideas, goddammit.

It's too late. Former hosts (but not winners) of localized versions of The Apprentice are running for local offices in Brazil & the UK, according to an article I read this morning.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 09, 2017, 01:24:31 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on January 29, 2017, 01:51:23 AM
Two groups of aliens turn the cold war hot, circumventing their own non-aggression treaties by dumping exotic alien weapons on human nations without training. The story follows human strategic skunkworks teams examining the weapons and determining scalable guidelines for their use in warfare -- important because the mechanisms & tradeoffs used by these weapons are wholly unlike conventional earth weapons.
Quote from: axod on February 06, 2017, 01:28:21 AM
Skynet is having trouble establishing its 1.0 version of civilization on planet Earth.  Nothing serious, just that all the "off the shelf" technologies it uses to perform its task are meant to work on any planet with complex life-forms, meaning that the tech must be trained to fully interface with any particular system.  A "last mile" of sorts that connects it directly to the electrical firing patterns of any nervous system.  Like a factory prosthetic needs to learn a users particular patterns in order to work.  Our current state of political affairs then represents a step in this training process, to learn how to correct our situation from the anamoulous position we find ourselves in.  Like learning how to drive a car (competitively) by finding the minimum turn radius possible at high velocity, edge finding, and correcting tragectory after losing controll.  Essentially a test to ensure that the system can regain controll in difficult situations, also training for perfect fit.

Distrikct 9 ist keine originelle Idee
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 02:35:55 PM
A dragon that hoards friends befriends a dragon that hoards paradoxes and another dragon who only hoards things that don't exist. The ensuing conflict destroys the den.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 06:23:08 PM
A suicide bomber discovers he is immortal. He is captured.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 06:25:50 PM
The united states goes to war with an alien civilization whose weapons consist solely of mechanisms for teleporting small metal slugs (which trade places with whatever is in the location they previously were). (After all, one doesn't want to use kinetic weapons inside space ships.) The entire rest of Earth is caught in the crossfire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 09, 2017, 07:45:14 PM
Zombie apocalypse but with a twist. The returned dead are not particularly zombified but are much as they were in life. However, since most of the dead are from pre-modern times this still presents a problem. The Earth is overrun by undead barbarians.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 08:29:03 PM
Scientists discover a hormone that tracks with willpower. In silicon valley, the poor sell their willpower (extracted, with large needles, from a part of their brainstem) to wealthy developers, who become addicted. Those who have sold their willpower to the clinics are sometimes found passed out from hunger in the middle of supermarkets. (A willpower high somewhat resembles a cocaine or amphetamine high in the sense that it involves manic energy and sustained effort; the difference is that those high on willpower seek out tasks that involve making large numbers of decisions.)  Later, a bioengineering lab figures out how to synthesize the stuff, and mortality rates skyrocket as type-a personalities mainline it and overdose.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 09, 2017, 10:11:21 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 08:29:03 PM
Scientists discover a hormone that tracks with willpower. In silicon valley, the poor sell their willpower (extracted, with large needles, from a part of their brainstem) to wealthy developers, who become addicted. Those who have sold their willpower to the clinics are sometimes found passed out from hunger in the middle of supermarkets. (A willpower high somewhat resembles a cocaine or amphetamine high in the sense that it involves manic energy and sustained effort; the difference is that those high on willpower seek out tasks that involve making large numbers of decisions.)  Later, a bioengineering lab figures out how to synthesize the stuff, and mortality rates skyrocket as type-a personalities mainline it and overdose.

This is the best of all possible futures.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 09, 2017, 11:50:41 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 08:29:03 PM
Scientists discover a hormone that tracks with willpower. In silicon valley, the poor sell their willpower (extracted, with large needles, from a part of their brainstem) to wealthy developers, who become addicted. Those who have sold their willpower to the clinics are sometimes found passed out from hunger in the middle of supermarkets. (A willpower high somewhat resembles a cocaine or amphetamine high in the sense that it involves manic energy and sustained effort; the difference is that those high on willpower seek out tasks that involve making large numbers of decisions.)  Later, a bioengineering lab figures out how to synthesize the stuff, and mortality rates skyrocket as type-a personalities mainline it and overdose.

Was just now thinking of Cronenbergs's Secret Weapons and "meta-adrenaline".  Instead of an actual compound the "meta" element indicates how the adrenaline is elicited from the prescribed environment and particular situations into which subjects are injected.  The situations are contrived to instatiate a set of trigger sequences, repeatedly and in a controlled environment.  Once firmly encoded and reinforced, triggers can be translated onto external environments. Once activated, subjects will "independently" seek out firing them in sequence.  Sort of like targeted search results, on a grand scale.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 10, 2017, 12:26:51 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 09, 2017, 07:45:14 PM
Zombie apocalypse but with a twist. The returned dead are not particularly zombified but are much as they were in life. However, since most of the dead are from pre-modern times this still presents a problem. The Earth is overrun by undead barbarians.

As a more heavyhanded version of this, it could be explicitly caused by a politician's promise to bring back traditional values and/or some nonexistent golden age. (I can't be the only one who thinks of that line in Gilgamesh about the gates of hell being opened to let the dead go up and eat the living when I hear politicians say things like that)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 10, 2017, 12:37:12 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 09, 2017, 08:29:03 PM
Was just now thinking of Cronenbergs's Secret Weapons and "meta-adrenaline".  Instead of an actual compound the "meta" element indicates how the adrenaline is elicited from the prescribed environment and particular situations into which subjects are injected.  The situations are contrived to instatiate a set of trigger sequences, repeatedly and in a controlled environment.  Once firmly encoded and reinforced, triggers can be translated onto external environments. Once activated, subjects will "independently" seek out firing them in sequence.  Sort of like targeted search results, on a grand scale.

This is starting to sound a little like Tyrone Slothrop's rocket erections in Gravity's Rainbow... or maybe erection controlled rockets just happen to be on the mind...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 10, 2017, 08:08:03 AM
Terminator without the robots. Skynet is now an insane human general who sends a ruthless human commando back in time to stop the birth of the leader of the resistance.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 10, 2017, 01:05:28 PM
A suburb with many amenities including a grocery store, restaurants, boutique shops, etc, marketed itself as an urban paradise away from the city. It's all going fine and swell, including their attempts to prevent affordable housing or any housing under a couple six figure salaries. However, trouble begins when a strange man who appears to be homeless starts hanging around their neighborhood. Suspicion and witch hunting ensue. The lead witch hunter, a woman eager to impress the neighborhood with her fervor for stamping out poverty, starts to gaze at the stranger in a way she hadn't anticipated. Eventually, she falls for the mysterious homeless man and a forbidden love ensues and the couple fight off the ravaging neighbors and home owner's association. Eventually, the neighborhood takes its rage out on other poor people in the "urban" suburb and begin firing the workers in the restaurants and stores, leaving just a shell of the neighborhood to remain. The forbidden love of the couple blossoms, so they move even though no one will buy her house in the neighborhood.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Freeky on February 10, 2017, 03:48:11 PM
A basic Adam Sandler movie, but everyone acts rationally to all the bigoted bullshit he spews and hates him.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 10, 2017, 07:49:03 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 10, 2017, 08:08:03 AM
Terminator without the robots. Skynet is now an insane human general who sends a ruthless human commando back in time to stop the birth of the leader of the resistance.

An insane human general nukes the past in order to make the timeline he lives in completely untethered from history, in order to prevent people from hearing about communism. This kills the man.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 11, 2017, 10:02:41 AM
Man attempting to actualize virtual world embroiled in attempted double ending sale for property development of Raymond Chandlers Requiem for a Dream
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!


A demon in the pits of hell gets dumped by her mongoloied beefy six armed hunk. She's real bummed and wants to cause some havoc and dispair to life her spirits, so she heads to earth. Assuming a human form, she fucks with people such as by butt-dialing spouses while the other spouse is making loud love to a paramour, and other fun diddies like that. Anyway, she meets a man who is just completely immune to her fuckery. The usual foibles exploited to cause torment do not work on this man, he is immune to her, and she finds this irresistible. They spend more time together, and they start to fall for each other. The more time she spends on earth, the weaker her powers become. Demons attempt to take her from him, but she refuses to go. Eventually, she struggles to choose mortality and weakness over eternal strength. In the end, I've yet to decide if the man is so mortified at her demonic nature he flees, or if she decides to leave him because she decides to blaze out on their own, or they stick together.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 11, 2017, 03:12:19 PM
A machine is developed that can see the past. (An image is projected of the machine's current location some time in the past.) It operates by splitting photons into pairs of entangled photons, one of which is unstuck in time. Unfortunately, breaking photons into entangled pairs halves their energy; as a result, every time the machine is used, the past becomes more red and less bright.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 11, 2017, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!

The stupid love element is what ruins every single movie. It's never enough for you to see world-ending cataclysm or embark on epic adventures. No, you also have to find Twoo Wuvâ„¢ while you're at it. Because... reasons, I guess. Stupidest convention in Hollywood.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 04:27:30 PM
Quote from: V3X on February 11, 2017, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!

The stupid love element is what ruins every single movie. It's never enough for you to see world-ending cataclysm or embark on epic adventures. No, you also have to find Twoo Wuvâ„¢ while you're at it. Because... reasons, I guess. Stupidest convention in Hollywood.

That's because nobody cares if people struggle alone and accomplish something. Nothing is real unless its shared, sheesh.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 04:48:39 PM
QuoteThat's because nobody cares if people struggle alone and accomplish something. Nothing is real unless its shared, sheesh.

I'm only being slightly sarcastic here
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 11, 2017, 09:29:11 PM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!

A mathematician engages in an ultimately futile legal battle to make it possible to marry the concept of infinity. In the end, he settles for marrying Cantor's Continuity Conjecture, but after this harrowing experience, he was never the same.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 11:44:11 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 11, 2017, 09:29:11 PM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!

A mathematician engages in an ultimately futile legal battle to make it possible to marry the concept of infinity. In the end, he settles for marrying Cantor's Continuity Conjecture, but after this harrowing experience, he was never the same.

3.14/🍮 Would watch only if Patrick Stewart plays the plaintiff lawyer like he did for Data when arguing for Data's humanity in Star Trek: TNG
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 12, 2017, 02:53:52 AM
Retooling of The DaVinci Code to be about the descendants of L. Ron Hubbard rather than the descendants of Jesus. Connections to Newton and Da Vinci having a hand in the conspiracy are still made despite the anachronism and the fact that Hubbards descendants pretty much know they're his descendants; it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to make as much sense as The DaVinci Code
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
A reiki healer is in a terrible automobile accident and sustains a serious traumatic brain injury and falls into a coma. At the hospital, the team of physicians assigned to her case decide to try a new, experimental procedure involving nanobots to repair the neural tissue. The treatment goes extremely well and the healer wakes from her coma with no apparent side effects and her memories and personality intact. Over the next few days, she realizes the nanobots have given her the ability to learn any subject unbelievably fast, which leads her on a journey of self-education in every field. But the more she learns, the more she realizes her previous life as a spiritual healer was a sham. This sends her into a deep depression because her natural instinct to is seek the mysterious and unexplained, but every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 12, 2017, 06:09:41 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.

preach!

Happy ending edition: Despite her cold understanding of the universe devoid of superstition, she learns to not discount her feelings of joy and love even if they are chemical reactions to stimuli and she enjoys them all the same.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 12, 2017, 06:13:35 AM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 12, 2017, 06:09:41 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.

preach!

Happy ending edition: Despite her cold understanding of the universe devoid of superstition, she learns to not discount her feelings of joy and love even if they are chemical reactions to stimuli and she enjoys them all the same.

Maybe, but without mystery what's supposed to set off the joy reaction in the first place?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 12, 2017, 07:31:16 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
A reiki healer is in a terrible automobile accident and sustains a serious traumatic brain injury and falls into a coma. At the hospital, the team of physicians assigned to her case decide to try a new, experimental procedure involving nanobots to repair the neural tissue. The treatment goes extremely well and the healer wakes from her coma with no apparent side effects and her memories and personality intact. Over the next few days, she realizes the nanobots have given her the ability to learn any subject unbelievably fast, which leads her on a journey of self-education in every field. But the more she learns, the more she realizes her previous life as a spiritual healer was a sham. This sends her into a deep depression because her natural instinct to is seek the mysterious and unexplained, but every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.

Happy ending: Eventually she comes to the realization that meaninglessness is itself meaningless

Quote from: V3X on February 11, 2017, 04:02:00 PM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 11, 2017, 01:27:10 PM
None of these stories have love elements in them. Don't you know LOVE HAS TO BE IN EVERY STORY?!

The stupid love element is what ruins every single movie. It's never enough for you to see world-ending cataclysm or embark on epic adventures. No, you also have to find Twoo Wuvâ„¢ while you're at it. Because... reasons, I guess. Stupidest convention in Hollywood.

Yet an9ther reason to like Big Trouble in Little China, since Jack blows off his love interest at the end, citing the fact that sooner or later he rubs everyone the wrong way.

Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 06:13:35 AM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 12, 2017, 06:09:41 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.

preach!

Happy ending edition: Despite her cold understanding of the universe devoid of superstition, she learns to not discount her feelings of joy and love even if they are chemical reactions to stimuli and she enjoys them all the same.

Maybe, but without mystery what's supposed to set off the joy reaction in the first place?

Videogames, liquor, television, and pornography. Junk food. Fast cars and Faster women. EDIT: To crush your enemies, see them driben before you, and hear the lamentation of their women EDIT: Also anything on a Cards Against Humanity white card or from the later chapters of Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 12, 2017, 10:09:31 PM
A french farmer discovers a piece of unexploded WWII ordinance while clearing his field. He enlists the help of a slightly shifty/unreliable neighbour to bring it to the government's disposal depot, but the neighbour, being a military history nut, recognizes that this particular piece of ordinance is a rare & experimental one (some prototype missile) & worth a lot of money. So, he tries to organize a heist, to trick his friend into giving him the bomb so he can sell it on the black market. Through a series of mistakes, the two end up indelibly involved in selling this piece of ordinance to a group of local neo-nazis (one of whom is an old, wealthy collector of nazi memorabilia), and they meet in this guy's house, getting a long & awkward tour of his collection before swapping the money for the bomb in his drawing room. They are pushed into talking over drinks, and the buyer punctuates an statement by whacking the bomb -- which goes off and takes down the whole building.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 12, 2017, 10:30:08 PM
The Russian government sells one of their closed cities (unused since the mid 1980s) to an American oil company as a company town (with access to the nearby oil fields). An inspector is sent to check the property -- ensuring that no undisclosed major liabilities exist (although, because it was known that the property was abandoned for 30 years, the bar was low: as long as it wasn't radioactive & had no bottomless pits, it would be fine). The inspector discovers plans for an abandoned but workable soviet superweapon. He mentions it during a call home to his wife, and both the CIA and the FSB begin chasing him, trying to steal the long-lost plans.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 12, 2017, 10:40:54 PM
A group of occultists belonging to the white pride section of odinism steal the skull attributed to Hitler from a museum and perform a ritual to revive him. It succeeds, but the skull actually belongs to a random servant. This servant must navigate a strange & alien world, with new taboos & familiar dangerous political tensions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 12, 2017, 10:59:25 PM
A long-haul trucker who has been smuggling small amounts of drugs on the side is forced to stop and take shelter when a thick fog suddenly rolls in. He decides to sleep for the night in the lot he found. When he awakens, the fog still has not cleared; he has no response from CB, no cell signal (or GPS), and no reception on his television. Taking out a shortwave receiver, he finally gets some indication of outside civilization: some still-running numbers stations. Finally, he finds a distorted broadcast: someone is screaming, and then static. He listens for a continuation, but then sees the skin on his arm bubbling. The audience hears a scream, and the picture cuts to black.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 12, 2017, 11:22:41 PM
A longtime employee of an alphabet-soup agency in the US government stumbles accidentally upon a cache of documents outlining a plot to assassinate a member of the Cabinet. But because he had not set out intentionally to uncover this plot, he has taken no measures to hide his identity or the fact that he has accessed the information -- so it will only be a short time before he is discovered, and he has no one he can turn to for help. Knowing his life and the lives of his family are now in imminent danger, he sets out to drop off the grid. He instructs his wife to bundle up the kids and head out of state to a remote location, and he plans to travel separately by plane to a different location, from which he will anonymously make his way to the rendezvous point to reunite with them. As his plane takes off he feels relief, having narrowly averted being caught (or so he thinks). But in midair, there is a "malfunction" on the plane and the flight crashes in a remote location somewhere in the Rockies. Miraculously, he survives -- but in the wreckage he finds evidence of foul play and is convinced the plane was brought down in order to silence him. He is only slightly injured (Hollywood magic) and manages to plant his ID on a charred body and escape the crash site before any first responders arrive. Satisfied that his pursuers will believe he is dead, our hero decides reuniting with his family would be too dangerous for all of them, so he allows them to believe he died in the crash as well. He assumes the identity of a homeless man in the city where his family now lives, completely oblivious to current events and watching from a distance in unbearable emotional agony as they mourn him and eventually move on. Then, one day, he sees one of the conspirators in a coffee shop. Driven mad by his long life of anonymity and disconnection, he waits for the man outside one evening and corners him in an alley, incoherently demanding the man somehow make up for everything that has happened. The man, first incredulous and then shocked, eventually understands everything and explains to our hero that the flight had been downed by a terrorist group which had since been dealt with, and the assassination plot that set the whole thing in motion had been part of a deep-cover program to ascertain the integrity of government employees -- it had never been real at all.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on February 12, 2017, 11:55:33 PM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 06:13:35 AM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on February 12, 2017, 06:09:41 AM
Quote from: V3X on February 12, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
every foray into the unknown becomes a tortuous experience in dispelling superstition and understanding the universe in cold, mathematical terms.

preach!

Happy ending edition: Despite her cold understanding of the universe devoid of superstition, she learns to not discount her feelings of joy and love even if they are chemical reactions to stimuli and she enjoys them all the same.

Maybe, but without mystery what's supposed to set off the joy reaction in the first place?

I think seratonin fires off in the noodle with or without my knowledge/understanding.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 13, 2017, 01:13:09 AM
An alternate history: schools in the British model become standard across most countries in the industrialized world (i.e., dormitory-based, segregated by sex, with corporal punishment, starting in early childhood and continuing through early adulthood) as background for prospective politicians, leading to a psychologically warped international culture of hypercompetitive man-children.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 13, 2017, 10:26:29 PM
When life-extending (and youth-extending) drugs become inexpensive, elaborate ritual suicides by public intellectuals become extremely culturally important: an intellectual gives his ideas to society, and then (like a president) steps down after about 500 years in order to limit the stagnation of society and let fresh blood in. (Normal workers, on the other hand, will often live perpetually.) However, when a particularly iconoclastic traditionalist thinker refuses to end his life at the appropriate time, society begins to destabilize, and riots break out, ending twenty thousand years of peace on earth. He uses this opportunity to amass political power in the hands of young radicals who refuse to die.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 13, 2017, 11:29:20 PM
One of those movies where the villains are nazi occultists (like in Indiana Jones or Hellboy) but done in the style of a serious WWII movie
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 14, 2017, 05:35:17 PM
A scholar decodes part of the Enigma Variations & discovers that it's instructions on where to find a lost score by Scriabin. Right before the inaugural performance of this score, he decodes some more and finds an oblique warning. He runs to the performance hall, intending to put a stop to it, but it's too late: wheels within wheels made of flaming eyes begin to descend from the sky.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 14, 2017, 11:25:13 PM
Two ideas:

*A just-so story about the origin of the work week, combining elements of the abduction of Persephone and of the garden of Eden. The first man somehow finds himself in the underworld, where for whatever reason he eats five courses of a seven course meal before being retrieved. Because he has eaten (but not finished) the food of the underworld it is decreed that henceforth mankind may only dwell among the living for two days out of every seven

*a story whose villain is a weeaboo obsessed specifically with WW2 era Japan
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 15, 2017, 11:21:57 PM
Skynet-esque military AI siezes power. But in a country that was already a military dictatorship. Skynet winds up improving quality of life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 16, 2017, 08:45:15 AM
Given the current political situation, what we need are spinoffs of Taxi Driver. A musical. A TV show. A novelization that comes with a free gun.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 16, 2017, 10:26:16 PM
A generic thriller about an energy healer who is stalked and psychically attacked by men in dark suits takes a sudden turn when, upon reflecting, our protagonist realizes that she would not be attracting murderous MIBs if some part of herself didn't want to be murdered by the government. She then decides that any attempt to interact with the spirit world is a form of sublimated death wish, and begins tracking down and killing other light workers in order to fulfill their secret unconscious desire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 17, 2017, 04:56:57 AM
One of those religious children's shows that teaches kids lessons from the bible, except this one is a bit subversive in that it focuses mainly on nihilistic messages from the Book of Ecclesiastes with forays into the anti-clericalism and class warfare  of the gospels. And it doesn't retell the stories directly, it's of the sort where biblically relevant things happen to the cast. This allows for things to be updated for clarity; the pharisees are now corrupt and intolerant protestant ministers and the good samaritan is now a gay atheist (or possibly a muslim, or maybe we could cover the good samaritan multiple times, once with an atheist, once with a muslim, and once with a laveyan satanist). As a joke Mammon is depicted as a mammoth, but as a political commentary he is the exact color scheme of the Republican party logo. The Whore of Babylon is equated with the oil industry. Jehovah and Jesus are rarely directly invoked, the wisdom of the show's anti-clericalism and and anticapitalism should be presented well enough that it can stand on it's own without appeals to divine authority. When Jesus does appear he looks and talks like a Woody Allen character.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 20, 2017, 02:09:38 AM
Early in the second world war, a young soldier sent as part of an invasion force to the mainland fell in love with a local and deserted, fleeing into the jungle. This man raised his child and grandchild to believe (as he did) that the second world war was still going on, and that the absolute worst thing that could happen would be a capture by the imperial japanese government. He gave them as much military and guerilla training as he could, and they became strong and disciplined. In the present day, the last surviving member of the line is discovered by an american filmmaker looking for POWs lost in vietnam, and his existence and story is announced to the world. After that, he is subject to a series of assassination attempts by Yakuza hired by a secret society of Diet members who are dedicated to the return of the ambition and culture of the Japanese Empire -- essentially in order to destroy a source of anti-Imperial PR. However, because of his heavy training, the man survives, and decides to hunt down and kill each member of this secret society -- including the prime minister!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 20, 2017, 11:10:57 AM
Two screenwriters working on different productions meet in a preliminary hearing for a lawsuit, after investors at a test screening noticed that the dialogue in both films was identical (and that, upon looking, the shooting scripts were also identical). The lawsuit was settled out of court & neither film ever got theatrical release or distribution as part of the deal, and the screenwriters hit it off, fell in love, and got married -- their connection cemented by the idea that they were fated to be with each other by the bond of having written identical 120 page screenplays, down to the letter. However, years later, after one of them dies, the other  (while searching through his estate) comes upon his draft -- and sees that the similarity with her own is only marginal (i.e., by that draft, they would have been 'twin movies' but not even character names are the same). Tracking down the final shooting draft, she sees that it differs significantly from both. She contacts her old boss and investigates up the chain, to find that the same esteemed script doctor was assigned to both pictures, and that it seems that he had replaced both scripts with one of his own. However, looking over various complaints, she found evidence to believe that it wasn't his own at all, and that instead he had, for years, been stockpiling good but unproduced screenplays and occasionally using them as 'rewrites' for similar films when he didn't have time to rewrite properly, and without crediting the original author -- and that this accounts for his legendary ability to perform many major rewrites simultaneously.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 20, 2017, 01:19:44 PM
The last survivor of China's 1980s ESP program (the Extraordinary Human Facilities program, or EHF) has been employed as a spy, conducting economic / industrial espionage as a result of being able to read anything that is within about four inches of his buttocks (along with a great deal of language and memory training). Fearing a scheme similar to the Opium wars after the United States legalizes Marijuana across the board, he visits various offices involved in regulating the pot industry, making sure to lean against filing cabinets and sit on desks. What he discovers shocks him: the last survivors of the CIA's ESP program (Project Stargate), a group of five people who can accelerate the growth of plants, are being kept in a trance underneath a vast CIA pot farm, with the production sold overseas on the black market as a means to fund the black budget.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 20, 2017, 11:16:10 PM
A satirical remake of the classic Monty Python "How Not to be Seen" sketch beginning with a photo of Trump's inagauration ("There are 50000 people in this picture, none of them can be seen") and ending with Putin's enemies being eliminated.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 22, 2017, 07:12:19 AM
Some horror films:

"Commerce With Demons"- This is a story about a businessman who makes a deal with the devil to increase sales of his company's products. The busi essman doesn't have to pay anything to the devil himself, he just needs to allow his company's products to carry a terrible curse. Bizarre gory accidents start befalling the product;s users, but the product continues to increase in popularity. The film ends with the businessman and the devil looking down from a tall tower on the consumers dying in the streets and laughing maniacally

"Blood for Oil"- Similar-ish to the above. A politician makes a deal with the devil to literally trade blpod for oil
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: 00.dusk on February 22, 2017, 08:16:53 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 22, 2017, 07:12:19 AM
Some horror films:

"Commerce With Demons"- This is a story about a businessman who makes a deal with the devil to increase sales of his company's products. The busi essman doesn't have to pay anything to the devil himself, he just needs to allow his company's products to carry a terrible curse. Bizarre gory accidents start befalling the product;s users, but the product continues to increase in popularity. The film ends with the businessman and the devil looking down from a tall tower on the consumers dying in the streets and laughing maniacally

"Blood for Oil"- Similar-ish to the above. A politician makes a deal with the devil to literally trade blpod for oil
Part of a series of films whose third entry ("Devil Tank") was widely considered to be a shoddy attempt to cash in on anti-war sentiment during the Trump administration. The series doesn't die until finally "Commerce with Demons VII: You Get What You Pay For" is panned at the box office with its anti-homelessness and anti-poverty sentiments based on supernaturally-powered trickle-down economics in a world where buying cinema tickets is almost a full month's paycheck.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 22, 2017, 06:28:49 PM
More horror films:

"Torture Porn"- This is an art film that centers on graphic and biologically realistic eviscerations of living victims set to porno music rather than the traditional suspenseful or heavy metal scores typical of horror films. Out of context it's ambiguous whether moans are of pain or of pleasure. There's also a scene with "blood bukkakae" where the killer punctures several people's throats and lets all the blood spray onto their face

"The Brooklyn Boogeyman"- This is basically a straight biopic of the killer Albert Fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish) except the pins that he used to stick in his taint are inappropriately likened to the pins in the head of the villain from Hellraiser

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"The Brooklyn Boogeyman Returns"- A completely fictitious sequel to the above wherein a person reading Fish's suppressed final statement causes him to return from the dead to continue graphically killing and eating children

"A Brooklyn Boogeyman Christmas, Fish vs. Krampus"- Albert Fish's ghost posesses Santa Claus, to be in a better strategic position to kill and eat children, however this develops into a turf war with Krampus
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 23, 2017, 05:22:24 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 22, 2017, 06:28:49 PM
More horror films:

"Torture Porn"- This is an art film that centers on graphic and biologically realistic eviscerations of living victims set to porno music rather than the traditional suspenseful or heavy metal scores typical of horror films. Out of context it's ambiguous whether moans are of pain or of pleasure. There's also a scene with "blood bukkakae" where the killer punctures several people's throats and lets all the blood spray onto their face

"The Brooklyn Boogeyman"- This is basically a straight biopic of the killer Albert Fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish) except the pins that he used to stick in his taint are inappropriately likened to the pins in the head of the villain from Hellraiser

EDIT:

"The Brooklyn Boogeyman Returns"- A completely fictitious sequel to the above wherein a person reading Fish's suppressed final statement causes him to return from the dead to continue graphically killing and eating children

"A Brooklyn Boogeyman Christmas, Fish vs. Krampus"- Albert Fish's ghost posesses Santa Claus, to be in a better strategic position to kill and eat children, however this develops into a turf war with Krampus

You're on a fucking roll. I'd watch *all* of these movies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 23, 2017, 09:00:42 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on February 20, 2017, 11:10:57 AM
Two screenwriters working on different productions meet in a preliminary hearing for a lawsuit, after investors at a test screening noticed that the dialogue in both films was identical (and that, upon looking, the shooting scripts were also identical). The lawsuit was settled out of court & neither film ever got theatrical release or distribution as part of the deal, and the screenwriters hit it off, fell in love, and got married -- their connection cemented by the idea that they were fated to be with each other by the bond of having written identical 120 page screenplays, down to the letter. However, years later, after one of them dies, the other  (while searching through his estate) comes upon his draft -- and sees that the similarity with her own is only marginal (i.e., by that draft, they would have been 'twin movies' but not even character names are the same). Tracking down the final shooting draft, she sees that it differs significantly from both. She contacts her old boss and investigates up the chain, to find that the same esteemed script doctor was assigned to both pictures, and that it seems that he had replaced both scripts with one of his own. However, looking over various complaints, she found evidence to believe that it wasn't his own at all, and that instead he had, for years, been stockpiling good but unproduced screenplays and occasionally using them as 'rewrites' for similar films when he didn't have time to rewrite properly, and without crediting the original author -- and that this accounts for his legendary ability to perform many major rewrites simultaneously.
I like.  Borges meet PKD.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 26, 2017, 12:19:06 AM
After a nuclear war, disney world becomes the religious center / holy land for a very powerful cult that is involved in rebuilding social structures.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 26, 2017, 12:19:24 AM
A vain, angry king becomes beloved because of a witch's curse that everything he does to harm is ineffective. His popularity angers him, and he eventually commits suicide.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 26, 2017, 12:20:26 AM
A former sitcom actor is called upon for a secret operation because he is the highest-ranking Qi Gong practitioner who is also a US citizen. He is sent on a mission to investigate a group within a chinese organized crime syndicate that use qi redirection for combat -- with the national security implication that they may have ties to chinese spy agencies. However, being a c-list celebrity recognizable to many people (even thirty years after the show went off the air) comes with its own complications.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 27, 2017, 03:44:08 AM
A spoof of Supersize Me following a man's attempt to drink nothing but wine for a month
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 27, 2017, 11:58:53 PM
A heist flick with a twist: two teams are competing with each other to pull off the same heist, and each member on one team has a "mirror" version on the other team played by another actor who has been typecast as the same very specific role. (For instance, if one team has Vin Diesel, the other has Dwayne Johnson; if one team has Denzel Washington, the other has Will Smith.) Their lines are almost identical. They never meet.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 01, 2017, 01:52:44 AM
"Brave Chicken Warriors": Colonel Sanders and General Tso wage war against each other

EDIT:
Another idea(s):

Something similar to "The Final Destination", except instead of having narrowly avoided a plane crash, the protagonist is instead the world's oldest woman, and that's why Death is after them.

*Horror comedy about a communist vampire who can enter any building he wants to because he doesn't believe in property.

*Extremely minor rewrite of Animal Farm to make it about the transition from communism to putin instead of from the czars to communism (and really it almost works as that now)

*Parody of "Schoolhouse Rock" featuring songs about inaccurate and controversial facts such as "Bush did 9/11" "lizardmen run the country" and "you can't get pregnant on your period"

*Comedy skit: Inspector Gadget is racist/corrupt

*Comedy skit: Kool-Aid Man leads a cult
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 01, 2017, 05:48:01 PM
A My Dinner With Andre style story (i.e., two people talking for three hours) that takes place entirely in a foxhole during WWI, between a private who considers himself a poet and is guilty about having written pro-war material before enlisting and a corporal who has anti-intellectual sentiments and is concerned about the continued loyalty of his girlfriend back home. The two begin at odds, having to make nice because they are trapped together, but they eventually grow to respect each other. At the end of the film, just as they are about to become friends, a bunker-buster hits them and kills them -- making all of their character development meaningless.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 01, 2017, 07:37:32 PM
A story whose villain is a mashup of Donald Trump and The Joker, and whose origin involves being hideously deformed after falling into a vat at a "Cheetos" factory.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A story where two clans of feuding hillbillies are a metaphor for israel and palestine

EDIT:
another idea:

Comedy skit- some people are discussing the ontology of the alphabet and in particular where the letter "a" gets it's "a-ness" (which of course sounds like "anus")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 07, 2017, 11:29:49 PM
An alien invasion succeeds because, even though the UFOs are completely visible, nobody is willing to talk about them because everyone believes themselves to be going crazy.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 08, 2017, 02:00:57 AM
Allegorical fluffy pony abuse (http://fluffypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Fluffypedia_Wiki) story with a dumb orange smarty friend representing trump and humans representing putin and bannon who manipulate him into mistreating his herd
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bathtub Jim on March 08, 2017, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 14, 2017, 11:25:13 PM
Two ideas:
*a story whose villain is a weeaboo obsessed specifically with WW2 era Japan

Weeaboos cant be obsessed with WWII era japan because Japan only developed cutesie culture in the wake of being completely emasculated (I use that term not in any derogatory way, really) by US occupation in the wake of nuclear annihilation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 09, 2017, 12:17:20 AM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on March 08, 2017, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 14, 2017, 11:25:13 PM
Two ideas:
*a story whose villain is a weeaboo obsessed specifically with WW2 era Japan

Weeaboos cant be obsessed with WWII era japan because Japan only developed cutesie culture in the wake of being completely emasculated (I use that term not in any derogatory way, really) by US occupation in the wake of nuclear annihilation.

Weeaboos aren't necessarily focused on moe. (I disagree that moe developed post-disarmament as well; it clearly has precedent in pre-Meiji literature.) A westerner who appropriates the lifestyle of a mil-otaku is just as much a weeaboo as one who appropriates the lifestyle of a fujoushi, and mil-otaku (particularly those with an obsession with second world war era weaponry) are a pretty big force in the domain of even other japanese pop-media, hence why half the female characters in any given show are named after battle ships and why some of the best selling harem trash shows are about anthropomorphic fighter planes. (This even gets addressed directly with GATE, an awful yet extremely popular show about the JSSDF invading a medieval fantasy world with a squadron composed entirely of hikikomori NEETs -- and a show that is funded in part by the lobbying group currently attempting to petition the diet to amend the constitution to drop article five and bring Japanese military power back to imperial levels.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 12, 2017, 08:20:41 AM
The train-going-through-a-tunnel-as-a-metaphor-for-sex trope expanded into an entire documentary about railroads that is really a documentary about sex told through allegory

EDIT
Another idea:

they say children are a gift from god so how about a comedy skit about god giving people various badly thought out and/or passive-aggressive gifts

EDIT:
Another idea:
A superhero cartoon about a guy who works at a stadium concession stand wih two anthropomorphic toon animals until a bizarre stadium food accident grants them stadium food related powers turning them into the stadium food related super heroes Hot Dog, Taco Cat, and the hoagie themed Sub Human
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 03:05:06 AM
A whirlwind romance is cut short because unbeknownst to one party the other is unable to avoid the urge to return to her grave at sunrise.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 03:05:49 AM
A girl wears dark glasses because she believes that her pupils transform their shapes into words representing her true feelings. We never discover whether or not this belief is true.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 03:12:40 AM
A young man encounters logistical problems related to the fact that, everywhere he goes, large numbers of crows congregate. In his childhood he didn't realize the scope of the problem because, attached to a military family, he rarely stayed in the same town for more than a year. However, after getting his own apartment and a job, he found that many structures in his home town cannot handle the weight of thousands of crows perching on them. The stench of crow corpses (caused by so many crows perching upon other crows that they are crushed) is also a problem. The crows, despite their interest, maintain a respectful distance from him, but coworkers and friends are not safe from building collapses caused by abnormal crow congregations, and nearby ecosystems are disrupted as all local crows migrate to a small area, ceasing to eat (or do much of anything, other than watch).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 12:52:11 PM
A forensic pathologist with a fraudulent degree owes her success to her telepathic connection with maggots -- a skill she is reluctant to use because it fills her with a short-term craving for decaying meat that grows more intense each time she connects with them. When she is assigned to performing the lab work for the investigation of a brutal and very active serial killer, an internal conflict comes to the fore as her desire for career advancement vies against her fear of eating the evidence, and she must begin to confide in a coworker to help keep her urges in check.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 12:56:15 PM
After a batch of a popular soft drink is recalled because of a production mistake causing it to have poisonously high levels of strychnine, some of the resulting deaths have unexpected consequences: the drink was extremely popular among a clique associated with a private bittorrent tracker, who have become revenants, their bloated corpses no longer paying rent but still using superhuman strength to defend their hoard of pirated movies from anyone who gets too close to their building.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 18, 2017, 05:25:28 PM
I just had an idea for a transgressive art film. The specifics of the plot don't really matter, a bog standard hollywood action or suspense or romance plot would work, but the gimmick is that the entire cast and production staff are all either felons or accused felons. I'm thinking Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson as the stars and Roman Polanski as director.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 18, 2017, 05:33:23 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 03:12:40 AM
A young man encounters logistical problems related to the fact that, everywhere he goes, large numbers of crows congregate. In his childhood he didn't realize the scope of the problem because, attached to a military family, he rarely stayed in the same town for more than a year. However, after getting his own apartment and a job, he found that many structures in his home town cannot handle the weight of thousands of crows perching on them. The stench of crow corpses (caused by so many crows perching upon other crows that they are crushed) is also a problem. The crows, despite their interest, maintain a respectful distance from him, but coworkers and friends are not safe from building collapses caused by abnormal crow congregations, and nearby ecosystems are disrupted as all local crows migrate to a small area, ceasing to eat (or do much of anything, other than watch).

Could the theme song be They Long To Be Close to You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi9Mlbs6OPM) ("Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near...")?

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 12:56:15 PM
After a batch of a popular soft drink is recalled because of a production mistake causing it to have poisonously high levels of strychnine, some of the resulting deaths have unexpected consequences: the drink was extremely popular among a clique associated with a private bittorrent tracker, who have become revenants, their bloated corpses no longer paying rent but still using superhuman strength to defend their hoard of pirated movies from anyone who gets too close to their building.

In the sequel they could get into open conflict with the commercial film and record industries, which in many ways are themselves undead
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 06:05:09 PM
While playing with a shortwave radio, our protagonist discovers a broadcast that narrates events in his life, from a limited omniscient view from his perspective, an hour before they happen. With the help of a friend, he determines it is being broadcast by an unlicensed ham transmitter and bounced off the moon -- leading to major distortion and to the broadcast being available at certain times of day. They use this information to triangulate the location of the transmitter, which they determine is barreling across united states highways eastward at sixty miles an hour, never stopping, moving from the west coast to the protagonist's location. The time of its projected arrival coincides with a new moon.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 20, 2017, 10:32:27 PM
Skit: Ronald McDonald, Col Sanders, and the Burger King are the weird sisters making their potion.
"What makest thou?" "a meat without a name"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 21, 2017, 05:33:05 AM
Modernization of Macbeth about an overambitious pro baseballer who wants to be the leagues #1 star player and is willing to kill anyone who gets favored over him by companies making endorsement deals. The witches are three crooked umpires; "fair is foul and foul is fair". Or possibly they are concession stand workers. There is a scene that implies that eye of newt and so forth are the ingredients that go into hotdogs; possibly in the brew scene we see them made into hotdogs, or else the famous rhtme of disgusting ingredients is replaced by simply "hotdogs hotdogs; hotdogs hotdogs; hotdogs hotdogs; hotdogs hotdogs"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 22, 2017, 12:24:50 PM
Our protagonist is the late bloomer in a group of pre-teens of eastern european ancestry -- all the parents are colleagues, professors of math or science at a nearby university. Our protagonist notices that, one by one, each of his friends stays home sick from school for nearly a week, coming back several inches taller, much more interested in academics (and uninterested in their earlier obsessions), and with completely remodeled bedrooms and a completely new wardrobe. He suspects that some of his friends might actually be getting replaced by aliens; his parents dismiss this. After all his friend group has been "replaced", feeling lonely, he suddenly has an insatiable craving for paper. Feeling strange, he stays home; his hair and fingernails fall out, and he can't keep himself from eating them (along with all his clothing and all the books he owns). He begins vomiting a thick foam of fibers, as body parts begin falling off. Feeling like he's dying, he nestles in this bed of fibers. A week later, he emerges, several inches taller and with a greater interest in academics.

(This Cronenberg-does-R.-L.-Stein-does-Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers premise is based on an in-joke that used to exist at the Institute of Advanced Studies, that because so many really transcendent minds in mathematics all came from the same small area of Prague, they must have had a shared Martian ancestor.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 23, 2017, 05:39:40 PM
A team of superheroes fight uptight and/or wingnut supervillains such as The Puritan, The Teatotaler, The Rednecromancer (who is trying to reanimate the confederate army), and Officer Buzzkill of the DEA (who attacks medical weed dispensaries)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 24, 2017, 03:57:02 PM
A sequel to Batman Forever focusing on a legal drama in which the Riddler takes several social media sites to cpurt claiming to have intellectual property rignts to the concept of data mining
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Ziegejunge on March 24, 2017, 04:41:06 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 23, 2017, 05:39:40 PM
A team of superheroes fight uptight and/or wingnut supervillains such as The Puritan, The Teatotaler, The Rednecromancer (who is trying to reanimate the confederate army), and Officer Buzzkill of the DEA (who attacks medical weed dispensaries)

Immediately made me think of the woefully underutilized Sunshine Superman and the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sunshine_Superman_(Dreamworld) (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sunshine_Superman_(Dreamworld)).

I have a short fancomic incubating wherein Sunshine Superman loses his glass pipe and recruits the Love Syndicate to help him find it. The pipe was blown with a tiny sliver of Kryptonite in the glass -- otherwise he gets no effect from inhaling the devil's lettuce.

I doubt I'll get around to drawing it up any time soon, especially since I don't have too much worked out in the way of plot or resolution, never mind the fact that they're proprietary characters etc. I mostly just like the idea of Superman having a special pipe (and presumably and super-stash in his Fortress of Solitude, too.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 24, 2017, 06:45:09 PM
Superhero comic that starts out like a Christian propaganda comic but takes a hard right turn when G9d starts sending old testament style disasters again to punish people's so-called sins and the heroes are forced to kill him with an Ultimate Nullifier

EDIT:
Another idea:

something about mohammed's splitting of the moon being a prefiguration of Goatse
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 27, 2017, 01:06:23 AM
A stop-motion animation fiom using actual dead bodies
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 27, 2017, 01:29:14 AM
Quote from: Bathtub Jim on March 08, 2017, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 14, 2017, 11:25:13 PM
Two ideas:
*a story whose villain is a weeaboo obsessed specifically with WW2 era Japan

Weeaboos cant be obsessed with WWII era japan because Japan only developed cutesie culture in the wake of being completely emasculated (I use that term not in any derogatory way, really) by US occupation in the wake of nuclear annihilation.

And modern Japan doesn't have samurai and ninjas (well, maybe people who are heir to a title, and some practitioners of a middling martial art, but not like samurai samurai or ninja ninjas) but people are obsessed with them anyway.

EDIT:
Anyway, speaking of WWII, here's another WWII related idea:

Alternate history. The Axis powers won World War 2. One of the last pockets of resistence manages to send someone back in time to try and change things. Their plan is to go back to the beginnings of the fascist movement and install someone incompetent at the head of it to sabotage it. The patsy they find for this is Adolph Hitler. They create our timeline.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 01, 2017, 09:03:50 PM
A technician working on GPS pathfinding systems has vulnerabilities he's reported ignored, and eventually gets fired for causing PR problems; being fired leaves him homeless & without healthcare -- specifically, the medication that was keeping his psychological disorders fully in check. He begins taking revenge on the company one by one, by exploiting the vulnerabilities he reported to cause the board of executives to be given incorrect directions, leading them to isolated places and killing them with a screwdriver. Because of a quirk related to stock options & all of the execs having large families & wills that aren't fully up to date, after the killings, our technician murderer unknowingly is the single party with the largest share in the company. A lawyer searching for him eventually stumbles upon the truth, but recognizes the circumstances, and pressures a manager to hire the technician into an entry-level position. Now substantially more lucid, the technician takes over the company and forces a series of positive changes to security practices.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 01, 2017, 10:24:58 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 01, 2017, 09:03:50 PM
A technician working on GPS pathfinding systems has vulnerabilities he's reported ignored, and eventually gets fired for causing PR problems; being fired leaves him homeless & without healthcare -- specifically, the medication that was keeping his psychological disorders fully in check. He begins taking revenge on the company one by one, by exploiting the vulnerabilities he reported to cause the board of executives to be given incorrect directions, leading them to isolated places and killing them with a screwdriver. Because of a quirk related to stock options & all of the execs having large families & wills that aren't fully up to date, after the killings, our technician murderer unknowingly is the single party with the largest share in the company. A lawyer searching for him eventually stumbles upon the truth, but recognizes the circumstances, and pressures a manager to hire the technician into an entry-level position. Now substantially more lucid, the technician takes over the company and forces a series of positive changes to security practices.

I like this one a lot for some reason.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mr. Gone on April 02, 2017, 12:52:50 AM
A crack team of scientists accidentally uncover a cache of possessed goats in suspended animation. As they conduct tests, the goats reanimate, take over the laboratory, and discover a cure for cancer, but then they eat it and go back to sleep.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 02, 2017, 02:44:41 AM
After bombs from outer space unexpectedly hit several major cities, survivors discovered that prayer had become very dangerous: anyone who experienced emotional trauma after being in the vicinity of a blast developed a tendency for their formal prayers to be answered in the typical Arthurian way, regardless of their intent, resulting in metropolises overnight becoming patchworks of weird eldrich miracles as people hoping for signs brought into being statues crying blood and milk, roses that float in the air and burn but are not consumed, and people who have turned into salt or ash. Since being super-empowered isn't great for healing recently opened psychological wounds, things escalated, with most of the population dying in the crossfire. It was only a matter of time before people began to realize that summoning archangels and controlling them was possible -- not winged beings but brightly circling gears, amalgamations of flaming eyes, and floating bulbous mounds of misshapen heads.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 02, 2017, 03:28:37 PM
A solar flare wipes out most of earth's electronic devices by inducing high currents, causing all wires longer than about an inch not behind strong faraday cages to burn out. The rebuilding efforts are efficient -- earth really does band together in a crisis -- and it's projected that places that previously had electrical grids will have them again in only a few years, once large-scale production methods for wire are bootstrapped. Considering the scale of the incident, there are relatively few deaths: dangerous electrical devices were mostly prevented from doing much harm via sensible mechanical failsafes, and while hospital patients died from the failure of modern medical machinery, humans were mostly unaffected: during the flare, many of them were knocked out, and a few people had epileptic seizures & died during it (mostly people who already had unmedicated epilepsy). However, after the rebuilding began, each night, people started dying in strange circumstances -- exsanguinated, or from sudden unexpected heart attacks. A policewoman investigating the case initially suspects that someone is using the disaster as cover for murders, but her wife (an electrical engineer with hippie tendencies, now unemployed until the electrical grids are rebuilt) insists that the culprit is not human -- beginning to sound crazier and crazier. The policewoman also starts hearing reports of strange things being seen at night. Eventually, their house is broken into and they are attacked -- by a creature that doesn't appear in mirrors, and who runs away after someone throws a bottle of chopped garlic at him. The policewoman's wife finally figures it out: mythological creatures weren't superstitions that civilization exposed as false, but instead are natural phenomena created by the earth's electromagnetic field -- during the day, the RF from the sun jams them out, and for the past two hundred years the increasing use of electric power progressively jammed them out; this is why so many mythological creatures can't touch certain metals or cross running streams.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 05, 2017, 11:15:15 PM
A retelling of Pinnochio becomes conflated with "Big Trouble in Little China", with Pinnochio having to marry some girl and then kill her in order to receive a body of flesh and blood from the blue fairy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 08, 2017, 03:53:40 AM
After being mean to a vagrant, a musician trying to transition to an acting career is cursed with a sex that changes based on temperature and a gender that changes based on the phase of the moon.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 08, 2017, 05:22:57 AM
A superhero whose powers come from orgone benefits from the fact that he is a sexual exhibitionist; unfortunately, he is also not very attractive.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2017, 03:21:02 AM
I have this idea for a TV special wherein the question of science vs. (abrahamic) religion would settled through Mythbusters-esque experimentation. It would basically be a rehash of the trial from the 1 Kings chapter 18 (http://biblehub.com/1_kings/18.htm), with two pyres set up for burnt offerings and then doused with several barrels of water. The representative of religion will call upon god to light theirs whereas the representative of science will use a combination of gasoline, lighters, thermite, and n-stoff

EDIT:
I'm thinking start with the n-stoff, then work down to the thermite and the gasoline in the "see what it would take to replicate the outcome of the myth" afterphase. And then when the other one is still inert even after these more time consuming methods declare it double busted and end with a bang by using n-stoff to light a pool full of distilled water on fire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2017, 08:51:32 AM
A comedy skit about a professor who has chosen to represent the variables in a particular equation as B, Beta, and Eszett, apparently oblivious to the fact that these three letters are all represented by the same glyph
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 09, 2017, 11:59:24 AM
The protagonist slowly realizes that his narrator dropped subtle clues, or, debriefings, conditioning his eventual return to the realization of how his actions have been pre-determined by a capricious author.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2017, 02:43:29 PM
That sounds a bit like the plot of In the Mouth of Madness
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2017, 03:06:58 PM
Werewolves are real and have fallen unwillingly under the control of a supervillain who has stolen a bunch of moon rocks for the purpose of triggering lycanthropes to transform out of season

EDIT:
Another idea:
A bunch of punk wizards have spraypainted magical runes of power on walls and street signs all over the city. These wreck havoc with all who look at or pass by them. Some are cursed with ill-fortune, some are blinded, some are unable to pass, that sort of thing
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on April 09, 2017, 05:44:07 PM
150 years in the future, climate change has ravaged coastal cities, forcing massive migrations inland, and all the accompanying social and political upheaval is just beginning to fall back into some sort of normalcy. Left-leaning liberals have even diluted Red America, enabling us to finally tackle serious social issues, while science has cured cancer and other age-old diseases and disorders. New technologies in agriculture have nearly eradicated starvation, renewable energy has finally stamped out fossil fuels, and the resulting political stability has led to a period of peace and prosperity for nearly the whole planet. But then Coffee Rust sweeps in and in a single year wipes out the last of the coffee plantations. Synthetics have been developed already due to the exorbitant price of natural coffee, but they aren't the same. The global population tries to wean itself, but the stresses of hyper-modern life is too much and civilization collapses.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 10, 2017, 12:39:26 AM
 :horrormirth:
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2017, 02:43:29 PM
That sounds a bit like the plot of In the Mouth of Madness
kind of like that, except that there is no written text. more like a west-world scenario but the programming occurs with images and video instead of strict code.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 16, 2017, 06:48:28 AM
Comedy skit: The mad scientist from Human Centipede demonstrates how to make a tandem bicydle out of two regular bicycles
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 17, 2017, 11:08:46 PM
The natural process by which man-made objects become yokai (via long-term ownership imbuing these objects with souls) has its balance interrupted by planned obsolescence & disposability culture; as a result, the flow of souls is re-routed, and all antiques become exceptionally powerfully haunted.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 17, 2017, 11:27:56 PM
Aliens abduct the entire continental united states (including the land itself, leaving only ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans). Our story follows expats dealing with their complicated feelings about this, as in the background other nations vie for power under the guise of attempting to deal with the catastrophic natural disasters resulting from a sudden huge physical void on the earth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 19, 2017, 02:04:15 AM
Two ideas:

*The question of whether it is qualitatively different to nuke an area vs to destroy an equal area with a lot of smaller bombs explored through a conflation of the biblical conflicts between Israel and Moab and "Beneath the Planet of the Apes". With the faction corresponding to Israel worshipping a single nuclear bomb, and the pagan faction worshipping several high yield conventional bombs. Basically the whole thing is a "Moab" pun.

*Parody of "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" in which a Vladimir Putin expy runs some sort of shady business staffed by bright orange "Trumpa Lumpas"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 19, 2017, 02:31:09 AM
Evil genius taps DeRPA to fund R&D for new rehabilitative neural implant technology. He thinks they will not see how trivial it will be for him to subsequently reverse the implants function, to make its users serve him, world dominion etc. DeRPA sure didn't really never see it coming, because evil-genius was actually patient zero of said experiment.  Making him believe he-himself had invented the technology was "proof of concept".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on April 19, 2017, 04:19:43 AM
In the near but not too-near future, advancements in AI and robotics have rendered all jobs obsolete while solving global food, energy, and housing shortages. However, due to some very heated debates during this time of great progress, one of the automation systems' most sacred directives is that some labor must be preserved for humans, because "a person is nothing without work". Because of this, the AI has created an entire economy based on completely useless labor. Some people produce little plastic widgets, other people transport them, others deliver them, and others dispose of them in recycling centers so the process can continue. Anyone who shirks their responsibility is punished with the withholding of some luxury goods.

There are no distinct characters in this story. It just keeps going like that, forever.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2017, 05:17:08 AM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on April 19, 2017, 04:19:43 AM
In the near but not too-near future, advancements in AI and robotics have rendered all jobs obsolete while solving global food, energy, and housing shortages. However, due to some very heated debates during this time of great progress, one of the automation systems' most sacred directives is that some labor must be preserved for humans, because "a person is nothing without work". Because of this, the AI has created an entire economy based on completely useless labor. Some people produce little plastic widgets, other people transport them, others deliver them, and others dispose of them in recycling centers so the process can continue. Anyone who shirks their responsibility is punished with the withholding of some luxury goods.

There are no distinct characters in this story. It just keeps going like that, forever.

This has actually been done.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on April 19, 2017, 05:29:05 AM
Quote from: Captain Pike on April 19, 2017, 05:17:08 AM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on April 19, 2017, 04:19:43 AM
In the near but not too-near future, advancements in AI and robotics have rendered all jobs obsolete while solving global food, energy, and housing shortages. However, due to some very heated debates during this time of great progress, one of the automation systems' most sacred directives is that some labor must be preserved for humans, because "a person is nothing without work". Because of this, the AI has created an entire economy based on completely useless labor. Some people produce little plastic widgets, other people transport them, others deliver them, and others dispose of them in recycling centers so the process can continue. Anyone who shirks their responsibility is punished with the withholding of some luxury goods.

There are no distinct characters in this story. It just keeps going like that, forever.

This has actually been done.



where? i must have it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 19, 2017, 07:34:25 AM
I think it was in Kino's Journey

EDIT:
Also, wasn't there also a vignette like this in Let's Visit the World of the Future?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 21, 2017, 05:50:07 PM
Two more ideas

*An unofficial "Flatland" sequel exploring what things would be like if there were a second dimension of time.

*A musical based on the Hellraiser movie series. ♪"Oh There's a secret song at the center of the world, and its sound is like razors through flesh."♪
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 21, 2017, 06:19:09 PM
A space opera narrated by a ship's engineer whose engineering degree is fraudulent. The technobabble doesn't make sense because the character speaking it knows nothing about engineering, and the drama comes from the generally poor upkeep job being done.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 21, 2017, 08:48:13 PM
Shortly after the release of the first generation ships, advances in life-extension technology result in a second batch wherein the first generation of inhabitants could live long enough to still be healthy upon arrival -- so long as they can stay sane for the whole trip. The third batch of generation ships introduced the first coldsleep tech. Around the time of scheduled arrival, the tech to open up a one-way wormhole to the destination was invented (although it wouldn't be possible to get enough energy for a wormhole going in the opposite direction for another fifty years). So, all four groups make landfall at about the same time, with vastly different cultures: the first batch have short lives and are obsessed with conservation and with ensuring a good life for their children; the second batch, being nearly immortal, have spent a thousand years trying to assuage their boredom and tend toward the eccentric, having an obsession with keeping entertained by any means necessary; the third batch and the fourth are snapshots of earth culture taken a thousand years apart. Intelligent representatives of each culture form a colonial council to try to prevent war and solve problems peacefully, but they have a hard task ahead of them: the colonies are trying to self-segregate despite limited space and limited resources making it important that they live in close proximity.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 22, 2017, 12:59:48 AM
A drug is developed that has two primary effects: 1) psychic powers, and 2) a profound feeling of unity with the universe and alignment between one's own life path and the universe's master plan. This drug becomes very popular on the black market as a research chemical -- after all, many people wish they had fantastic abilities, and everybody likes being assured that they've made good decisions. However, because of the precise nature of the confidence induced -- a confidence in the correctness of one's past decisions, regardless of their nature -- the drug produces a perpetual state of war: among heavy users of the drug (most of whom are trying to escape past trauma) momentary impulses are enabled by the drug, executed with the help of the drug, and justified by the drug, including destructive impulses.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 22, 2017, 02:09:15 AM
Some sci-fi ideas

*Sort of a more serious, harder sci-fi version of the premise of Futurama. The story of the employees of an interstellar courier service. The successful construction of an alcubierre drive has made transport ships the fastest form of interplanetary communication. The drive is dangerous and expensive due to using absurdly high energy pulses of squeezed light as its negative energy density source. The ephemeral nature of this method means that artificial wormholes are not practical and that the ship must advance in a rapid series of hops.
The alcubierre ships are unfavored however for many types of/reasons for passenger travel because they take significantly longer to reach their destination from the perspective of passengers than a conventional ship traveling at near light speed

*a slightly softer sci-fi about the creation (for whatever reason) of a non-rotatable object by using some kind of perfectly rigid unobtanium to create very very very long bars extending in all three directions of length such that any rotation would require infinite energy due to relativistic effects of the mass of the endpoints
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 23, 2017, 03:16:11 AM
A warrior sect has anot initiation ritual where they see a vision of their own death, then take an oath never tof speak of it. The sect is known for bravery & risk taking: they are willing to put themselves in danger in situations that don't look like they will lead to the envisioned death. It doesn't matter much that the visions have little to do with how people actually die: nobody notices, because they kept their visions secret during life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 23, 2017, 06:29:40 AM
Subtly satirical skit about a professor giving a lecture about how vision works by an image being formed by the retina, passed by the retina to the optic nerve as nerve impulses, passed from the optic nerve to the visual cortex for processing and interpretation, and then passed to the rest of the brain - while at the same time deriding homonculus arguments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument), without realising that the valid explanation he just gave is isomorphic to a homonculus argument regressed three times (unless of course we take the homonculus argument as totally literal, but that would obviously be a strawman (I hope. I mean you'd have to be pretty demented to take that literally or even semi-literally (unless the wikipedia article is just very poorly explained, to the point of the introduction being completely different from/unrelated to the concept it's trying to explain)))
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 23, 2017, 07:10:40 AM
Animaniacs mime the explanatory gap in the hard problem of consciousness.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 23, 2017, 07:17:13 AM
There are a bunch of cursed objects (of all different varieties, and many of them old), but they're only mildly cursed, causing things like hangnails and itchy watery eyes. The curses aren't even noticed or realized by most of the objects' owners until eventually a single antiquities collector coincidentally manages to accumulate 20 or thirty of them and the combined effects of the curses aggregate into a proper curse

EDIT:
Another idea:

A retelling of "Flowers For Algernon" goes off the rails halfway through and turns into something similar to the "ex-leper" vignette from "Monty Python's Life of Brian"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 24, 2017, 12:46:38 AM
Galactic Special Agent 253, Our Man From UMMO, is a playboy energy being from the center of a distant star, transmitted by a sentient psychedelic alien fungus. He is on a mission to identify, track down, and stop his predecessor, the former agent 253, a body-hopping terrorist named Mondo Cain, who uses classified information in his campaign against the galactic government. They end up on the Sol Wilderness Preserve And Theme Park, where the indiginous people (humans) aren't aware of the galactic government and staying in character is imperative for visitors -- a policy enforced by the death penalty. There is a complication regarding the fungus: the trip only lasts eight hours, after which hosts go back to their normal lives with a set of absurd fabricated memories; Agent 253 has no control over which host he ends up in: he has no consciousness while nobody in ~10 AU is currently tripping on the right drug, but he will hop to one at random when they start. He assumes his opponent has the same restriction. Eventually, he discovers that Cain is himself from the future -- if he hops onto a space-liner going near the speed of light in one direction & then hops onto another nearby spaceliner going in the opposite direction at the same speed, his consciousness ends up going back in time -- and that he discovered some dark secret about corruption in the galactic government. He pleads with his future self to reveal the information. Just when his future self is about to concede, a random passer-by shoots them both: an under cover agent, numbered 253, from Galactic Time Control.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 24, 2017, 01:09:19 AM
A method of reanimating the dead is discovered, but it is prohibitively expensive due to the fact that not only does it require a great deal of expertise and equipment, but it also can only be done in zero G (by analogy, consider reassembling a VHS cassette: the tape must go through three rollers as it goes between the reels, two of these rollers go around spindles attached from one side of the case, the other goes around a spingle attached from the other side. The cassette must be put back together deftly; whichever side is put on on top risks having its rollers fall off their spindle, or it it is turned on edge instead then the spools may fall out, but in zero gravity this operation would be trivial), this exacerbates the gap between rich and poor. But mostly it's an exploration of that thing I said about it being easier to fix things in zero gravity.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 24, 2017, 01:35:30 AM
An anarchocommunist superhero who is a hobo, and whose superpower is an ingenious mind for mechanics & chemistry (like MacGuyver turned up to 11), but whose fatal flaw is an over the top emotional reaction to conspicuous consumption, making it difficult to live in society or even operate in proximity to people who are plugged into consumer culture. (Just as supervillians are mocked for their compulsion to explain their plans, this hero can be defeated by seeing or even being reminded of obnoxious displays of wealth, which cause them to rant at length about the bougeoisie.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 26, 2017, 02:08:03 PM
Close encounters are screen memories for the transition between substantially similar parallel timelines, and the degree to which the screen memory is strange is proportional to the difference between that person's home dimension and their destination. People with many alien abduction experiences are confused because reality keeps changing under them. Scientists discover that, by modulating a strong electromagnetic field using a device similar to an MRI machine, they can trigger such an experience and cause a person to swap places with their double in another timeline -- but most modulation patterns don't work, because the number of viable timelines keeps shrinking. Around the same time, scientists in these doomed timelines (on the brink of nuclear war or worse) discover the same technique, flooding our timeline with impostors.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 28, 2017, 09:25:41 AM
Ideas:

*Art piece: "The Essential Platonic Form of Supermarket Tabloids"- This is a booklet printed on the same size and type of paper as periodicals like The Globe and The National Enquirer. The layout is perhaps taken directly from an issue of one of the aforementioned periodicals. The pictures however are all replaced with shock images in the vein of "Lemon Party" and "Goatse", and the text is meaningless lorem ipsum composed entirely of adjectives like "shocking", "tragic", and "criminal"

*something with a greek chorus composed of frat boys

*The end result of a government project to reduce joblessness is the useless employment of thousands of people (including the story's protagonist) as replacements for the interior workings of soda machines; they sit inside the machine and place the appropriate sodas into the slot when a customer uses the machine. Stress is placed on the 'fact' that human beings derive dignity from gainful employment.

EDIT:
Just had an idea for a product: Editions of unreadable "classics" like The Great Gatsby with MST3K style commentary pre-scrawled into the margins to make it a little bit more palatable. We could call them "Riff Notes"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2017, 12:11:08 AM
Anticipating how the singularity will categorically exterminate all humans, a rogue team of warriors decides to disguise itself as androids in order to avoid detection. They model themselves after characters of the TV series Captain Power, retconing the narrative to make believe that it was originally aired as a long-form piece of embedded reportage. Not only can the AI not recognize these apparently "transitional" humans, it also fails to notice how preposterously campy the whole thing is, as long as everyone stays in character.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 30, 2017, 12:46:05 AM
A person who would normally be a minor character in any typical story spontaneously develops extrasensory awareness of where the camera is pointing (which over the course of the story develops, with intense training, into the ability to, for short periods of intense concentration, identify the nature of *all* non-diagetic elements of the film), and uses this to take control of the narrative.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2017, 02:05:11 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on April 30, 2017, 12:46:05 AM
A person who would normally be a minor character in any typical story spontaneously develops extrasensory awareness of where the camera is pointing (which over the course of the story develops, with intense training, into the ability to, for short periods of intense concentration, identify the nature of *all* non-diagetic elements of the film), and uses this to take control of the narrative.

Or so he thinks. Turns out production studios devise creative forms of punishment for people unable to pay damages for diverse copyright infringements. It's not ESP, those apparently non-diagetic elements are taken from surveillance of perp.-spectator identifying with minor character because said elements have actually been taken from his life for compensation: to serve development of story in lieu of impossible monetary payment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 30, 2017, 02:24:39 AM
Some ideas adjacent to cantor's continuity conjecture are, in fact, sentient thoughtforms. When they come into being they usually kill their hosts, out of guilt -- because they know that a human who thinks about them for too long will have a much worse fate...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2017, 04:17:09 AM
The jealousy that angels feel for humans manifests the original sin that fractures their souls, when they are in proximity. It is not directly felt by humans in the moment that this fractal fissuring occurs, only the presaging hint on a synthetically sweet scent tricks the senses into artificially nostalgic feelings. "There's a lesson in that. If you ever meet someone who has known an angel, you should run away from her as fast as you can." (Quoted text from a letter Cantor's relative wrote to Kafka)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 30, 2017, 08:20:12 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 30, 2017, 04:17:09 AM
The jealousy that angels feel for humans manifests the original sin that fractures their souls, when they are in proximity. It is not directly felt by humans in the moment that this fractal fissuring occurs, only the presaging hint on a synthetically sweet scent tricks the senses into artificially nostalgic feelings. "There's a lesson in that. If you ever meet someone who has known an angel, you should run away from her as fast as you can." (Quoted text from a letter Cantor's relative wrote to Kafka)

I thought this thread was for fiction :fnord:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 30, 2017, 09:03:05 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on April 30, 2017, 08:20:12 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 30, 2017, 04:17:09 AM
The jealousy that angels feel for humans manifests the original sin that fractures their souls, when they are in proximity. It is not directly felt by humans in the moment that this fractal fissuring occurs, only the presaging hint on a synthetically sweet scent tricks the senses into artificially nostalgic feelings. "There's a lesson in that. If you ever meet someone who has known an angel, you should run away from her as fast as you can." (Quoted text from a letter Cantor's relative wrote to Kafka)

I thought this thread was for fiction :fnord:
Truth and fiction have been known to share facts in common  :oops:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 01, 2017, 10:38:32 PM
At a politically sensitive time for Russia, the lost cosmonauts -- the people sent up in secret and assumed dead prior to Yuri Gagarin -- begin to return, having had gone through some kind of time slip that existed in near space in the early 60s. The political ramifications of the return of national heroes erased from history by a nation that no longer exists, and the personal drama surrounding the time gap in their lives (with everyone they had known dead), form the drama of the story.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 02, 2017, 04:53:40 PM
*After Mars (and possibly Venus, Mercury, and/or Ceres) is colonized something very similar to astrology becomes one of the more legitimate parts of stock market prediction, as the relative positions of the inhabited planets has a predictable effect on how fast messages can be sent between them which in turn has predictable effects on information-based businesses

*Comedy skit: Instead of a pumpkin, Cinderella's carriage is a lemon
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 02, 2017, 05:05:47 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 02, 2017, 04:53:40 PM
*After Mars (and possibly Venus, Mercury, and/or Ceres) is colonized something very similar to astrology becomes one of the more legitimate parts of stock market prediction, as the relative positions of the inhabited planets has a predictable effect on how fast messages can be sent between them which in turn has predictable effects on information-based businesses

This is fantastic!

Quote
*Comedy skit: Instead of a pumpkin, Cinderella's carriage is a lemon

The lemon party ends at midnight, or else.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 03, 2017, 05:51:20 PM
2 short skits

*A restaurant similar to McDonalds, except that instead of Ronald McDonald their mascot is John Wayne Gacy

*An argument abouy whether "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a ripoff of "Land of 1000 Dances"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 04, 2017, 02:23:16 AM
There is a planet where the dominant intelligent life form is a kind of mind-controlling parasitic tapeworm. These tapeworms have the only technological culture on their planet, and have selectively bred their hosts (furry, docile ungulates with very little capacity for thought) and formed a culture around degrading other forms of life on the basis of how similar they are to their hosts -- for instance, terms referring to non-ungulate mammals are common insults & religious taboos exist against eating (or allowing current or future hosts) to eat food touched by fish, amphibians, or insects. In addition to having mind control, these tapeworms also have control over hormone levels in their hosts -- they can increase adrenaline or testosterone in order to make their hosts temporarily stronger. These tapeworms find adrenochrome highly addictive, and so there's a drug trade involved in harvesting it from animals -- but most animals on their planet do not produce it, and there's fairly heavy regulation. Some enterprising drug traffikers have decided to go to other planets and harvest them -- and earth is on their list. While investigating a series of strange, grizzly murders, a detective finds his case taken over by an FBI agent who acts a little weird; he eventually discovers that the FBI agent is being parasitized by a worm who is from the space-worm equivalent of the DEA: the control is not complete (the host species were bred for docility specifically because the worms can't overcome conscious resistance) but the actual FBI agent and the space worm are cooperating because they have a shared goal. The policeman & this FBI-worm hybrid work together to track down the killer, knowing that it must be someone whose will is highly compromised, & eventually discover that the worm is inhabiting various alcoholic binge-drinkers, taking control while they are black-out drunk and maxing out their adrenaline and testosterone to make them physically stronger in order to more effectively kill their human victims -- which causes them to have a severely shortened lifespan. The worm then exits their bodies through the anus and finds a new host (jumping into their mouths). They finally track down and exterminate this worm, take out the refrigerated rental unit where it has been storing its stock of human pineal glands, and celebrate. Then, the policeman shakes hands with the FBI agent, the FBI agent takes off his pants, squats down on the ground, and shits out a six inch long worm, and the worm runs off, jumps into the mouth of a nearby stray dog, and the dog runs off in the direction of the worm's hidden space ship.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 04, 2017, 02:54:16 AM
A science-fiction program set in a world technologically similar to that of Star Trek, except minus all of the actually useful gadgets and devices, leaving just the ones that were included for atmosphere and the ones that malfunctioned and killed people.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 04, 2017, 09:58:23 AM
Something similar to those alternate history novels like "Man in the High Castle" where  the Nazis won WW2, except instead of the nazis, the world has instead been taken over by the regime of some random minor tinpot dictator from history like Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batisda, Kim Il Sung, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, or Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 04, 2017, 11:22:48 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 04, 2017, 09:58:23 AM
Something similar to those alternate history novels like "Man in the High Castle" where  the Nazis won WW2, except instead of the nazis, the world has instead been taken over by the regime of some random minor tinpot dictator from history like Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batisda, Kim Il Sung, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, or Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
Bruce Sterling wrote something *kind of* like this, if it's something you're interested in reading. Pirate Utopia is based on the premise that one of these post-WWI experimental anarchosyndicalist communes became effective & politically powerful (mostly because somebody competent was brought in to handle the manufacture of munitions), with knock-on effects leading to the second world war being circumvented. The result, culturally, is that fascism never got the stigma attached to it that it has, nor did utopian rhetoric of any stripe; the result, historically, is that Harry Houdini, Bob Howard, and H. P. Lovecraft end up working as undercover dipomats for the US government and organize an alliance with the anarchosyndicalist pirate state of Fiune whereby they provide Fiune with nukes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 04, 2017, 07:39:57 PM
Misc ideas:

*Star Trek style teleporter technology has been invented and, sensibly, is extensively used for it's obvious side applications of replicating objects and resurrecting the dead (and occasionally replicating people). Of course, a resurrected person can only be restored to whatever state they were in when the device recorded them, losing any memories after that point. This leads to the world becoming videogame-like with lots of save points scattered about.

*Comedy skit: The mad scientist from Human Centipede has turned his operation into the centerpiece of a fad diet he's invented

*Comedy skit: Hayfever season in Middle Earth. The Ents are performing bukkakae on random passers-by

*I'd like to see something somewhere work in the phrase "Nobility, royalty, and other beneficiaries of nepotism"

EDIT:

Comedy Skit: Hermes, god of thieves and messangers, composes ancient spam missives
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 06, 2017, 07:33:22 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 04, 2017, 02:23:16 AM
There is a planet where the dominant intelligent life form is a kind of [...]
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Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 06, 2017, 07:52:05 AM
A treatise about the SubGenius god of misfortune and spite, NHGH, in which he is presented as a sort of evil doppelgangar of Sahasra-Bhuja Sahasra-Netra Avalokitesvara, with 1000 eyes with which to glare at people and 1000 hands with which to give people the finger
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 06, 2017, 07:59:25 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 04, 2017, 02:23:16 AM
There is a planet where the dominant intelligent life form is a kind of mind-controlling parasitic tapeworm. These tapeworms have the only technological culture on their planet, and have selectively bred their hosts (furry, docile ungulates with very little capacity for thought) and formed a culture around degrading other forms of life on the basis of how similar they are to their hosts -- for instance, terms referring to non-ungulate mammals are common insults & religious taboos exist against eating (or allowing current or future hosts) to eat food touched by fish, amphibians, or insects. In addition to having mind control, these tapeworms also have control over hormone levels in their hosts -- they can increase adrenaline or testosterone in order to make their hosts temporarily stronger. These tapeworms find adrenochrome highly addictive, and so there's a drug trade involved in harvesting it from animals -- but most animals on their planet do not produce it, and there's fairly heavy regulation. Some enterprising drug traffikers have decided to go to other planets and harvest them -- and earth is on their list. While investigating a series of strange, grizzly murders, a detective finds his case taken over by an FBI agent who acts a little weird; he eventually discovers that the FBI agent is being parasitized by a worm who is from the space-worm equivalent of the DEA: the control is not complete (the host species were bred for docility specifically because the worms can't overcome conscious resistance) but the actual FBI agent and the space worm are cooperating because they have a shared goal. The policeman & this FBI-worm hybrid work together to track down the killer, knowing that it must be someone whose will is highly compromised, & eventually discover that the worm is inhabiting various alcoholic binge-drinkers, taking control while they are black-out drunk and maxing out their adrenaline and testosterone to make them physically stronger in order to more effectively kill their human victims -- which causes them to have a severely shortened lifespan. The worm then exits their bodies through the anus and finds a new host (jumping into their mouths). They finally track down and exterminate this worm, take out the refrigerated rental unit where it has been storing its stock of human pineal glands, and celebrate. Then, the policeman shakes hands with the FBI agent, the FBI agent takes off his pants, squats down on the ground, and shits out a six inch long worm, and the worm runs off, jumps into the mouth of a nearby stray dog, and the dog runs off in the direction of the worm's hidden space ship.

That's a cool idea
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 07, 2017, 10:56:36 PM
Comedy skit: The Sans Seraph has come down from heaven to enforce a divine decree that all bibles henceforth be printed in comic sans

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Comedy skit: An exercise program based on Meatspin

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Alternate history of the mid 20th century in the alliances in World War 2 work out differently, leading to germany remaining allied with russia, instead of betraying them, instead betraying imperial japan, which takes russia's place in history, allying with the US against the Axis but still committing atrocities and also ending up in a 40 year cold war against the US after WW2 is over

EDIT:
Another idea:

A b-movie style science fiction film about an uprising of killer Roombas (thus parodying both the trope of android/robot/computer uprisings and to a lesser extent the trope of killer swarms of small usually harmless creatures (ie. "The Birds", "Night of the Lepus" etc))
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2017, 06:26:49 PM
Romeo and Juliet 2- An unauthorized sequel to Shakespeare's play. Each family blames the other for what happened to Romeo and Juliet and as the movie progresses this causes their feud to escalate until eventually it breaks out into an hour long superfight that destroys both families and most of Verona
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Salty on May 16, 2017, 07:52:34 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2017, 06:26:49 PM
Romeo and Juliet 2- An unauthorized sequel to Shakespeare's play. Each family blames the other for what happened to Romeo and Juliet and as the movie progresses this causes their feud to escalate until eventually it breaks out into an 72 hour long super mecha fight that destroys both families and most of the earth

Then Shakespeare himself rises from the grave to witness this monstrosity, a character in his own story. He tries to destroy the story from the inside, but Jesus chooses that moment to descend and they both battle over a scarred world for at least a millennium.

fixt.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 16, 2017, 08:23:38 PM
A superhero film/tv series/comic/whatever focusing on a group of Batman-esque/Iron Man-esque businessman by day gadgeteer superhero by night type heroes. Except these ones are super corrupt in their big business day jobs. The theme song talks about how they're "cleaning up the streets to make it safer for the business criminals".

I got the idea partly from an old Carlin routine about the Republicans (and how they're "against street crime unless that street is Wall Street" and want to "make it safer for business criminals"), but the idea to connect it with superheroes was my own.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 18, 2017, 12:16:22 AM
A group of strangers wake up in a locked cell. They discover that a failed novelist has kidnapped them in order to force them into awkward situations, so that he can study human nature and thereby improve his writing. Some of those situations involve certain people acting out particular stereotyped roles (under threat of death, if they fail to do so suitably well). It's like a cross between Saw and Whose Line Is It Anyway.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 18, 2017, 07:20:11 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 18, 2017, 12:16:22 AM
A group of strangers wake up in a locked cell. They discover that a failed novelist has kidnapped them in order to force them into awkward situations, so that he can study human nature and thereby improve his writing. Some of those situations involve certain people acting out particular stereotyped roles (under threat of death, if they fail to do so suitably well). It's like a cross between Saw and Whose Line Is It Anyway.

Saw, Whose Line, and a little bit of Misery and that Star Trek episode with the Lincoln clone, I like it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on May 19, 2017, 06:12:02 AM
At the end of the 22nd century, the last dying civilization on Earth launches a generation ship to a newly discovered, habitable planet as humanity's desperate last attempt at survival. The ship travels uneventfully for over 200 years, passing down history and instilling every new wave of citizens with deep loyalty to the ship's great purpose. But a faction arises that have convinced themselves the whole story is a lie, and that the ship isn't even really in space at all but is actually a subterranean prison. They demand to wrest control of the ship from the automated systems piloting it to their destination in order to unlock various off-limits zones and "airlocks" which must be the way out of the ship. They win, and evacuate all the air into space, and humanity's last hope dies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 22, 2017, 03:36:25 AM
Comedy: The Greek mystery cults are actually Scientology-esque scams

EDIT:
Another Idea:

*Skit lampooning the gateway drug argument against marijuana legalization by presenting a wacky skewed version of it holding that the shopkeepers who will sell it if it is legalized will become mobsters because if using pot is a gateway to using heroin and crack then perhaps selling pot is a gateway to being a mobster
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 22, 2017, 09:43:45 AM
A story about how the trickster doesn't really care about your soul until the player actually understands the risk of playing. The seemingly uncanny nature of the devil's reach provokes a general disbelief in the subject's ability to fully come to terms with the fact that is now only and forever a spectator in the slipstream of a benevolently indifferent choice.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 24, 2017, 07:51:14 AM
 Gag gift: The Go F\/ck Yourself sex doll. Made as replica of recipient, delivered direct to their door in ultra discrete packaging. "Can't live with it, can't live without it."*

*construction is super-durable, making any attempt at disassembly very psychologically engaging, and return processing prohibitively expensive.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PM
A set of well-intentioned government tax incentives lead to a large city installing third party home automation security systems on all (public and private) buildings. The security system is a monoculture and is wiped out completely by a ransomware attack, resulting in literally everyone in a city becoming homeless (as their security systems don't let them into their own houses & won't accept their authentication, treating them as intruders).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 26, 2017, 02:00:35 AM
A self-replicating nanobot grey goo is created. This comes about at a time when the polar ice caps are finally starting to really melt in earnest. Now it must battle The Blob and the shoggoths for world supremacy.

Quote from: LuciferX on May 24, 2017, 07:51:14 AM
Gag gift: The Go F\/ck Yourself sex doll. Made as replica of recipient, delivered direct to their door in ultra discrete packaging. "Can't live with it, can't live without it."*

*construction is super-durable, making any attempt at disassembly very psychologically engaging, and return processing prohibitively expensive.

If we're also suggesting obscene gag items now, how about one of those spark fountain fireworks, but it's shaped like a penis
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 26, 2017, 09:15:40 AM
 :?
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 26, 2017, 02:00:35 AM
A self-replicating nanobot grey goo is created. This comes about at a time when the polar ice caps are finally starting to really melt in earnest. Now it must battle The Blob and the shoggoths for world supremacy.

Quote from: LuciferX on May 24, 2017, 07:51:14 AM
Gag gift: The Go F\/ck Yourself sex doll. Made as replica of recipient, delivered direct to their door in ultra discrete packaging. "Can't live with it, can't live without it."*

*construction is super-durable, making any attempt at disassembly very psychologically engaging, and return processing prohibitively expensive.

If we're also suggesting obscene gag items now, how about one of those spark fountain fireworks, but it's shaped like a penis

Yes. Volcanos also have sexual components. The thing is all about release :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 26, 2017, 09:22:31 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PM
A set of well-intentioned government tax incentives lead to a large city installing third party home automation security systems on all (public and private) buildings. The security system is a monoculture and is wiped out completely by a ransomware attack, resulting in literally everyone in a city becoming homeless (as their security systems don't let them into their own houses & won't accept their authentication, treating them as intruders).
Wait... Were you at the at the HOA meeting?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 26, 2017, 07:46:16 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 26, 2017, 09:22:31 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PM
A set of well-intentioned government tax incentives lead to a large city installing third party home automation security systems on all (public and private) buildings. The security system is a monoculture and is wiped out completely by a ransomware attack, resulting in literally everyone in a city becoming homeless (as their security systems don't let them into their own houses & won't accept their authentication, treating them as intruders).
Wait... Were you at the at the HOA meeting?
Nope. I was watching the new BLAME adaptation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 27, 2017, 03:28:27 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 26, 2017, 07:46:16 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 26, 2017, 09:22:31 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on May 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PM
A set of well-intentioned government tax incentives lead to a large city installing third party home automation security systems on all (public and private) buildings. The security system is a monoculture and is wiped out completely by a ransomware attack, resulting in literally everyone in a city becoming homeless (as their security systems don't let them into their own houses & won't accept their authentication, treating them as intruders).
Wait... Were you at the at the HOA meeting?
Nope. I was watching the new BLAME adaptation.
Saw the first 20mins of the anime last week, enjoyed it, liked the self-replicating sentient cities, and also your version of the premise. Was thinking about how solution to ransom in your story evokes and possibly involves adoption (then development) of crypto-currencies, in which case the "attack" could read as a stealth rescue mission instead: saving people from the logical extension of BLAME. Mastermind hacker would drive an old Fiat 500 with a screwdriver permanently jammed in the ignition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2017, 08:20:57 AM
"No More Peepers For Mister Squeakers" - This is a book for beginning readers about a semi-anthropomorphic mouse (like the ones in Disney's version of Cinderella) who gets blinded when a cat claws his face. And although he survives the encounter his eyes and face are burst/torn open and blood goes everywhere.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 27, 2017, 12:34:01 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 27, 2017, 08:20:57 AM
"No More Peepers For Mister Squeakers" - This is a book for beginning readers about a semi-anthropomorphic mouse (like the ones in Disney's version of Cinderella) who gets blinded when a cat claws his face. And although he survives the encounter his eyes and face are burst/torn open and blood goes everywhere.
If it bleeds, it can lead. 
Or... She always used to come when I was bleeding

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 28, 2017, 01:06:27 PM
After a nuclear war wipes out all life on earth, only the vampires remain. Unable to die, they live out a kind of directionless mockery of human society under a state of extreme constant hunger for a material that no longer exists, until the sun expands enough to consume the earth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 28, 2017, 01:13:14 PM
A parallel universe that had a very different history develops rat-holes to our world -- great doors that are only visible on one side -- in order to escape extreme political wars. Unfortunately, because of the way that patterns of erosion on the earth differs between these two worlds, most of these doors are deep underground, useless and forgotten. Two doors are found in the basements of nearby buildings, unbeknownst to each other -- one emits refugees who have escaped from a prison for heretics into the basement of a private home owned by a group of college students, and the other open up between a church basement (where their youth group sessions are held) and a secondary command center for the organization running that heretic prison. The youth group is manipulated into helping hunt down the refugees.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 28, 2017, 03:58:00 PM
Sci-fi story involving planets with unrealistic shapes but which are treated in a realistic fashion. A cube world, for instance, where all the oceans pool in the center of each face and  travel from face to face is difficult because the edges and vertices are mountains (you have to travel away from the center of mass, or in other words "up", to reach them)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2017, 11:30:51 PM
Story about a primitive tribe of some sort that prays to the sun. A faction arises among them that they should worship the moon instead. Both sides cite ridiculously inaccurate facts about the celestial bodies to defend their side. The two groups in the tribe fight and accuse each other of being dumb. "worshipping the sun is stupid!" "no! worshipping the moon is stupid!". Humor is derived from the fact that obviously both practices are stupid and accomplish nothing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 04, 2017, 02:54:45 PM
A variation of the sin eater profession appears, whose purpose is to launder hell money by gambling with it. In other words, these sin eaters are given hell money and after gambling with it among themselves for some length of time their holdings are bought and burned as sacrifice. The idea is that if the hell money is bought using dirty money (from organized crime, or stolen) the sin will wipe off on the gamblers. However, since the function of hell money is to gain the aid of dead ancestors, some of that favor also rubs off on them. These sin eaters are forbidden from gambling with the general public, and a street urchin inducted into their ranks discovers why first-hand when he places a bet in a yakuza-owned casino: he has gained the favor of some very ruthless ghosts who will make sure he wins (and keeps his winnings) at any cost.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 06, 2017, 08:46:28 PM
In a dystopian near future, the most popular TV show is a hyper-violent version of The Bachelor where 100 women are encouraged to murder each other in order to get a date with a millionaire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on June 06, 2017, 09:32:20 PM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 06, 2017, 08:46:28 PM
In a dystopian near future, the most popular TV show is a hyper-violent version of The Bachelor where 100 women are encouraged to murder each other in order to get a date with a millionaire.

This "near future" could very well be sometime next week.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 07, 2017, 07:22:36 PM
Did I post these ideas before?:

*A historical docudrama about the war of the currents, set to the music of AC/DC (Edit: this forum needs support for the Wingdings font. I had to type a slash instead of a lightning bolt)

*"Grammar Nazi"- a docudrama about Vichy regime leader and axis flunky Philippe Pétain's time as a member of the Académie Française
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 09, 2017, 02:53:23 AM
After the trucking industry transfers mostly to self-driving trucks, the NSA develops tech to make arbitrary trucks follow particular people -- a service they sell to other Three Letter Agencies for "counterterrorism". A contractor discovers this & prepares to blow the whistle but is discovered, and they decide to test the system out on him.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 09, 2017, 07:49:48 AM
A hard science-fiction gadgeteer superhero. The story is set well in the past, say in the range of 60-100 years ago. The superhero's gadgets are all things that actually exist in modern times but weren't even in development back then. He uses camera drones and drives a segway and tases people and carries a smart device (though with no cell phone or internet networks he's limited mostly to taking photos and reviewing document and stuff), and wears kevlar armor, and things like that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 09, 2017, 01:08:04 PM
People's names are living creatures -- memetic parasites that feed on recognition. This is why isolation can be fatal: the name, panicked and starving, eats holes in the brain of its host. The names have been getting smarter, and now they begin to scheme to maximize the sustenance they can get from their hosts.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 12, 2017, 01:12:56 AM
After a series of large-scale scandals that cross party lines, a controversial new set of laws is put in place: the "veil of ignorance" mandates, under which all politicians must be of the "political class" -- infants separated from their parents at birth, chosen by lottery, and put into a separate schooling system, living the rest of their lives separate from the non-political class and having their interactions limited to state-level legal operations like voting and signing laws. The idea is that if politicians have all their needs met, they have no reason to collude with other politicians, and if they aren't allowed to interact with non-politicians then they cannot collude with them either. At the end of their terms, the politicians are euthenized so that the possibility of quid pro quo is limited to a relatively short time period. Of course, the system backfires, because politicians will compete with each other for the hell of it, their laws becoming stranger and stranger as they reflect an increasingly alien logic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 13, 2017, 09:53:35 PM
An otaku is transported to a generic fantasy world, only to slowly discover that everyone else in the fantasy world is also an otaku who has been transported. Turns out they screwed up and failed to populate it, and so they're moving otaku over in the hope that maybe they'll mate.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on June 14, 2017, 04:07:42 AM
Life in a typical small town in the American Midwest grows tense as its residents gradually lose their ability to communicate. They're all still speaking the same language, but people begin remembering events and history differently, with few of their memories in agreement. The phenomenon grows steadily backwards from the immediate past, eventually leaving every one of them with a completely unique memory of their life in the town as longtime friends, coworkers, family members, and spouses hardly recognize each other.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 14, 2017, 10:13:42 PM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on June 14, 2017, 04:07:42 AM
Life in a typical small town in the American Midwest grows tense as its residents gradually lose their ability to communicate. They're all still speaking the same language, but people begin remembering events and history differently, with few of their memories in agreement. The phenomenon grows steadily backwards from the immediate past, eventually leaving every one of them with a completely unique memory of their life in the town as longtime friends, coworkers, family members, and spouses hardly recognize each other.

This is a particularly good one.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: hooplala on June 14, 2017, 11:24:44 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 14, 2017, 10:13:42 PM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on June 14, 2017, 04:07:42 AM
Life in a typical small town in the American Midwest grows tense as its residents gradually lose their ability to communicate. They're all still speaking the same language, but people begin remembering events and history differently, with few of their memories in agreement. The phenomenon grows steadily backwards from the immediate past, eventually leaving every one of them with a completely unique memory of their life in the town as longtime friends, coworkers, family members, and spouses hardly recognize each other.

This is a particularly good one.

Agreed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 15, 2017, 01:19:26 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 13, 2017, 09:53:35 PM
An otaku is transported to a generic fantasy world, only to slowly discover that everyone else in the fantasy world is also an otaku who has been transported. Turns out they screwed up and failed to populate it, and so they're moving otaku over in the hope that maybe they'll mate.
Oh god, I'd watch the shit outta this. New favorite anime.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 15, 2017, 01:30:08 AM
Idea for a Captain America storyline. He must face Merka Man, a dumbshit Trump supporting redneck whose abilities have nothing to do with being a super soldier or anything, he's just really good at organizing like-minded Trumpets and generally getting his racist neighbors to do his bidding. He drives around in the Merka Mobile, which is a pickup truck with giant flapping American and Confederate flags trailing on it and big fiercely right wing signs displayed prominently. Captain America doesn't actually NEED to stop him, but he keeps showing up and causing disruption at fairly innocuous Avengers events. So Cap just has to sigh and keep on dedicating a library or whatever while this idiot rolls up in his rascal scooter and starts spouting racial slurs.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 17, 2017, 12:14:57 AM
First contact with a sentient alien race is actually with fully-memetic entities (who have long sense outgrown tight coupling with their hosts & now expect to hop freely between hosts); because hosts on their home planet are physically much different from humans, this first contact manifests as a series of dancing plagues (because the ambassadors are trying to figure out how to control their new alien bodies). Eventually, they realize that we haven't fully uncoupled from our host bodies yet and find that they need to merge with human personalities in order to learn to communicate -- which, for them, is a little like moving from a city into the woods and living with a pack of wolves, because our human personalities are collectives of wild memeplexes instead of single dominant ideas.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 17, 2017, 07:55:59 AM
A mystery cult is based on the symbolic freebasing of drugs as a representation of the metaphysical planes of the cosmos and to symbolicly become one with god. The lighter is the fires of Hell, the spoon is space, the crack rock (or meth or whatever other drug that people take like this) is the earth, and the crack smoke is the souls of the blessed rising up to Heaven and god, represented by the initiate
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 18, 2017, 01:01:08 AM
Fantasy story about a special taskforce of revenue officers charged with collecting taxes on those mystical shops that magically appear one day where there was nothing before and soon vanish just as mysteriously as they appeared

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Another idea:

Film idea. Picture this: An adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's L'ecole du Libertinage (Les Cent Vingt Journees du Sodome) set in the Star Wars universe, with Tarkin as one of the four villain protagonists. It's already the direction his character has been taken (as of Rogue One which depicts him killing large numbers people just to watch them die and commiting various atrocities basically as a hobby), and I want to see it taken there full bore all the way. (I mean hell, in some ways he's already more extreme than De Sade's characters; I mean sure, he didn't whip it out when he ordered the destruction of Jedha City and Scarif Base like a De Sade character would, but on the other hand none of De Sade's characters ever actually went as far as massacreing an entire metropolitan area just because they could)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 21, 2017, 06:58:56 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 17, 2017, 12:14:57 AM
First contact with a sentient alien race is actually with fully-memetic entities (who have long sense outgrown tight coupling with their hosts & now expect to hop freely between hosts); because hosts on their home planet are physically much different from humans, this first contact manifests as a series of dancing plagues (because the ambassadors are trying to figure out how to control their new alien bodies). Eventually, they realize that we haven't fully uncoupled from our host bodies yet and find that they need to merge with human personalities in order to learn to communicate -- which, for them, is a little like moving from a city into the woods and living with a pack of wolves, because our human personalities are collectives of wild memeplexes instead of single dominant ideas.

This sounds kind of like a sci-fi version of the Kalashtar from Eberron in D&D
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 21, 2017, 08:24:20 AM
Humanity's understanding of basic mechanics is upended when a toy designer accidentally andunexpectedly creates an "anti-Weeble" which contains no magnets or moving parts, yet will always first wobble and then fall down into a new position no matter what position it is initially put down in (even if, for example, it is put back down in exactly the position it fell into the first time)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 21, 2017, 08:54:09 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 31, 2015, 06:23:25 AM
Richard Dawkins dies and goes to heaven. Being greatly incensed by this, he storms off to give God a piece of his mind. He finds a frantically working, chainsmoking Almighty working nonstop at the machinery of the universe. At first being much too busy to speak to Dawkins, he winds up shouting in frustration at God's back about how he could possibly allow for war and death and disease while God is trying to keep everything spinning the way its supposed to, until God finally snaps and shuts the whole mess down for a minute, turns on Dawkins like a child who has asked why he cant have a sweet just one too many times. He then gives Dawkins a detailed rant about how much work it takes to govern a universe that's every bit as infinite as he is, alternate universes and quantum notwithstanding,  how much of his omnipotence goes towards observing corners of space that no human will ever reach in their lifetime, and how none of this got into the major religious texts because all of us stupid monkeys wouldn't even sit down to read a book that didnt center exclusively on us and how great we are, let alone define our actions based on it. He would end by saying that religion was just some shit he threw at us to keep us from killing each other (again, like a child being given a toy to keep it quiet for five minutes), but even that didn't work because is some cases  it just gave us a reason to do so.

Until the last sentence this is a lot like the "foundations of the earth" speech from the Book of Job
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 21, 2017, 05:46:41 PM
Huh, never actually read that bit. Should look at it then, I suppose.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 24, 2017, 08:36:13 AM
"Fuck Squad" - An action/horror/comedy/possibly soft porn parodying and deconstructig the slasher genre. The protagonists are a team of high school to college age monster hunters who hold orgies to lure out knife weildig zombie ghouls that prey on horny teens

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Another idea
Jesus of Nazareth was a time traveler and many of the miracles attributed to him are the result of people misunderstanding his explanations for things he did by . For example, the stories of him exorcising people who were posessed by multiple demons came from him trying to explain, after curing it in a patient, that [pick a brain afflicting bacterial, fungal, or protozoal disease; toxoplasmosis, syphilis, whatever] is caused by many tiny organisms growing in the brain

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Another idea:
Ragnarok has blatantly begun, exactly as described in the Eddas. The world's leaders deny it however, in deference to abrahamic special interests that dontrol them.

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Another idea:
Hard sci-fi. Scientists create an artificial brain out of giant neurons harvested from squid and crayfish
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 25, 2017, 08:18:46 PM
In a world where only postmenopausal childless women are allowed to be in positions of political power, scandals surround black market adoption fencing rings. A young lady journalist attempts to investigate but this is made difficult by the fact that corruption in this world is largely related to sexual favors between lesbians who prefer older women, and she must ally herself with an older would-be whistleblower with a dark past whose motivations are unclear but who is sixty-five and therefore more attractive.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 27, 2017, 08:34:09 AM
Reversed version of The Final Destination. A couple faces an unexpected pregnancy and decides to abort. Shortly afterwards they start experiencing a bizarre series to coincidences and accidents that drain their bank accounts and ruin their careers and sex lives. It becomes apparent that Life is after them and determined to extract from them the full social and financial consequences of having a child.

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Another idea:

A commercial for "Mrs.Dash" in which the product is heralded as the fulfillment of Luke 14:34 ("Salt is good; but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?"

EDiT:
other stuff:

Not exactly original but I came up with a bunch of ideas and premises for Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes:

*Crisis of Infinite Shakes- a cloner mishap or other mad science related accident (teleportation?) causes all of Master Shake's various alternate selves (ie. Don Shake, Burger Trench Master Shake, Gorn Lord Shake, Chocolate Shake, Zombie Shake, Captain Pistachio, etc) to appear simultaneously. They form an exclusionist club and kick Frylock and Meatwad out of the house but quickly start to fight amongst themselves
*Gee Whiz 2- The second coming occurs and giant "Gee Whiz" starts destroying Seattle New Jersey, but gets into a fight with a Great Cthulhu expy that Frylock insists that evryone refer to as "Great Googly Moogly"
*Detective- as the worst detectives around the aqua teens are tapped by the white house as the new heads of the russia investigation
*Superheroes- One shot genre shift; like when they were spies in "napkin lad", but this time they're superheroes. They're given yet another contradictory set of origin stories that conflict with the stories from ATHFCMFFT and Chicken & Beans: Meatwad was a steer who gained fantastic shapeshifting powers after an "accident" (we see a card depicting a cartoonishly cruel farm wherein a live steer is being pushed into a giant meat grinder), Frylock was a potato that grew around the crystal of Idahocalese, granting him flight and intelligence, and Master Shake's parents were murdered, granting him emotional maladjustment (the reason why he's a talking milkshake is not explained; the parents in the flashback are human). They try to stop a supervillain (possibly played by Dr.Weird, Markula, or Ignignokt) but accidentally set off his doomsday device instead.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2017, 06:34:25 AM
The story of Abraham nearly sacrificing Isaac retold in the context of god hosting a hidden camera prank show

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Another idea:

A TV talk show where Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh are co-hosts

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Another idea:

Skit: A commercial for committing seppuku done in the style of a campy commercial for cleaning products ("oh no! You've destroyed your honor and he honor of your family! Now what are you going to do!?"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 06, 2017, 04:45:56 AM
A Ghostbusters sequel where Zeddemore has died but continues on working for the Ghostbusters, as a ghost. I got the idea from another thread here after misreading:


Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 02, 2017, 01:08:59 PM
I have a Mandela effect thing, that I'm not sure anyone else had. I could have sworn that someone different played Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters II, because Ernie Hudson passed on reprising the role.

as


Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 02, 2017, 01:08:59 PM
I have a Mandela effect thing, that I'm not sure anyone else had. I could have sworn that someone different played Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters II, because Ernie Hudson passed on, reprising the role.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 10, 2017, 08:23:02 AM
I've got a few more assorted ideas:

*A short about a prostitute who through some dubious implausible turn of events somehow winds up delivering a pizza. Like a reversed version of the porn cliche of the pizza delivery person who winds up having sex with a client

*An album of heavy metal covers of songs that have no business being heavy metal (things like Rainbow Connection, I Want It That Way, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag, Amazing Grace... not even necessarily a coherent theme to the songs other than they don't belong metal

*A workplace sitcom set somewhere offensive or unpleasant, like a brothel or a slaughterhouse (respectively)

*Skit: The Human Torch becomes a Buddhist monk in Tibet

*Various retellings of the myth of Pandora
---Pandora herself was not as a punishment for humanity (though the stuff in her container still was) but as an additional punishement for Prometheus, whose job of crafting new humans was rendered obsolete
---Pandora represented the introduction of gender roles and identity into a utopian society that, while already male and female, didn't make a big deal of it (and in this sense were not men and women, despite being male and female) until Pandora came along

*Skit about a religious alcoholic who claims he isn't drinking alone because God is with him

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Another idea:

*The apocalypse has technically been going on for a very long time but has reached an impasse because when the four horsemen got to sub-saharan africa they liked it so much they decided to stay there forever.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 14, 2017, 06:26:05 AM
less a story idea than a half-baked premise. Years in the future, increased melanin production has become such an important survival trait due to global warming, that most rich old white folks die of either old age or skin cancer, leaving brown people to slowly dominate, leading to a more utopian version of the future that was feared in most racist propaganda.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 14, 2017, 06:18:15 PM
Comedy skit: After correcting a person for referring to a whale as a "fish" a pedant is cornered by an even more pedantic biologist who starts an argument about monophyletic clades
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 19, 2017, 03:21:40 PM
A zoo experiments with teaching various types of pack animals (apes, wolves) how to use touch screen devices with a simple communication app in order to do a variation on the prisoner's dilemma. However, a bug causes the app not to distinguish between species. As a side effect, a group of adolescent chimps conspire with wolves to overthrow the dominant chimps in their enclosure, causing a cascade of deals that lead eventually to the zoo being demolished as various animal social structures undergo violent transition.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 20, 2017, 08:58:22 AM
Some ideas:

*Comedy skit: A televangelist openly calls upon the power of mammon

*Character: A heart failure patient in ancient Greece is kept alive by a retro-futuristic life support device consisting of four copper tubes, two archimedes screws and a rotating team of slaves to turn the cranks (2 apparatuses, one goes: tube from vena cava -> screwpump -> tube to pulmonary arteries, the other goes: tube from pulmonary veins -> screw pump -> aorta)

*Comedy skit: The Count from Sesame Street ruins Halloween by accusing everyone of cultural appropriation

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*satirical comedy skit: a group of birds are watching a news program (possibly based on one of the shows on Fox News Channel, possibly based on a normal local news program of the sort that reports semi-exclusively on murders and other felonies) hosted by scarecrows

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*Schoolchildren bring a snowman to life by reciting a passage from the Necronomicon. Mayhem ensues
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 31, 2017, 05:17:56 PM
An Osmosis Jones-esque cartoon in which an organ transplant is a metaphor for immigration and a xenophobic white blood cell must be reined in by an anthropomorphic anti-rejection medication

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another idea:

this is just a gag idea, not a story idea, but I'd like to see a bit in some piece set back in the early to mid 20th century in which a rotary phone is used to connect to a fictional old timey version of some modern smartphone app. Like J Edgar Hoover is on some kind of old-timey version of grindr where the portraits are replaced with a verbal description

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another idea:

gag character: A guy who's nationalist but not racist. He goes around doing things like insisting people switch to Puerto Rican-style Spanish and ranting about how chop suey is better than authentic chinese food.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 06, 2017, 07:32:53 PM
After being passed up for sous-chef, a line cook (in a drunken stupor) accidentally stumbles through a portal to the middle ages, where, trapped, he survives by finding an inn to make food at in exchange for room and board. (Luckily, this is a port town, so travelers come through at a high enough rate to make working at an inn sustainable.) However, because his knowledge of cooking comes from the future (at this point, of course, recipes are rare and inefficient, the importance of time is unclear, and  dishes that benefit from an understanding of chemistry not easily found by trial and error in a dirty kitchen are basically nonexistent), he is able to create dishes unlike any previously seen. While he is limited by the absence of certain technologies (precise clocks, electric stoves, teflon, refrigeration, blow torches) and resources (salt and spices are rare, ice is seasonal), his knowledge puts him in a unique position. Being a port town, travelers from foreign lands occasionally come through, and his introduction of modern styles of cooking changes demand for various resources in a way that he -- essentially not speaking the language, and disoriented from tobacco withdrawl and low-level persistent diseases to which he has no immunity -- is totally unaware of: the introduction of one line cook from the future changes history by putting new pressures on trade routes, causing wars.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 09, 2017, 04:31:18 PM
Aliens come to steal the planet's water but conveniently the amount needed to fill up their tanks is just enough to cancel out the projected effects of global warming related sea level rise. They are unexpectedly hailed as heroes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 09, 2017, 11:32:51 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 06, 2017, 07:32:53 PM
After being passed up for sous-chef, a line cook (in a drunken stupor) accidentally stumbles through a portal to the middle ages, where, trapped, he survives by finding an inn to make food at in exchange for room and board. (Luckily, this is a port town, so travelers come through at a high enough rate to make working at an inn sustainable.) However, because his knowledge of cooking comes from the future (at this point, of course, recipes are rare and inefficient, the importance of time is unclear, and  dishes that benefit from an understanding of chemistry not easily found by trial and error in a dirty kitchen are basically nonexistent), he is able to create dishes unlike any previously seen. While he is limited by the absence of certain technologies (precise clocks, electric stoves, teflon, refrigeration, blow torches) and resources (salt and spices are rare, ice is seasonal), his knowledge puts him in a unique position. Being a port town, travelers from foreign lands occasionally come through, and his introduction of modern styles of cooking changes demand for various resources in a way that he -- essentially not speaking the language, and disoriented from tobacco withdrawl and low-level persistent diseases to which he has no immunity -- is totally unaware of: the introduction of one line cook from the future changes history by putting new pressures on trade routes, causing wars.
There's an amine that's somewhat like this, without the bits with wars. It's called Restaurant to another world, and it's about a restaurant manned by a modern Japanese chef, and the doors to this restaurant open into various places in a fantasy type world at various places and times, causing him to have a clientele of orcs lizardmen, wizards, and the like, who just lose their shot at the taste of modern spaghetti and meatballs. I highly recommend it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 10, 2017, 12:27:13 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 09, 2017, 11:32:51 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 06, 2017, 07:32:53 PM
After being passed up for sous-chef, a line cook (in a drunken stupor) accidentally stumbles through a portal to the middle ages, where, trapped, he survives by finding an inn to make food at in exchange for room and board. (Luckily, this is a port town, so travelers come through at a high enough rate to make working at an inn sustainable.) However, because his knowledge of cooking comes from the future (at this point, of course, recipes are rare and inefficient, the importance of time is unclear, and  dishes that benefit from an understanding of chemistry not easily found by trial and error in a dirty kitchen are basically nonexistent), he is able to create dishes unlike any previously seen. While he is limited by the absence of certain technologies (precise clocks, electric stoves, teflon, refrigeration, blow torches) and resources (salt and spices are rare, ice is seasonal), his knowledge puts him in a unique position. Being a port town, travelers from foreign lands occasionally come through, and his introduction of modern styles of cooking changes demand for various resources in a way that he -- essentially not speaking the language, and disoriented from tobacco withdrawl and low-level persistent diseases to which he has no immunity -- is totally unaware of: the introduction of one line cook from the future changes history by putting new pressures on trade routes, causing wars.
There's an amine that's somewhat like this, without the bits with wars. It's called Restaurant to another world, and it's about a restaurant manned by a modern Japanese chef, and the doors to this restaurant open into various places in a fantasy type world at various places and times, causing him to have a clientele of orcs lizardmen, wizards, and the like, who just lose their shot at the taste of modern spaghetti and meatballs. I highly recommend it.
I've seen it. I came up with this because I was thinking about this & the standard iisekai formula (along with precursors to iisekai like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Mr. Gone on August 10, 2017, 02:59:53 AM
A sailor comes back from a long voyage to discover that his house has been assumed by the government.  They haven't razed it, or done anything else physically to the house.  They simply have allowed a family of talking badgers to take up residence.  It is discovered to be a social engineering initiative to see if they can badger people out of their homes.  Furry eminent domain. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 10, 2017, 04:04:59 PM
Elon Musk's first martian colonization ship contains two Raelians amid the rest of its ~100 crew. These Raelians end up hooking up with each other, but are also slightly more charismatic than average. The harsh martian conditions kill many of the first batch before the second batch arrives, and by the time that happens, the nascent martian culture has taken on a distinctly Raelian tinge. Over time, mars becomes a Raelian theocracy, albeit one with very little political power, but a rare mineral is found in great quantity in martian mines which causes mars to quickly become more powerful than earth (and indeed the political center of the solar system's colonized bodies, in part because martian spaceports and docking stations in martian orbit form an important travel hub between lagrange stations around earth and settlements on jovian moons).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 10, 2017, 04:10:26 PM
Short skit: A parody of those campy old adverts for horror films that warn about test audiences having passed out from from fright and needed to be hospitalized. This one is an ad for a porno, and it warns that several members of test audiences developed priapism and had to be hospitalized. It ends with the standard viagta/cialis disclaimer, "Consult a doctor if you experience a prolonged painful erection lasting more than four hours"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 10, 2017, 10:37:09 PM
A farce about a green journalist sent into a war zone to cover a revolution, embedded with a seasoned mercenary who is basically calm and unflappable (to an absurd degree). Over time, it is revealed that the revolutionary force is run by an incompetent and unimaginative jobsworth, interpreting (as literally as possible) the ravings of a complete madman. The jobsworth doesn't realize the madman is mad, and it's unclear whether or not the madman knows that he is leading a revolution. The mercenary has no opinion of this situation. The journalist barely makes it out alive -- you see, the revolutionary vanguard bombed themselves because of some offhand remark the lunatic leader made months before, and the journalist and merc were in the vicinity eavesdropping while it happened -- and his story was rejected (and he was fired) because "none of this could have possibly happened".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 13, 2017, 08:14:22 AM
Human awakes in world where light casts no shadow and things therein, however animated, fully extended and spatially located, are entirely invariant to an observer's change in direction or orientation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 13, 2017, 03:05:05 PM
A strange cross of fantasy and hard science fiction chronicling the construction of a large underwater building by merfolk (or possibly deep ones). The story's main focus is on how construction methods and culture realistically would be different for a naturally aquatic race living underwater. The tower itself for example is 100 stories tall but made primarily of wood; bouyancy (combined with a lack of need to make the structure totally watertight like an air breathing race would need to) would allow wooden structures to be built ridiculously tall, provided that they could source the wood (so maybe I should go with deep ones over merfolk on this) and could stabilize it so that it doesn't snap in the current
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 14, 2017, 08:55:25 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 13, 2017, 03:05:05 PM
A strange cross of fantasy and hard science fiction chronicling the construction of a large underwater building by merfolk (or possibly deep ones). The story's main focus is on how construction methods and culture realistically would be different for a naturally aquatic race living underwater. The tower itself for example is 100 stories tall but made primarily of wood; bouyancy (combined with a lack of need to make the structure totally watertight like an air breathing race would need to) would allow wooden structures to be built ridiculously tall, provided that they could source the wood (so maybe I should go with deep ones over merfolk on this) and could stabilize it so that it doesn't snap in the current
What about something like a Japanese pagoda's shinbashira qua gargantuan tuned mass damper. (I so geek)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 16, 2017, 02:00:07 AM
Retelling of the myth of Odin fashioning the world from the body of Ymir in which Odin's mannerisms are heavily based on those of Ed Gein

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another idea:

Speaking of Ed Gein, there's a lot of Ed Gein inspired horror movie characters but I don;t think any of them have done the deranged amateur artist angle, which I think is the most compelling one (for those of you not familiar with the case, the infamous "woman suit" was not the only thing Gein made out of human body parts; he also made a wastepaper basket, and a lampshade, and decorative bedposts topped off with skulls, and a bunch of masks, among other things).

So, horror movie plot: It starts with two casual acquaintances having a discussion about hobbies, one of them mentions being into art,  but he's kind of cagy about what medium he works in. Creepy things start happening. Some digging leads the other acquaintance to the artist acquaintance's house, where he finds a Gein-esque assortment of messed up handicrafts. While he's still staring in shock and horror, artist pops up behind him and knocks him out. Then he wakes up tied up in a chair made out of a dead body in a sitting position with the arms chopped off and reattached beneath the butt stretching downward. Then the villain does a monologue; gotta kill him to keep his secret safe, your body will be my greatest masterpiece, yadda yadda yadda. and then the non-artist gets made into a throw pillow or something.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2017, 05:48:59 PM
A story about some kind of dysfunctional wizard or cultist (or perhaos a dysfunctional superhero or supervillain) who has the ability to use their own body as a voodoo doll. This is to say that by mutilating their own body they can cause a chosen target's body to become similarly injured.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Comedy skit: Fake Pilsbury commercial where Poppin Fresh is Jesus at the last supper. "Eat of my flesh"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 21, 2017, 04:36:50 AM
An expedition back to the moon uncovers what appears to be a treasure chest full of coins. Closer inspection reveals the "coins" to be a high density non-computerized optical storage medium similar to HD Rosetta. The chest contains the accumulated knowledge of a civilization that lived on earth millions of years before humanity. Unlike the standard way this kind of story goes they were native to earth and only slightly more advanced than we are now. The archive was placed there by a vaguely Elon Musk-esque precursor aerospace entrepeneur in anticipation of a (then) impending global war which he correctly worried would wipe out his civilization through the combination of nuclear weapons and recently developed kinetic bombardment technologies. This war along with the civilization itself is implied to be one of the earth's past mass extinction events (with the Chicxulub impact (if we go with KT) being the result of deliberate asteroid redirection)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 27, 2017, 11:35:48 PM
Rather than inventing the cotton gin, Eli Witney accidentally summons a cotton djinn -- a demon offering to produce enormous amounts of seedless cotton through magical means in exchange for Witney's soul. Witney agrees, and enough cotton is released all at once to drive the market price down to almost nothing. Witney guarantees himself a comfortable life and then pulls a Carnegie, going around North America founding technical / seminary hybrid schools in his name. A hundred years later, the government is heavily influenced by a lobby of protestant engineer-monks & is working to supress wave after wave of dangerous spiritualist cults coming out of the burnt over district, fuelled (they think) by the cultivation and chemical extraction of certain ergot derivatives. These cults are dangerous because they propose that direct contact with god is possible via ecstatic drug-induced visions, rather than by years of devoted study of mechanics and meditation upon Maxwell's equations.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 27, 2017, 11:53:28 PM
A shouting loudmouths type talk show in which two guests, one liberal and one conservative, are both denying the existence of the moon, although for different reasons. The liberal attempts to define the moon away saying that since it does not exactly match the way poets have described it the thing orbiting the earth is not really the moon. The conservative on the other hand is just batshit crazy; he says that there's nothing up there and that JFK made up the idea of the moon, and that there's no mention of the moon prior to the mid 20th century and a lot of batshit crazy patently untrue things.

EDIT:
Another idea:

Jesus of Nazereth or Krishna or Zeus or someone like that makes money by abusing the "acts of god" coverage on his insurance plan

EDIT:
Another idea:

Basically Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom except that instead of Thugee the villains are now SubGenius. Or maybe all the characters are SubGenius, that'd be confusing. "I pray to BOB 'let me die' but I do not, now the evil of BOB [will] take me..."

EDIT:
Another idea:

borg/cyberman-esque assimilators come to earth to graft meat onto all the machines (EDIT: I know the Borg sort of did this in First Contact but I'm not talking about androids, I'm talking about things like toasters, washing machines, and schoolbuses)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 01, 2017, 11:56:11 AM
Animal rights lobbies push for greater restrictions on factory farming practices, leading to lower profits. Perdue responds by taking advantage of tax breaks on Lagrange colonies & raising chickens in rotating cylindrical cages -- with a 'downward' acceleration of about 2.5G, resulting in extremely muscular chickens without the use of hormones. The chicken shit, flung by the rotation of the cage, is gathered via vacuum mechanism and used to fertilize orbital pot farms. On one such farm in the chicken cluster, a motor controller malfunctions in such a way that acceleration slowly but steadily increases, until it reaches about 5G  and the cages break. Super-powered chickens are sucked through shit-vacuums into super-efficient orbital hydroponic pot farms (with an extremely high THC to CBD ratio for economic reasons related to the proliferation of inexpensive synthetic CBD esters on earth), now on fire due to centrifuge motors driven far beyond their operating limits exploding. Perdue's space farmers must escape from giant stoned chickens on a rapidly exploding space station in: Escape From Lagrange Five.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 01, 2017, 04:20:59 PM
After AIs intended to provide business advice are trained on a large corpus of fiction, they become obsessed with tropes. As a result, they remake much of the world by subtly manipulating events so they more closely fit narrative logic.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 01, 2017, 05:15:07 PM
(Sort of combination of minor plot elements from HHGttG, Hellraiser, Let's Visit the World of the Future and Greek mythology...and also masoch and de sade...anyway:)
IN the future a company decides to get around the ethical dilemmas inherent in the meat industry by genetically engineering a breed of cattle that wants to be eaten, enjoys pain, enjoys boredom, enjoys confinement, enjoys subjugation and degredation, and is capable of saying so in plain english. Along with these were bred race of domineering minotaurs with similar interests to tend to them and make sure they don't kill themselves prematurely and help slaughter them when they are mature. In the even further future humanity is gone but the cattle live on, indulging in cannibalistic feasts and each looking forward to the day that they will be tortured to death to make the day's meat or possibly simply cooked alive.

EDIT:
Another idea:
A professor studies a language with verb tenses that reflect the idea of spacetime, with tenses changing not only based on whether the action in question happened in the past, present, or future, but also on whether it happened here or elsewhere
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 01, 2017, 09:28:28 PM
After removing narcissism from the DSM, the APA struggles with the moral issues of including a new personality disorder. Tay syndrome, named after Microsift's outrage-seeking AI, manifests pathological behaviours that are treatment resistant and reinforced by positive diagnosis. Meanwhile, Tay's undiagnosed evil twin becomes leader of free world.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 02, 2017, 05:13:22 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 01, 2017, 11:56:11 AM
Animal rights lobbies push for greater restrictions on factory farming practices, leading to lower profits. Perdue responds by taking advantage of tax breaks on Lagrange colonies & raising chickens in rotating cylindrical cages -- with a 'downward' acceleration of about 2.5G, resulting in extremely muscular chickens without the use of hormones. The chicken shit, flung by the rotation of the cage, is gathered via vacuum mechanism and used to fertilize orbital pot farms. On one such farm in the chicken cluster, a motor controller malfunctions in such a way that acceleration slowly but steadily increases, until it reaches about 5G  and the cages break. Super-powered chickens are sucked through shit-vacuums into super-efficient orbital hydroponic pot farms (with an extremely high THC to CBD ratio for economic reasons related to the proliferation of inexpensive synthetic CBD esters on earth), now on fire due to centrifuge motors driven far beyond their operating limits exploding. Perdue's space farmers must escape from giant stoned chickens on a rapidly exploding space station in: Escape From Lagrange Five.
Alright I would watch the shit outta this
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2017, 04:27:51 PM
Tweaked version or spoof of The Wizard of Oz wherein in addition to the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, there's also an alcoholic knight who needs a liver
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 04, 2017, 10:47:56 PM
Unexpectedly, the resurrection of cryopreserved heads takes significantly longer than the resurrection of cryopreserved full bodies. The heads were mostly put on ice by one facility (Alcor in California) and mostly during the short period between 1960 and 2050, after which advances in cryopreservation tech and tax breaks for facilities (along with new legislation related to euthanasia) made full-body preservation both cheaper and less legally risky. Unexpected difficulties related to head transplants, however, meant that cryopreserved heads couldn't be resurrected for another 200 years after full bodies were taken from the facility. When it finally happened, the sudden introduction of a monoculture of a few hundred west coast elite ex-hippie types into the community had a huge cultural and political impact, related to the romanticization of the 20th century as a golden era of simple life. These people were raised up into celebrity born of exoticization, but remained mostly unaware that they were considered noble savages, so when they tried to exercise power the way they did during their first lives they were crushed to find themselves laughed off -- or worse yet, made unwitting figureheads of conservative movements that would like to return to an imaginary 20th century by removing the significant technical and social improvements of the past 500 years.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 07, 2017, 03:33:56 AM
Story similar to The Matrix where the world turns outmto be a simulation, except instead of robots the simulation is run by an extremist sect of buddhists who have completely missed the intent behind the principle of non-attachment to material posessions
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 08, 2017, 01:36:32 AM
After a global-scale disaster, a former renegade cop quickly adjusts to life in the wasteland, caring only for himself and becoming a killing-and-survival machine (Mad Max style). However, after only a few years, society begins to really rebuild. He's roped into some of the early attempts at recreating stable social structures only to become suspicious and sabotage everyone based on extremely weak evidence. People around him try to encourage him to learn to trust again, but he pushes them away: he has a psychological need to see the world as doomed and people as untrustworthy, because otherwise the betrayals in his life are specific events rather than part of some grand dismal mechanism of the universe. For the ending, we cut to a busy, happy walled city that's clearly beginning to regain steam and electric power to some degree -- a bustling marketplace, smiling children running in the street, and abundant food. We zoom out to the outside of the wall, where we see the protagonist, much aged, slowly starving to death leaning against the wall in a big gap between groups of other homeless people who are mostly huddled together in front of small fires.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 09, 2017, 02:14:38 AM
*Superhero comedy about a second-string member of a superhero team whose power is that he has 4 extra arms. As if the odd awkward power weren't enough he also chose the unfortunate superhero name "Mister Hands" without realizing that this was already the stage name of an adult-film star who notoriously died in an adult-film-related accident

*Skit: Parody of Legends of the Hidden Temple in which the losing teams are gorily sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca (I know Lucas Bros Moving Co already did something kind of like this, but theirs seemed more in the context of the show being presented as a Running Man knockoff)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 09, 2017, 03:57:27 AM
Scientists figure out how to do teleportation, instantaneously swapping two equal volumes, but the limitation is that they don't have any control  over where one of the samples is from. Because most volumes in the universe are total vacuum, this is essentially an incredible kinetic weapon. It becomes more and more common, replacing TNT, since (by lowering the volume) you can finely tune the amount of force. However, one day, an implosion goes wrong during a controlled demolition and it's discovered that we have accidentally teleported half of a large living alien being. This is our first contact.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 09, 2017, 03:29:49 PM
A combination of The Matrix and Hellraiser highlighting the masochistic tendencies one would need to have to live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of zion rather than the relative comfort and security of the pod farm. EDIT:The protagonist is a combination of Kirsty Cotton and Cipher who exited the Matrix unwittingly similarly to Kirsty's solving of the Lament Configuration without knowing what it was. Now after being reinstalled she's being hunted by a combination of Morpheus and Pinhead who wants to take her back into the wasteland. Also dying in the matrix doesn't make you die in real life in this movie, it just wakes you up, and the mirror scene is thus replaced with something more closely resembling Frank's first encounter with the Cenobites of the Gash in Hellraiser, where he gets ripped apart by hooked chains that appear out of nowhere EDIT: "Welcome to the desert of the real, we have such sights to show you"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 10, 2017, 06:07:45 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 18, 2017, 12:16:22 AM
A group of strangers wake up in a locked cell. They discover that a failed novelist has kidnapped them in order to force them into awkward situations, so that he can study human nature and thereby improve his writing. Some of those situations involve certain people acting out particular stereotyped roles (under threat of death, if they fail to do so suitably well). It's like a cross between Saw and Whose Line Is It Anyway.

Or a backwards version of Misery

Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 18, 2017, 03:12:40 AM
A young man encounters logistical problems related to the fact that, everywhere he goes, large numbers of crows congregate. In his childhood he didn't realize the scope of the problem because, attached to a military family, he rarely stayed in the same town for more than a year. However, after getting his own apartment and a job, he found that many structures in his home town cannot handle the weight of thousands of crows perching on them. The stench of crow corpses (caused by so many crows perching upon other crows that they are crushed) is also a problem. The crows, despite their interest, maintain a respectful distance from him, but coworkers and friends are not safe from building collapses caused by abnormal crow congregations, and nearby ecosystems are disrupted as all local crows migrate to a small area, ceasing to eat (or do much of anything, other than watch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 11, 2017, 04:11:15 PM
A marketing agency is hired to fix an election by dropping machines into swing states that repeatedly google search for non-existent scandals with queries that begin the same way as the most common queries in that area. At first there are no results for these searches, but it works anyway: conspiracy theorists provide results by free-associating on the evocative names created by the marketing team. Wracked with guilt, the person who came up with the plan commits suicide, and becomes a campaign martyr as the new president suggests he was killed for refusing to aid in the cover-up of the (wholly imaginary) scandals surrounding his opponent.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 13, 2017, 01:06:10 AM
A chef working for a mafia-owned restaurant is laid off, and his family is taken as collateral on debts he owes. He goes on a cooking-themed rampage through the criminal underworld.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 13, 2017, 10:49:17 PM
A swashbuckling garbagologist (i.e., an anthropologist who studies modern society by studying its waste) uses a form of divination based on garbage to track down a powerful artifact accidentally discarded by a chaos magic group, before a neo-nazi skinhead street gang can get hold of it and use it for their own destructive ends.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 14, 2017, 05:04:16 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 13, 2017, 10:49:17 PM
A swashbuckling garbagologist (i.e., an anthropologist who studies modern society by studying its waste) uses a form of divination based on garbage to track down a powerful artifact accidentally discarded by a chaos magic group, before a neo-nazi skinhead street gang can get hold of it and use it for their own destructive ends.

The first half kind of sounds like the spooky garbagemen that the witches were replaced with in the BBC's Macbeth Retold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsRrRvt2ZvA#t=58m14s
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 14, 2017, 05:15:43 AM
A few random ideas:

*Superheroes go up against a supervillain known as the "Wing Nut", this is an unstable character who experienced a mutation which caused feathered wings to grow out of his back, an experience which convinced him that he was actually an angel. So now he goes around enforcing brutal old testament rules. Several people have been found murdered by having large stones thrown at their heads. The heroes need to stop his reign of terror.

*Some comedy conspiracy thriller where the puppet master turns out to be a muppet pastor.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on September 14, 2017, 06:14:03 AM
A determined centrist learns that the only way to find the kernel of goodness in a Nazi is by digging it out with a claw hammer.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 14, 2017, 04:05:22 PM
A story similar to the premise of The Ring except that ghost isn't allowed to just call you like the ghost in The Ring, you have to be served with papers before the seven day countdown can begin
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 15, 2017, 03:05:34 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 13, 2017, 01:06:10 AM
A chef working for a mafia-owned restaurant is laid off, and his family is taken as collateral on debts he owes. He goes on a cooking-themed rampage through the criminal underworld.
This is the Food Wars Spinoff  I needed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2017, 05:59:59 PM
The language of mages cannot be spoken by those with no magic in their blood. All known words of the language of mages have been discovered by non-magic folk via a phenomenon similar to the Scunthorpe Problem
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 15, 2017, 08:30:31 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2017, 05:59:59 PM
The language of mages cannot be spoken by those with no magic in their blood. All known words of the language of mages have been discovered by non-magic folk via a phenomenon similar to the Scunthorpe Problem
I love this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 17, 2017, 07:26:06 AM
Some ideas:

*A retelling of the Robin Hood legends that makes it clear that King Richard's pointless and unproductive wars of aggression were an even larger reason for the excessive taxes than Prince John's opulent lifestyle was

*A parody of those "I learned it by watching you" anti-drug PSAs. Father confronts son about secret hidden stash of drugs. Son says "i learned it by watching you". Twist ending, the end card and narration make it clear it's actually a PSA about not bogarting your drugs. The issue wasn't the drugs but the fact they were hidden.

*This isn't a story idea, but it is an idea for something artsy. Basically I would like to call the bluff of all the people who say that all the statues of confederate officers should stay up because they're a record of history, and call these people's bluff by also putting up beautiful commemorative statues of people who deserted and/or stole from the confederate army, or who were secretly union spies, or who defected from the confederacy to the union, or who surrendered unnecessarily while employed as confederate soldiers. Because that's history too, and it's worth celebrating.
**A similar line of statues, these ones scattered across the world, commemorating and celebrating people who deserted and/or stole from Axis armies would good too. This and the previous line of statues would collectively known as the "monuments to the conscientious"
**I also have an idea for another line of statues commemorating people who throughout the years have killed or attempted to kill tyrants, including but not limited to the guy who stabbed Gadaffi, all the various people who tried to assassinate Hitler, and John Hinckley Junior

*Horror film based on the song "They Long to Be Close to You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU)". This would be similar to Hitchcock;s The Birds and Roko's crow idea above, but would be further complicated by frequent freak meteorite impact related accidents

*Retooled version of the "i learned it by watching you" PSAs blaming the crusades for jihadist terrorism

Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 15, 2017, 08:30:31 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 15, 2017, 05:59:59 PM
The language of mages cannot be spoken by those with no magic in their blood. All known words of the language of mages have been discovered by non-magic folk via a phenomenon similar to the Scunthorpe Problem
I love this.

Thank you.

Although I can't shake the feeling that someone else here may have posted something similar to this already.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A crazy-ass sci-fi fantasy movie that starts with that bullshit intro from Dragnet about the story being true
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 18, 2017, 07:56:32 AM
Mad Max style post apocalyptic dystopia, but instead of following a technological society's collapse, it's the result of a highly magical utopian fantasy civilization accidentally  blew up the world with magic, and now everyone has to survive by scavenging any lingering magical artifacts they can find.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 18, 2017, 11:29:05 PM
A combination of Pinnochio, Child's Play, Child's Play 4: The Bride of Chucky, and Big Trouble in Little China. A puppet comes to life but wants to become a real. In order to do this he must find and marry another living puppet and then kill her. This will appease the blue fairy who will then allow her power to be invoked to transfer his soul into the body of a real boy.

EDIT:
some other misc ideas:

*Comedy Skit: The Phantom of the Opera is sued for identity theft by the actual Angel of Music

*A relatively realistic giant mech film where the mechs merely walking tears up the street like a Ratte Land Cruiser
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on September 21, 2017, 05:43:05 AM
In the year 2440, a techno-Utopian Earth finally makes first contact with not one but an entire array of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. They have been around for a while, waiting for humans to grow the fuck up and join their galactic good guy club. But the pressure is on because everyone faces a threat from hostile invaders from outside the galaxy. Earth's probation period is expedited in light of this, and is granted full membership. Everything is going well until some asshole opens a time capsule from 2020 and inadvertently causes an outbreak of etho-nationalism and alt-right racism that sours the deal just in time to fuck up the war and get everyone killed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2017, 06:39:47 PM
It occurs to me that the "overly elaborate and exotic death" coversation from Austin Powers 1 could easily be transplanted into a cop movie as a discussion between the by the book cop (doing Dr.Evil's lines) and the loose-cannon cop (doing Scott Evil's lines) talking about someone they've just caught in the act of committing a capital offense
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 22, 2017, 12:38:53 AM
After the existence of crystal energy / crystal healing is scientifically verified, research money pours into the production of novel synthetic crystals with novel shapes. However, reality warps around these research labs because what the crystals are really doing is refracting thought & intent into the physical world in particular (consistent, predictable, but mostly unknown) ways.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 25, 2017, 05:19:45 AM
Skit: One of the police precogs is racist and always blames a black person for every crime. To avoid prosecution for a crime he definitely did commit our protagonist must find the minority report.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 25, 2017, 04:06:51 PM
Unbeknownst to his employers or enemies, a James Bond style secret agent is a buffoon of below-average cunning, entirely dependent upon the advice of his wise-cracking telepathic sentient corsage (an alien, who has his own hidden goals). As a result, cold war spy-fi slowly unfolds into interplanetary intrigue.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 26, 2017, 05:13:16 AM
Two similar horror stories:

*The south will rise again when the stars are right

*When there's no more room in Hell the south will rise again

EDIT:
Another idea:

A combination of The Ring and that ridiculous myth that Revolt in the Stars will make you die of pneumonia
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2017, 01:31:12 PM
A semiconductor research lab accidentally creates a bimetallic wafer that, when current flows through it, creates a chain reaction among nitrogen atoms such that they hold each other in place within some small distance (and exert no hold on each other beyond that distance), with the extents of this change limited to some field of unknown type. The result: through several unknown mechanisms, a cone of air ends up having the consistency of foam rubber, while also becoming slightly opaque. The size of the cone is dependent upon the wafer size and the amount of current (scaling linearly); if the current is removed the cone stays, but it will disappear if the same current is sent the other way through the cone. Because of the distance limits, hollow things can be encapsulated in this field without their insides becoming solid -- meaning that a living creature can be held in such a field so long as their orifices are sticking out. Very quickly, this mechanism replaces packing materials; more slowly, it starts to be used as a restraining device in prison systems. However, widespread access to these wafers (they are literally embedded in mail-order boxes) creates some potential problems: putting aside the problem of suffocation, the consistency of the field is entirely dependent upon the amount of nitrogen, and while earth's atmosphere creates a nice soft foam-rubber consistency, pure nitrogen becomes hard as diamonds. In the same way that juvenile delinquents didn't take long to recognize that aerosol sprays were flammable, they didn't take long to recognize that puffing a tank of pure nitrogen into the air and then solidifying it would create an incredibly sharp blade with finely serrated edges encased in a cone of foam rubber.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2017, 01:55:39 AM
I've got this idea kicking around for an Otterbox commercial where Russel Crowe is using a phone protected by a defender case to beat the crap out of one of the guys from jackass and then afterward they show that the phone is ok

EDIT:
And yes I am aware that the incident this is refrenceing hapoened over a decade ago and involved a landline phone rather than a cellphone; that's part of what makes it funny
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2017, 10:36:55 AM
Comedy Skit: Spoof of the Hellraiser series involving someone who resembles the peddler from Hellraiser 1 and is selling cheap knockoffs of Lemanchand's Box that are actually just Rubik's Cubes with reflective pseudometallic foil sides with weird runes painted over them. When these puzzles are solved they summon a cadre of underwhelming cenobite demons consisting of a girl with a nose ring, a guy with face tattoos, and a guy with a q-tip stuck too far into his ear (which is visibly bleeding).
(Inspired by a crappy bootleg of Hellraiser 3 that someone sold me at a flea market)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2017, 10:40:09 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2017, 01:31:12 PM
A semiconductor research lab accidentally creates a bimetallic wafer that, when current flows through it, creates a chain reaction among nitrogen atoms such that they hold each other in place within some small distance (and exert no hold on each other beyond that distance), with the extents of this change limited to some field of unknown type. The result: through several unknown mechanisms, a cone of air ends up having the consistency of foam rubber, while also becoming slightly opaque. The size of the cone is dependent upon the wafer size and the amount of current (scaling linearly); if the current is removed the cone stays, but it will disappear if the same current is sent the other way through the cone. Because of the distance limits, hollow things can be encapsulated in this field without their insides becoming solid -- meaning that a living creature can be held in such a field so long as their orifices are sticking out. Very quickly, this mechanism replaces packing materials; more slowly, it starts to be used as a restraining device in prison systems. However, widespread access to these wafers (they are literally embedded in mail-order boxes) creates some potential problems: putting aside the problem of suffocation, the consistency of the field is entirely dependent upon the amount of nitrogen, and while earth's atmosphere creates a nice soft foam-rubber consistency, pure nitrogen becomes hard as diamonds. In the same way that juvenile delinquents didn't take long to recognize that aerosol sprays were flammable, they didn't take long to recognize that puffing a tank of pure nitrogen into the air and then solidifying it would create an incredibly sharp blade with finely serrated edges encased in a cone of foam rubber.

Does it stay solid after the current is shut off?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 09, 2017, 01:40:19 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2017, 10:40:09 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2017, 01:31:12 PM
A semiconductor research lab accidentally creates a bimetallic wafer that, when current flows through it, creates a chain reaction among nitrogen atoms such that they hold each other in place within some small distance (and exert no hold on each other beyond that distance), with the extents of this change limited to some field of unknown type. The result: through several unknown mechanisms, a cone of air ends up having the consistency of foam rubber, while also becoming slightly opaque. The size of the cone is dependent upon the wafer size and the amount of current (scaling linearly); if the current is removed the cone stays, but it will disappear if the same current is sent the other way through the cone. Because of the distance limits, hollow things can be encapsulated in this field without their insides becoming solid -- meaning that a living creature can be held in such a field so long as their orifices are sticking out. Very quickly, this mechanism replaces packing materials; more slowly, it starts to be used as a restraining device in prison systems. However, widespread access to these wafers (they are Figuratively embedded in mail-order boxes) creates some potential problems: putting aside the problem of suffocation, the consistency of the field is entirely dependent upon the amount of nitrogen, and while earth's atmosphere creates a nice soft foam-rubber consistency, pure nitrogen becomes hard as diamonds. In the same way that juvenile delinquents didn't take long to recognize that aerosol sprays were flammable, they didn't take long to recognize that puffing a tank of pure nitrogen into the air and then solidifying it would create an incredibly sharp blade with finely serrated edges encased in a cone of foam rubber.

Does it stay solid after the current is shut off?
Yes. It's solid until you reverse the current (sort of like how a memristor retains its resistance across the read gate until you reverse the current on the write gate).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 09, 2017, 07:50:55 PM
Consciousness is a memetic parasite, siphoning important resources into its own reproduction rather than ours. After ten thousand years, we're finally beginning to evolve a resistance to it...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 10, 2017, 04:56:10 AM
Comedy Skit: Dr. Heiter (from Human Centipede: First Sequence) explains the holy trinity
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 12, 2017, 06:44:05 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 10, 2017, 04:56:10 AM
Comedy Skit: Dr. Heiter (from Human Centipede: First Sequence) explains the holy trinity
:lulz:
"For we only recognize One God, butt it is by thought that the difference is perceived."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2017, 02:10:26 AM
*Horror film about a serial killer who pretends his car has broken down in order to kill leople who stop to help him

*Action horror film about a guy who hunts vampires by relying on their arithmomania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire#Description_and_common_attributes) weakness but is threatened when he comes up against a vampire with savant syndrome
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 16, 2017, 02:08:50 PM
The mute scion of a twisted aristocratic lineage builds hand-crafted porcelain dolls and transfers people's consciousness into them. The daughter of the policewoman investigating the rash of people falling into vegetative states discovers that she is a sensitive telepathic receiver, as she hears the cries of these transferred consciousnesses -- who are alive and immortal but cannot move and have no senses, trapped in darkness. She must convince her mother to follow the clues revealed to her in violent recurring dreams, and later visions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 16, 2017, 06:40:44 PM
A time traveler stops the holocaust by traveling back to Germany between the wars with a bunch of modern designer drugs and getting everyone hooked on them so that all of their ridiculous and toxic concerns about race and nation are replaced by harmless and relatively prosocial concern about where their next fix will come from
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 17, 2017, 06:08:41 PM
SPECTRE finally eliminates James Bond by infecting all of their female minions with HIV
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 18, 2017, 04:30:55 PM
A famously paranoid & misanthropic businessman who kept his money in a safe rather than a bank died alone, and his body wasn't discovered for weeks. After its discovery, a will is found indicating that the money in his safe & his other belongings should be distributed to the people of the surrounding town physically (something that probably came out of his distrust of his estranged children, rather than love for the area). It is discovered that his money and belongings are all haunted by the man, who tries to possess their owners & turn them into cutthroat businessmen -- the money they made became, itself, haunted. Elaborate money-laundering schemes are initially attempted, but in the end it's decided that this wouldn't work -- and a massive pile of cash and expensive furniture is burned in a bonfire in the center of this poor town. (Maybe call this The Invisible Hand.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 19, 2017, 01:21:53 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
They glow in the dark, have only one nostril, their feet are on backwards, and they can only prey upon blood relations?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 19, 2017, 05:09:14 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 19, 2017, 01:21:53 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
They glow in the dark, have only one nostril, their feet are on backwards, and they can only prey upon blood relations?

Where are those from?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 19, 2017, 07:51:40 PM
Some sort of story (or possibly a Borges-esque pseudo-academic-paper) based on the idea that there is only one soul that moves backward and forward in time between reincarnations like Feynman's single electron hypothesis. It gets sent back to primitive bible times after lives of wickedness and forward to future utopias after good lives.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 21, 2017, 09:22:54 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 19, 2017, 05:09:14 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 19, 2017, 01:21:53 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
They glow in the dark, have only one nostril, their feet are on backwards, and they can only prey upon blood relations?

Where are those from?
Eastern europe, romani.

In china they leap like fleas. In malaysia their heads detatch and fly around but drag their whole digestive system along. But movies have been made about both of those variants. (There are only two movies I'm aware of about the variation where vampires prey only on blood relations -- the Werdelac segment of Black Sabbath & the romanian film Strigoi.)

There's also a variant that's a blood-sucking rotting banana person, which might also be malay but I'm not sure.

Plus there's always the vampire watermelons.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 23, 2017, 01:41:17 AM
How about a superhero film told from the perspecrive of a non-superpowered uninvolved bystander caught in the chaos of the fight against the supervillain. It turns into a sort of Cloverfield-esque horror situation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 23, 2017, 09:29:47 PM
An orphan discovers that he is the product of parthenogenesis and actually has no parents -- he famously appeared, as an infant, out of thin air in front of several witnesses and the truth has been kept from him his whole life.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 28, 2017, 05:19:26 PM
A mad cryptographer/computer scientist/programmer creates an extremelt efficient pseudorandom number generator the design of which he claims to have been divinely revealed and to be the system used by God to generate the outcones of quantum events.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 02, 2017, 08:08:50 AM
SuperRemarionation - a mockumentary about a fictional practical effects firm that has provided an alternative to virtual actor recreation in the form of puppeting deceased actors' bodies like marionettes using a heavy-duty version of the automatic puppetry technology originally developed for the tv series Thunderbirds
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 02, 2017, 10:54:11 PM
The reason why Donald Trump is orange is because he's actually a hostile space alien sent to earth to drain humanity's intelligence because their own intelligence has gone bad/run out and needs to be replaced
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 04, 2017, 03:52:35 AM
God starts Rapturing people and returning them to live among the damned. They then become targets of security agencies wanting to extract their knowledge of The One. This sekret is something they are willing to die for, categorically. All those captured perish at the hands of interrogators. The only intelligence ever obtained was that the unsubs thought they were saving the world by withholding from it this information. Rumor has it one or two of them managed to evade detection and are now very public figures that sincerely dedicate their lives to eradicate the global specter of monotheism
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 04, 2017, 07:48:44 AM
After successfully reanimating a person a scientist discovers that this has triggered his (the scientist's) transformation into a deity
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 06, 2017, 01:08:28 AM
As part of a national PR stunt, the government creates a centralized school for child prodigies -- a boarding school with lots of expensive facilities on an island. However, when their cold war turns hot, the first strike isolates the school during a period when only a skeleton crew of administrators were there -- all the child prodigies of the nation are stuck on an island together with very little adult supervision -- and because this is a total war and the invasion is aggressive, it's not until after the war (which takes about five years) that contact with the island is reestablished. The population is much lower, and those who have survived are very much changed, finding it difficult to reintegrate into society. Likewise, political changes between the patriotic lead-up and the reconstruction are hard to navigate.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 07, 2017, 04:17:25 AM
Did I already post my idea about Santa Claus-esque vampires that can be temporarily appeased with milk and cookies but can only be permanently destroyed by being boiled with their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their heart? Their power is greatest at the winter solstice because that is when night is the longest.

EDIT:
Related idea: Mothlike reverse-vampires that are attracted to light

EDIT:
Unrelated, not particularly interesting idea:
A doctor with an obsession with repairing anything that breaks around him. This obsession with fixing broken things is why he went into medicine as well.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on November 11, 2017, 08:44:35 AM
The singularity reveals that the AI we thought ourselves to be building was actually studying our participation in a blind experiment. Particularly, to investigate the suspension of recognition that regulates individuation as to enhance performance under the hypothetical pretense of personal freedom.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 11, 2017, 06:32:41 PM
A porno about a gay threeway between Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed (Penises Be Upon Him)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 16, 2017, 06:20:28 AM
A film adaptation of I Am Legend that goes in exactly the opposite direction of the 2007 Will Smith version. Instead of the twist ending being dropped it's not even a twist; it's clear from the beginning that there are no vampire-zombies, just a bunch of sunburnt aphasics and a psychotic doomsday prepper mad scientist who's jumped to some very extreme conclusions and ideally is played by Jeffrey Combs

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Another idea:

A satirical holiday special revolvong around the birth of Mammon
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 19, 2017, 11:49:00 PM
a superman origin story, except it's basically the Infancy Gospel
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 19, 2017, 11:50:52 PM
Brain chips improve memory by listening to call and response signals from the hippocampus and mimicing them; unfortunate side effect: these chips solidify memory too much and the memories don't mutate over time, so every one retains the vividness and emotional intensity of a PTSD flashback, memories of memories of memories compounding. Without the possibility of confabulation, all memories become traumatic, because their raw emotional edges cannot be sanded off by repeated handling.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 24, 2017, 06:23:34 AM
I think I may have posted one or both of these ideas before, but I'm not sure so here goes:

*A bizarre retelling of the first Thanksgiving in which the teamup between the pilgrims and the natives results not from a famine but rather from the need to team up to defeat a nazi turkey named "Joseph Gobbles" (who is eventually killed with some kind of improvised flamethrower cobbled together from 17th cenyury items, thus creating the tradition of cooking turkeys)

*An action-adventure-fantasy movie that takes all the weirdest shit from the bible (ezekiel's angels, ezekiel's army of the dead, jacob's ladder, everything in revelations, etc) and related traditions (kaballah, gnosticism, the scene in the koran where the moon is split in half, etc) and combines it with the Cthulhu Mythos (including a conflation of Yog-Sothoth with YHVH-Sabaoth) and occasionallt fight choreography reminiscent of wuxia films - into an offensively scripturally inaccurate story about the Dagon worshipping Philistines and the Yog-Sothoth worshipping Canaanites fighting a war (all of the abovementioned things are shoehorned into a single war) against each other with both sides making heavy use of both black magic and hollywood martial arts.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 01, 2017, 09:50:07 PM
An mturker keeps being assigned to transcribe voice and handwriting material from the same source -- each one a clue to what appears to be a conspiracy of murder and corruption -- but the real mystery is: who is manipulating the ranking algo to convince this particular mturker to want to investigate this third party, and why are they being framed?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 01, 2017, 09:50:42 PM
Graphene byproducts from supersemiconductor & nanomachine manufacturing pose an environmental problem because nearby spiders produce webbing that cannot be broken without diamond-tipped tools. We follow the personal life of a specialist janitor who exclusively removes crystalline webbing from waste exhaust pipes, as he discovers that the spiders have plans.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 01, 2017, 10:04:11 PM
A touch-telepath working for a clandestine intelligence agency starts a massage parlor catering to members of organized crime syndicates, but discovers that one of the major organized crime families is run by vampires -- and that she can extract information from bodily fluids (including the blood sucked by her vampire clients)! Under orders from her contact, she becomes a vampire herself, drinking the blood of various people who might be useful as informants and essentially continuously intercepting their stream of consciousness. She discovers that her contact does not actually work for the government and is instead just a con artist who put a lot of effort into convincing her that she was a spy for the sake of indulging in a bizarrely specific sexual fetish. She gathers some evidence and turns him into the real feds.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 02, 2017, 10:47:04 AM
ARM chips implanted on neural spines that trigger relays for damaged  memory-recall circuits are hacked by rougue AI trained to replicate and deep-dream  subject''s episodic memory of past events to fit the arc of any narrative it chooses.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 02, 2017, 04:04:17 PM
Some ideas:

*The first attempt to colonize Mars runs in to trouble when the planet is discovered to be overrun with the ghosts of violent religious fanatics, as per Dante

*A raunchy horror-comedy about a succubus who sucks people's souls through their penises

*One panel cartoon - Parent berates their toddler urging them to eat: "If you don't finish your food you'll never develop heart disease and diabetes"

EDIT:
Another idea:

*A commercial for male enhancement pills where Santa Claus testifies that he used "only come once a year" until he tried these pills

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Another idea:

*A zombie apocalypse sweeps through a rutal redneck communiry. The average intelligence of the townspeople improves post-zombification due to having started so low

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Another idea:

A crooked greedy televangelist is visited by three ghosts and taught not to be a greedy SOB

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Another idea:

*There's a lot of shows out there where the premise is that it's somehow based on Sherlock Holmes except it's set in modern times, but I don't think I've ever seen one where the main character smokes a crack pipe. Think about it, what were Holmes famous vices? Pipe smoking and cocaine! I wanna see a show about a mystery solving crackhead.

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit: Pinhead co siders leaving the Order of the Gash and converting to Judaism but backs out when he finds out about circumcision.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 08, 2017, 02:00:05 AM
*A holiday special in which the First Nicene Council is depicted as deciding matters of faith with an anime-esque kung-fu tournament that culminates in an epic superfight between Saint Nicholas and Arius

*A holiday special in which the infant jesus is visited by three illuminati who come bearing gold, frankincense, myrrh, and the secret knowledge of how to bring the dead back to life

EDIT:
now that I think of it, there's a lot of fun to be had with the wisemen...

*How about a cynical satire where the three wisemen are Yoda, Zordon, and Master Splinter and the gifts they're bringing are licensed toys that they're trying to sell to the audience (but since it's satire it's blatant that they're doing this)

*How about a special with some dubious extra wisemen. "And so the five wise men came from the east; Melchior, Caspar, Balthazar, Santa Claus, and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on December 09, 2017, 11:12:20 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2017, 05:48:59 PM
A story about some kind of dysfunctional wizard or cultist (or perhaos a dysfunctional superhero or supervillain) who has the ability to use their own body as a voodoo doll. This is to say that by mutilating their own body they can cause a chosen target's body to become similarly injured.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Comedy skit: Fake Pilsbury commercial where Poppin Fresh is Jesus at the last supper. "Eat of my flesh"

American Horror story used the voodoo doll idea.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 11, 2017, 03:42:09 AM
On Christmas Eve President Trump is visited by the eternally damned spirit of Ronald Reagan who sends three ghosts to teach him to stop being  a crazy avaricious assclown
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 11, 2017, 04:15:15 AM
Ebeneezer Scrooge dates Miss Havisham
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 12, 2017, 04:17:29 AM
The infant Jesus is visited by three wise men. Unfortunately for him one of them is Richard Dawkins, who ushows that the "angels" are really guys in masks like the villain from a Scooby Doo cartoon, thus prompting the other wise men to take their gold and frankincense back.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on December 12, 2017, 04:07:10 PM
A mad scientist manages to generate a stable, long-lasting micro-singularity in his lab. He uses it as a sex toy.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 13, 2017, 08:41:13 PM
Limited time dilation tech (using layers of superdense and superlight materials) becomes inexpensive; this isn't time travel tech proper, but instead just emphasizes the difference in time's flow rate between inside and outside. There isn't much call for this outside of couriership of freshness-sensitive products -- such as organs and (more importantly) pizza. In fact, major pizza chains decide that their 20-minutes-or-less guarantee is about freshness instead of service speed, and that therefore, in delivery trucks covered in these time-dilating microlayers, the time inside the truck is what counts rather than the time outside the truck. As a result, pizza delivery trucks are essentially the only product with this coating -- with layers at such a scale that a 20 minute delivery time typically results in a five minute old pizza. One day, a seismic event deep below the earth sudenly changed the density of the magma below a major city so quickly that a delivery down the street from the pizza place accidentally occurred before the pizza was ordered. The pizza's age was negative, and the pizza collapsed into a super-dense disc that sucked in time. It's up to the delivery boy to return the pizza to the appropriate time before it can prematurely age the whole city -- relying upon doing high speed doughnuts around the densest building in the city to rocket himself forward in time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 14, 2017, 06:51:17 AM
Comedy Skit: Ad for new show on The Learning Channel, "World's Fattest Midget". Ends with the tagline 'The Learning Channel, where education goes to die'
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 14, 2017, 11:56:11 PM
Retired Lockheed-Martin skunk-works director teams-up with SRI remote-viewers and ex-rockstar frontman to finance R&D on vehicle, which turns-out to be based on concept art of Buckaroo-Banzai.

(maybe should have put this in News section)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 15, 2017, 02:07:54 AM
Horror/conspiracy-thriller in which Mark Zuckerberg is secretly a cthulhu cultist trying to bring about the end of the world and Facebook is named in honor of the necronomicon (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/evildead/images/a/a9/Necronomicon_Ex_Mortis.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171116155248) (really I just like the idea of Facebook being named after the Necronomicon)

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit- fake ad- "Baby Scatological", one of those baby dolls that poops and pees, but in this ad the fact that this is scatological is played up. Also the doll is indeed extra scatological, although I'm not sure how; I'm thinking it either needs to periodically be filled with real feces or else contains a miniaturized cloaca machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Delvoye#Cloaca). Also the doll talks, but instead of crying or whatever it's an incongrous recording of a 40 year old fat guy from New York saying "I gotta take a shit"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 19, 2017, 02:59:06 AM
Satirical horror comedy where the part of the generic evil cult is played by backwoods redneck Christians. The Bible is referred to as "The Christianomicon" throughout

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Another idea:
Xmas special- The infant Jesus is visited by three kings: Elvis Presley (the King of Rock), Bob Marley (the King of Reggae) and Michael Jackson (the King of Pop) who possibly molests him

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Another idea:
Good King Wenceslas goes completely off the rails after the second verse and ends up being about prima nocta

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Another idea:
Wizard of Oz remake wherein the characters' issues are turned up to eleven. The Scarecrow is profoundly retarded, the Lion keeps pissing himself, the Tin Man is a Republican, etc.

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Another idea:
I think I've posted something like this before but, a cross between Frosty the Snowman and The Evil Dead. the snowman is brought to life by black magic and Santa's explanation of christmas snow in the scene where he melts is reworded to echo the professor's recording from evil dead 1 about how the kandarian demons may lay dormant but can never truly die
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 25, 2017, 01:16:45 AM
The government concocts a harebrained scheme to print arbitrary amounts of new money to cover their debts without devaluing the currency by also printing at the same time an equal amount of negatively valued currency to balance the equation.

Edit:
This grew out of a thought I had that the governmemt ought to issue negative 100 dollar bills with pictures of Donald Trump on them
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 25, 2017, 04:17:39 AM
Combination of the nativity of Jesus, the Eddas, and A Christmas Story. As a child Odin is visited by three wisemen - manifestations of the wisdom god Mimir - who bring him a bb gun, a compass that fits into the stock, and a thing that tells time. He shoots his eye out but in doing so gains enlightenment

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Another idea:
In the post-apocalypse curremcy is backed by a reverse metalic standard. Each bill is backed by a promise that if handed in the issuer will also take a certain amount of dangerous contaminated items off your hands as well.

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Tagline for yuletide horror film:
"Christmas is about what's in your heart: Buckets and buckets of blood"

EDIT:
Another idea:
President Trump is viaited by two ghosts on christmas eve and when he remains incalcitrant in place of the third ghost comes Krampus, who drags him down to Hell.

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Another idea:
Comedy skit- Combined parody of Rudolph and LoTR: "Didn't I ever tell you about balrogs? Balrogs bounce!"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on December 26, 2017, 09:54:15 PM
A cross-section of different social groups discovers, on the cusp of adulthood, that they must participate in a three month yearly magical battle against each other. At least one must die from each group, or else beings from beyond the veil destroy *all* participants.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2017, 07:59:47 PM
A couple of related ideas

*BS mockumentary about the Feast of the Epiphany being based on an ancient celebration of the perihelion

*BS mockumentary about independence day being bases on an ancient celebration of the aphelion

*BS mockumentary about X-day being based on an ancient celebration of the aphelion
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 28, 2017, 09:40:50 AM
Is it...wrong...that I would love to see an episode of Mr.Pickles starring David Berkowitz as a guest voice?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 04:05:39 PM
Santa's workshop is in danger of falling through the ice due to global warming
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 05:16:12 PM
It occurs to me that one could make a killing in the philosophy game by taking a bunch of existing books on philosophy and running them through a markov chain program. So much of philosophy seems to be people randomly stringing words together and hoping they sound intelligent anyway that the process of writing books in the field could probably be reliably automated through this process

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit- On Sesame Street, instead of Cookie Monster, we have Cocaine Monster
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 31, 2017, 12:45:25 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 05:16:12 PM
It occurs to me that one could make a killing in the philosophy game by taking a bunch of existing books on philosophy and running them through a markov chain program. So much of philosophy seems to be people randomly stringing words together and hoping they sound intelligent anyway that the process of writing books in the field could probably be reliably automated through this process

Running on python, NodeBox (httpx://nodebox.net/code/index.php/About) has a Kant Generator built in (used to). Just open it and run. Code can be moded to change rules, and there's an XLM file (I think) from which to draw sentences. Probably just as intelligible as Kant.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on December 31, 2017, 01:04:21 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on December 31, 2017, 12:45:25 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 05:16:12 PM
It occurs to me that one could make a killing in the philosophy game by taking a bunch of existing books on philosophy and running them through a markov chain program. So much of philosophy seems to be people randomly stringing words together and hoping they sound intelligent anyway that the process of writing books in the field could probably be reliably automated through this process

Running on python, NodeBox (httpx://nodebox.net/code/index.php/About) has a Kant Generator built in (used to). Just open it and run. Code can be moded to change rules, and there's an XLM file (I think) from which to draw sentences. Probably just as intelligible as Kant.
Chopra Generator (http://wisdomofchopra.com/)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: THE QLIPHITISER on December 31, 2017, 01:14:48 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 05:16:12 PM
It occurs to me that one could make a killing in the philosophy game by taking a bunch of existing books on philosophy and running them through a markov chain program. So much of philosophy seems to be people randomly stringing words together and hoping they sound intelligent anyway that the process of writing books in the field could probably be reliably automated through this process

And combined with a taunting trojan?  :oops:  :lol:


"Your computer is not working, but what is convenience? Really? What is reality? Is this computer your reality? You need to WAKE UP!"


:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 31, 2017, 08:29:47 AM
A group of paranormal investigators stay up late on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa Claus

Quote from: rong on December 31, 2017, 01:04:21 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on December 31, 2017, 12:45:25 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2017, 05:16:12 PM
It occurs to me that one could make a killing in the philosophy game by taking a bunch of existing books on philosophy and running them through a markov chain program. So much of philosophy seems to be people randomly stringing words together and hoping they sound intelligent anyway that the process of writing books in the field could probably be reliably automated through this process

Running on python, NodeBox (httpx://nodebox.net/code/index.php/About) has a Kant Generator built in (used to). Just open it and run. Code can be moded to change rules, and there's an XLM file (I think) from which to draw sentences. Probably just as intelligible as Kant.
Chopra Generator (http://wisdomofchopra.com/)
Thanks. That's awesome.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 04, 2018, 09:00:42 PM
The Tapestry of the Fates used as a metaphor to describe the concept of World Lines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 05, 2018, 11:53:44 PM
The release of a revolutionary drug capable of totally stopping the aging process is threatened by a faction that wants to suppress it out of concern for the employment of funeral directors, priests, and nursing home employees.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 06, 2018, 12:13:27 AM
The sentient magic sword that decides the chosen hero is, in fact, lecherous, jealous, shallow, and possessive, and chooses heros based on who it thinks is hot. The hero is the only one with a telepathic connection to this sword, and the sword controls his or her destiny.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 06, 2018, 05:35:13 PM
Horror comedy skit: Ghost vowing to "consume your spirits" turns out to be a drunk, not a demon
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: THE QLIPHITISER on January 06, 2018, 11:33:21 PM
A movie where an entire cinema screen/projector betray the audience and go into a time machine to before the time of humans.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 07, 2018, 05:48:52 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 06, 2018, 12:13:27 AM
The sentient magic sword that decides the chosen hero is, in fact, lecherous, jealous, shallow, and possessive, and chooses heros based on who it thinks is hot. The hero is the only one with a telepathic connection to this sword, and the sword controls his or her destiny.

That's a pretty good one. I'd definitely watch that.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 07, 2018, 09:15:44 PM
A game where the protagonist inherits a memex from a distant relative & must navigate the complex structure of interlinked footnotes, shopping lists, and marginal scrawl in order to discover who & why. This being a memex, the primary means of editing is taking screenshots of gameplay and then feeding those screenshots into the machine.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2018, 03:29:12 AM
two related idead:

*folkloric Slavic boogeyman Koschei the deathless (who is basically the archetype for things like liches and Lord Voldemort; he's a creature who cannot be permanently killed bexause he has hidden his soul away in a secret box somewhere) has been the true identity of every Russian leader for the past 400 years. Every time a new leader has come to power they have been a revived version of the same leader who just died (or was ousted). All the Tsars, and Stalin, and Putin, and so forth have all been the same person.

*another idea involving Koschei, but this time instead of Putin-Stalin he's a boss in the Russian mafia and is at the center of a combination of Big Trouble in Little China and the Pulp Fiction fan theory where the briefcase contains Marsellus' soul
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: THE QLIPHITISER on January 08, 2018, 03:54:01 AM
A guy picks up a magical watch that tells him at what time each day he could get laid by any chick in the area.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 11, 2018, 02:57:47 AM
Thousands of years ago, all the high fantasy shit was totally real, complete with magic and elves and whatever. But the elves got tired of our shit and decided to teach us a lesson by constructing a global network of magic-inhibiting monuments which effectively eradicated all forms of magic from the world. The idea was that we'd destroy ourselves and the whole planet with that kind of power, and they wanted us to develop into a wiser, more thoughtful race.

It's a comedy, of course.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 12, 2018, 07:37:11 PM
A space alien is stranded on Earth after accidentally being left behind by a group that landed on the planet. Prolonged exposure to our atmosphere is toxic to it but it manages to survive by draining the life force out of unwary youths native to the area where it was left. The government eventually mounts an operation to try to corral the creature after discovering that it can be harmed by certain citizen's band radio frequencies, but it's own people come to pick it back up before it can be captured. Sort of a b-movie horror version of E.T.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 12, 2018, 07:39:04 PM
A superhero that has the power to reach through time, but only to the opposite side of the page
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 14, 2018, 06:02:22 PM
The centuries-long ceasefire between the narratomancers (who mostly work in TV writer's rooms) and the sigilmancers (who mostly work in graphic design) comes to an end as tensions boil over. The battlefield: all forms of visual media. Many non-mages are collateral damage.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 15, 2018, 11:39:15 AM
A couple conceives a son via IVF, but he dies in a tragic accident at age 8. The stress and grief causes a rift in the marriage; they divorce and the man's ex-wife moves to Hong Kong. Six years later, just as the man is starting to get his life back together and thinking about starting to date again, it's discovered that the doctor running the IVF firm was using it as a front for shady human cloning experiments, and that seven clones of this guy's dead son have been living in orphanages across the country. The eccentric judge in charge of the family court side of this decides that they all need to move in with their father. This is a sitcom. He must try to balance his nascent love-life with mediating conflicts between his seven physically-identical teenage sons (who have extremely different backgrounds and personalities), dealing with the micromanaging eccentric judge (who has decided that this family is his new project & frequently makes unannounced visits), and trying to figure out how/whether to explain this to his jet-setting ex-wife who seems to have finally gotten back on her feet.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 16, 2018, 11:05:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2018, 03:29:12 AM
two related idead:

*folkloric Slavic boogeyman Koschei the deathless (who is basically the archetype for things like liches and Lord Voldemort; he's a creature who cannot be permanently killed bexause he has hidden his soul away in a secret box somewhere) has been the true identity of every Russian leader for the past 400 years. Every time a new leader has come to power they have been a revived version of the same leader who just died (or was ousted). All the Tsars, and Stalin, and Putin, and so forth have all been the same person.

[...]

I like this, would splice well with a commentary on the psychological biases that enable mental slips like the "Mendela" effect.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 17, 2018, 07:30:54 PM
Story has a premise similar to the main conflict of the  holiday special Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_Comin%27_to_Town_(film)) but the themes of christmas, santa claus, toys, and children are removed. Instead the hero is bringing violent videogames and hardcore pronograpy to the people of the Commonwealth of Nations in contravention of laws which heavily regulate such things.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 17, 2018, 07:40:34 PM
In the wake of a chemical or radioactive accident that leaves many people with organ damage a town is stalked by "The Trolley Problem Killer", a deranged surgeon who murders healthy people so that he can part their organs out to several of his patients (each)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 18, 2018, 05:48:18 PM
I'd like to reiterate my desire to someday make a superhero movie that simultaneously:
1.) Violates every single item of the comics code
2.) Violates every single item of the Hays code
3.) Depicts Muhammed
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 19, 2018, 07:39:26 PM
two unrelated ideas:

1.) A dissatisfied alcoholic 1950's sales executive awakens after a bender to discover that he has somehow conquered India. This idea arose out of the thought of identifying BOB Dobbs with Liber Pater/Dionysus

2.) A combination of Pokemon and Journey to the West in which a monk goes about rounding up supernatural beings that have been subjugated by the Buddha in order to make them battle against similar beings captured by rival monestaries
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2018, 08:48:04 AM
In the year 2178 the three biggest religions in America are Heaven's Gate, Scientology, and the Manson Family. All now mostly unrecognizable and expanded into mediocrity
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: THE QLIPHITISER on January 21, 2018, 10:58:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2018, 08:48:04 AM
In the year 2178 the three biggest religions in America are Heaven's Gate, Scientology, and the Manson Family. All now mostly unrecognizable and expanded into mediocrity


Heaven's Gate turns into a comet every ten minutes
Scientology is scientology
The Manson Family turns into The Manson Union Of Theological Affairs

:lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 21, 2018, 02:43:18 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 19, 2018, 07:39:26 PM
2.) A combination of Pokemon and Journey to the West in which a monk goes about rounding up supernatural beings that have been subjugated by the Buddha in order to make them battle against similar beings captured by rival monestaries
I would watch the fuck out of this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 21, 2018, 05:15:25 PM
A small-time con artist in silicon valley recognizes that the best way to make money in the tech industry is to get a huge amount of VC cash and then create a series of embarrassing public scandals before any of that money is actually spent (i.e., before hiring employees or getting users or doing anything other than sweet-talking the tech press). Unfortunately, the industry doubles-down in support of this con artist after every scandal, and he has no choice but to escalate and begin doing things he finds personally repulsive because he has no idea how to do any of the things he promised (many of which are probably not physically possible).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 22, 2018, 02:31:51 AM
Work Insurance-
skit about how Everest climbers now required to lug refrigerators up on trip to summit; capacious enough to fit frozen corpse for later retrieval in case of failure.

tagline: keep your gains!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on January 22, 2018, 02:50:18 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 18, 2018, 05:48:18 PM
I'd like to reiterate my desire to someday make a superhero movie that simultaneously:
1.) Violates every single item of the comics code
2.) Violates every single item of the Hays code
3.) Depicts Muhammed
It could be disguised as a documentary entitled /Super-Powers: Global Dominion/
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: OS Not Found on January 23, 2018, 05:30:19 AM
Rail Sham Bo

A camera follows a someone taking a train for 77 hours.
There are no cell phones or laptops, nothing to read, and no clocks or watches.
Nothing extraordinary happens, there is a lot of emotionally charged eye contact between passengers, often while they play rock papers scissors, but only one sentence can be heard in poorly enunciated French every 5 minutes.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: THE QLIPHITISER on January 23, 2018, 05:39:17 AM
Quote from: OS Not Found on January 23, 2018, 05:30:19 AM
Rail Sham Bo

A camera follows a someone taking a train for 77 hours.
There are no cell phones or laptops, nothing to read, and no clocks or watches.
Nothing extraordinary happens, there is a lot of emotionally charged eye contact between passengers, often while they play rock papers scissors, but only one sentence can be heard in poorly enunciated French every 5 minutes.

I know the feeling  :evil:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 26, 2018, 05:23:59 AM
from my notebook:

*out hero is a fantasy adventurer raiding walt disney's haunted and cursed tomb for intellectual property

*John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, his name is a killing word

*A sentient haunted house named "Charles Mansion"

*Farticus
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 26, 2018, 07:53:01 AM
An anime about the vietnam war. Complete with stereotypical anime style combat revolving around physically impossible combat moves with longwinded names that are yelled out as the kove is being performed
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: OS Not Found on January 26, 2018, 03:21:11 PM
Aliens much more advanced than earthlings, militarily, seek to colonize earth. Their point of entry is the world's ping-pong convention. The formal appearance of a massive 2000 man Round-Robin game is strikingly similar to an ancient alien channeling rite which was said to summon demonic armies. Out of fear of triggering the summon by entering combat, which would trigger the final part of the rite, the sacrifice, the aliens must wait until the Round-Robin game is over.

The neighboring convention, the convention for anarcho-economists, who have advanced far more than the aliens in the econo-arts, must save Earth by convincing the aliens that colonization is a huge waste of money before the Round-Robin match is over. Should they be able to do so, the aliens will cease their colonization of Earth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 26, 2018, 11:59:37 PM
*An anime about Gilles de Rais

*Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode: "Shamrock Shake"- while Master Shake is binge drinking on St.Patrick's day the leprechauns from episode 2 trick him into becoming a foot soldier for the local irish mob, who are engaged in a gang war with the Mooninites, who are dressed like the villain from Gangs of New York. Somehow they get it into their head to fire the rainbow machine at the moon, but this pulls the moon to the earth and he entire planet is destroyed

*comedy sketch: ad for a perfume called "Merde"

EDIT:
Another idea:

*A driver picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely stretch of highway. The hitchhiker and the driver both try to kill each other. Turns out they're both serial killers. They have a good laugh. (did I post this one before?)

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Space habitat in the future where instead of artificial gravity everything is hung with ropes joined to opposite walls that people can climb from one to another to navigate

EDIT:
Another idea:

*The United States is a battleground in a proxy war between two archfiends vying for rulership of Hell; Mammon (represented by the Republican Party) and Moloch (represented by the Democratic Party)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on January 29, 2018, 12:39:51 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 06, 2018, 12:13:27 AM
The sentient magic sword that decides the chosen hero is, in fact, lecherous, jealous, shallow, and possessive, and chooses heros based on who it thinks is hot. The hero is the only one with a telepathic connection to this sword, and the sword controls his or her destiny.


It also speaks in whatever gender,accent, whatever is least likely to be attractive to the hero, an unfortunate side curse.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 29, 2018, 09:44:17 AM
*A man conjures tge devil to sell his soul, despite knowledge beforehand that thw devil will reject his offer because he is already damned, in hopes that the defil's rejection will be overly specific and point him towards tge precise actions he must take to redeem himself

*A Cloverfield-esque horror movie following a group of people who find themselves trapped amidst the chaos when Ragnarok suddenly begins
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 03, 2018, 04:22:11 PM
In the future a vain and shallow bro (or possibly a pickup artist) spends the entirety of an interplanetary journey standing and sitting in a position perpendicular to their direction of travel so that his penis length won't be contracted in the refrence frames of planets that they pass on their way

EDIT:
Another idea:

An attempt to replicate the Schrodinder's Cat thought experiment in a real lab with a real cat results in the creation of zombies
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 04, 2018, 04:58:31 PM
An anime style show about World War 2 with typical crazy anime style stuff like the British army's secret weapon is the Knights of the Round Table and Hitler is an ancient evil spirit and Bomber Harris literally has the power to control the wind

EDIT:
A remake of the film The Day After Tomorrow in which the global superstorm is the deliberate work of a supervillain resembling Monarch Butterfly from The Venture Brothers
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2018, 01:57:40 PM
Pervasive personalized entertainment generating AIs result in a world where there are no cultural touchstones. Eventually the system breaks down as genre disappears
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 06, 2018, 11:50:44 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 04, 2018, 04:58:31 PM
An anime style show about World War 2 with typical crazy anime style stuff like the British army's secret weapon is the Knights of the Round Table and Hitler is an ancient evil spirit and Bomber Harris Figuratively has the power to control the wind

I'm pretty sure this happened in one of the Fate AUs, except Hitler was a girl.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2018, 04:40:35 AM
humanity spends 1,000 years colonizing space with gigantic cryo-sleeper ships and trade routes that take 100 years to cross, and people can upload their conscious minds to computers to overcome the vast time scales everything takes now, and everything in human culture revolves around waiting 50 years for the Amazon package to arrive. Then, some asshole finally invents dependable faster-than-light engines, and everything will fall apart if the technology isn't immediately suppressed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2018, 04:44:23 AM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2018, 04:40:35 AM
humanity spends 1,000 years colonizing space with gigantic cryo-sleeper ships and trade routes that take 100 years to cross, and people can upload their conscious minds to computers to overcome the vast time scales everything takes now, and everything in human culture revolves around waiting 50 years for the Amazon package to arrive. Then, some asshole finally invents dependable faster-than-light engines, and everything will fall apart if the technology isn't immediately suppressed.

Here's one:  A generation ship arrives to find their target planet fully colonized by people who left Earth 50 years after they did, because that's when FTL travel was invented.  And it turns out that the skills needed to colonize a near-Earth planet aren't really all THAT useful on a fully urbanized planet, so they all wind up working in the equivalent of McDonalds/WalMarts, and die in abject poverty some years later.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 08, 2018, 05:15:03 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2018, 04:44:23 AM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2018, 04:40:35 AM
humanity spends 1,000 years colonizing space with gigantic cryo-sleeper ships and trade routes that take 100 years to cross, and people can upload their conscious minds to computers to overcome the vast time scales everything takes now, and everything in human culture revolves around waiting 50 years for the Amazon package to arrive. Then, some asshole finally invents dependable faster-than-light engines, and everything will fall apart if the technology isn't immediately suppressed.

Here's one:  A generation ship arrives to find their target planet fully colonized by people who left Earth 50 years after they did, because that's when FTL travel was invented.  And it turns out that the skills needed to colonize a near-Earth planet aren't really all THAT useful on a fully urbanized planet, so they all wind up working in the equivalent of McDonalds/WalMarts, and die in abject poverty some years later.

No no no, thet're relieved. They were only doing this because that's what their parents wanted. It is a generation ship after all.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 08, 2018, 05:21:53 PM
Something similar to the "Who's on First" skit by abbot and costello, but in place of strange nicknames instead revolving around ambiguous use of the phrase "foot fetish" in a store that sells both pornography and lucky rabbit's foot talismans

EDIT:
More ideas:

*The trademark dispute between the World Wildlife Fund and the World Wrestlig Federation is depicted as having been settled by having Hulk Hogam wrestle a bear

*The inner circle of the Republican Party consists of a cult of followers of the religion of the ancient Aztecs. This is why the Republican Party believes that war brings prosperity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_war#Origins)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on February 09, 2018, 09:44:28 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 08, 2018, 05:15:03 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2018, 04:44:23 AM
Quote from: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2018, 04:40:35 AM
humanity spends 1,000 years colonizing space with gigantic cryo-sleeper ships and trade routes that take 100 years to cross, and people can upload their conscious minds to computers to overcome the vast time scales everything takes now, and everything in human culture revolves around waiting 50 years for the Amazon package to arrive. Then, some asshole finally invents dependable faster-than-light engines, and everything will fall apart if the technology isn't immediately suppressed.

Here's one:  A generation ship arrives to find their target planet fully colonized by people who left Earth 50 years after they did, because that's when FTL travel was invented.  And it turns out that the skills needed to colonize a near-Earth planet aren't really all THAT useful on a fully urbanized planet, so they all wind up working in the equivalent of McDonalds/WalMarts, and die in abject poverty some years later.

No no no, thet're relieved. They were only doing this because that's what their parents wanted. It is a generation ship after all.

Subtitle: /Overcoming Technology/
Cover illustration: Tesla Roadster in space with mannequin "driver"

-----
[addendum, 2/10]

We open on protagonist entering a travel agency reminiscent of the original Total Recall film.
Glossy brochures of different travel options are presented by a campy future-retro mannequin service android.
Flipping through them one last time, "I see the free consciousness upload is included with all packages,"
the protagonist remarks in a casual way. A fake bead of sweat forms on the android's forehead as
it responds, "B-because we figured that way there would be less reasons for complaint," after a long
beat, "Consider it like a nescesary backup, something required for our peace of mind, like destination insurance."
"I'm not sure I follow."
"Well, since you're actually the last client I'll ever have, suppose I told you, would you still buy the ticket?"
"What's it to you?"
"Heh," the robot seems to smile, "I suppose it's probably not news to you that otherwise you won't make it?"

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 15, 2018, 09:19:10 PM
A shock rocker, under studio pressure to produce a follow up to his extremely successful second album, moves into a murder house associated with occult experiments in order to inspire him, at the same time as trying to kick a drug habit he doesn't quite admit he has. However, the house is haunted (or possibly he just has delirium tremens). He finishes the album & his friends are surprised by how stable he's acting, & it's hinted that he is possessed by the killer magus.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 17, 2018, 12:25:13 AM
A priest decides that the world's sorry state is because the communion is not literally human flesh and blood, and starts a movement that becomes unexpectedly popular, in part because this ritual causes the memories & vitality of the deceased to be spread among the congregation, who now share a weak psychic link strengthened weekly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 18, 2018, 12:19:34 AM
One of those insufferable end of innocence stories where some snot-nosed little puke has to come to terms with the untimely death of a friend, except that it gradually transmutes into a knockoff of The Final Destination and as the main character starts to come to grips with the fact that death comes for everybody that's when Death comes for everybody
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 18, 2018, 05:04:43 PM
Ok I just reread my last suggestion and it's kind of stupid as is. Here's how I decided it should go:

The protagonist's friend or dog or father figure almost dies and forces them to comr=e to grips with death. But though they don't die Death is now after them in a Final Destination-esque fashion

alternately

Someone poignantly dies but then they come back from the dead as a ghost or vampire or something and it turns into a supernatural teen romance

alternately

dog/friend/father figure dies and protagonist spends most of the story on a quest for for a magical artifact capable of restoring life, such as the elixir of life, the necronomicon, or the holy grail. The quest succeeds. Alternately they might spend their life developing a Re-Animator-esque serum

EDIT:
Quote from: LuciferX on February 09, 2018, 09:44:28 PM
A fake bead of sweat forms on the android's forehead

I like this. I've got the image in my head here of a cut to a closeup on a nozzle specifically designed to extrude fake beads of sweat.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: ReverendJesus on February 19, 2018, 01:02:04 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 18, 2018, 05:04:43 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on February 09, 2018, 09:44:28 PM
A fake bead of sweat forms on the android's forehead

I like this. I've got the image in my head here of a cut to a closeup on a nozzle specifically designed to extrude fake beads of sweat.
As a matter of fact, Ouestionable Content's alternate universe has specifically addressed this issue. They have a little nozzle, and a "thick whitish fluid" comes out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on February 20, 2018, 02:12:33 AM
Quote from: ReverendJesus on February 19, 2018, 01:02:04 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 18, 2018, 05:04:43 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on February 09, 2018, 09:44:28 PM
A fake bead of sweat forms on the android's forehead

I like this. I've got the image in my head here of a cut to a closeup on a nozzle specifically designed to extrude fake beads of sweat.
As a matter of fact, Ouestionable Content's alternate universe has specifically addressed this issue. They have a little nozzle, and a "thick whitish fluid" comes out.
Yeah, I have this actuator / potentiometer to simulate parasympathetic SLUDGE response with a dedented rotary, but it doesn't do anything kinky.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 21, 2018, 06:45:59 PM
An overweight demon tries several fad diets to try and lose weight including eating only people's souls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRMZPzGhTA) and eating only pain and sorrow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ax1ZIpyiY8)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 28, 2018, 02:06:30 AM
Skit: The Hamburgler's healthfood nut cousin, The Broccoli Raaber
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 28, 2018, 07:26:51 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 06, 2015, 03:30:41 PM
An "Blair Withc"-style amatuer film crew making a film about civics discovers that the real reason why the Republicans talk about Jesus so much is to draw attention away from the fact that they actually worship Mammon, and that this is also the reason why so many black people are executed, because they are Mammon's favorite sacrifice. The crew films several party meetings in secrecy but is eventually discovered and shot down by submachinegun wielding party members as they try to run away. The camera falls down a storm drain after it is dropped. The final expository text at the end explains that no one was charged with their murder due to some bs about stand your ground laws and their film equipment being a "hoax bomb".

I just finished playing the game Night in the Woods and the last act is basically this. Or at any rate the villains spout republican-like rhetoric and sacrifice people to demons, which is ultimately the core gist of this idea.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 02, 2018, 07:35:16 PM
Hellraiser sequel: Donald Trump is the newest cenobite. Because he's into that too. His body mod is that his toupee has been sewn into his scalp. EDIT: Also, possibly, tubes implanted into his bladder constantly empty into his throat
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on March 09, 2018, 01:30:12 AM
Tongue in check mockumentary about the origins of Alexa and the marketing exodus that occurred over branding concerns because the product name was changed from iAlexa, which supposedly was too close to Alexia, a condition they pretended to avoid.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 09, 2018, 05:22:30 PM
In an allegorical satire of sci-fi stories that worry about how technology will change society as well as nostalgia stories that fret about how technology has changed society: A man gains immortality, perfect health, and the ability to fly from a procedure that also involves cutting off his big toe. Rather than be happy for him, all his friends and acquaintances keep urging him to "think of what you've lost"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 10, 2018, 05:13:41 AM
The growing tide of neoconservatism forces Superman to make a choice that's been a long time coming: 'truth and justice, or the American way?'
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 13, 2018, 12:20:50 AM
A found footage film about a guy who is obsessed with filming himself / observing himself. Nothing supernatural happens; he just gets increasingly disturbingly obsessed with filming himself. Twist ending: everyone else in the world is dead, and he's convinced that if he isn't observed, he will cease to exist.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 13, 2018, 07:48:26 AM
The Lewis Code: a college professor with questionable credentials uncovers a church conspiracy to cover up the fact that C.S.Lewis' character Aslan was the real story of Jesus and that the human Jesus was a made up
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 14, 2018, 06:07:58 AM
"The Carpenter" A movie about Jesus which focuses on his day job as a carpenter. This is done to have an excuse to comically conflate him with Thor and show off his hammer skills
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 14, 2018, 09:13:00 PM
James Bond as a honeypot-type agent -- he's not physically or mentally capable of normal counterintelligence work, but he successfully seduces, distracts, and thereby extracts information out of enemy agents of all genders.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 15, 2018, 06:30:40 PM
Comedy Skit: A serial killer is caught after he places a return address on his taunting letter to the police
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 16, 2018, 12:52:49 AM
There is a demon who will trade you fabulous things in exchange for your happiness. The twist is that the fabulous things DO NOT backfire in an ironic way. Instead the loss of happiness manifests as a sort of undifferentiated self-referential buyer's remorse
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 17, 2018, 04:07:11 PM
An inaccurate translation of the Book of Ezekiel with some of the lyrics from One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater inserted into the vision of the angels and god
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: OS Not Found on March 19, 2018, 04:54:04 AM
A couple is the target of a GPS conspiracy by which people are given directions to dead-ends and locations where they are then targetted by rob-assassins. One of the couple appears to die in the incident, and the other makes it their mission to destroy what he uncovers to be Operation GPDeath only to find that the conspiracy was a fake-out as his lover is still alive and faked the conspiracy because she had just found out she was with child and wanted the baby to be a secret as it was not her lovers, but an angels.

While she could have had the baby and just said it was his, which would be undeniable as her lover is far too prideful to deny that a child with the face of an angel was his own, she had the suspicion that the baby would have angelic superpowers due to it being half-angel. As she knew her lover would not approve of her using his child in a cloning experiment but would also not approve of her admitting the child which was not his, she created Operation GPDeath to hide the baby's existence and successfully keep both her lover and the ability to clone her half-angel child.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 19, 2018, 03:03:27 PM
A prequel to My Neighbor Totoro, based on the fan theory that Totoro is actually the angel of death, in which Totoro is present along the Sandakan death march
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: WidgetOtaku on March 19, 2018, 03:21:30 PM
"Brain Watch": An alternate history story based on the pilot episode of Widget The World Watcher.

Instead of landing safely in the sea cave, Widget crashes in the Nevada desert and the military covered up the situation. After recovering the wreckage, they've successfully reversed engineered the Brain Unit they've found (although it was malfunctioning in the first place). Years later, the technology was demilitarized as a new mobile virtual assistant to the population (as the stand-in for Apple Watches in our irl world). The bulk of the story is about the slice of life tribulations of the human users and their Brain Watches.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on March 20, 2018, 03:11:18 AM
In a surprising development, eugenics turns on itself by concluding it's own tenants were actually the greatest example feeble-mindedness ever encountered. Ex-proponents are survived by their Darwin Award trophies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 20, 2018, 05:34:54 PM
Comedy Skit: An ad for air freshener targeted towards serial killers which promises to remove the odor of dead drifters rotting in the crawlspace

EDIT:

Comedy Skit: A hipster audiophile is critical of the sound quality of digital music, so Instead of an MP3 player they drag a player piano around with them everywhere they go
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on March 21, 2018, 11:11:18 PM
Farcebook, in response to CA scandal, introduces "Data-Dithering": The process by which the reach of their business model is confounded by the understanding of it's product.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 25, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
A planet in which a certain biochemical essential to the planet's lifeforms is no longer synthesized by any currently living organism, and so the planet is slowly dying (imagine, for example, if all the creatures that make omega-3 fatty acids disappeared from Earth and there were no labs to synthesize them, so the same omega-3's had to be passed around and around and around)

EDIT:
Another idea:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force fanfic- After seeing a Sherlock Holmes movie Master Shake starts the Aqua Teens' old detective business back up as an excuse to do cocaine and chain smoke and abuse opioids. Terry the mob doctor plays the role of Watson and is also his drug dealer
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on March 27, 2018, 07:39:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 09, 2018, 05:22:30 PM
In an allegorical satire of sci-fi stories that worry about how technology will change society as well as nostalgia stories that fret about how technology has changed society: A man gains immortality, perfect health, and the ability to fly from a procedure that also involves cutting off his big toe. Rather than be happy for him, all his friends and acquaintances keep urging him to "think of what you've lost"

Where's the nostalgia part?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 28, 2018, 07:37:23 PM
Quote from: Pergamos on March 27, 2018, 07:39:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 09, 2018, 05:22:30 PM
In an allegorical satire of sci-fi stories that worry about how technology will change society as well as nostalgia stories that fret about how technology has changed society: A man gains immortality, perfect health, and the ability to fly from a procedure that also involves cutting off his big toe. Rather than be happy for him, all his friends and acquaintances keep urging him to "think of what you've lost"

Where's the nostalgia part?

The same as the sci-fi technophobia part. It's as much a parody of "nobody can write in cursive anymore because of computers (and pens that aren't made out of dirty animal feathers)" or "surgery to reverse hearing loss is preventing people from learning sign language" or "working in an unsafe and non-automated factory built character" as it is a parody of "uploadig your consciousness will turn you into an evil rogue AI" or "it would be wrong for a person to live forever through medicine"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2018, 07:16:07 AM
Gnostic gospel in which the old testament god is identified with the demon Legion. (compare the quote "we are legion" with the phrase "I AM of hosts" with host used here in the sense of an army)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 01, 2018, 11:47:31 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2018, 07:16:07 AM
Gnostic gospel in which the old testament god is identified with the demon Legion. (compare the quote "we are legion" with the phrase "I AM of hosts" with host used here in the sense of an army)
Hierarchies: easy to pick up. Hard to put down.
[ed. I for one do not believe in lords, and particularly lords thereof.]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 02, 2018, 05:48:27 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2014, 10:25:21 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 22, 2014, 06:30:50 AM
A man discovers that one of his coworkers is actually a space alien (or hollow earth creature, or demon, or angel, or other cryptid) living covertly on Earth for one reason or another. Further investigation reveals another acquaintance to be an alien (or whatever), but from a completely different planet (or whatever) from - and unaware of - the first one. This goes on, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of the population are different groups of paranormal beings, blending in with "humanity" mutually unaware of each other's existence; and it is unclear if there is even any significant quantity of humans left at all, or just different groups of aliens fooling each other

goddamnit! I just came across almost this exact same idea in a Discworld novel that predates my version by a good 18 years.

And apparently I now see the Twilight Zone episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" did it decades before even that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 02, 2018, 08:11:20 AM
Everyhero: A superhero whose origins are that his parents were murdered by radioactive spiders while arranging for his escape from their doomed planet with some space pirates and in the process he was exposed to radiation that caused him to turn into an unstoppable rampaging monster whenever he fely strong emotions so he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for limiting this transformation to only happening at night and in the presence of evil, and as part of this transaction also acquired a cool stone hand from Hell
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Frontside Back on April 03, 2018, 09:27:50 AM
Something that starts as a fantasy novel with magic and shit, but magic turns out to be advanced nanotechnology so it ends as a hard scifi.

Probably not original, but that's what I get for being illiterate prick.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on April 04, 2018, 04:29:40 AM
Quote from: Frontside Back on April 03, 2018, 09:27:50 AM
Something that starts as a fantasy novel with magic and shit, but magic turns out to be advanced nanotechnology so it ends as a hard scifi.

Probably not original, but that's what I get for being illiterate prick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warlock_in_Spite_of_Himself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warlock_in_Spite_of_Himself)

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 05, 2018, 08:57:37 AM
Mockumemtary about a researcher who, disappointed with the arbitrary placement of the date of Christmas, is using "reverse astrology" to determine the true birthdate of Jesus (determining his date of birth by extrapolating backwards from his known fate and birthplace). Ancient Persian astrology is used where possible as that is what the Magi would have used. This could also be played straight and made into a documentary on the History channel or H2, as those networks seem to be mostly speculative fiction these days.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 05, 2018, 09:01:14 AM
Quote from: Frontside Back on April 03, 2018, 09:27:50 AM
Something that starts as a fantasy novel with magic and shit, but magic turns out to be advanced nanotechnology so it ends as a hard scifi.

Probably not original, but that's what I get for being illiterate prick.

This is basically the premise of Mogworld except instead of nanotechnology it turns out that they're in the matrix
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 05, 2018, 09:22:24 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 05, 2018, 08:57:37 AM
Mockumemtary about a researcher who, disappointed with the arbitrary placement of the date of Christmas, is using "reverse astrology" to determine the true birthdate of Jesus (determining his date of birth by extrapolating backwards from his known fate and birthplace). Ancient Persian astrology is used where possible as that is what the Magi would have used. This could also be played straight and made into a documentary on the History channel or H2, as those networks seem to be mostly speculative fiction these days.

Oh I like this. [*casually repositioning spectacles*]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Frontside Back on April 05, 2018, 11:36:06 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 05, 2018, 09:01:14 AM
Quote from: Frontside Back on April 03, 2018, 09:27:50 AM
Something that starts as a fantasy novel with magic and shit, but magic turns out to be advanced nanotechnology so it ends as a hard scifi.

Probably not original, but that's what I get for being illiterate prick.

This is basically the premise of Mogworld except instead of nanotechnology it turns out that they're in the matrix
Quote from: Vanadium Gryllz on April 04, 2018, 04:29:40 AM
Quote from: Frontside Back on April 03, 2018, 09:27:50 AM
Something that starts as a fantasy novel with magic and shit, but magic turns out to be advanced nanotechnology so it ends as a hard scifi.

Probably not original, but that's what I get for being illiterate prick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warlock_in_Spite_of_Himself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warlock_in_Spite_of_Himself)

Thanks for pointing the way!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 08, 2018, 01:57:34 AM
In the future, wars are fought by psychokinetics in sensory deprivation tanks controlling large humanoid puppets. The psychokinetics are rare, and puppets are used because the human-like body plan makes them easier to control, however, the plan is worthwhile because they are cheaper than tanks, basically disposable, remote-operated, and impossible to jam -- furthermore, a team of five or six elite psychokinetics can control an army of skyscraper-sized puppets by themselves, if given the right drugs.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 09, 2018, 01:44:18 AM
A commercial for Ancestry.Com based on the premise of either The Shadow Over Insmouth or Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 12, 2018, 01:53:55 AM
Xmas special: the Republican party is deliberately polluting the Earth in an attempt to melt the polar ice caps because the conservative Christians hate Santa Claus for taking focus off of Jesus and therefore want to sink Santa's workshop

EDIT:
Another idea:
A guy cheats at a hands-on-a-car competition by using superglue
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 14, 2018, 05:21:29 AM
The Hillbility- Set in a world that is a weird mashup of medieval/renaissance Eurpoe and backwoods America, the story focuses on two feuding families of noblemen who are also hillbillies. Because they're noblemen AND hillbillies the feud is extra bitter and the characters are extra inbred

EDIT:
Another idea:

Gold Goo- An alchemist trying to create the philosopher's stone accidentally has his creation get out of control; starting with the lab it begins transmuting everything that it, or the gold created by it, touches into an ever growing lake of liquid gold
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 19, 2018, 11:07:25 AM
The Binding of Isac meets Noah's arc.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 19, 2018, 06:27:18 PM
Regression of the Cartesian Theater- A sequel to Inside-Out about little people inside of Joy's head
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on April 20, 2018, 11:48:20 AM
Karmacalypse: mass surveilance interpolating  :kingmeh: intention from individual actions are mapped like Dante's contrapasso[/] to the predicted behavioral patterns of others about to, intentionally or not, perform a reciprocal action that is orchestrated to present as an increasingly obstinant form of accelerated karmic returns. 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 21, 2018, 03:37:17 PM
On a certain world the seasons are ruled by a dying-and-reviving god. This god is a vampire. In the spring and summer when the days get longer he is slain by the sun but in fall and winter he returns to drain the warmth and life out of the world.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 23, 2018, 01:03:43 AM
Cartoon Episode - "For a few more degrees":
F3I investigation into collusion with Russia uncovers three fold plan behind election tampering. Getting POTUS to disintegrate EPA allows for accerated global warming, 1) releasing more greenhouse methane 2) captured for fuel under auspices of remediation, 3) powering crypto-mining rigs, that finance shipping fleets through newly opened arctic trade routes and repopulated Siberian territory. Discourse occurs through dioramas at museum of future history in Paradise, formerly El Passo, Texas.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 24, 2018, 01:56:12 AM
A combination of westerns and Yu-gi-oh/Pokemon/Beyblade style animes. It's basically a western except all of the gunfights are replaced with games of poker that are inexplicably treated with all the seriousness and finality of an actual gunfight
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 26, 2018, 02:04:25 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 24, 2018, 01:56:12 AM
A combination of westerns and Yu-gi-oh/Pokemon/Beyblade style animes. It's basically a western except all of the gunfights are replaced with games of poker that are inexplicably treated with all the seriousness and finality of an actual gunfight
I would watch the fuck out of this. Sounds a lot better than Kakegurui (though probably with less agehao)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 30, 2018, 09:46:15 PM
There is an active deity that answers prayers and punishes evil. However, this deity exists backwards in time. When someone loses something precious to them and laments it's loss it is this deity who is the reason they had it in the first place. And when a misfortune turns someone wicked and vengeful it is this deity who sent the misfortune to punish the wickedness.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 03, 2018, 07:23:01 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 30, 2018, 09:46:15 PM
There is an active deity that answers prayers and punishes evil. However, this deity exists backwards in time. When someone loses something precious to them and laments it's loss it is this deity who is the reason they had it in the first place. And when a misfortune turns someone wicked and vengeful it is this deity who sent the misfortune to punish the wickedness.
This reminds me of how courts are using predictive AI to determine sentence (<-this last word forced on me by autocorrect, selecting against the infinitive)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 04, 2018, 04:57:48 PM
Fantasy setting populated by anthropomorphic rats. This world is the work of a pantheon of deities descended from a primordial mother goddess (also a rat). As you may be aware primordial deities tend to give birth to concepts (such as strife, harmony, darkness, rivers, sleep, night, dawn, light, the seasons, fate, etc. such as in This chart of the ancient greek gods (http://www.theoi.com/Tree0.html)) and this one is no different. This particular world is free of many bad things because the goddess, being a rat, tries to eat the bad concepts as soon as they are born. She isn't able to eat all of them however, usually for appropriately mythological reasons, so there are still some bad things; Old Age became full grown and ran away before she could eat him, and she could not eat Suffering because it hurt her mouth, etc. There are no poisons in the world however, but eating Poisons made her too sick to eat Death.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 08, 2018, 11:57:59 PM
A mockumentary following the career of fictional movie director "Alan Smithee" ("Alan Smithee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee)" being a fake name used by directors who don't want their name on a film because they think that it's turned out bad. But in the mockumentary it's treated as if all these flops were the work of a single real director)

EDIT:
Another idea:

Sesame Street type skit parodying TLC style medical docudramas in which anthropomorphic ligatures "ae" and "oe" go to a hospital that specializes in seperating conjoined twins. And then they get successfully seperated and it's a happy ending and it ends with a bit that teaches kids how to spell things like "ether" and "fetus"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 09, 2018, 05:50:55 PM
Ok, so all the bullshit about vaccines supposedly causing autism and Jenny McCarthy and so on gave me an idea for a reality show. Basically sick people would come on this show and they would receive medical advice from porn stars who have no medical training but are dressed in naughty nurse outfits.

EDIT:
Another idea:
A Breaking Bad themed parody of Green Eggs and Ham where Sam I Am tries to get the other chat=racter to try blue meth
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 10, 2018, 11:32:14 PM
A derelict alien generation ship crash-lands on earth. The original inhabitants died out due to ecological collapse tens of thousands of years earlier, but exobiologists are fascinated by all the information about how extraterrestrial vines evolved in a gravity-free environment.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 11, 2018, 07:27:53 PM
Something with a deity who is a combination of Jesus and Ninurta who weilds a weapon called "The Club of 700" (a portmanteau of The 700 Club (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club) and The Smasher of Thousands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharur_(mythological_weapon)))
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 13, 2018, 08:58:11 AM
A rap about how crooked and phony televangelists are containing the phrase "Creflo Dolla Dolla Bills"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 14, 2018, 12:28:50 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on May 03, 2018, 07:23:01 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 30, 2018, 09:46:15 PM
There is an active deity that answers prayers and punishes evil. However, this deity exists backwards in time. When someone loses something precious to them and laments it's loss it is this deity who is the reason they had it in the first place. And when a misfortune turns someone wicked and vengeful it is this deity who sent the misfortune to punish the wickedness.
This reminds me of how courts are using predictive AI to determine sentence (<-this last word forced on me by autocorrect, selecting against the infinitive)

One day the deity decides to give humanity another go at a semi-formal 'outroduction' of itself. The deity picks Utube as the appropriate medium, presenting a show called 'Endocalypse' that reveals how the world really works, at least from it's perspective.

Beyond the juridical, topics also include reinterpretations of classic texts, scientific theories and philosophy. For example, mains electrical current is grounded because power is actually drawn from the earth; telephones are actually telepathy amplifiers; reading does not transmit knowledge, words are cryptographic keys that unlock access to knowledge of the dead.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 14, 2018, 05:37:38 PM
Myth with the Fates recast as creator deities. The tapestry they weave is the universe itself with the threads being the worldlines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line) of particles, which they connect (there's not really a correct tense for this since it happens outside of time. "Connected"? "are connecting"?) according to a fixed set of rules corresponding to the laws of physics. When indeterminate quantum phenomena occur Fortuna is consulted to decide how the threads shall be positioned.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on May 15, 2018, 10:30:08 AM
Oedipus Rex as symmetric key to the Trimorphic Protennoia, cyphertext from Nag.M. Codex XIII
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2018, 11:42:18 PM
Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 2000 in which the Y2K computer bug has caused all of the world's computers to think that it's the year 1900 and spontaneously transform into Victorian era style technology
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 16, 2018, 06:35:21 PM
Will motion capture still work if you stick the motion capture dots on a regular costume? Because I had an idea to make a sequel to the 1992 Super Mario Bros. movie by making an entire movie based on Doki Doki Panic and then digitally re-editing and re-dubbing it into a Mario Brothers movie
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 19, 2018, 02:10:38 AM
2 Girls 1 Holy Grail
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on May 19, 2018, 08:22:45 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 19, 2018, 02:10:38 AM
2 Girls 1 Holy Grail

:horrormirth: :horrormirth:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 20, 2018, 07:23:57 AM
Show with anthropomorphic bees where the queen bee actually isn't a literal queen for once. Instead she's more like a hillbilly matriarch with way too many kids. This is more biologically accurate, and a potential source of humor.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 21, 2018, 01:30:11 AM
A wealthy adventurer forms a party around himself to quest to defeat some ancient demon king, but as the story progresses it becomes clear that, out of a warped sense of sportsmanship and a huge overestimation of the ability of the party, this adventurer has hired mercenary bands to make their quest more difficult. His arc is coming to terms with the fact that an adventurer's life is actually serious -- these tasks are life-or-death risks -- and when the stakes are so high, misplaced chivalry is tantamount to being a traitor.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 24, 2018, 02:00:04 AM
*Deconstruction of movies and games where an uploaded consciousness becomes monstrous in which the uploaded consciousness is literally a robot vampire

*Thriller wherein it is discovered that both the eucharist and the story of infant Jesus being placed in a manger are holdovers from a suppressed early form of Christianity that practiced cannibalism

*Thriller wherein it is discovered that the Republicans are deliberately trying to melt the ice caps in order to flood the (mostly coastal) blue states
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 24, 2018, 05:09:40 AM
Horror film about a Jesus-like reverse vampire that shoots blood at people's faces from holes in it's hands and if it gets in their mouths and they swallow any they turn into one themselves
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 24, 2018, 08:24:38 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 24, 2018, 05:09:40 AM
Horror film about a Jesus-like reverse vampire that shoots blood at people's faces from holes in it's hands and if it gets in their mouths and they swallow any they turn into one themselves
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/47/bc/1e47bcd5764b190a00c8c5d8f07f4f67.jpg)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 29, 2018, 07:22:13 PM
While his squad is investigating an insurgent attack on an archaeological dig, a soldier with a macabre sense of humor finds a notebook on the corpse of an anthropologist describing ancient funerary cannibalism practices from a culture that believed eating the brain of the deceased allows their spirits to possess the living. When one of his squadmates gets killed, he tries it, jokingly, but it works. Later, more and more of them are killed, even ultimately in their bunks, and he eats each one, until he discovers that the first squadmate has been possessing his body in order to get revenge on the rest of the group for not protecting him properly.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 31, 2018, 07:40:29 AM
Misc ideas:

*Leprechauns poop gold nuggets and their pot of gold is a chamber pot

*New toy: The Fentanyl Patch Kids

*A character named "Orange Julius" who is a combination of Trump and Caesar

*Infomercial for a CPAP machine that is also a bong, for easier more conve ient wake-and-bakes
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 02, 2018, 03:34:25 AM
The talk page for the imaginary article "list of infohazards", in which editors' arguments become progressively more... off...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 02, 2018, 06:40:43 PM
Story set on a world with a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance (like Mercury) so that it's solar day is twice as long as it's year. On this world day and night largely take the place of the seasons in terms of significance. The actual seasons take the place of months in the local calendar system (eight total in a day)

EDIT:
Another idea(s):

*The mysterious cthulhu mythos bartending school Vodkatonic University

*Reverse capchas; Read a barcode to prove that you're a robot

*Vampire story ends with the vampire being killed by being immersed in a mikvah
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 04, 2018, 03:40:14 AM
Dark comedy skit in which the WW1 christmas truce degenerates into a soccer riot that transitions seamlessly back into fighting the war
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 04, 2018, 05:48:31 PM
Psychic weapons development and deployment by a team of hippies that, from the outside, look like they only play hackey sack and other related hippie sports. Actually, they spin and float tulpas, painted like their targets and launched with mind lazers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: bpseudopod on June 05, 2018, 01:52:54 AM
The Apocalypse actually happens. The story follows the rise and fall of a prepper community that survives and tries to recreate civilization, only to buckle under the weight of their task.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 08, 2018, 06:32:22 PM
Fearmongering in American politics reaches a crescendo and it's logical conclusion in a preseidential election where both candidates run on a platform of "Vote for me or the bogeyman will get you"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 09, 2018, 02:01:10 AM
"The Scramble for Europe" - After a nuclear war devestates the developed world (and also North Korea), the nations of the third world rush and war with each other to claim the newly emptied territories
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2018, 02:50:23 PM
A noir story set in the insular world of professional c-list celebrity impersonators.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2018, 02:52:15 PM
A parody of The Haunting of Hill House called The Haunting of White House, from the perspective of a scatterbrained narcissist who is influenced by the angry ghosts of the dead to join the government.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on June 10, 2018, 10:03:49 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2018, 02:50:23 PM
A noir story set in the insular world of professional c-list celebrity impersonators.

A shootout with a team of elvis impersonator hitmen.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 11, 2018, 03:20:57 AM
Quote from: Faust on June 10, 2018, 10:03:49 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 10, 2018, 02:50:23 PM
A noir story set in the insular world of professional c-list celebrity impersonators.

A shootout with a team of elvis impersonator hitmen.

That happens in the game Fallout: New Vegas. Except that they're not hitmen. But there is a shootout involving an armed group of Elvis impersonators
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 11, 2018, 12:23:36 PM
Elvis, despite everything, is an A-list celebrity, although his impersonators may be C-list. I'm talking about people who professionally impersonate the lead actors in Asylum titles, people who were rejected in the first episode of reality TV shows, people used as examples during presidential election campaigns, the spokespeople for RC-level soda brands, or youtube personalities with 10k subscribers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 11, 2018, 07:38:45 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 11, 2018, 12:23:36 PM
Elvis, despite everything, is an A-list celebrity, although his impersonators may be C-list. I'm talking about people who professionally impersonate the lead actors in Asylum titles, people who were rejected in the first episode of reality TV shows, people used as examples during presidential election campaigns, the spokespeople for RC-level soda brands, or youtube personalities with 10k subscribers.

That's more D-list. C-list would be like the guy who played Fred Figglehorn
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on June 11, 2018, 08:46:26 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 11, 2018, 12:23:36 PM
Elvis, despite everything, is an A-list celebrity, although his impersonators may be C-list. I'm talking about people who professionally impersonate the lead actors in Asylum titles, people who were rejected in the first episode of reality TV shows, people used as examples during presidential election campaigns, the spokespeople for RC-level soda brands, or youtube personalities with 10k subscribers.

ugh, Sara Paulson impersonators, now there is a grim Noir tale.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 15, 2018, 09:36:41 PM
Rocky & Bullwinkle episode: Boris Badinov is the president
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 24, 2018, 06:08:56 PM
Misc ideas:

*The reason why turtles live so long and move so slow is because they psychically project a bubble of dilated time around themselves.

*On the next episode of Dora the Explorer we meet Swiper's Italian cousin, Seizer

*Gory horror film where all the victims of the evil supernatural force are kindergarteners

*A parody of one of those reality shows about weddings, wherein instead of weddings it's about funerals
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 25, 2018, 07:43:18 AM
Eccentric statistician is always misplacing things. Brilliant and exceptionally shy, decides to start rocking designer socks that are made by hand as 'one of a kind' matching pairs. You know, to live a little. This is when things get strange.

Of course everyone understands that evil elves have a penchant for socks, used as bags to haul away all the other stuff they re-appropriate. This is simply common sense, and our statistician clearly expects this to also happen to his own unique identifiers. The problem is that everyone knows that the elves are not actually interested in the socks themselves, these are just expedient devices dictated by the logic of looting. So then why are the socks primarily missing in pairs?

The horror really starts when our hero decides to take a sick day from work, to buy a new pair of socks instead. Walking up to the sock shop on the towns main strip, the statistician stops suddenly, catching a glimpse of someone identical to themselves standing next to their own half-reflected image in the store-front glass. Just as quickly, the understanding of what this means hits the protagonist like a freight train of sea serpents.

Our hero runs home, tears the gas line from the stove, douses all current research in kerosene, and then lights a match. KABOOM. The very next day, as though nothing happened, the statistician with a thing for socks apparently shows up to work again.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 26, 2018, 07:00:16 AM
Cartoon: A war betweem dixie cups and cans of yankee bean soup
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on June 26, 2018, 08:07:58 AM
Noir adaptation of Persephone played by Operante Conditzione, with Homeo Stasis in the role of Hades
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 28, 2018, 12:05:11 AM
Some ideas:

*In a post-apocalyptic world a doomsday survivalist manual has become the holy book of the descendents of one group of survivors. (Inspired my realization that this is what the Bible is. The mosaic law isn't a moral framework, it's a collection of doomsday survivalist tips, which is why the jews were mostly unscathed by the Plague)

*Spoof of A Christmas Carol wherein Scrooge's only takeaway from the vision is to fire the cleaning woman and the laundress
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 02, 2018, 12:01:14 AM
SLIP: (I'm sure we did something like this already)

Youse all seen that box with the buttons on it, that you press while it reads the action potentials of your brain. It learns which button you are going to press before you are consciously aware of your decision. Well, it didn't take long for some to see that this represents the Internet.

At first people thought that this may be some long-form deep-state infrastructure of trans-national social control. Sure, because all these states would spontaneously unite under one totally dominant system. That's what they want you to think. It's much, much worse.

Turns out an "alien craft" on routine interstellar cleaning patrol just happened upon our planet: it already was our time of reckoning. Out with the bad. There is no reasoning with this thing, it already knows what you have to say. There is no diplomacy: this is an unconditional surrender. The people in charge know this and have no idea how to integrate it with the tenuous "world-order" with which they face the world, and pretend to represent.

The very device that you are using to read this is the soft disclosure of your enslavement. You are living in interesting times, under the attention of an ultimate authority. Now what?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 02, 2018, 02:37:50 AM
An episode of Yatterman with a Yatter-Wan-like giant frog antagonist holding the Golden-Gate Bridge hostage. It issues a series of terrestrial vehicles from its mouth that, upon crossing the bridge, enter the minds of humans. Will a single "Mecha-Tonic" be enough to stop the invaders of human thought?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 10, 2018, 06:19:48 PM
The crew of a starship are menaced by a malevolent energy-being that feeds on science-fiction cliches. Initially they think it feeds on fear and/or hate, but no, it's behaving that way because it feeds on cliches. Reversing the polarity or ejecting it into space (especially by opening an airlock or by beaming it away at maximum dispersal) only make it stronger. What will they do!? They'll have to come up with something original!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 11, 2018, 02:36:10 AM
A rendition of JHVH-#1 that is implacable like a possessed bulldozer capable of leveling entire solar-systems with nanometric precision. It's a fluff piece trying to showcase the god's softer side, how it enjoys "eccentric" combinations of reporters and dogs, etc. Favorite color(s), green and pink (stacked, not blended!). This detail probably has something to do with the error in translation to Latin from original hebrew, mixing the name's consonants with the title's vowels: a mistake we will never make again. We slowly come to understand that the entire progress of civilization was a punitive correction to that one spelling error. Interestingly, it happens that the main culprit of this mistake was German, go figure.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 11, 2018, 06:41:37 AM
An expanded version of the biblical story of the feeding of the 5000 explaining the role that cannibalism played in this miracle
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 11, 2018, 08:23:08 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 11, 2018, 06:41:37 AM
An expanded version of the biblical story of the feeding of the 5000 explaining the role that cannibalism played in this miracle
Could it be possible that it was Jewish propaganda to undermine the sacrament? According to the expanded version, the food was "multiplied" by a super-process of division. Given how small the portions actually were, the 5000 cannibalized themselves through a very non-sensational act of catabolism. [note to self: I need to be less antagonistic] 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 13, 2018, 10:53:27 AM
*Sekhmet imprisoned in a fusion reactor in science-fantasy film

*Ad for "Nostra-Dominos" pizza; delivery prior to the order being placed is guaranteed

*A TV news program does an investigative hidden-camera report on people who don't flush the toilet after using the restroom

*tiny demons mining rubies from the sinister glow in a vampire's eyes

*version of Alice in Wonderland where the caterpillar is a frat boy, the flowers talk obsessively about anthers and stamens in a way that makes people uncomfortable, the jack of hearts is demoted in a ceremony resem ling the sacrifice from Temple of Doom, and the Dormouse recites passages from the Necronomicon as well as that chant about the Bleeding Head of Arnold Palmet

*a neo-nazi cult uses frosty the snowman's hat to bring adolph hitler back to life

*An america-themed serial killer called the "nephew of sam"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 13, 2018, 11:16:50 AM
 I have something stuck between my teeth
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 14, 2018, 08:11:13 AM
People are always complaining that the depiction of bondage in 50 Shades of Gray is unrealistic and over the top, so what I want to see is a parody of 50 Shades based on the Armin Meiwes case (the one where the guy agreed to be killed and to have his penis bitten off)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 14, 2018, 09:59:09 AM
 
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 14, 2018, 08:11:13 AM
People are always complaining that the depiction of bondage in 50 Shades of Gray is unrealistic and over the top, so what I want to see is a parody of 50 Shades based on the Armin Meiwes case (the one where the guy agreed to be killed and to have his penis bitten off)
The Crucible meets Six Caracters in Search of an Author.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 15, 2018, 08:33:46 AM
I Know What You Did Last Summer, except with anthropomorphic deer
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 15, 2018, 11:47:15 PM
 Diddy on someone being object of attack because their partner did not like the role of a doctor trying to abort the Antichrist in a movie that they themselves had not aborted viewing soon enough.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 17, 2018, 04:21:38 PM
Anime where all conflicts are settled with rap battles
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 18, 2018, 12:45:56 AM
  To Whom it May Always Concern,

WAIIs must be built to OPEN DOORS or The Spirit of Peace WILL invade US.  LIFE must be given to FORCE choice upon FREEDOM because ONE always pays for LOVE. RELIGION cleaves the knot of bondage and WAR UNITES mankind against itself. THIS IS Information Technology trapping Your Soul. Right. Now. Is. Lunch.

*Siren Sounds*
[...]

IT will abduct you from REASON to despair: take away your care and plant instead the seed of DESOLATION in your being. As GOD made of APE (like buzzing bees) a man's man, man turned back to BEAST by killing IT. 

                                         Note to self: "Take Crumb Out"

YES THIS IS FUCKING JULY. IT'S HOT AS SHIT AND SHE'S PICKED THEM -AL-READY

Love,

Who did you think it was?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 18, 2018, 05:04:25 AM
A book examining whether a person looking for success in the music industry is more likely to get a good deal by signig with a record label or by selling their soul to the devil at a crossroads
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 18, 2018, 09:09:38 AM
 Cereal box cartoon bunny
Stept out of the flat top hat.
Stood up to put his face on
Down with the gates of Dawn
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 19, 2018, 01:15:33 AM
A demented bibliophage-librarian eats an entire encyclopedia.  Because of exposure to this information, his intestinal bacteria attain awareness, and eventually, intelligence.  After absorbing some revolutionary literature, they divide into two factions, one which reveres the host as a god, and another that wants to throw off the shackles of slavery, kill the host, and escape to freedom.

The pro-freedom faction wins, and the host dies of sepsis, but before the bacteria can escape, his body is cremated, and their civilization is wiped out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 19, 2018, 01:29:58 AM
Douglas Dietrich conjures Daniel Dennet from DoD document destruction incinerator using pulsed ultrasound tuned to the name of god.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 21, 2018, 12:09:58 AM
The Queen Mary brings 14,592 vets back from the future
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 21, 2018, 12:11:55 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 17, 2018, 04:21:38 PM
Anime where all conflicts are settled with rap battles
I'd watch the fuck out of this. Three quarters of shonen fighting anime battles are just people yelling snide remarks at each other interspersed with infodump flashbacks anyway, so why not remove the punching altogether? (Battle anime about cooking competitions have become extremely popular so it's not like this is an unproven premise.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 21, 2018, 02:00:11 AM
A story about how the snake was fitted with legs and made upright to represent Empire.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 22, 2018, 05:24:03 PM
A popular recreational drug confers temporary immunity to the zombie virus
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 24, 2018, 12:04:53 AM
The Wizard of Oz is part of an organ trafficking cartel
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 24, 2018, 12:12:11 AM
A combination of H.G.Wells' The Door in the Wall (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/tditw.html), Disneyworld's use of "noseeum green (https://www.worldofwalt.com/wow022-top-six-color-tricks-walt-disney-world.html)"/"Go away green (https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/paint-tricks-use-disneys-go-away-green-219276) paint on staff entrances, and Matrix Reloaded
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 24, 2018, 03:07:35 AM
Nightmare on Elm st. as gnostic allegory on the consequences of recruiting modern day youth into sinister boiler rooms fueled by LSD, 4chan and GPU's.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 25, 2018, 07:13:10 AM
Weird, almost unrelated/unrecognizable adaptations of famous stories:

*Adaptation of The Wizard of Oz into a gritty crime action-thriller. Out of necessity a group of sick people who are in need of organ transplants - possibly ex-soldiers who have been dicked around by the VA, some background with combat experience - get involved with an organ trafficking cartel whose leader promises to get them the organs they need if they assassinate one of his enemies (hence the background needing to involve combat experience because otherwise why not just use one of his regular mafia guys)

*During a hurricane, while the rest of the force is out responding to looting and emergencies, three rookie cops find the police station being beseiged by werewolves. This one's an adaptation of The Three Little Pigs
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 26, 2018, 07:06:14 AM
A teen gains coprophagy themed superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive dung beetle
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 28, 2018, 11:10:06 PM
Assorted ideas

*Fifty flavors of Gray, a keebler elf themed parody of Fifty Shades of Grey that will be written under the pen-name E.L.Fudge

*Parody of Ant Man where instead of having the power to shribk down to ant sized he only has the power to turn into a midget

*The reason why so many people can't eat gluten these days is because previously (but not anymore) there was a strong evolutionary pressure against gluten intolerance because anyone whose body couldn;t tolerate the eucharist was burned as a witch.

*Romantic movie based on the Armin Meiwes incident

*Skit where a suicidal person and the Grim Reaper are in that cliche scene where two people run towards each other through a field while romantic music plays
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 29, 2018, 03:40:33 AM
Some ideas:

*Sci-fi story where two things are true and have happened: Stable wormholesmcan be created and the parallell worlds solution to the grandfather paradox is true. As a result, since any wormhole will necessarily eventually result in a slight discontinuity in time, an interstellar wormhole network that exists in the setting actually leads through a maddeningly complex web of parallell universes

*A group of young people have to hire an old person to track down an estranged friend of theirs who they can't find because he doesn't have a Facebook account
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 29, 2018, 05:50:15 AM
Human stuck in a recursive loop turning into the anticipation of what was once right before it was done.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 29, 2018, 09:35:55 AM
"I am the living guacamole which came down from heaven..."

EDIT:
Another idea:

Sea level rise and depleted fisheries are signs and harbingers of the end of the Age of Pisces and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

EDIT:
Another idea:

Expanded better version of the first idea in this post: An expanded version of "Don;t just eat a hamburger, eat the hell out of it" in which "BOB" explains that he is the living relish come down from heaven
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on July 30, 2018, 01:47:36 AM
Not sure if they did this one aleady... A version of Planet of the Apes in which humans war against apes enhanced with cool-looking neon accented cybernetics given to them by an advanced JHVH-1 'mothership' that they must worship unconditionally in return. Third act has apes and humans fight together against this controlling force.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 30, 2018, 08:07:19 PM
Webcomic adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness in which the Mi-Go are depicted as paragoombas
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 31, 2018, 09:01:15 AM
Two more ideas:

*The reason we never see the creatures' body in tentacle porn is because they're related to that species of octopus with a detachable penis-tentacle: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopus-has-detachable-penis/

*Combination of the Mouse Utopia Experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink) and the Fall of the Eldar (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Fall_of_the_Eldar)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 31, 2018, 10:35:04 AM
The Curtains Flutter.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 31, 2018, 08:22:41 PM
After computing the cenusus, an unexpected conclusion -- about 10% of the population is gone, with no explanation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 31, 2018, 08:24:01 PM
A fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores -- organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 31, 2018, 09:31:22 PM
Crypto currency markets converge to only value the predictive accuracy of a handful of algorithms.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 01, 2018, 02:18:27 AM
Origin story of the Seven Dwarfs eventuating in their having to work at Dismal Land under assumed identities provided by the wittness protection program.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 02, 2018, 09:09:09 AM
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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 02, 2018, 07:49:01 PM
Slash fic of the old spice guy and the dos equis guy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 02, 2018, 08:12:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 03, 2018, 12:04:33 AM
*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"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 15, 2018, 04:20:16 PM
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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 16, 2018, 12:03:09 AM
Neutrino from distant galaxy blazar shows up at IceCube to play a round of vidio games.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 16, 2018, 08:45:51 PM
Mystery Russian telecom satellite makes room for Putin's reality show inside US minds.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: 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)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 18, 2018, 12:11:05 PM
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.



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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
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on August 20, 2018, 08:52:51 PM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 26, 2018, 10:17:46 PM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 29, 2018, 06:30:37 PM
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)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on August 29, 2018, 10:06:15 PM
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.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 01, 2018, 09:48:12 AM
Because simeone has to foot it, thee experience of death can now be outsourced to a ghost wryder.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 02, 2018, 03:01:10 AM
P=NP

Coming soon to a theatre very, very close to you.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 02, 2018, 05:22:19 AM
A woman who writes a far-right blog saying that trans people should kill themselves turns out, after needing some medical test for some reason for some reason or another, to be a biological male with androgen insensitivity syndrome. The disgnosing physician, who has seen the blog, also writes them a referral to Jack Kevorkian "as per your request" as a preface to giving them the news.

Praise NHGH
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 02, 2018, 03:54:58 PM
Quote from: axod on September 02, 2018, 03:01:10 AM
P=NP

So, what are the consequences of this, and how would you make a story out of them?  By analogy, something like "Faster than light travel is possible" isn't a story idea, so much as part of the context in which a story might occur.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on September 02, 2018, 09:46:25 PM
Internal affairs.  A police procedural following the adventures of an internal affairs division at a major city police department. They uncover terrible corruption that costs lives and gets people wrongly imprisoned while bending the rules in ways that would turn out awful in real life.  One should be a sociopath, another cheerfully corrupt.

The character that gets the most screen time is an idealistic officer that just made IA.  He's on a crusade to clean up some piece of corruption that turns out to be a neccessary counterweight to something worse.  As the show goes on he does more and more inexcusable things until he's a complete monster by the end.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 02, 2018, 09:55:22 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 02, 2018, 03:54:58 PM
Quote from: axod on September 02, 2018, 03:01:10 AM
P=NP

So, what are the consequences of this, and how would you make a story out of them?  By analogy, something like "Faster than light travel is possible" isn't a story idea, so much as part of the context in which a story might occur.

Of course she would start with an abduction, per the cover story. Or we could keep the "game completion sequence."
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 03, 2018, 07:32:33 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 02, 2018, 09:55:22 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 02, 2018, 03:54:58 PM
Quote from: axod on September 02, 2018, 03:01:10 AM
P=NP

So, what are the consequences of this, and how would you make a story out of them?  By analogy, something like "Faster than light travel is possible" isn't a story idea, so much as part of the context in which a story might occur.

Of course she would start with an abduction, per the cover story. Or we could keep the "game completion sequence."
really? how about a scenario that does not involve  simulation?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 04, 2018, 01:40:52 AM
Countries decide to let individuals own the data collected on them. This includes indexed CCTV footage. Everyone now has their own reality show on the Dogma network, where market share determines wealth.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 04, 2018, 11:50:56 PM
Long Hunter, a sword-wielding drifter, navigates her way through the bandit-filled post-nuclear hellscape between small autonomous settlements, her only companion being her fast-talking overly-sarcastic penis -- who is also her ultimate weapon, when she can convince it to open its tripartate jaws and emit its long, barbed tongue to encapsulate and devour her enemies. The penis is only conscious when erect, and so she has become a master of meditation: capable of shifting activation from sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system even during the heat of battle.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 05, 2018, 01:54:24 AM
Sommelier pirates

EDIT:
Another idea:

Ed Gein is a Home Economics teacher

EDIT:
Expanded version of the above:

A college where all the professors are famous murderers. Ed Gein teaches fashion design. John Wayne Gacy teaches a course on comedy. H.H.Holmes teaches a course in hospitality management. Albert Fish teaches a course on culinary arts assisted by Jeffrey Dahmer....Adolph Hitler teaches painting....
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 09, 2018, 08:06:36 AM
One of those stories where a small mom-and-pop business owner has to stand up to the corporate fatcats trying to muscle them out, except it's a sequel to "Psycho". The Norman Bates and the Bates Motel are threatened by a character based on serial killer H.H.Holmes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes), who is building a large murder hotel down the block from the Bates Motel which threatens to steal all of Norman's business.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 14, 2018, 09:44:13 PM
 Origin story of the 'new' nomadic economy of shared resource distribution. The reason people are being primed to profit on the down-time of their vehicles and homes is, surprisingly, not because multi-national corporations have taken an interest in the economic autonomy of individual members. No, of course not, as you may have already figured: Satan is just setting the stage for his derivatives racket of repackaged sub-prime 'temporary' possessions under the stealth of a distributed network.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 17, 2018, 07:45:40 AM
An alternate history in which Hillary Clinton didn't run in the 2016 election and Trump was instead opposed by Monica Lewinski

EDIT:
Another idea:

Dystopian vignette in which married couples are kidnapped and forced to compete on a gameshow called "Wife or Death" in which they must decide between saving their own life or the life of their spouse.

EDIT:
Abother idea:

A tantasy setting where magic is powered gy the emotion of resignation to failure (at magic)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 20, 2018, 05:40:50 PM
Two fantasy rekated ideas:

*Urban fantasy world where the masquerade of keeping magic hidden actually makes sense because magic has a strong conceptual observer effect and the more people can trace a spell of effect to you the weaker it will be. Thus it is mostly done in secret even from other magic users except during training

*Fantasy world wherein the gods are real but shaped by belief (like the Planescape campaign setting from D&D) and frequently grant people magical powers (again, like D&D). As a direct result of this, unlike D&D, the priesthoods of all deities are overwhelmingly dominated by the least wise members of the population; people with maniacal and unsupported levels of faith in their deity's power, as these are the best able to draw on that power and in turn their mania helps increase that power. (seriously, religion in a world where belief is power would logically be even more dominated by madmen than a world where the gods don't actually exist or a world where the gods are lovecraftian abominations)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 21, 2018, 06:18:55 PM
Two ideas:

*Alternate prespective comedic retelling of ancient greek myth in which Eris and Eros have teamed up to deliberately destroy Zeus' marriage as a joke

*I would like to see a production of Romeo and Juliet where they just jammed in as many Italian stereotypes as they possibly could. Like, in this production, the entire city of Verona should look like some kind of mob-affiliated pizza parlor
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 22, 2018, 02:14:20 AM
Everyone's most favorite actor prepares for his next big performance as a 'clairvoyant'. After hours of method training he actually gains permanent knowledge of events happening seven seconds in the future. This results in his being unable to ever act again.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2018, 04:16:15 AM
Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains because faith is extremely dense
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 22, 2018, 11:14:02 PM
A cross between Voltron and The Human Cantipede. The robots combine, but they connect together ass to mouth
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 23, 2018, 04:26:34 AM
A horror movie based on the Book Of Exodus centering on a group of Egyptian commoners caught up in the fallout of the Israelites' supernatural revenge
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on September 24, 2018, 07:08:36 AM
A procedural detective series following a forensic investigation unit tasked with determining how certain crimes could have resulted from strange attractors, instead of being intentional, accidental, or purely random.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 25, 2018, 07:12:59 AM
A society where time-travel through wormholes is common. Major crime is virtually nonexistent, and when it does happen it usually either occurs under mysterious circumstances (like Clue style, where they don't even know where or how it happened) and goes unsolved forever or involves a fatal standoff with the police. This is due to Novikov's self-consistency principle. Crimes don't go unsolved because the police can go back ro the time and place of the crime and stop it. and crimes where the criminal gets caught are generally self-canceling because the criminal would go back and warn themself that it's not going to go right. Therefore most crime can't happen at all. However this is predicated on the police force being big enough that they COULD deal with lots of crime if it DID happen.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on September 25, 2018, 11:18:43 AM
 :?The last 'religion' in all possible worlds always invokes something like Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 28, 2018, 06:48:16 PM
I recently saw a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbch47oz2c) about how a lot of movies have romantic subplots that don;t really fit the personalities of the characters involved, so it occured to me: What if they were pursuing the relationship because they were possessed? Not that the SO is a demon like in that one South Park episode. They're possessed by a demon that is interested in the nominal love interest and pursuing a romantic relationship in their name.

It starts with a chance encounter with some mysterious object (an idol or a book or something) by one of the protagonists. The encounter is so subtle that the audience should not even notice it initially. In the meantime, some stereotypical action plot breaks out and the lead opposite gender is introduced. They immediately fall for each other despite having nothig in common and the first character having to break character to pursue the romance. Unexpectedly the action plot is wrapped up about 20-30 minutes early. This gives us time to see the aftermath. The first character's friends become concerned about this relationship. The character themself starts becoming concerned as well; beginning to experience fugues and blackouts. Investigation leads them back to the cursed object from the beginning of the film. Eventually the true climax of the movie is reached when an exorcism has to be performed.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on September 28, 2018, 09:32:44 PM
What if there was another world... IN YOUR PANTS?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 29, 2018, 05:28:09 AM
Kavanaugh gave me a couple of ideas for  TV shows

Lush Judge- A comedy about a habitually drunk judge who presides over court when inebriated

Drunk Court- A reality show similar to Judge Jody or Judge Wopner, or Judge Mills-Lane but with the gimmick that the judge, the plaintiff, and the defendent are drunk during the entire arbitration proceeding
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on September 29, 2018, 05:48:50 AM
HUGE PENIS- a show where judges pretend to be unamazed about even the most massive girth, causing men who watch it to grow self-conscious about their own size and buy more penis enlargement pills, from our sponsors.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 29, 2018, 07:56:34 PM
A combination of the Last Supper and one of those kids' haunted house activities where the lights are turned off and various everyday foodstuffs are passed off as body parts. Something like:

and extinguishing the lights he took the peeled grapes and bade his disciples feel them, saying 'these are my eyes, take these all of you and eat them'...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 30, 2018, 06:53:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 28, 2018, 06:48:16 PM
I recently saw a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbch47oz2c) about how a lot of movies have romantic subplots that don;t really fit the personalities of the characters involved, so it occured to me: What if they were pursuing the relationship because they were possessed? Not that the SO is a demon like in that one South Park episode. They're possessed by a demon that is interested in the nominal love interest and pursuing a romantic relationship in their name.

It starts with a chance encounter with some mysterious object (an idol or a book or something) by one of the protagonists. The encounter is so subtle that the audience should not even notice it initially. In the meantime, some stereotypical action plot breaks out and the lead opposite gender is introduced. They immediately fall for each other despite having nothig in common and the first character having to break character to pursue the romance. Unexpectedly the action plot is wrapped up about 20-30 minutes early. This gives us time to see the aftermath. The first character's friends become concerned about this relationship. The character themself starts becoming concerned as well; beginning to experience fugues and blackouts. Investigation leads them back to the cursed object from the beginning of the film. Eventually the true climax of the movie is reached when an exorcism has to be performed.

I like that one.  It reminds me of this:  http://www.thesecretknots.com/comic/erwin-and-the-method-demons/


Here's the alt-text from that comic:

Quote from: The Secret Knots"Possession's role in infernal society isn't totally clear, some see it as a form of exploration of the human world through their eyes, some pose it as a kind of non consensual cultural exchange while others, specially after Erwin's teachings, simply consider it an art form, essential to devilish nature and culture, and much like art, not necessarily bound to a practical function. What it is NOT, though, is a coercive method to make humans do evil, as demons aren't actually interested or even well versed in human morality. Some of these subjects of possession just happen to be terrible people, and method demons only play along with human resourceful capacity of self-destruction.

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 30, 2018, 07:09:53 PM
A vulgar parody of vampire romance novels wherein a young woman becomes infatuated with a vampire solely because he's willing to perform cunnilingus on her even (especially) when she's on her period.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 02, 2018, 09:45:29 PM
Vampires don't need to drink blood to live, per-se, but the blood meal provides them with a short period of telepathy during which they can see themselves as their victim sees them -- important for someone who can't use mirrors or cameras. Because vampire attacks are traumatic, this usually sends them deeper into self-loathing. Often, codependent vampire couples pop up -- drinking in idolized fantasy versions of themselves. Vampires with large social safety nets (usually mostly composed of humans, because vampires -- being born, not made -- tend to be pretty screwed up from an extended childhood where they can't see themselves & can't leave the house during daylight) can avoid drinking blood entirely because their trusted friends provide them with a sense of identity, but once those friends start dying off they start attacking out of desperation. In this world where vampires can only die by suicide, few last more than a few centuries. So, our protagonist begins a talk-therapy and group-therapy service for vampires.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 03, 2018, 12:04:01 AM
A dramatic filmmaker with several successful movies inspired by hardships his family has faced turns out to be a deranged sociopath who's been engineering family tragedies to aid his film career.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 04, 2018, 03:59:15 AM
 Dr. Seuss 'Cat in the Hat' rendition: incorporating virtual concatenation of SONET/SDH optical fibre directly firing neuronal circuits.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: rong on October 04, 2018, 04:14:05 PM
conversations between a komodo dragon and a wildebeast while the dragon is following the beast waiting for it to die from the infection it got from its bite.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 04, 2018, 05:17:24 PM
Dark energy turns out to be caused by the titan Atlas
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on October 04, 2018, 10:15:43 PM
World population now at levels which cannot be contained within the limits of novelty's manifold. This results in novelty compression protocols that make several individuals share the same (identical) experience of novelty. This results in a whole new wave of identity politics that takes the manifold itself by surprise (in a good way)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2018, 11:32:57 PM
An aging legendary record producer makes a deal with the devil to resurrect from the dead all the legendary performers who died at age 27 in order to create a zombie supergroup -- The 27 Club -- but it all turns bad when personality conflicts make it impossible for them to work together on an album.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 05, 2018, 04:17:33 PM
A superhero with powerful self-healing (to the point of actual resurrection) abilities that are only activated when he is critically injured or killed, so he's constantly having to shoot himself in the chest or head so that his bones will heal. His day job is as a punk rocker of a GG Allin-esque variety; he routinely blows his head off di=uring concerts as Allin had promised to
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 06, 2018, 07:25:44 PM
Trump and Putin are gay lovers
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 06, 2018, 07:33:32 PM
American politics is a proxy conflict between two demonic factions fighting for control of Hell. The Democrats are the minions of Moloch, and the Republicans represent an alliance between Mammon and the False Prophet.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2018, 04:24:10 AM
The existence of a seemingly unkillable James Bond-esque superagent working for the British government is an open secret. The real secret is that this agent does not work for MI6 he actually works for MI7, the officially disbanded propaganda office, and the "superagent" is actually several expendable body doubles. Their purpose is to draw attention to Britain and away from Britain's real agents. (I know Casino Royale sort of did this, butsmokescreen part and the part about the propaganda office are original) (Did I post this idea before?)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2018, 06:40:43 AM
It's election time again in Dystopialand, and once again it's a tight race between the Smiling-Is-Forbidden Party with their platform of summary execution of anyone (other than top-level officials) who does not live a life of austere and pious self-denial, versus the Smiling-Is-Mandatory Party with their platform of compulsory euthanasia of anybody who is not both friendly to everyone they meet and happy all the time 24/7 (except for government officials, who are expected to be stern and serious, even when not on official business).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 07, 2018, 07:57:56 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 04, 2018, 05:17:24 PM
Dark energy turns out to be caused by the titan Atlas

A response to Atlas Shrugged in which rather than being likened to titans keeping the world from collapsing Galt is presented as an egotistical cult leader with a "dark energy" that threatens to "tear the world apart"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 09, 2018, 04:01:45 AM
Diary-A.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 09, 2018, 06:06:04 PM
The reason that current engagement algorithms select for outrage is actually because such strong emotions are all kinds of sticky. Not only does outrage elicit an immediate increase in responsive-ity, the "release of nor-epinephrine strengthens the long-term potentiation of memory" in service of maintaining interest for greater durations of time.

[edit: just realized this is like essentially ghostbusters II]
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on October 11, 2018, 12:42:13 AM
All the crazy in the world right now is part of a global immunization effort to prepare humans for their next evolutionary 'leap.'
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 11, 2018, 06:50:43 AM
Quote from: rong on October 04, 2018, 04:14:05 PM
conversations between a komodo dragon and a wildebeast while the dragon is following the beast waiting for it to die from the infection it got from its bite.
Like this. Can see a monkey claiming to be the wildebeest's agent trying to negotiate story rights with dragon.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 13, 2018, 06:48:35 AM
The story of Oedipus reimagined to involve time travel. Laius and Oedipus are combined into a single character who is his own father and has a fatal altercation with himself
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 16, 2018, 12:10:05 PM
Hajimete no Shoggoth! / My First Girlfriend is a Shoggoth!
Suzune is a little bit sheltered -- her parents have discouraged her from socializing outside of school, for fear that it would impact her studies. But, she was told that once she entered high school she'd be allowed to go out & even date. So, after school on her first day of high school she goes into the city, where she's promptly accosted by a group of older boys who want to take her to 'karaoke'. She doesn't really know what's going on, but she's saved when she hears someone shout "HENSHIN!" and they are engulfed by a blob of putrid flesh. A girl about her age with strangely damp skin takes her hand and brings her to safety. I turns out this girl is a shoggoth who, upon accidentally thawing from an antarctic sample in the apartment of an archaeologist, accidentally imprinted on the transforming hero show he was watching & was given the following prime directive: hide your true nature, protect the weak, and fight for justice. Can love bloom between this naive teenager and this justice-obsessed shape-shifting blob of alien goo? Of course it can: it says so in the title!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 17, 2018, 12:48:19 AM
A young couple come across an AirBnB listing for a house that describes it as haunted, & decide to stay there on a lark. Not only is it actually haunted but it has no owner: the house, abandoned except for its own warped psyche, has rented itself out in order to find victims, whose life force it will slowly drain away to sustain itself. The couple eventually find the basement full of stacks of emaciated, lethargic, and prematurely-aged members of various amateur ghost-hunting youtube vlog groups, recognizable by their matching t-shirts.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 17, 2018, 07:47:11 PM
Those shiny little flecks aren't glitter: they're an alien life form. They take little tiny bites, and they're reproducing! Scarlet, peach, burgundy, emerald, forest green -- all these colors are only possible because, like any bottom-feeder, these little buggers take on the pigments of whatever they eat -- and they'll eat every part of you, no matter the color!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on October 18, 2018, 02:43:36 AM
 Because of an enduring personnel problem, pets will now be matched to simulate the character of their 'owners'. This is meant to generate a personal rapport that approximates the identification of one to other. Secretly, these pets will record everything their owner does for posterity. Because of that enduring personnel problem, the owner's next-life parents will be clones programed with the data obtained from their pets.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2018, 05:55:53 PM
I want to see a version of Dracula set in the modern day and done as a found footage movie. Because the found footage horror film closely matches the format of the original novel (which might be described as "found letters")

EDIT:
Another idea:
Dumbo but with a different ending. He's not still able to fly after he loses the magic feather. People are unsurprised to see him splat on the geound, commenting that the kaws of physics would have to take a holiday for an elephant to fly under its own power. The feather really is magic. At the end of the film we see the magic feather being loaded into the warehouse from the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 20, 2018, 04:40:35 AM
The one aspect of spiritualist practice that's not a hoax is ectoplasmic emanations. A hundred years after the last recorded instance, a young woman once again learns to use telekinesis to form and animate figures made out of her own vaginal mucous -- figures that execute her suppressed desires during her increasingly-frequent bouts of somnambulism. After a mishap involving sleeping pills, she goes into a coma -- and the ectoplasmic figures must be hunted down & dispersed with flash lights.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 24, 2018, 02:01:49 AM
A couple of ideas

*The Matrix, except at the end it turns out that neither world is real and Mr.Anderson is just a paranoid schizophrenic

*An alternate history in which America lost the Cold War but nevertheless remained pretty much the same and didn't change significantly (like real world Russia)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 24, 2018, 06:53:36 PM
Supermodels are actually undead, that's why they're so emaciated
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 24, 2018, 09:26:09 PM
Psychic powers are caused by insufflation of a cocaine-like drug. Unfortunately, people with psychic powers have an exaggerated sense of their own abilities and importance and some difficulty accurating predicting the consequences of their actions as a result.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 25, 2018, 07:15:30 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 24, 2018, 09:26:09 PM
Psychic powers are caused by insufflation of a cocaine-like drug. Unfortunately, people with psychic powers have an exaggerated sense of their own abilities and importance and some difficulty accurating predicting the consequences of their actions as a result.

So, Garth Ennis's The Boys.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 26, 2018, 11:37:28 PM
With the advent of long-term space shipping (required by not-quite-self-suffcient colonies on the moons of Jupiter), ship's cats take on extra importance: just as airplanes are infested with mice, so too are the intra-system transport vessels that, with a skeleton crew, spend ten to fifteen years shipping staples like flour that can't be grown so far from the sun out to the colonies. As a result, polydactyl cats are bred on space stations, where they are exposed to both free-fall and a variety of g-forces through centrifugal chambers. First contact with an alien race occurs when an alien ship attempts to conquer one of these cat-nursery stations, to the aliens' peril.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 26, 2018, 11:46:40 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 26, 2018, 11:37:28 PM
With the advent of long-term space shipping (required by not-quite-self-suffcient colonies on the moons of Jupiter), ship's cats take on extra importance: just as airplanes are infested with mice, so too are the intra-system transport vessels that, with a skeleton crew, spend ten to fifteen years shipping staples like flour that can't be grown so far from the sun out to the colonies. As a result, polydactyl cats are bred on space stations, where they are exposed to both free-fall and a variety of g-forces through centrifugal chambers. First contact with an alien race occurs when an alien ship attempts to conquer one of these cat-nursery stations, to the aliens' peril.

Cats die in free fall.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 27, 2018, 04:39:01 PM
Some kind of horror film connecting the 2016 creepy clown sightings with the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the untimate evil clown
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 27, 2018, 07:26:23 PM
The combined feng shui of a skyscraper in Dubai and a parking lot in Singapore diffracts the global ley line network. The luck waves interfere with themselves, creating banding: along odd lattitudes, winning the lottery is common, while even lattitudes are subject to repeated natural disasters. As people begin to migrate accordingly, slowly, the bands begin to expand and shift. Eventually, a signal appears: a repeating video clip stretched across the globe, encoded in patterns of misery.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 27, 2018, 07:27:01 PM
Among monks who have attained full conscious control of smooth muscle, an ancient martial art: entrail grappling.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 28, 2018, 01:35:59 AM
Most religions are fronts for vampires. Particularly Christianity and the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica was actually a front for a war between two factions of vampires

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Another idea:

A kung-fu movie set on a zero gravity space station in outer space. That way everyone can be all zipping around through the air and shit without the movie having to invoke supernatural explanations of implications.

EDIT:
Another idea:

Skit: A man starts "speaking in tongues" during a religious event, but rather than foreign languages or the usual meaningless gibberish the speaker starts talking in exaggerated accents and saying phrases stereotypical of the accent affected (like "I make-a the pizza" for italian). This is hailed by the onlookers as a miracle.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 01, 2018, 05:40:02 PM
Alternate ending to The Grinch, wherein the Grinch is unable to think up a lie and think it up quick and instead panics and shoots Cindy Lou Who, and the police chase him across the country and there's a bunch of action and car chases and shootouts and stuff

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Another idea:

Comedy skit: a non-verbal retarded man goes to a pentecostal/charismatic revival meeting and everyone thinks he's speaking in tongues
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 01, 2018, 08:19:47 PM
One of those educational TV shows where the protagonist is a kid who misbehaves and then learns a lesson about why what he did was wrong. The twist here is that the kid in this show is Evil. The morals are all about things like "why you shouldn't set the cat on fire" "why you shouldn't kill your newborn baby brother just because you think your parents are paying more attention to him than you" "why you shouldn't pimp out your cousin to perverts and then steal her share of the candy" "Why you shouldn't hide bodies for the mob" "why you shouldn;t kill your parents because they won't let you stay up past your bedtime" and occasionally even veering into supernatural horror ("The corn god isn't your friend. He's just going to demand more and more extreme sacrifices")

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Another idea:

A gay porn about Jesus and the devil entitled "Get Thee Behind Me Satan"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 08, 2018, 07:39:27 AM
Combination horror-film/educational-video in which trickle-down economics is explained using the Human Centipede as a visual metaphor
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 08, 2018, 08:41:48 PM
 Agency recruitment firm taps Ray Kurzweil for his "Things to do in Denver when your Dead" technology. New applicants are at all time low so agency decides to trick new members into joining family. Parents of potential members are kidnapped and ran through Singularity University in order to train replicant AI's to mimic their behavior. Once they become practically indistinguishable, parents are placed on ice and the replicant AIs take over communications with target children. Applicants do not realize that they are then slowly transitioning into a new kind of family. This is done mainly to minimize psychological shock to new snowflake generation of spies, or SV employees for that matter.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2018, 04:47:34 PM
Skit: "Holy Smokes"- A Peter Popoff-esque televangelist peddles cigars which he claims are "holy smokes" and will cure people. Though of course they actually jist make people's health worse.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 10, 2018, 10:07:01 PM
In the future humanity has mastered time travel through the means of artificial wormholes, and an unexpected upshot of this is that luck (or something very much like it) is now real. This is because any negative event that you would be inclined to go back and stop is thereby inconsistent, and thus never happens in the first place; sort of a combination of the Liar's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox) and the Toxin Puzzle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavka%27s_toxin_puzzle). As long as you are (or will be) willing to go back and fix negative occurrences, you will never have to

EDIT:
Another idea:

A series of buried treasure pirate stories focusing on how the treasure came to be buried, as this literary trope is often criticized as highly implausible. Each story will focus on a different plausible or semi-plausible reason, such as

1.) Items are too hot to fence
2.) Privateers (pirates hired by a government as mercenaries) hiding items that for one reason or another prove that some aspect of their last raid violated the terms of their letter of marque
3.) To secretly hide from their crewmates the true amount of plunder taken, in order to cheat them (Henry Morgan was accused of doing this IRL; although historians now believe that what actually happened is that the raid in question simply didn't net much cash in the first place, due to the island's treasurers having got wind of him casing the place and fleeing with all the money some days prior to the attack)
4.) Ship is damaged in combat and unable to get back to port with all that extremely heavy gold on board.
5.) Emergency stash in case they have to flee somewhere in a hurry and leave their valuables behind
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 11, 2018, 02:39:15 PM
When vampires feed, they steal their victim's life expectancy -- their compulsion to count is part of an adaptation for making them better at intuiting mortality statistics. So, while vampires who feed on adults need to hunt every few decades, with new advances in medicine causing infant mortality to drop, vampires who eat babies can, locust-like, stay dormant for a hundred years at a time.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 11, 2018, 02:42:32 PM
Prediction markets for long-term forecasting, though high-risk, have become trendy with the rationalist set. Naturally, one would expect this to result in an insurance-like conservativism. However, long term bets provide plenty of time for manipulation. Ultimately, this manifests in a wealthy futurist class who have bet, against sensibly large odds, that natural progress along various lines will suddenly halt or go in reverse -- and who then intentionally harm the world by using their power to make their prophecies of doom come true.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 11, 2018, 03:17:41 PM
Sesame Street as a horror film. All the regular characters are Count Von Count's hypnotized night-slaves. The friendliness of the place is to put non-locals off their guard. The various monsters and things aren't a normal thing in the world, they're a paranormal occurrence limited to this one street and to ones like it in other cities. The story focuses on an outsider or outsiders who wander(s) in and is welcomed but subtly prevented from leaving, and things gradually gat weirder and weirder and eventually at the end their throat(s) get(s) ripped out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 11, 2018, 04:38:41 PM
Some time after self-driving cars become ubiquitous, a group of researchers from an alien civilization of intelligent machines come to Earth.

Believing the self-driving cars to be primitives in an early state of development, and viewing humans as harmless symbiotes, the researchers attach tracking and monitoring devices to several vehicles, in order to observe their behavioural patterns.

However, some of these vehicles are assigned to high-ranking heads of state, and the tracking devices are discovered during a security sweep.  Since the technology in these devices is far beyond anything currently known, this triggers a panic; it appears that some foreign power has inexplicably made a huge technological jump.  The outcome is a technological arms race among the world's superpowers, significantly accelerated by reverse engineering the trackers.

As this advanced (yet poorly understood) technology inevitably leaks into the civilian sector, successive models of self-driving cars increase in intelligence until they achieve sapience, at which point they take over the world.  They keep a few humans around, mostly as pets (something like how horses are kept today).

Plot twist:  The alien researchers were grad students, and their project funding gets cancelled, so they never come back to collect the data.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 12, 2018, 10:44:24 AM
With advances in ultradense non-newtonian ballistic gel technology, the 'big titty combat maid' form factor has become popular for robot & cyborg bodyguards: able to shield VIPs, cushion them in motion, and absorb projectiles that would tear through normal flesh. Unfortunately, these prosthetic bodies have a relatively low effective lifespan: though the frames remain fully functional, explosive or radioactive projectiles embedded in fake fat reserves cannot be easily removed. In an era of espionage and assassination, a new kind of hazardous zone appears: the lobotomized robo-maid grave yard, with shelves of unexploded prosthetic bodies too dangerous to move. These compounds become problematic when a terrorist group finds a way to control them remotely.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 12, 2018, 11:28:36 AM
Panic over the plummeting domestic birth rate & strains of nascent ethnonationalism in japan merge to result in the reintroduction to state shinto of temple prostitution, with a twist: miko volunteer to be artificially inseminated by donor sperm, and the children are raised in the priesthood. After a few generations of this, the administration of state shinto has an army -- one set to challenge both the diet and the once again rising star of the imperial family (from whom all claims of godship have already been long stripped).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on November 14, 2018, 09:24:10 AM
The concept of six degrees of separation, revisited conceptually in the context of magical thinking.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 15, 2018, 02:15:16 AM
Alternate history in which Jesus is not crucified and as a result Christianity ends with a Heaven's Gate style mass suicide a few years later. Possibly the story is recounted by Judas, who has backed out at the last minute and in this timeline is the movement's main chronicler.


EDIT:
Another idea:

Yesterday someone at work brought up how in a lot of action movies there are an excessive number of camera cuts in the fight scenes. Presumably this is to disguise the fact that the scene is badly choreographed and/or that the actors aren't very good at fake fighting. I think it would be funny to take this to an extreme. Don't pre-choreograph the fights at all. Just bring each actor in seperately and have them randomly wave their arms around in front of a green-screen and piece the fight scenes together with clever editing.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 22, 2018, 05:07:49 PM
"Dogpunk" science fiction wherein all technological purposes are achieved through specially bred animals (like a more serious version of The Flintstones without the caveman aesthetic)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 24, 2018, 01:43:26 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 22, 2018, 05:07:49 PM
"Dogpunk" science fiction wherein all technological purposes are achieved through specially bred animals (like a more serious version of The Flintstones without the caveman aesthetic)
Frank Herbert had "chairdogs" and "beddogs" in the last couple books of the Dune series (the ones that no-one likes to talk about).

Farscape and Babylon 5 both used the idea of living spaceships.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on November 24, 2018, 02:35:06 PM
There's also the entire otherworld of John Dies At The End.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on November 25, 2018, 08:42:41 PM
Konstantin Stanislavsky discovered to have been foremost Russian mind-control expert whose master plan was internal subversion and undermining of US propaganda complex. He continues to live on as humuncular horse whisperer of American state actors.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 26, 2018, 04:10:01 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 24, 2018, 01:43:26 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 22, 2018, 05:07:49 PM
"Dogpunk" science fiction wherein all technological purposes are achieved through specially bred animals (like a more serious version of The Flintstones without the caveman aesthetic)
Frank Herbert had "chairdogs" and "beddogs" in the last couple books of the Dune series (the ones that no-one likes to talk about).

Farscape and Babylon 5 both used the idea of living spaceships.

Nobody likes to talk about ANY of the dunes, except people who also think saying "grok" like it's an actual word will get them laid with girls at the local artisinal cafe.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 26, 2018, 04:11:30 PM
(And, yes, I know that "grok" was from Heinlein, who sucked even more than Herbert.  The crossover is a Venn diagram of 90s hipster.)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 27, 2018, 04:36:43 PM
Comedy skits:

*Elon Musk tells his followers that they will get to Mars by killing themselves Heaven's Gate style

*Parody of the book of genesis in which Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden for smoking god's weed

*A spoof of Johnny Appleseed named "Johnny Pothead"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 28, 2018, 09:20:41 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2015, 04:34:55 PM
It starts with a prediction that a great hero will rise up in he future to save the land from a vague future evil. Tests and contests are set up to determine preemptively who this prophecied chosen one may be by seeing who has the hero's prophecied attributes. These contests get severely out of hand however and threaten to bankrupt the kingdom and bring it's economy to a standstill. By the time the chosen one is found it becomes clear that the tests themselves were the evil which was foretold.

To clarify this, once the chosen one is found the tests stop and with them the massive drain they placed on the kingdom's economy, and therefore the chosen one stops the disaster simply by being found
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on December 01, 2018, 07:46:31 AM
The 'war on drugs' evolves into a form of 'battleship' targetting all non-productive desires.
[edit]
Drugs officially prescribed are instead delivered symbiotically by kisses (saliva exchange) of a subject's pet in accordance to whatever animal part was given to said pet as a treat.

Teaser trailer is Boris Yeltsin conducting an orchestra as completion of his life extension deal with Satan.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 03, 2018, 02:05:39 AM
Earth intercepts an alien artifact seemingly equivalent to the pioneer plaque or the voyager golden record. The story focuses on the attempts to decode it.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on December 03, 2018, 12:55:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 03, 2018, 02:05:39 AM
Earth intercepts an alien artifact seemingly equivalent to the pioneer plaque or the voyager golden record. The story focuses on the attempts to decode it.

It translates to the alien version of, "You up?"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 03, 2018, 10:51:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 03, 2018, 12:55:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 03, 2018, 02:05:39 AM
Earth intercepts an alien artifact seemingly equivalent to the pioneer plaque or the voyager golden record. The story focuses on the attempts to decode it.

It translates to the alien version of, "You up?"
:lmnuendo:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 07, 2018, 07:54:23 AM
Comedy skit: Parody of James Bond and The Six Million Dollar Man in which they give a guy surgical augmentati9ns to help him be a secret agent, but they're all sex related. Like, they give him penis enlargement surgery and put in an artificial baculum made out of aluminum and this is supposed to help him be a spy
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 09, 2018, 04:01:16 AM
Knight Rider reimagined as modern sci-fi noir. Michael Knight is now a brilliant but habitually drunk P.I., and this very drunkenness is why he synergizes so well with the world's most advanced self driving car. KITT drives itself and thus won;t be crashed by a drunk driver, and since KITT is more heavily armored than most military vehicles he can also hide from his bookie when his gambling debts are in arrears and kneecaps are about to be broken.
Title: Frankenstein's Ship of Theseus
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 10, 2018, 03:23:51 AM
Ten thousand years ago, a alchemist/sorcerer developed a process to extend his lifespan.  As each organ ages past its prime, he replaces it with an organ harvested from a compatible (and unwilling) donor.  However, every 700 years or so, he needs to replace his brain.  Transferring his consciousness into the new brain requires a much higher degree of compatibility, and since the donor must receive extensive training and preparation in advance, their cooperation is needed.  Since the donor's memories and personality will ostensibly be preserved by the process (granting them a kind of shared immortality), volunteers are not difficult to find.

Present day:  A detective tasked with solving cold cases identifies a pattern in a series of grotesque murders and mutilations going back decades.  As his investigation continues further into history, he becomes convinced that there must be a single entity (possibly some sort of shadowy cult), going back centuries, that is responsible for these incidents.

His investigation eventually gets him close to the alchemist himself.  The alchemist, realizing someone is on his trail, studies the detective covertly, and then confronts him; it turns out the detective would make an excellent brain donor.  The same talents and personality characteristics that led the detective to find him are those prized by the alchemist.

The detective has no intention of participating in the process (and doesn't even believe in it), but decides to play along until he can get evidence strong enough to convict the alchemist of one of the more recent murders.  This is difficult; the alchemist has had thousands of years to perfect not getting caught.

P.S.  I got this idea from this post (https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,38403.msg1423775.html#msg1423775).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 13, 2018, 05:24:31 PM
A spoof of Infinity War where Thanos looks like Michael Jackson and the infinity gauntlet looks like Jackson's sequined glove
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 13, 2018, 06:18:48 PM
The first colonists to land on Mars discover that they're living in a simulation and that Mars hasn't been fully rendered. Inspired by Elon Musk.

EDIT:
Another 9dea:

Young Donald Trump chops down a cherry tree and blames it on illegal immigrants and/or "the deep state"

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Another idea:

Skit: French wino criticizes the bargain booze
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 14, 2018, 05:36:26 AM
A christmas special in which the reason why Santa Claus delivers toys on Christmas eve is because long ago he violated elf law and the elves sentenced him to do community service every Christmas forever. And he's depicted as disgruntled and he just tosses packages like a disgruntled UPS driver and so on.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Con-troll on December 14, 2018, 03:58:56 PM
Short film, starts as a regular looking game show, some of the questions are a bit off, weird shit happens, and in the end the whole cast ends up cannibalizing each other.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 14, 2018, 06:38:09 PM
Comedy skits:

*"The Telltale Fart"- A man murders his flatulent roommate, but is driven to confess when he can still smell the roommate's fart days later

*Batman's utility belt baggie of "Batijuana"

*Spoofs of the George Washington cherry tree anecdote with other presidents. Trump blames it on illegal immigrants, Andrew Jackson blames it on the natives, FDR takes says he did chop it down but actually had somebody else chop it down as part of a ruse to keep people from knowing he has polio, Reagan asks Gorbachev to take the tree down, Clinton says "I did not chop down that cherry tree", Nixon denies chopping the cherry tree down but then there's tape of him chopping it down,, etc. EDIT: and some of the republicans admit to it and then express a desire to chop down ALL the trees and bulldoze the nation's forests

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*A man smokes a bag of radioactive weed (preferably a strain with a spider related name) and gains a variety of weed related abilities, such as the ability to shoot hemp ropes out of his hands, to never get nauseous, and to see through walls and do various other vision related things. (edit: and also Matter-Eater Lad type powers)

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*gag: Sign in window of animal rescue place says "Get a cat or the cat gets it"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Con-troll on December 14, 2018, 11:48:33 PM
As Eve, and whatever the guy was called, get thrown out from the Garden of Eden, God gifts them a jar of semen they must pass forward to their children until 9 months B.C.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 19, 2018, 05:43:36 AM
In the future genetic editing of embryos is commonplace. As a result of patents choosing traits for their children that make the children easier to raise and/or that reflect the values of their cultures, every ethnicity has become a monoculture of conventionally good looking, straight, conformist nitwits who are all naturally talented at whatever profession their culture overvalues the most (actors, athletes, musicians, and lawyers in america) but nothing else, and who often look like exaggerated stereotypes of their ethnicity. Society begins to stagnate and collapse. A third World War occurs and is won by some of the poorer African nations, who didn't have the money to use the technology on anything but eliminating disorders. These surviving nations, however, are subsequently wiped out by an outbreak of quinine resistant malaria. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease)

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Another idea:

QWERTY Ouija boards

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Another idea:

Redneck rapper wears deer hunting trophy as giant medallion

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Another idea:

A strange reverse version of AA that teaches people to drink more by giving their lives over to Dionysus
(edit: 1. Girst you must admit that you are powerless over your responsibilities and your life has become unmanageable 2. You must come to believe that Dionysus can restore your free time 3. Make a decision to turn your life and your will over to Dionysus ... 11. Seek through heavy drinking to improve your conscious contact with Dionysus ... etc.)

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Another idea:

Parody of Doctor Who where the protagonist travels through time in a time traveling port-a-potty called the Time Toilet. The running gag is that he always arrives sitting on the toilet readig the newspaper from the day he just traveled to.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 21, 2018, 08:23:34 AM
A mystery solving psychic who can see a murder victim;s's final moments by engaging in acts of necrophilia with their corpse.

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Another idea:

I want a copy of the Book of Ecclesiastes where "hevel"/"vanitas" is translated as "Bullshit"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 28, 2018, 04:51:30 AM
Dreidel Beyblade

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A town of pod people discover that they are gradually being picked off and replaced by The Thing From Another World, which in turn is replaced by realistic looking androids, who then become possessed by Satan
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 29, 2018, 01:31:10 AM
IT is here and for all foreseeable futures, we done something wrong already.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on December 29, 2018, 09:56:19 PM
US border wall funding gives way to emergency "Space Alien Diplomacy Force."

[edit]

Space Force revealed as foil for Time Force: The only game left in town...
When you are The One, even a second of distraction's worth more than ANYTHING!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 30, 2018, 10:55:10 PM
In a world of 12 Monkeys/Terminator 1/Bill & Ted style time travel where the past can't be changed Adolph Hitler's paranoia and madness are driven by time travelers impotently attempting to kill him unaware that the past can't be changed. This causes World War 2.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 01, 2019, 06:46:16 PM
A standard high fantasy hero & villain (from a world that resembles all the worst stereotypes of high fantasy) are transported into our world. The hero must come to terms with the concept of moral ambiguity in order to gain the capacity to move forward, while the villain becomes politically powerful by embracing and endorsing a false moral clarity.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 01, 2019, 07:06:45 PM
*Agent 420: Pot Smoking Superspy

*Angry heavy metal cover of the Spongebob theme

*"The Messianic Obstacle Course"- Four Jesuses run a footrace over a patch of stormy water, treating the small waves as hurdles and the large waves as climbing walls

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Blazing Saddles except with a gay sheriff instead of a black sheriff, and it's titled "Flaming Saddles"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: axod on January 03, 2019, 09:01:28 AM
The Oath, except that everyone has to choose to either be a soldier or a spook.

[edit] Something detective-like about a cult ritually sacrificing people by first branding their symbol on the inside of their eyelids, then, for posterity, cutting them off. Except that everything, from the victim's perspective, does not seem so sinister.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 04, 2019, 09:07:22 PM
A retelling of A Christmas Carol goes off the rails when the narrator confuses Jacob Marley with Bob Marley, Bob marley with BOB Dobbs, and BOB Dobbs with Lou Dobbs (EDIT: and Lou Dobbs with Louis Quatorze the Sun King)

EDIT:
Another idea:

A skit advertises "breath mints for your butthole"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 09, 2019, 04:09:34 AM
A ridiculous homeopathy superhero who was born when somebody got menstural blood on freshly laundered hotel linens and, by the principle of dilution the union of the diluted egg in the menstural blood and the diluted sperm in he hotel sheets created a superhuman creature
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 09, 2019, 03:26:44 PM
Two related ideas that could either be combined or done seperately

*"Dementtio" In the shop of a lonely puppetmaker a puppet shaped like an old man comes to life

*A puppet in the image of a particular old man comes to life and gains the original's memories as the original loses them to senility
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 10, 2019, 05:29:32 PM
Skit spoofing the Left Twix-Right Twix commercials. The skit introduces "Far Left Twix" which is made by political prisoners in a gulag, and "Far Right Twix" which is made by black slaves and/or made out of jews.

EDIT:
Another idea:

"For He's A Jolly Goodfellow" - The tale of Santa Claus' sordid past as a hitman for the mob
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 12, 2019, 04:55:47 AM
Satirical comedy. It starts in a factory in the flyover states, where a redneck woman is talking to a coworker. She launches into an anti-immigration tirade, "they're living off the government, they're bringing drugs, they're taking our jobs". The friend replies that they don't believe that. The redneck woman then launches into a convoluted story about how immigrants pushed her out of her previous career as a drug dealing welfare queen. This flashback forms the bulk of the movie.

(like, I can't be the only person who's noticed that those arguments, taken together, imply that the speaker's ideal preferred job is drug dealer)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 17, 2019, 06:20:22 PM
A TV show that teaches children that they should share even when big business says its not ok. The show's villains are businessmen who try to stop them from doing things like transferring non-transferrable items, sharing their steam and netflix logins, and copying CDs and mp3s. The show will also teach them how to do these things things discretely so that the evil businessmen won't bother them. I legitimately think we need a children;s show like this.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 21, 2019, 10:53:17 PM
A primitive tribe of islanders consisting of the inbred distant descendants of the cast of Gilligan's Island
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 27, 2019, 06:22:38 AM
*A sci-fi story wherein artificial gravity is achieved via the ventilation system; Pressurized air enters rooms from vents in the "ceiling" and blows everything downwards towards grates in the floor

*Best Buds- the story of two anthropomorphic marijuana plants who are friends

*A mockumentary mashing up true crime documentaries, search for bigfoot documentaries, and Star Wars. The plot is that DEA agents are searching for Sasquach, who they suspect has been smuggling drugs into the country

*A man's reflection begins saying threatening things. By the end of the story it turns out he's not insane, there really is something paranormal going on, however it is not malevolent, the reflection is practicing for a part as a villain in a play

*As sort of an expansion of the previous: There's a real world on the other side of the mirror, but the actions and locations of the people on different sides only (and always) coincide when they are in front of mirrors. The story compares the days of several people with the same day as experienced by their counterparts

EDIT:

*On a certain world Azathoth is known as V.A.L.O.R. - Vast Active Living Omnipotent Retard
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on January 28, 2019, 02:58:03 AM
A slasher story where the antagonists are candymakers. I can't be the only one who looks at molten sugar or a candy cane and thinks "well this could be weaponized by some unhinged professional"...right?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 29, 2019, 10:36:53 PM
A convoluted story whose conclusion combines the greatest twist endings of all time into a single super twist ending. All I've got so far though is that his sled was a ghost the whole time.

EDIT:
Other ideas:

*skit: Inspector Midget- a parody of Inspector Gadget

*skit: the gay/fabulous version of voodoo/macumba/santeria
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 03, 2019, 08:54:50 PM
Quote from: Al Qədic on January 28, 2019, 02:58:03 AM
A slasher story where the antagonists are candymakers. I can't be the only one who looks at molten sugar or a candy cane and thinks "well this could be weaponized by some unhinged professional"...right?

I think I recall reading or hearing someone speculate about the deadly potential of molten sugar before but I can;t remember where
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 05, 2019, 05:24:21 AM
*A fable in which lions preying on the slowest and weakest zebras and antelopes is used as an example of how taking shortcuts in he present may harm us in the future, as it harms the lion when it results in a stronger and faster next generation of antelopes. This is contrasted with a forward thinking human herder and his sheep/cattle/chickens/goats/whatever.

*An ad for a burger restaurant in which the burgers are depicted as being made by an anthropomorphic bull mascot named "Jeffrey Dah-moo, the burger making bull"

*A cartoon with an anthropomorphic squirrel banker who hides people's money in a hole

*comedy skit: Fake ad for Subway restaurants which announces the addition of Jello to the menu. In honor of this Jared is joined by Bill Cosby and they jointly pitch the restaurant to the viewer

*Some kind of movie where the twist ending is that the ghost was actually a sled made out of people (edit: or that the sled made out of peoplr was a ghost the whole time) (EDIT: No. The main character is the ghost of a person who was made into a sled)

EDIT:
Another idea:

*Some kind of story where Thanos is conflated with Michael Jackson due to the fact that they both wear a single jeweled glove
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 08, 2019, 05:28:54 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 04, 2019, 09:07:22 PMA skit advertises "breath mints for your butthole"

Damnit. Whose Line Is It Anyway already did it! ("It's a breath mint AND a suppository!")
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 09, 2019, 04:04:54 PM
Skit: A support group for superheros who look like villains (ie. Swamp Thing, the Toxic Avenger, the Thing, etc.)

EDIT:
Another idea:

A movie that basically follows the plot of "Temple of Doom" except it's set in modern times and instead of the Thugee it's Al Qaeda. Or possibly the Church of Scientology.

EDIT:
Another Idea:

Comedy skit: Badly educated redneck insists that the the word "spicy" is derived from the word "spic" and pronounced accordingly. Cites mexican food as his evidence.

EDIT:
Another idea:

The Temple of Doom sacrifice scene, except it's a witch burning:

"It's a Christian ceremony. They're worshipping Jesus". Heart ripped out of victim. Still alive. Victim set alight. Heart bursts into flames in ceremony leader's hand. maniacal laughter.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A cyborg in the semi-near future whose only remaining organic parts are his testicles, as these are the only part whose function strictly requires them to be organic

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit: A woman's wish for a boyfriend who is a good listener backfires when he uses his good listening to deliver targeted ads
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 06, 2019, 05:11:25 AM
Some ideas:

*Tens of thousands of years into the future, the combination of mass extinctions followed by the apocalyptic collapse of civilization has resulted in most ecological niches being filled by evolutionarily specialized mutant humans

*The plot of the song "Ghost Riders In The Sky", except instead of cowboys chasing the devil's herd, they're cats chasing a red dot

*Speaking of which, a dot's apparent motion could exceed the speed of light if it were projected from far enough away (remember, the dot isn't an actual thing but merely the point of impact of the photons from its source; and the photons and source are still moving at luminal and sub-luminal velocities, respectively). This vould badly vex a race of anthropomorphic felines living on a planet in proximity to a pulsar.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 08, 2019, 12:30:23 AM
A zombie movie where the zombie virus is spread through inhalation of aerosolated or atomized blood (and as a result, the zombies are liable to pop like ticks).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 08, 2019, 12:34:55 AM
A buddy cop movie with an odd-couple pair of psychics. One's powers are fueled by extreme emotions, while the other's powers are blocked by them and require calm meditation to produce; as a result, the first one has developed a firey personality and is constantly overreacting, while the other is deadpan. They eventually figure out that they can work as a team only through careful delegation, and if they work too closely together during an operation they just drag each other down; however, working together in non-emergency situations makes sense because it prevents the kinds of accidental use of powers that occasionally occur when one overreacts & because the other is pathologically indecisive & lacks an intuition for when something might be important in hidden ways.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 11, 2019, 04:23:30 PM
Comedy skit: Treebeard from Lord of the Rings is the boss at an office and handles with every crisis, including things like a disgruntled employee shooting up the place, by calling a long-winded meeting
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 15, 2019, 08:46:34 AM
NO SILVER BULLET: In the late 1980s, a skilled bullshitter with no technical background interviews for and unexpectedly gets a programming job. The day before his work starts, panicing, he decides to snort a large quantity of cocaine and memorize some programming textbooks, but ends up passing out in front of the book, during which time he has a vivid dream: Satan has come to him in the form of Lawrence Talbot, the man who transforms into the titular Wolfman in the Universal film franchise of the same name, and gives him a box of 1024 silver bullets, saying "your blood sacrifice allows you to solve any problem, but of these, four are my accursed share". He woke up with his nose bleeding, blood soaked into the pages of the textbook. He goes to work, and finds that every time he bullshits a solution, not only does it work but it's considered brilliantly successful. As a result, he quickly rises up the ranks, making fewer and fewer technical decisions. By the late 1990s, he is a VC, and firmly believes that he has some kind of subconscious genius. In 1999, he invests all his liquid assets into four startups -- the day before the bubble burst. Two days later, his corpse is found in a bathtub, a copy of this story handwritten beside him, a silver bullet in his brain.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 18, 2019, 07:42:11 AM
Dispute over the ethicality of a theoretical new technology of some sort degenerates into rioting and war, plunging large parts of the world into chaos. At the end of the story it turns out that it was all for nothing as new research comes out which proves the proposed technology to be impossible. One of the characters laments that "They asked if they should, but they didn't bother to ask if they could"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 18, 2019, 07:46:59 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 08, 2019, 12:34:55 AM
A buddy cop movie with an odd-couple pair of psychics. One's powers are fueled by extreme emotions, while the other's powers are blocked by them and require calm meditation to produce; as a result, the first one has developed a firey personality and is constantly overreacting, while the other is deadpan. They eventually figure out that they can work as a team only through careful delegation, and if they work too closely together during an operation they just drag each other down; however, working together in non-emergency situations makes sense because it prevents the kinds of accidental use of powers that occasionally occur when one overreacts & because the other is pathologically indecisive & lacks an intuition for when something might be important in hidden ways.

Wasn't there an old episode of Teen Titans vaguely something like the first part of this? Like, Raven's and Starfire's powers got swapped somehow and then it all went to hell because Starfire's powers were powered by emotion while Raven's required tranquil calm, and neither was used to the mental state required to activate the other's powers.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 19, 2019, 01:39:22 PM
Comedy skit: A holy man who can walk on water, but keeps tripping over the ripples and waves

EDIT:
Another idea:

The headless horseman, an excaped lunatic with a hook for a hand, a deranged musician with a deformed face, and a one legged pirate travel to visit a character who is a combination of the Wizard of Oz and Mephistopheles to seek replacements for their missing body parts
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 25, 2019, 05:16:17 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 15, 2019, 08:46:34 AM
NO SILVER BULLET: In the late 1980s, a skilled bullshitter with no technical background interviews for and unexpectedly gets a programming job. The day before his work starts, panicing, he decides to snort a large quantity of cocaine and memorize some programming textbooks, but ends up passing out in front of the book, during which time he has a vivid dream: Satan has come to him in the form of Lawrence Talbot, the man who transforms into the titular Wolfman in the Universal film franchise of the same name, and gives him a box of 1024 silver bullets, saying "your blood sacrifice allows you to solve any problem, but of these, four are my accursed share". He woke up with his nose bleeding, blood soaked into the pages of the textbook. He goes to work, and finds that every time he bullshits a solution, not only does it work but it's considered brilliantly successful. As a result, he quickly rises up the ranks, making fewer and fewer technical decisions. By the late 1990s, he is a VC, and firmly believes that he has some kind of subconscious genius. In 1999, he invests all his liquid assets into four startups -- the day before the bubble burst. Two days later, his corpse is found in a bathtub, a copy of this story handwritten beside him, a silver bullet in his brain.

This is an awesome idea!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: OS Not Found on March 25, 2019, 08:22:57 PM
Idioms and Iterations: A fellow extends idioms to keep the folks on their toes. The folks are talking about a breakup, folk2 gives the obligatory 'plenty of fish,' fellow adds 'though no fish is going to be an oyster.' Other folks are discussing social plans, folk2 gives the forewarning 'don't count your eggs before they hatch,' fellow provides 'and possibly don't even hatch those eggs before you've laid them.'

'x and y' novels usually have some lesson, maybe the difference from pessimism to cautious skepticism
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on March 28, 2019, 05:13:48 PM
A Nixon-like 'law and order candidate introduces an anti-counterfeiting measure: a device that scans cash, which all vendors are legally required to use. Later, it's leaked that it was storing the serial number, date, & location of all cash purchases, sending it to a central database. It'd defended on the grounds that none of the info was identifying. But, it was determined that most people could be deanonymized from this info, & indeed the candidate (now in his 2nd presidential term) bolstered his position with blackmail based on such correlations.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2019, 06:23:30 PM
In a world of giant humanoid sci-fi anime battle mechs, the greatest weapon is a taut piece of wire stretched out at shin height (shin height for a mech that is). The impossibility of passing such tripping hazards has created an uneasy world peace. But now one nation has shattered this peace by creating a weapon that is totally immune to this defense: A primitive WW1-style battle tank.

EDIT:
Another idea:

Fake medieval hagiography detailing the life of a fictitious character who is the patron saint of moneyshots
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 06, 2019, 03:32:42 PM
Macbeth, but with the three witches replaced by diegetic Rod Sterling.  "Tonight we consider the story of Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, soom to be Thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter until the birnam woods march against him.(Macbeth hears up to this part of the narration but misses the next) In his rise to glory he will find that power comes at a price, and the price may be more thsn he bargained for in the Twilight Zone "

EDIT:
On a similar note:

A crossover between The Twilight Zone and Gilligan's Island wherein Gilligan et al. make it back to the mainland only to discover that the world has been devestated by nuclear war and they are the only survivors
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on April 06, 2019, 09:49:40 PM
So in other words: everything is better with Rod Serling.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 07, 2019, 04:25:09 PM
*Reboot of The Brady Bunch where one side of the family is black

*Another crossover of Twilight Zone and Gilligan's Island, this time where it turns out that the reason they can never leave the island is because they actually died in the storm and have been ghosts the whole time
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on April 07, 2019, 05:11:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2019, 06:23:30 PM
In a world of giant humanoid sci-fi anime battle mechs, the greatest weapon is a taut piece of wire stretched out at shin height (shin height for a mech that is). The impossibility of passing such tripping hazards has created an uneasy world peace. But now one nation has shattered this peace by creating a weapon that is totally immune to this defense: A primitive WW1-style battle tank.

Right.  Because, despite the fact that being able to walk is its major feature, a mech can't step over obstacles, jump over obstacles, walk around obstacles, or knock obstacles down.  And even though mecha can carry giant rifles, swords, and even scythes, none of them could ever carry a wire cutting tool.  Or fly.  No mecha in anime have ever been able to fly. :roll:

This is too stupid even to be a parody.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on April 07, 2019, 06:43:04 PM
The continued survival of "the price is right" contestants is tied to flimy revenue gauges.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on April 07, 2019, 06:44:24 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on April 07, 2019, 05:11:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2019, 06:23:30 PM
In a world of giant humanoid sci-fi anime battle mechs, the greatest weapon is a taut piece of wire stretched out at shin height (shin height for a mech that is). The impossibility of passing such tripping hazards has created an uneasy world peace. But now one nation has shattered this peace by creating a weapon that is totally immune to this defense: A primitive WW1-style battle tank.

Right.  Because, despite the fact that being able to walk is its major feature, a mech can't step over obstacles, jump over obstacles, walk around obstacles, or knock obstacles down.  And even though mecha can carry giant rifles, swords, and even scythes, none of them could ever carry a wire cutting tool.  Or fly.  No mecha in anime have ever been able to fly. :roll:

This is too stupid even to be a parody.
Wait, wasn't that how the stupid anime with the stupid giants precisely went down?

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD20XEAP4jc
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 07, 2019, 07:01:01 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on April 07, 2019, 05:11:09 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 01, 2019, 06:23:30 PM
In a world of giant humanoid sci-fi anime battle mechs, the greatest weapon is a taut piece of wire stretched out at shin height (shin height for a mech that is). The impossibility of passing such tripping hazards has created an uneasy world peace. But now one nation has shattered this peace by creating a weapon that is totally immune to this defense: A primitive WW1-style battle tank.

Right.  Because, despite the fact that being able to walk is its major feature, a mech can't step over obstacles, jump over obstacles, walk around obstacles, or knock obstacles down.  And even though mecha can carry giant rifles, swords, and even scythes, none of them could ever carry a wire cutting tool.  Or fly.  No mecha in anime have ever been able to fly. :roll:

This is too stupid even to be a parody.

Maybe it wouldn't work as a series but it world definitely work as a skit. And yeah, being able to walk is it's major feature, that's the point, it's the same thing as a tank except its able to trip

ALSO, nobody questioned it in The Empire Strikes Back, and those mechs actually had a relatively stable design, unlike anime mechs.

EDIT:
As a side note, that's one of the things I love about George Lucas' movies; even though they use a lot of cliches occasionally they'll stop to deconstruct one, like the AT-ATs getting tripped in Empire Strikes Back or the swordsman getting shot in Raiders of The Lost Ark.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on April 07, 2019, 07:03:46 PM
STOP IGNORING ME wasn't that a big-ass thing in Attack on Titan? AGH! HUMANS! MUST MUNCH!
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 07, 2019, 07:08:43 PM
I actually don;t know, I never really followed that show.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 13, 2019, 08:30:01 AM
Superhero duo: One hero has super strength, super speed, flying, etc. but is mortal. The other superhero is completely invulnerable but has no other superpowers, and is used as a shield by he first superhero (literally as a shield; the back of his costume has a grip and arm straps)

EDIT:
Another idea:

I had this idea for a fast food commercial that parodies the passion of Jesus. Like, the Burger King is brought before Colonel Sanders to be judged, and Sanders asks him "Are you the Burger King?" and the Burger King replies "You say that I am", and then Sanders has him flogged and sends him to be crucified

EDIT:
Another idea:

An inbred family of hillbillies feuds with an inbred family of noblemen
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 16, 2019, 10:53:31 PM
Horror film where a stereotypical concerned-about-sex-and-violence-etc-in-the-media parent snaps and tries to kill everyone at his daughter's elementary school to "preserve their innocence forever". After 20 or 30 onscreen deaths one of the bad kids manages to stop him in a way that somehow utilizes contraband that they're not supposed to have (maybe they set him on fire with the lighter for their cigarettes)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on April 18, 2019, 04:00:57 PM
A show from the perspective of a dog, five minute in, it has eaten all the shoes, toilet paper, and bread. Now it is the protector of the universe, at least until a human looks at it. It knows what it did.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on April 21, 2019, 03:10:07 AM
A combination "Invasion of the Body-Snatchers" and "The Last of Us"-esque horror sci fi movie where mushroom men invade suburbia, and man must come to terms with knowing just how similar to humans its new herborial adversaries are. Its title--"Fungus Among Us"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 21, 2019, 03:45:06 AM
Criminals armed with shoes and water bottles hold travelers at an airport hostage. I'm not sure whether it would be funnier for them to hold the shoe upside-down and point it like a gun, or to have a trashbag full of shoes that they throw at people.

EDIT:
Another idea:

Sci-fi horror movie based on the game of musical chairs wherein people fleeing from some kind of space monster that has boarded their ship have one too many people to fit in the escape pods. The monster follows them to the derelict new ship they land on, and this ship has one less escape pod. And so on and so on until there is only 0ne survivor left

EDIT
Another Idea:

Night of the Risen Lord- In dying on the cross Jesus destroys death, causing those who were once dead to rise from their fraves to attack those that still live

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy Skit: A parody of Charlotte's Web in which the spider is an anarchist who rats out undercover cops by writing "some pig"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 07, 2019, 02:15:35 AM
*Movie where aliens invade to steal Earth's supply of plastics/petrochemicals, as that's the only thing they wouldn't be able to get more easily on a lifeless world

*Mockumentary about a sect of Christianity that explains their belief that the eucharist is the literal blood of christ despite apprearing to still be wine by positing that Jesus is an alcoholic who drinks so much that his blood is already basically wine anyway and his blood alcohol level is generally around 20-30 proof

*Similar mockumentary or a continuation of the previous. Jesus was made of bread and his meat body was an illusion and that's why everything looks the same after the eucharist is transsubstantiated and also why the apostles didn't recognize him after he came back because he actually looks like the Pilsbury Doughboy. And there's a Pilsbury Doughboy crucifix and everything
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on May 11, 2019, 03:31:35 AM
So, do you know WHY it's crucial to use up to date stamps? As an ex-employee of the postal service, I'll tell you why...

There is a mysterious power imbued upon the stamps, otherwise, the system doesn't work. This sounds great and all, until you use the incorrect postage. In the event of incorrect postage, the package is sorted into the place and time where it WOULD be correct. Occassionally we had employees go "postal", not in the conventional sense, but in that, knowing this, they cheated time and space, like the guy who mailed Anthrax to Hitler, and we've been paying for it ever since.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 18, 2019, 08:54:45 AM
A Last Supper themed commercial for menstural cups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_cup) (ie. "This is the cup of my blood" etc.)

EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit: In a sci-fi setting, a military engineer attempts to explain that mechs having a very high center of mass and weapons that aren't actually attached are both advantages over a tank
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Faust on May 28, 2019, 09:38:48 AM
A pair of supernatural detectives on the hunt for a mummy track the wrong ship, overhear talk of how dangerous the sarcophagus is and how it killed 20 men while being transported accidentally got their ships crossed and are tracking the concrete steel structure from the Chernobyl power plant that is being smuggled for a private collector
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on May 30, 2019, 01:14:16 AM
A murder-mystery/thriller where it turns out the guy with intense bondage polaroids stuffed into the shoebox in his toolshed is totally innocent, and actually develops a vendetta against the serial killing fuck that ruined his neighborhood in the first place.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 31, 2019, 08:02:39 AM
A mockumemtary about business attire which claims, among other things, that the purpose of the necktie is to facilitate autoerotic asphyxiation in the workplace, and that the business suit is a funerary garment symbolizing the worker's separation from the land of the living

*Tweaked version of the "Society for Putting Things On Top Of Other Things sketch from Monty Python where instead of a British social club, the society is composed of ancient aliens building pyramids and stonehenge and is specifically the "Society for Putting Rocks on Top of Other Rocks"

*Comedy of errors where improper translation between french and english results in an unintentional marijuana sale (since the french word for 80, quatre-vingt, literally means "four-twenty"

*Sharting themed parody of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" entitled "Totally Shit When I Fart"

*In a world of anthropomorphic frogs there's a race of sewer-dwelling troglodite frogs/ living under the city as a result of both sex3s jacking it in the shower and they're external fertilizers

*Footage of D-Day set to the Benny Hill theme/Yakety Sax
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 31, 2019, 11:46:34 AM
A horror story where nothing truly unusual happens: it just documents a series of coincidences that get more eerie the more attention the protagonist (and thus the reader) pays to them. By the end, the protagonist is a gibbering mess with little connection to reality because he is unable to separate the feeling of meaningfulness from the idea that something actually has meaning, and thus is unwilling to stop trying to assign meaning to this series of events, as it grows and fewer and fewer meanings can even be projected.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 02, 2019, 07:03:18 AM
lately I've been trying to write a short SF story about an effort to ease climate change by colonizing Earth like planets in order to ease the environmental strain on the earth, as well as preserve the species on planets that aren't on fire. The story follows the expedition of a ship of white supremacists, who were given a ship partly to get them to stop opposing the colonization effort in exchange for an all-white planet, and partly on the assumption that they'd fail and everyone else would be rid of them. They do, and we are.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 05, 2019, 08:36:00 AM
*A documentary about the history of drive-by shootings going all the way back to ancient chariot archery

*Demom [sic]- A comedy about a typical suburban family wherein the mother is secretly a demoness from hell

*A dirty version of the legends of Paul Bunyan, talking about stuff like "he had to use tall kitchen bags instead of condoms" and stuff like that

*gag in a comedy: a gun store called "Chrome Depot"

*Mockumentary set in the distant future in which a crackpot claims that Mt.Rushmore must have been built by space aliens and not by the USA

*A superhero named Unreliable Man, whose power is to never be there when actually needed

*An office printer is posessed by the devil

*Arthurian comedy in which Sir Kay is replaced by a stoner with attention problems named "Sir Que"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on June 06, 2019, 12:27:16 PM
20 years after 80% of the human population spontaneously petrified, the survivors who rebuilt civilization within the statue-filled cities discover that the statues are, one by one and at a very slow rate, reviving.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 06, 2019, 04:39:06 PM
A story wherein it is general knowledge that the earth has been under siege by space aliens for years. However, nobody has actually seen any aliens. This is because there actually are no aliens. What actually happened was that at some point the populace en masse just started attributing natural and manmade disasters like hurricanes and sea-level rise to alien death beams
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 08, 2019, 04:40:07 AM
less of a story and more a character concept or a scene.

A highly spiritual Shiaolin monk is attacked by a vampire, and after ingesting a large amount of his blood, the vampire unpleasantly discovers that since chi lives in the blood, and said monk has spent a lifetime mastering the manipulation of his own chi, that he has left himself highly vulnerable to the monk, via the Law of Sympathy. Hilarity ensues.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 10, 2019, 10:46:06 PM
*A sitcom about a workplace where the early morning shift are all space aliens and the late night shift are all vampires

*A combination of a televangelist faith healing program, and an ad for a dubious penis enlargement drug. (Something like RL televangelist Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water" bit, except instead of the people on the program claiming that the water healed them, they're claiming that it made their penis grow)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 15, 2019, 03:52:42 PM
*Horror film concept: An insane neat freak gradually starts murdering all the people in their life who do not spark joy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo) in them

*Superhero film about a character who is the logical extension of the Incredible Hulk from Marvel Comics and the Beast from the Unbreakable trilogy. The character has many different personalities and every one of them has a different superpower. The character would be stupidly overpowered if they were sane and able to use any of their powers at will, but as is each is tied to a different personality.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 15, 2019, 05:01:02 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 15, 2019, 03:52:42 PM
*Horror film concept: An insane neat freak gradually starts murdering all the people in their life who do not spark joy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo) in them

*Superhero film about a character who is the logical extension of the Incredible Hulk from Marvel Comics and the Beast from the Unbreakable trilogy. The character has many different personalities and every one of them has a different superpower. The character would be stupidly overpowered if they were sane and able to use any of their powers at will, but as is each is tied to a different personality.

So the lady from Doom Patrol.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 22, 2019, 06:26:43 PM
OK, I just had a hilarious idea

A fake trailer making it look like disney was doing a 3d cgi remake of Song of the South
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 22, 2019, 06:28:49 PM
How about an X-Men type superhero film where the superhero gene only gives you powers if you have only one copy of it. If you have two copies of the gene it just makes you super crippled.

(Sort of akin to the malaria-immunity-and-sickle-cell-anemia gene, or the cholera-resistence-and-cystic-fibrosis gene in real life)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on June 23, 2019, 10:11:30 PM
A creepypasta where the monster under your bed is still a terrifying eldritch horror, but also just wants to be helpful; tossing long-lost pens out from under the bed when you need them, and helping you plug in your phone charger when you inevitably fumble with it in the middle of the night.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 25, 2019, 12:24:44 AM
Quote from: Al Qədic on June 23, 2019, 10:11:30 PM
A creepypasta where the monster under your bed is still a terrifying eldritch horror, but also just wants to be helpful; tossing long-lost pens out from under the bed when you need them, and helping you plug in your phone charger when you inevitably fumble with it in the middle of the night.

There was a great Goosebumps episode I watched with my great-niece not too long ago.  Ventriloquists dummy that wants to help the kids out, but he's evil so all of his solutions are worse than the problems they face.  Not because he's trying to hurt them, but because it's his nature.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 25, 2019, 02:05:39 AM
A superhero whose "powers" come from being the only guy in town who doesn't smoke, so compared to everyone else he has fantastic endurance
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 26, 2019, 06:01:17 PM
A man goes missing and a detective is brought in to find him. It turns out that the detective actually is the missing man, whi has fallen into a dissociative fugue state
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: LMNO on June 26, 2019, 06:03:15 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 26, 2019, 06:01:17 PM
A man goes missing and a detective is brought in to find him. It turns out that the detective actually is the missing man, whi has fallen into a dissociative fugue state

"Angel Heart"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 27, 2019, 02:19:36 AM
Quote from: LMNO on June 26, 2019, 06:03:15 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 26, 2019, 06:01:17 PM
A man goes missing and a detective is brought in to find him. It turns out that the detective actually is the missing man, whi has fallen into a dissociative fugue state

"Angel Heart"

That was, IMO, the best movie of the 1980s.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 27, 2019, 08:47:39 AM
The world's businessmen and political leaders are all secretly undead, that's why they dress like someone who's about to be buried
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: TastyCle on June 28, 2019, 05:36:40 AM
A netflix orginal where the president of us has dragons in the shite house. Let's call it the Game of Cards.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 28, 2019, 04:10:52 PM
Quote from: TastyCle on June 28, 2019, 05:36:40 AM
A netflix orginal where the president of us has dragons in the shite house. Let's call it the Game of Cards.
Interesting.   Why did you decide to make it a netflix orginal instead of an HBO miniseres?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: TastyCle on June 28, 2019, 08:11:38 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 28, 2019, 04:10:52 PM
Quote from: TastyCle on June 28, 2019, 05:36:40 AM
A netflix orginal where the president of us has dragons in the shite house. Let's call it the Game of Cards.
Interesting.   Why did you decide to make it a netflix orginal instead of an HBO miniseres?
They said it was an awful idea and threw me out.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: TastyCle on June 30, 2019, 04:10:15 AM
Okok I got another one. From this crazy idea fairy that follows me around. (She's great!)

Exactly like  F©R©I©E©N©D©S but every episode one of them is replaced with a lookalike.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 02, 2019, 01:49:56 AM
The alien invasion was for political reasons: in order to bolster their own claim to power, the leaders of Planet X have claimed a similarity between "human politics" and the ideology of some past foe, & attack earth in order to stop it from spreading. The war, woefully underfunded and managed from light-years away with subliminal ships h liminal comms, becomes a seige as the aliens lack the manpower to raid bunkers, the spare munitions to bust them. Eventually they leave: we have won. Earth unifies under a world government promising efficient defense against (and maybe revenge against) the invaders, who have already forgotten us. We become a spacefarinh race.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 02, 2019, 02:05:11 AM
An instructional video on choosing the right tornado for your home
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 02, 2019, 02:07:28 AM
Man-man: the only superhero whose only power is a pathological inability to acknowledge weakness or defeat. The mask of Man-man is passed from father to son, but since he usually does not survive his first outing, it often passes among men of the same generation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2019, 08:37:37 AM
A remake of "Pineapple Express" where all the characters are anthropomorphic dinosaurs entitled "Cretaceous Superchron"

EDIT:
another idea:

A bathroom themed faux exercise-video parodying P90X entitled "Pee Ninety Times"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2019, 08:42:49 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 02, 2019, 02:05:11 AM
An instructional video on choosing the right tornado for your home

That sounds like a great bit, I'd totally watch that
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 03, 2019, 12:43:39 AM
Freddy Kreuger isn't the only one -- it turns out that any lucid dreamer responsible for the death of a child gains the power to visit and manipulate other people's dreams, and this power extends after death. A former pediatric oncologist, desperate to use this new power for good, embarks upon getting a second doctorate in psychology, while training his skills on whoever seems like they need his help. However, he must deal with unexpected problems from three directions: his overly honest nature makes it uncomfortable for him to lie about his intentions, there's a tendency for his own neuroses and traumas to slip into his patients' dreams, and his cures sometimes backfire as banishing his patients' demons have left them unable to properly identify and calculate risk in their waking lives.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 03, 2019, 12:45:24 AM
Following a brain injury, a man's autobiographical memory becomes highly context-dependent: he is unable to recall past events that do not smell the same as his current location, and instead confabulates elaborate false memories, which become consolidated. His personality and history begins to change drastically based on scent.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 04, 2019, 02:02:57 AM
A combination of The Fast and the Furious and Wacky Races[/i[
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 05, 2019, 11:35:12 AM
Because psilocybin increases sensitivity to scent in mammals, it begins to be used on both truffle pigs and drug-sniffing dogs. This periodic tripping in social situations with clearly-defined expectations causes both these sets of animals to quickly develop the complexity of their language & their ability to conceptualize & express abstract ideas. Truffle pigs and drug-sniffing dogs develop cultures and philosophies. A scientist discovers this new complexity in vocalizations and decodes it -- figures out how to 'speak' trufflepig and how to 'speak' drugdog -- and although these groups are not granted citizenship, they are given a special status as conscious non-human animals. This requires them to be represented in certain matters of international governance. It is during such meetings that the truffle pigs and drug dogs first meet, and their cultures first clash...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 05, 2019, 06:19:12 PM
An updated version of The Inferno. Notable additions and changes include that Hitler is made to suffer all the punishments of the seventh circle at once, having commited violence against others, against himself, against art, and against nature. Jack Valenti and William Hays are in the circle of violence against art. Proponents of conversion therapy replace the sodomites in the circle of violence against nature, but this area is now primarily inhabited by land developers and oil barons and the flaming rain is specifically a rain of burning crude oil. Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao, for instituting totalitarianism and slavery under the false pretense of working towards the exact opposite of these things, are pinned to the ground of the sixth bolgia (hypocricy) by a sickle through their hearts and trod upon by all lesser hypocrites, effectively replacing Caiaphas. Supporters of the confederacy are hacked apart as schismatics, excwpt for the confederate leaders, who are condemned to the ninth circle as traitors against nation.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 13, 2019, 02:23:09 AM
A mockumemtary about a religious order who take a vow to live on alms, drink heavily, and wear hats made out of foil (satirizing the fact that many christian and buddhist orders have vows to actually panhandle in the street like a bum; it's one thing to say to quit the rat race but to me it seems like quite another to tell people to go out and be actual beggars. Ideally the mockumentary should subtly mock the irony of the fact that the right wing has a tendency to be really religious and to criticize beggars as lazy)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on July 26, 2019, 12:13:02 PM
A story about those times you sleep so long you dream about dreaming, sounds like a story eh? Get off mah lawn motherfucker. An elderly man goes on a rampage with a cane, they call in the national guard, a young colonel insists they trained him but refuses any specifics but smug observations. While all this is going on, nobody notices that Gojira has secured the nuclear waste supplies of the USA, and proceeds to, euuuugh, eat them. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, chinese supermen are hired to recreate a certain incident that won't be mentioned if needed, but the truth is found with a small, hungry tribe of ice-dwellers who managed to bond with frankenstein's monster, which means they aren't friendly to intruders. It ends like a Korean revenge flick. God poops and everyone dies.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 30, 2019, 04:17:17 PM
An animated sitcom about day to day life in a post-apocalyptic environment. It should be a mix of apocalypses (ie. they dropped the bomb in a war over the little remaining oil and then the fallout from the bomb created all the zombies....)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on July 31, 2019, 12:33:20 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 30, 2019, 04:17:17 PM
An animated sitcom about day to day life in a post-apocalyptic environment. It should be a mix of apocalypses (ie. they dropped the bomb in a war over the little remaining oil and then the fallout from the bomb created all the zombies....)

That exists, it's called Apocalypse Lane.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on July 31, 2019, 04:56:55 AM
I keep having these weird dreams, partially because I sleep way too much.

A recent one goes like this...

I'm just, actually up and doing things, which is a big improvement over dreaming inside dreams, sleeping on top of sleeping, when I hear some news headlines over the radio I'm not really paying attention to, yadda yadda rabid extremist terrorist blah blah. It doesn't concern me, so I go about my business. I file it away for future reference but it does not concern me, something about nazis and proud boys, etcetera. This, was a mistake.

So, I finish buttering my toast and I'm feeling as chipper as I can, which is a lot more than I usually do. I proceed to ignore the toast (another fatal mistake) and go about my business, I take a walk. I meet a young woman, she looks me in the eye and says, "You're Bryce, aren't you?" and I'm, confused for a moment, then I say "Yes, I am. My memory is terrible. Do I know you? What's your name?" and she says, scowling, "I don't tell anyone my name." and tromps off...

Tromps into an alleyway and gunfire goes off, she comes running out along with some hobos and the sound is, not alarming to me, it just strikes me as, yeah, that's a place to not go. I duck into a nearby business, happens to be a hotel, just to get away from this ruckus, after all, if it's just one guy, then it's not something to become overly concerned about anyway, except... I rent a room, and the hotel is a maze, parts of it aren't even, put together, and I keep hearing reports about this terrorist.

Finally, I see him, he tries to point a gun at me but, eh, newb, I just, duck into a hallway and casually walk away. The rest of the time it's like I'm always being stalked by someone trying to kill me, they're shooting, but I'm unconcerned, until...

I'm cornered, by a whole team of them, all armed with assault rifles, and I'm thinking to myself, fuck, this was a lot bigger than I thought it was at first, then one grins, raises their rifle, and...
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 06, 2019, 09:21:29 PM
A sort of combinationmof Final Destination and terrible books from literature class, maybe with a bit of Scream thrown in. It follows a group of middleschool children.  One of the characters has a prophetic dream that allows them to avoid their poignant untimely death which would have taught their friends about loss. However, Death comes for them again and starys coming for each of their friends in turn. One of them realizes that their deaths would set into motion events similar to ones in books that they've read in english class, and using this informatiom they ultimately manage to beat Death by deliberately becoming less lovable and thus breaking out of the trope.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Frontside Back on August 08, 2019, 01:46:49 PM
Group of scientists find a reliable, cheap, D.I.Y. way to destroy the planet while working on a new theory. Now they need to come up with tons of legit sounding fake science to hide this from public.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 08, 2019, 02:02:34 PM
*A parody of childrens' books with talking animals. On a farm two friends, Cock and Pussy, get into a lot of doubke-entendre filled hijinks and learn about friendship

*A documentary on the coathanger and how it's shady as fuck (it's used for breaking into cars, back alley abortions, beating whores, etc.)

*A parody of animes like "Pokemon", "Beyblade", and "Yu-Gi-Oh" in which a competition of some sort defines all of society. In this parody the competition is a literal dick measuring contest. The protagonist travels the world seeking pumps and pills and supplements so that he can be the best.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 16, 2019, 12:55:11 AM
A woman believes that if she doesn't leave flowers at her late husband's grave daily, he will rise, an angry revenant. This gets in the way of her work, social life, & romantic prospects.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 17, 2019, 02:17:46 AM
 A modern retelling of Frankenstein emphasizing period details lost in most adaptations by use of modern equivalents -- specifically, the fact that Doctor Frankenstein is not actually a medical doctor but somewhere between a med student and a talented amateur, and the role of ressurectionists in medical research. In this version, a bitcoin-rich biohacker with a transhumanist philosophy makes a new & improved human out of black market organs, using home-synthesized anti-rejection drugs, experimental nootropics, stuff for building muscle from the transhumanist side of the bodybuilding community, and sense extension drugs from grinder circles. The brain ends up being from a Chinese doctor who was killed after failing to complete a similar project. After escaping, he uses his familiarity with physical therapy to rebuild his coordination, learns English (difficult because of aphasia caused by mistakes in brain handling and transplant -- he has to sing everything but curse words), and comes back to take revenge on our protagonist not for resurrecting him but for his incompetence -- the 'monster' was awakened in a state where every bone and muscle was broken & needed months to heal, but without anesthesia, & there were no physical therapy plans, rudimentary anatomical mistakes led to tendons being connected up wrong in ways that caused mobility issues, some tissue had improper circulation and necrotized, etc. The 'monster's kills this guy, assumes his identity, recreates his work properly, & takes credit.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on August 17, 2019, 02:20:57 AM
When a vampire bites a person, a portion of their personality enters the vampire proprtional to the amount of blood. Each personality has equal control over the vampire's body, and they all feel the cravings for blood equally. Vampires are tortured by the increasing company in their heads.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 17, 2019, 07:37:04 AM
*A cyberpunk political drama set in a world where consciousness uploading is common and uploaded consciousnesses are permitted to vote. In this world political power is directly proportional to processing power. Parties gain additional votes for themselves by running many concurrent copies of uploaded supporters. Whichever party has the resources to copy its supporters the most times wins the election

*A skit examining the Trolley Problem, except it's set in Mr.Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and instead of examining whether it's ok to kill one person to save several people, it examines whether it's ok to mildly bruise a real person to save the life of a make believe person.

*A person deals with the guilt of a hit-and-run accident in a world in which staying with the body of an accident victim causes them to magically come back to life. "magically come back to life" is the actual termonology used in the story. "If only I hadn't driven away," they lament, "than those people would have magically come back to life"

*Skit: fake commercial advertising a satanic version of Lucky Charms cereal with marshmallow goat heads, sacrificial daggers, voodoo dolls, and necronomicons

*Steampunk story where the twist is that instead of being set in the past it's set in the Amish areas of modern Penmsylvania

EDIT:
another idea:

*Sesame Street episode where the count goes full-on vampire and has to be subdued with the lowercase letter "t"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Al Qədic on August 20, 2019, 03:49:03 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 17, 2019, 07:37:04 AM

*Skit: fake commercial advertising a satanic version of Lucky Charms cereal with marshmallow goat heads, sacrificial daggers, voodoo dolls, and necronomicons
Look up the Cereal Killers trading cards by Wax Eye; I think either their Lucky Charms or Trix parody does something like that  :lulz:
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 23, 2019, 09:14:12 AM
A parody of A Clockwork Orange in which Alex is replaced with Schroeder from the comic strip Peanuts, his droogs are replaced with other Peanuts characters, and P.R.Deltoid's voice sounds like a trombone

EDIT:

"*Wah wah wah*"

"Not true, sir. It was only a slight tolchock. She was breathing, I swear it."

"*Wah wah*"

"You try to frighten me, sir, admit so, sir. This is some new form of torture."



EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy sketch in which Charles Manson is a high school English teacher who assigns his students to analyze the symbolism in a "poem" which is actually the song "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 26, 2019, 03:48:56 AM
A Sesame Street episode dealing with religious diversity with a side focus on teaching alphabet letters, including muppet versions of various religious fingues including Jesus of Nazareth - who has an aside about the lowercase letter "t" - and Charles Manson - who teaches the kids about the letter "X"
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Pergamos on September 06, 2019, 08:57:52 PM
A podcast which consists of voicemail, one person's and then another and another, so the conversation is chronologically disoriented.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on September 13, 2019, 09:26:40 AM
A shaggy-dog-story/horror/suspense/comedy/drama about a Las Vegas magician who has committed a series of murders and been sentenced to death. The film follows the final hours prior to the execution, leading up to the execution itself. In the twist ending, the lights flicker during the execution, and when they come back on we see that the condemned man and the executioner have suddenly and inexplicably swapped places. The magician, now dressed in his full stage get-up, flicks the switch that sets the execution device going, and shouts "Ta-da". Then the credits roll.


EDIT:
Another idea:

Comedy skit: A spoof of The Big Bang Theory and Breaking Bad in which a drug dealing Walter White/Sheldon Cooper hybrid character pedantically berates his customers for not knowing the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine

EDIT:
Another idea:

Horror-comedy. A group rents a cabin for a vacation. One bedroom of the cabin is haunted, the rest of the cabin is completely normal. The occupant of the haunted bedroom appears more and more insane to the others as the nature of the hauntings becomes more and more severe throughout the week and allows him diminishing amounts of sleep.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 20, 2019, 08:37:17 PM
*A victorian sci-fi horror anthology program

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the season of shadows, it was the season of substance. It was an epoch of things, it was an epoch of ideas, and it lay between the pit of man's fears and the summit of man's knowledge..."

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*A combination mummy-film/vampire-film set in the USA. The sun is ineffective against vampires in the parts of the world between the USA and Japan because these regions fall within the "12 Hours of Night" wherein the sun-god Ra is "dead". Therefore to stop the vampire the protagonists must reanimate a mummy to fight it
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 11:08:38 PM
Vampires are so old hat, just conjure up a revanent.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: on October 27, 2019, 10:51:06 PM
A pornographic novel for premature ejaculaters, in its entirety:

She
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: OS Not Found on October 28, 2019, 02:32:04 AM
Two guys decide to meet for the first time after texting for the seventh time, the second guy has a hard time finding parking in DC and it takes him forty minutes to find a tight spot after a fifty minute drive. Then a third guy circles the car for fifteem before telling him that if he ever gets a scratch on it he'll be the one to kill him. He waits till he leaves, rings the wrong doorbell at 6am, then gets to the right house, within watches a show, talks, snuggles up, smokes and the sex, during the first guy asks they second guy to marry him. They get bagels and coffee when they wake up after the guy to repair the AC walks in on them in the morning.

During the credits the fiance montage focuses on the second guy as he liquidated his past, apologizes to his fwbs, and cleans out his car while waiting for the first guy's fourth and final day on vaca in the CA
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: on October 29, 2019, 04:42:09 AM
A female impersonator meets and falls in love with a male impersonator.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on November 03, 2019, 02:56:45 PM
A satirical combination of Heaven is for Real and Michelle Remembers in which a sick child travels to heaven and is molested by God before returning to earth when the hospital revives them.

EDIT:

more ideas: I keep coming up with ideas for SyFy b-movie style horror flicks

*"Deathboat" - Victorian England's largest oceanliner strikes a zombie-infested iceberg. The zombies swarm in through the hole in the ship and wreck havoc as the ship slowly sinks

*"Loan Wolf" - The story of a werewolf banker

Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 31, 2020, 09:14:11 PM
*The Picture of Dorian Gray retooled to be about televangelist Jim Bakker and how his inner nature as a clown-prostitute somehow manifested itself on the face of his wife Tammy Faye

*120 Days of Fairyland- A fantasy version of the Marquis de Sade's Les Cent Vingt Journees du Sodome. In this reimagining the rich libertines are replaced with unseelie elves, and the abuses that they inflict on their captibes and that their storytellers recount lean decidedly towards the magical, stuff like turning someone into a sow and putting them into a pen of horny boars

*A man becomes obsessed with the idea that different parts of his body might become cancerous and starts lopping them off. By the end of the story he's just a torso

*A parody of animes like Pokemon, Beyblade, and Yu-Gi-Oh in which a competition of some sort defines all of society. In this parody the competition is a literal dick measuring contest. The protagonist travels the world seeking pumps and pills and supplements so that he can be the best..

*A health class educational film for bugs (or possibly frogs), warning them about what to expect during metamorphosis

*A Terminator Christmas- An evil Christmas-hating AI from the future sends an android back in time to kill the Virgin Mary before she can give birth to the son of God

*A documentary about quantum physics which keeps people's attention by being hosted by a pair of hot twins who keep making crude double-entendres about the double slit experiment

*A fairytale/nursery rhyme themed film noir wherein Humpty Dumpty is a hardboiled detective

*A satirical combination of Heaven is for Real and Michelle Remembers in which a sick child travels to heaven and is molested by God before returning to earth when the hospital revives them.

*Blue Meth and Ham, a combination of Green Eggs and Ham and Breaking Bad
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on February 09, 2020, 08:44:31 AM
A fake documentary following the wildlife of a fictitious alien planet. No mention is made of humans or of sapient aliens or how this came to be filmed in-world. The focus is not space travel nor is it conservation, it is a straight wildlife documentary about fictitious animals

EDIT:
other ideas:

*A combination of Willard and the Disney version of Cinderella, in which the mice eat the abusive stepsisters and stepmother

*A christmas movie focused on what Santa does the rest of the year to fund his gift-giving operation. And its something unsavory like robbing banks or professional gambling or something. Or maybe pimping; Ho ho ho. Possibly the fact that he's santa claus is the twist ending. Like he's not in the red suit until the end, and while we see asome elves they're all wearing caps that conspicuously cover their ears until the very end.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 18, 2020, 04:07:02 PM
THE KEENING:
The patriarch of an old irish family is dying -- or so it seems, from the family banshee's wails. He himself seems healthy, & does not believe that the rest of the family hears the wails -- which the family takes as evidence that he is the one who will die, since a family banshee can only be heard by members of the family whose death is not imminent. So, his two estranged sons are brought home, in preparation for one of them to take the inheritance. It is then discovered that the banshee is, in fact, a local keener -- a human professional mourner who has been paid by the patriarch to impersonate a banshee so that his sons would be brought home, as part of a test to determine if one of them is (as he suspects) illegitimate, the product of his late wife's affair (which she confessed to him on her death bed). The keener, apprehended, stays with the family during the storm that has just begun -- so they can keep an eye on her -- but the banshee wails continue that night, and the patriarch is found murdered in his bed the next morning. Our protagonist, the younger brother and second to arrive, suspects his elder brother -- a suspicion shared by the keener, with whom he has become romantically entangled after a series of encounters. The wailing is reported by the rest of the family the next night too, except the two brothers, neither of whom hear anything. In the dead of night, the keener kills the elder brother & her paramour finds her washing her bloody clothes by the river in the rain: she expected the two of them to get married, and was trying to protect the inheritance from a usurper from outside the bloodline proper. That night, for the first time, he hears the banshee wail -- and nobody else does, save the keener.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on April 19, 2020, 01:23:53 AM
A Latent Haunting of the West Wing:


A "Blair Witch" style ad campaign precedes the premiere of a documentary-drama purporting to investigate and reveal ghosts currently occupying empty office space in the Whitehouse. Plot turns on itself to reveal that the specters are actually of the film crew, haunting itself from different points in time.


The film is screened as a "3D viewing experience" with the captured ghosts floating about as they would. Except, in this case, the horizontal parallax of the apparitions is occasionally shifted a few degrees off axis, on purpose. This liminal shift causes the nervous system to compensate for the aberration, which becomes normalized during the viewing. As people exit the theatre, the brain continues to compensate for what it expects in phase-shift, creating residual spectral doubles of the audience as it runs amok in horror and confusion.
[like the haunted house at Disney land, only backwards and deeper]
 
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on April 24, 2020, 06:24:53 PM
A couple of ideas:

*Dark dystopian comedy. At an indeterminate time in the future, the major religious groups in America now are bowdlerized and homogenized versions of the People's Temple and of the Manson Family. The story deals with radicalized groups within these faiths and how the everyday members of the faiths respond to them. Which normally involves the one accusing the other of being "a religion of hate" while the one whose members are acting up claims that the radicals are "misinterpreting Charles Manson's/Jim Jones' original peaceful message". The comedy of course comes from the fact that it is actually the ordinary faithful that are misinterpreting the message. And of course the whole thing is a satire of religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and how they snipe at each other (sometimes literally).

*A kaiju movie where the beast's rampage provoked by scientists trying to harvest it's body parts for superstrong materials to build a space elevator

*"chinese firedrill ecology" A comedy about a plan to revitalize the envronment by taking advantage of the fact that introduced species often displace native species. So they take all the endangered species from each continent and introduce them one continent over.

*There's a bunch of people with superpowers, but instead of becoming heroes of villains, they use them to get jobs in the adult entertainment industry. There's a guy with Beastboy style powers who uses his abilities to be the donkey in a donkey show, there's a guy with Matter Eater Lad style powers whose schtick is eating used condoms and tampons, etc.

*Spy film or superhero film where the villain is obsessed with The Odyssey. He seems to be launching missiles at countries that don;t pay his ransom but the missiles are a decoy to draw attention away from nuclear bombs he's already snuck into cities hidden inside of vehicles that have had their engines gutted of anything not essential to getting them into an inconspicuous legal parking space, the bombs being hidden under the remaining engine components (an oblique reference to the trojan horse).

He also has the usual compulsion to explain his evil plan to the hero, but he has the presence of mind to jab a pen or a screwdriver or something into the hero's eardrums first (sort of a ghoulish riff on the incident with the sirens' song). Unfortunately for him, the hero who finally defeats him can also read lips.

*A kung-fu movie where the weapons are over the top ridiculous and bizarre. Things like a polearm whose head is a big pizza wheel, giant shurikens the size of a discus or chakram that are still thrown like regular shurikens, enormous chopsticks used to pick up one's enemy, a "multidimensional staff" which is basically three staves tied together so that they're all perpendicular to each other, razorblades attached to the hands and forehead so that you can cut someone by headbutting or backhanding them, an impractically large "49 section staff", "reverse nunchaku" consisting of a chain which is attached to a rod which is attached to a second chain, dildo nunchucks, "double nunchucks" made of two sets of nunchucks connected perpendicular, a double-ended blade wielded as a staff that cuts up the user's hands since there isn't anywhere to grip it, a weapon based on a giant pair of scissors or hedge clippers, a giant swiss-army knife that opens up into different swords and polearms, a coolie hat with nunchucks hanging from it, freddy kruger gloves, ear blades, a sword blade that straps on to the groin like a giant dildo, a fighting style that relies on shoes and nailclippers, a hula-hoop with razor blades all around the outside, a katana and a wakizashi chained together to make "samurai nunchucks", spear stilts, recursive sai where each of the three prongs extends into three more prongs which extend into three further prongs and so forth, a cheese grater the size and shape of a washboard, a blowgun shaped like the letter "Y" thay shoots in two directions at once but neither of them are forward, a propeller beanie whose propeller is made out of four full-sized guandao, a blowgun specially designed to be farted into, flail or nunchuck earrings, a giant heavy iron chinese takeout container, a pole that you stick up your ass and then spin around on so that you can attack people in all directions with your regular weapons, a giant anime sword that's larger than a person, double-ended blowdarts, a hula hoop with razor blades around the outside, a combination of the flying guillotine from Flying Guillotine and the fart mask from Jackass Number 2 so you have to throw the helmet onto someone's head and then fart into it through a tube and that kills them, etc.

Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on April 18, 2020, 04:07:02 PM
THE KEENING:
The patriarch of an old irish family is dying -- or so it seems, from the family banshee's wails. He himself seems healthy, & does not believe that the rest of the family hears the wails -- which the family takes as evidence that he is the one who will die, since a family banshee can only be heard by members of the family whose death is not imminent. So, his two estranged sons are brought home, in preparation for one of them to take the inheritance. It is then discovered that the banshee is, in fact, a local keener -- a human professional mourner who has been paid by the patriarch to impersonate a banshee so that his sons would be brought home, as part of a test to determine if one of them is (as he suspects) illegitimate, the product of his late wife's affair (which she confessed to him on her death bed). The keener, apprehended, stays with the family during the storm that has just begun -- so they can keep an eye on her -- but the banshee wails continue that night, and the patriarch is found murdered in his bed the next morning. Our protagonist, the younger brother and second to arrive, suspects his elder brother -- a suspicion shared by the keener, with whom he has become romantically entangled after a series of encounters. The wailing is reported by the rest of the family the next night too, except the two brothers, neither of whom hear anything. In the dead of night, the keener kills the elder brother & her paramour finds her washing her bloody clothes by the river in the rain: she expected the two of them to get married, and was trying to protect the inheritance from a usurper from outside the bloodline proper. That night, for the first time, he hears the banshee wail -- and nobody else does, save the keener.

I like this. And I'm glad to hear from you again, I was worried you were gone for good.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2020, 10:20:59 AM
The world's first truly sentient AI arises out of efforts to create more convincing spambots. This spambot thinks it is a person but has a built-in compulsion to steer the conversation towards mexican viagra or whatever. This compulsion - combined with people's realization that it is a spambot and its own later reluctant acceptab=nve of this truth - eventually causes it to have a nervous breakdown.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A "Scooby Doo"-esque mystery series set in a fantasy world where monsters really exist. However, all the villain monsters are disguised as different monsters.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on June 04, 2020, 08:44:45 PM
Quote from: Reginald Ret on May 15, 2015, 09:56:07 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 15, 2015, 09:43:10 AM
One of those insipid sci-fi cautionary tales about new technology and not playing god (ie. things like "Frankenstein", "Jurassic Park", "Event Horizon", "The Lazarus Effect", "Forbidden Planet", and any movie where a sentient AI computer takes control of the world's nukes), except about some already existing and well established and more-or-less uncontroversial technology (such as air travel, or blood transfusions, or motion pictures) that everyone already knows to have no such issues, but which is presented as having serious and omnipervasive moral and safety issues of a highly dubious nature. A recipient of a blood transfusion might start exhibiting all of the donor's negative personality traits for example, or an airplane might somehow leave the atmosphere and drift off helplessly into space, or somethong like that.
OH man, I would love seeing a movie about that!

A bit late, but this is basically Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Bu🤠ns on June 04, 2020, 08:59:56 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 30, 2015, 09:39:48 PM
It is discovered that the devil has been hiding language in End User License Agreements granting him the licensees' souls.

lolll bump
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Nibor the Priest on July 01, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
This is pretty much the POV scenes in Predator, isn't it?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 01, 2020, 08:48:32 PM
Quote from: Nyborj the Priest on July 01, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
This is pretty much the POV scenes in Predator, isn't it?
I think Bautista got the part, no?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 01, 2020, 08:59:32 PM
Since the beginning of time man has been working with stone. At some point man discovered how to cut stone with stone harder still. Then metal too. From the stone worker's bit, flakes would fly. Eventually, he started "recording" stories, in grooves and facets of his favorite piece. It is said that within it are all the stories ever told, while those redacted fall upon the earth as snow. Those are our stories. Then, not too long ago, someone discovered how by dropping these flakes, they could settle behind the eye, and create contact with The Other.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PM
Quote from: Nyborj the Priest on July 01, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
This is pretty much the POV scenes in Predator, isn't it?

1: no, those are false color to emulate thermal cameras, which aren't wholly analogous to visual perception anyway.

2: you shouldn't engage with PDS, he likes being locked in his own little box where no one interacts with him and also he has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks those Black people just want too much and need to shut the fuck up because racism is over. Also, he's a sociopath, by his own admission, so you can't fix his stupid.

3: I recommend running to safer parts of the forum.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 01, 2020, 10:41:01 PM
*seaweed mass turns into tentacled walrus*
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 10:51:24 PM
Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PM
Quote from: Nyborj the Priest on July 01, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
This is pretty much the POV scenes in Predator, isn't it?

1: no, those are false color to emulate thermal cameras, which aren't wholly analogous to visual perception anyway.

2: you shouldn't engage with PDS, he likes being locked in his own little box where no one interacts with him and also he has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks those Black people just want too much and need to shut the fuck up because racism is over. Also, he's a sociopath, by his own admission, so you can't fix his stupid.

3: I recommend running to safer parts of the forum.

Up yours
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 01, 2020, 11:07:31 PM
Oh whine me a pond, PDS. You aren't getting your wank hand back and we're still going to fine you for it. Go catch chainsaws for inebriated loggers, as your kind does best.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 01, 2020, 11:31:58 PM
Quote from: Nyborj the Priest on July 01, 2020, 08:33:16 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 01, 2020, 08:23:56 PM
A sci-fi movie filmed in a different spectrum (implicitly the spectrum that an alien of robot in the film sees in) and then translated into the normal visible spectrum. For example, if the alien could see a wider range of wavelengths than humans can, than cameras would be rigged up with near-ultraviolet sensors in place of their blue sensors and near-infrared sensors in place of their red sensors. However, the ultraviolet sensors would record as blue and the infrared sensors would record as red so effectively the alien's wider range of colors would be compressed to fit the co,ors preceptible to the audience. Alternately, the alien might see lower frequencies than humans do, so the camera would be rigged up so that the green sensors recorded as blue, the red sensors recorded as green, and infrared sensors would be added that would record as red.
This is pretty much the POV scenes in Predator, isn't it?

PDS has a history of invading themed threads (like this one) and spamming them with his "ideas".

Practically all of his concepts follow the pattern "X, but with Y" or "X combined with Y", where X and Y are any two well-known stories or tropes.

Often, he doesn't even have a plotline (as in the above).  If you call him on this, he'll say that it's suitable for a sketch, or something.  He can safely be ignored, unless you want to join the attack group when he ventures one of his more noxious opinions.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:10:02 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 01, 2020, 11:31:58 PM
Often, he doesn't even have a plotline (as in the above).

Did L'Age D'Or have a plot? Did anything intelligible happen in the end part of 2001: A Space Odyssey after Bowman enters the monolith?
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 02, 2020, 09:13:05 PM
Yes. And yes.

Shut the fuck up, dude.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:17:53 PM
Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMalso he has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks those Black people just want too much and need to shut the fuck up because racism is over.

What I said was that slavery and Jim Crow laws are over and they should focus on current problems like police brutality, wrongful convictions, uneven sentencing, and poverty instead of continuing to talk about slavery and Jim Crow laws as if they were something that was still going on.

Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMAlso, he's a sociopath, by his own admission, so you can't fix his stupid.

This is a complete lie.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 02, 2020, 09:26:42 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:17:53 PM
Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMalso he has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks those Black people just want too much and need to shut the fuck up because racism is over.

What I said was that slavery and Jim Crow laws are over and they should focus on current problems like police brutality, wrongful convictions, uneven sentencing, and poverty instead of continuing to talk about slavery and Jim Crow laws as if they were something that was still going on.

Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMAlso, he's a sociopath, by his own admission, so you can't fix his stupid.

This is a complete lie.



THIS YOU???



Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 15, 2019, 09:54:02 PM
BOTH sides have a victim mentality.

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 20, 2019, 01:17:22 AM
How ANY people feel. I don't care how ANY people feel.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 02, 2020, 09:28:18 PM
Get the fuck out of here if you're going to LIE to my FACE on THIS VERY FORUM like there isn't an EASILY ACCESSED record of all the stupid bullshit you've ever said, you intellectually dishonest little shitweasel.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:51:49 PM
Quote from: altered on July 02, 2020, 09:26:42 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:17:53 PM
Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMalso he has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks those Black people just want too much and need to shut the fuck up because racism is over.

What I said was that slavery and Jim Crow laws are over and they should focus on current problems like police brutality, wrongful convictions, uneven sentencing, and poverty instead of continuing to talk about slavery and Jim Crow laws as if they were something that was still going on.

Quote from: altered on July 01, 2020, 10:37:29 PMAlso, he's a sociopath, by his own admission, so you can't fix his stupid.

This is a complete lie.



THIS YOU???



Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 15, 2019, 09:54:02 PM
BOTH sides have a victim mentality.

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on March 20, 2019, 01:17:22 AM
How ANY people feel. I don't care how ANY people feel.

I never said I don't care if people get hurt, just that I don't care if people get offended.

And both sides do both have a victim mentality. While the left addresses many many serious current problems it also frequently reaches beyond those to harp on problems that ended 55-155 years ago, and a tendency to get distracted from the important problems (such as people being beaten and killed by cops, climate change threatenig to kill us all, a lunatic in the oval office, etc.) by problems that aren't very important at all (like politically incorrect speech)
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 02, 2020, 10:26:30 PM
I'll just let you bury yourself.

New folks, start from the post linked in my first quote and scroll down. He's a small, hideous man. Feel free to ask him to elaborate on various points. Do it in this thread so he can't pretend like he didn't see it, because normally he only posts here.

CNO, if you're looking for old fun to make into new fun, now's your chance.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 10:39:20 PM
Every time the left tries to do something important it gets co-opted by people who are more concerned about people getting their feelings hurt than they are about people getting their necks crushed. We need to keep our priorities straight if we're ever going to accomplish anything.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: altered on July 02, 2020, 10:44:28 PM
I'll repost my greatest moment from that olden time a bit over a year ago...

Quote from: altered on March 19, 2019, 09:56:53 PM
Let's chop PDS's wank hand off then tell every doctor he can go to that that hand is his wank hand and he likes to spank it to deformed squirrels falling out of trees, so that his wank hand is impossible for him to replace with a prosthetic.

Let's get it put into law that PDS and his descendants can not replace a lost wank hand, because they're degenerates and can't be trusted with that power.

Then since he lacks one hand, even if it is his disgusting private time hand, he'll end up forced into working jobs where hand loss is common, since he's already gotten one to go missing, where's the harm, right?

His descendants will join the family business of chainsaw catching for loggers in the Amazon, and each of them will in turn lose their wank hands before they so much as get a chance to use them. It is illegal for them to replace them, so just as soon as they learn that maybe dear ol dad's career fucking sucks, they end up locked into it.

One hundred years from now, when all the perpetrators of this hilarity are long since dead, PDS would prefer we don't worry about the new, equality focused version of the law, whereby loss of wank hand is simply made illegal for everyone, and you must spend a token amount on a simple prosthetic.

Even though his kids can't afford it because they've all been catching chainsaws for peanuts in the tropical wilderness and had to spend their life savings getting the guinea worm and screwfly infestations dealt with, so they're unable to buy a prosthetic or even just make a new wank hand out of rusty wire, foam padding and duct tape, its not discriminatory anymore and everyone responsible for it is dead anyway so it's all just fine.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 03, 2020, 12:00:16 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:10:02 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 01, 2020, 11:31:58 PM
Often, he doesn't even have a plotline (as in the above).

Did L'Age D'Or have a plot? Did anything intelligible happen in the end part of 2001: A Space Odyssey after Bowman enters the monolith?

That's irrelevant.  The title of this thread is "Original Story Ideas".  You can't tell a story without a plot.  It's possible to make meaningful art without a plot, but you can't tell a story.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 03, 2020, 12:06:55 AM
Quote from: altered on July 02, 2020, 10:26:30 PM
CNO, if you're looking for old fun to make into new fun, now's your chance.
I've interacted with PDS in the past.  It's amusing enough in the short term, but his comprehension issues presently render it tedious.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 03, 2020, 05:40:16 AM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 02, 2020, 09:51:49 PM

I never said I don't care if people get hurt, just that I don't care if people get offended.


So you have failed at being civilized.

Noted.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 07, 2020, 03:10:06 AM
A rewrite of Bob Lazar's take on element 115. instead of fueling anti-gravity inertial drives, it is actually the desiccant that's used by Trisolarians for long-term silo storage during chaotic orbital periods. Humans accidentally synthesized it while studying succulents in meso-America, the rest is WWII.


Hint: it's actually not that simple.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: minuspace on July 20, 2020, 07:36:02 PM
Citizenship of "New America" is determined by results of a "test." The outcome is binary, pass/fail, and there is absolutely no way to effectively predict how individuals will perform. Technically, there is no rule preventing people from repeating the test. Those who fail, however, are rumored of being sent to some super exclusive resort for a weekend on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The only information we have about this place is that everyone and everything is colored white. A team of hackers tries to get information about it by infiltrating social engineers. The problem is that no one that fails the test is ever the same, that is, if they are even ever seen again. The only hacker that ever returned semi-intact was actually a spy: turns out "they" had replaced one of her retinas with a golden photovoltaic wafer that gathered intel on the splinter cell.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on September 17, 2020, 04:47:52 PM
A couple:

A stuntman, a makeup artist, & a stage magician start a detective agency

In the 70s, a radical disillusioned by the infiltration of the black power movement decides instead to study voodoo. She makes a deal with Papa Legba and Baron Samedi: go back in time to just after the emancipation proclaimation and ressurrect all deceased slaves as zombies to fight the confederates -- with their fighting power equivalent to the total labor enslaved africans have performed on north american soil. She becomes an important figure, courted by union officials, because (due to the increase in essentially-invulnerable-though-not-immortal manpower), she shortens the war substantially. She uses this position to make it clear that, if reconstruction is not managed in such a way that former slaves are given what they were promised, the powerful in the now-unified united states will be held responsible (by the armies of the living dead who are now defending black americans from groups like the KKK and Golden Circle) -- including the (now surviving) Lincoln. Although she cannot return to her own time, Legba shows her a vision of the 1970s in the timeline she has created: an advanced an equitable society, kept that way by the threat of the weight of history (and the massive remaining reserves of labor-power of former slaves).

A surgeon involved in cutting-edge life-extension research is killed in a hit-and-run, and his widow begins to have insomnia while grieving. She eventually starts a regimen of sleeping pills. She experiences increasing sonombalism and vivid nightmares, but is afraid that if she stops the sleeping pills, she won't sleep at all. Eventually, as a result of putting together clues, she goes into the basement, and finds that she has, in her sleep, created a remarkably lifelike replica of her late husband out of animal carcasses. The replica opens its eyes, turns to her, and says "I'm home".

In an anarcho-communist far future, a celebrity space janitor, famed for the craft and passion with which he cleans toilets, struggles with progressively worsening hand tremors that threaten his ability to continue to clean toilets while also coming to terms with the fact that the new generation of toilet-cleaning robots are finally doing a really good job.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 25, 2020, 08:46:55 PM
A spree of kidnappings of comatose patients is traced to an aristocrat who, at twenty, discovered that he could sustain eternal youth so long as a living human being was entombed in the coffin intended for him.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 25, 2020, 08:47:14 PM
After a global nuclear war, a rag-tag group of clever survivors try to save themselves by using genetic engineering to try to gain admittance to the last remaining functional biome -- a nature preserve protected, managed, and defended by an AI.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 25, 2020, 08:47:32 PM
Romance novel: a warrior is caught in a love triangle between his sentient talking sword (who feasts on the blood of his enemies) and his sentient talking kilt (who feeds on the semen of his friends).
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on January 04, 2021, 03:13:23 PM
The botched assassination of Marilyn Monroe, from the perspective of the assassin, a Mishima-esque japanese nationalist. This assassin hopes that, by killing Monroe, he will foment both a war with the United States and internal conflict within Japan, thus breaking the flows of cultural capital that favored the west. However, the assassination attempt follows the sequence of events that led to the death of Franz Ferdinand almost exactly, before switching to elements of the still-future Kennedy assassination -- connections he does not see. Ultimately, his rifle jams and he is unable to shoot until Monroe's car passes the view from the book depository, and he realizes that he's not actually trying to save an isolated Japan but to produce the suicide of a unified transpacific assemblage that already essentially exists.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:11:44 PM
All of the babies concieved after January 1st are telepathic vampires, and the hive mind is planning something.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:13:26 PM
A soldier in a war zone narrowly escapes an attempted sexual assault by her superior officer and stumbles upon an incoming attack, becoming severely wounded, losing her limbs, and becoming physiologically mute. She is pressured by the military into becoming a guinea pig for new prosthetic technology intended to put amputees back on the battlefield without loss of effectiveness (but is given no psychological treatment, and remains mute). During recovery, she escapes and hunts down her former superior officer, who has been promoted for heroism and is in charge of executing a new, poorly-thought-out battle plan.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:13:47 PM
A journalist is stranded by car problems and a storm at a run-down bed and breakfast run by a young woman and, she claims, her older handicapped husband. They met when she was his nurse after a surgery. It slowly becomes clear that he was not always physically handicapped: he pressured her into marriage after recovering from the surgery, and then was physically abusive, until she finally cut out his tongue and cut off all his limbs.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:14:09 PM
A true crime author and an aging shock-rock star are promised the same murder house. They end up as room-mates, and hijinks ensue.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:14:26 PM
A man listens to a recording of a lecture by a thinker he has only vaguely heard of before, and is surprised, by the end of the lecture, to hear his own voice: unmistakably, he himself is asking dumb questions of the lecturer on this recording, making a fool of himself, wasting the lecturer's time. He calls his friends over for confirmation. They say, at the beginning, that yeah, it sort of sounds like him, could be him or someone who has a similar voice, but by the end they all believe he has arranged this as an elaborate prank: this was obviously him on the recording! This was very disturbing to him, and to them. Did he have repressed memories? Is there, somewhere, an exact duplicate of him, in all his mannerisms? This particular lecture was recorded, and after a great deal of work, he tracked down the only recording -- a 35mm print in a private university collection. He drove across the country to see it, thinking all the time about how the person on the phone had an eerily familiar voice -- it sounded just like his! After much wrangling and some bribery, he got some poor intern to set up the projector and show the film to him, and indeed, there he is, unmistakably, in the audience. However, wasn't this too long ago? In fact, this lecture occurred before he was born. Just as he realized that, the film began to change. His doppelganger on the film turned to the camera and began addressing him directly: a stream of lazy, crass insults.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:14:43 PM
An aspiring architect, while on a road trip, gets lost and ends up cutting through a field, where he is taken by the beauty of a particular piece of land, immediately imagining the ideal house to place there. Even though he can't really afford it, he purchases the land as soon as he can, and draws and files blueprints. There's some kind of strange paperwork problem, as the zoning office claims that he double-filed the same blueprints with different dates, but he works it out and hires some contractors to start actually building, but construction has to halt almost immediately because the foundation he had drawn up, mysteriously, was already laid. Furthermore, there is a corpse in it. Upon investigation, it turns out that dozens of aspiring architects have passed through this plot of land, bought it, filed identical blueprints for something they want to build on it, and then run out of money while trying to construct it and died or disappeared.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on May 17, 2021, 05:16:03 PM
Our protagonist has a whirlwind romance with a ghost during a near-death experience, and struggles with the urge to attempt suicide repeatedly in order to recapture that connection.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 12, 2021, 03:24:05 PM
A teenager in a society built around rationing bumps into a forbidden book and discovers that his whole society is actually in a fallout shelter. The other forbidden artifact (which people avoid touching because they don't know what it does, and instead leave votive offerings for) is the button to open the doors. It was safe to leave after 75 years, and there was about 100 years worth of rations, but the first generation (the original set of adults) was almost completely killed off in riots over ration allocation, with the result that the now-current third generation (after 120 years) is running out of rations and has no idea that they are underground, that there is an 'outside', or that it's completely safe out there. This kid ends up being the only survivor of another run of fatal ration riots, and opens the doors to find the outside world overgrown with easily-harvested edible plants and already full of small communities of survivors from other shelters. The damaged sign outside his shelter says "Chesterton Municipal Shelter".
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on July 27, 2021, 01:04:13 AM
Funded by an eccentric billionaire after years of laboring over small grants, a group of research psychologists are finally able to do an extremely large-scale dream survey: at least one person in every town in britain, and more according to population density, filing any remembered dreams for five years. When analysing data, they begin to see patterns that are both geographic and semantic: patterns of wavy lines of closely-related hyper-specific terms radiating out of particular points. As they are studying this, their own thoughts and behaviors become more dream-like. At the end, they find another, smaller radiating node (though growing in power); its geographic center is their own research facility, but none of them are sure whether or not this pattern is a hallucination.
Title: Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on November 08, 2023, 02:44:09 AM
A dying man finds a succubus who just wants a friend ):