The Prince of Foolish Relevations
Only one character comes to mind...
Lucifel who is a tween The Ageless living in modern society. She handles her society enforced aromantic life by focusing on her role as a hero. It would thus be her fellow immortal teammate who breaks the "dry spell", but due to the perceived but truly nonexistent age gap she can't be open about it.
Your character finds themselves completely immortal, but soon discovers playing society to their will is much harder than it seems.
"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Queen of Neith
There's only one character worthy of it.
- 'Warren Hiedler, the Bald Eagle Theriomorph will take the role as the Apex Predator and Emperor of All Theriomorphy, guiding Theriomorphs for his Social Darwinist philosophy and creating majestic monuments. On the bad side, he will see his own friends and families pass away and he will pray to God when he reaches 1000 years old to end his own immortality.
Your character is tasked of taking care of tiny furry critters resembling chipmunk-foxes. The critters are weird in their behavior and like to be goofy and clumsy. They live inside a large house consisting of 10,000 tiny furry critters. How will your character take care of it.
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- Iolana: fill her vessel of the soul with the critters, release them in the most crowded place available, savor the ensuing chaos.
Your character hears a knock on their door. It's an enormous crowd of religious people from a faraway land on a pilgrimage to receive a blessing from your character, whom they've mistaken for the new incarnation of their deity. What's your character's reaction and what did they do to achieve such a reputation in the first place?
Spiral out, keep going.
Nyorla is a Mayatan alien "Nao Ranay Nokt child" whose Inconvenient Hippocratic Oathnote came into play when she and several dozen humans got caught in a natural disaster (e.g. an earthquake). She used her Cover-Blowing Superpower to save people's lives, specifically by holding onto their souls until mundane emergency response teams could save all the bodies and render them inhabitable again.
The equivalent of a "knock on the door" would be the Web of Friendship HQ sentries spotting the crowd of people approaching the fence around the forest. After the initial brief panic of the secret base no longer being such a secret, Nyorla would be very, very embarrassed and would start motor mouthing a Long List of things she can't do to try and prove she's not a deity.
Same.
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The Power Ponies are mistaken for reincarnated deities:
- Galaxy is amazing at magic, which probably explains why they're there. She initially freaks out, but once she composes herself, she says, "You have my blessing," and does a flashy magic trick to "prove" it. Probably spends the rest of the day wondering what the hay that was all about.
- Comet has a bit of a reputation for being a daredevil, even in her civilian identity. She quickly comes up with a challenge the crowd must complete to receive her blessing.
- Sky is the new wielder of the Thundering Talisman, so they might actually have a point here. She tells them they've got the wrong pony, which they don't fall for, then gives an underwhelming "Yeah, sure, whatever."
- Glory, as the local supernatural expert, probably knows exactly which deity the crowd is mistaking her for. She plays the part, gives them her blessing, and sends them on their way. She's not as good of an actress as Sky, but definitely passes for the deity in question.
- Buttercup is one of the best detectives in Maretropolis. The crowd probably came to her with questions. She pretends she's not home.
- Feathers is most likely mistaken for a trickster goddess. She plays along from the get-go, letting them worship her and everything, just to see how long she can fool them. They never do catch on (except for one guy who is promptly afflicted by Poison Joke). She remembers the whole thing as her second-best prank ever.
- Stitches is the team's costume designer, who explains to the crowd with much difficulty that, no, his costumes do not give you superpowers.
Your character is trapped in a haunted building overnight. How scared are they, if at all? How do they survive? Or die?
Varla the mermaid is very difficult to scare.
Assuming the ghosts are just out to troll people, they'd quickly figure out that Varla the mermaid's Berserk Button includes ghosts passing through her body. She'd get increasingly irritated until she's thrashing around smashing furniture with her tail and yelling a nonstop Cluster F-Bomb in her preferred language. By the time morning comes and she's released, the legends will include a screaming banshee in that haunted building.
Assuming the ghosts are more malevolent and lethal than that, Varla's sword and dagger are Cold Iron with silver-plated crossguards and there's a good chance that Varla's still soaked with saltwater from the sea. This would intimidate and enrage the ghosts. She'd last for a while until either the ghosts crack her skull open by throwing something heavy or she gets the idea to try singing them into submission.
Your characters are walking along minding their own business when all of a sudden, there's an earthquake.
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Baby dango
Ruby would think that the seismic stabilizer was malfunctioning, but otherwise doesn't care since the city has long since been reinforced to the point that an earthquake wouldn't destroy anything, what with it being the 25th century. Tornadoes, hurricanes, meteors, tsunamis and every sort of natural disaster has long been curbed and harmless to humanity.
Your character is stuck in another universe where everyone's relationship and morality is reversed. Their closest friends are their worst enemies and vice versa, and if they were good they are now evil.
April, once she figures out what's going on, would immediately head to Stardust Labs for help, as they'll probably have (or be able to make) the tech to send her back. In her home universe, they're a bunch of Mad Scientists who unethically experiment on people. Here, they're much more humane, and might actually be willing to help. She has to watch out for the people she'd normally trust, though. And Arceus help her if she runs into Ignatia on her way over.
Your character's deepest, darkest secret has been revealed to the one person they do not want it revealed to. How did that happen, and how do they react? What are the consequences of their secret being told?
Queen of Neith
For Claire/the Lamia, having her deepest, darkest secret revealed to her partner Ace of Spades about her own heritage. The secret is about her mother being a powerful Eldritch Abomination who forcibly reproduced on her human father.
It happened because Orlando/Omega held information about her and leaked it. Claire reacts into horror because of it. Anyways, the consequences are light because Ace of Spades wants the whole Megiddo criminal terrorist organization by any means necessary and everyone knows that Claire is a cambion.
Your characters are tied up wearing swimsuits and trapped in a dark Drowning Pit. The water is rising up that is going to touch live electric wires in ten minutes. There is a hatch to escape, but it requires a combination from the numbers written all over the wall. Your characters are forced to make a Sadistic Choice between shutting off the water or turning off the wire with no compromises. What is your characters' reaction, how they will manage it and describe their own swimsuits?
Up in Useful Notes/ParaguayTwin Mayatan vampires Aynara and Arnaya normally wouldn't wear swimsuits (or any clothes for that matter), but I'll just say their captor put them in chainmail bikinis to further hinder their gliding membranes and make the electric torture that much more intense. The twins are gagged to take their fangs out of commission. Their hands are encased in heavy weights chained to each other behind their backs to take their claws out of commission. Their legs are tightly wrapped in chains to keep them folded in a kneeling position. And if their captor was smart enough to bind and gag them that way, their captor was also smart enough to quarantine the drowning pit in an el-kor field to prevent a Teleportation Rescue and to prevent the twins from telekinetically or telepathically cheating.
Unfortunately for the captor, the twins' powers go beyond the standard Mayatan set of baseline telepathic/telekinetic performance plus one specialty talent in either telepathy or telekinesis. Among other things, their vampiric nature makes them Nigh-Invulnerable to drowning or electrocution, it's just a question of which out of both unpleasant sensations they find most unpleasant. That would be the rising water nauseating them.
With a ten-minute timer to the electric wires, I'm gonna assume that the wires are five feet off the floor and the water rises at a rate of six inches per minute.
Once the hatch closes, the twins would take a few seconds to spot the immediate problems in their surroundings. Then they'd start dislocating the bones in their own hands and wrists, as otherwise those bits of anatomy wouldn't fit through the skin-tight hand-shaped hollows in the encasing heavy weights. Once their hands are out, it would take the twins a couple of minutes to recover, massage the bones back in place and suppress a wave of nausea.
Freeing their legs would first require a convulsion of Uninhibited Muscle Power to expose the weak links in the chains. While they heal the damage to their legs, the twins can then play tug-of-war on the weakest links to finish warping the metal.
Progress on unwinding the now broken chains from Aynara's legs would be slow at first, but the rate of progress would accelerate as more slack is worked in. By the time Aynara is free and able to stand up, the water is two inches away from the wires. Aynara would shut off the water at this point.
With the water now stagnant instead of running, it no longer bothers the twins, not even Arnaya who is still chained in a kneeling position and completely submerged at this point. Unwinding the chains off of Arnaya's legs is easier.
Mayatans are nocturnal, though usually they have the light of roughly half of their home planet's twenty-four moons to see by. At this point, Aynara and Arnaya's eyes have adjusted to the darkness of the Drowning Pit and they are able to see the numbers on the wall. After prying off their gags, the twins discuss the puzzle in whispers.
The twins will take the digits on the wall and try every way they can be sequenced, occasionally pausing to try various ways of Cutting the Knot. Super Smoke won't work, the watertight seals are too well-made. Super-Strength is nullified by the lack of ways to brace themselves, and telekinesis can't make brace points because of the el-kor field suppressing it. Their last idea is faking loud orgasmic noises just in case there might be eavesdropping horny male guards dumb enough to open the door for a look upon hearing that. If that doesn't work, the twins will go back to solving the number puzzle after declaring they'll never speak of that last ploy again.
Once the hatch is finally unlocked, the twins will take a moment to remove the chainmail bikinis before exiting.
Some stranger suddenly sneezed on your character.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Aug 22nd 2018 at 3:47:44 AM
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Half Hope and Half Des-bear
Dioscuro heavily reprimands the man, before giving him a box of tissues to keep.
Eris barely contains her anger at the thought of anything besides her beloved Rin touching her, before smiling sweetly and killing him in one fell swoop.
Your character has an erotic fantasy while sleeping. Unfortunately, their crush saw everything in that fantasy.
That Friend Nobody Likes
Okay, so, there's only one character so far that this happening to would be really important and really bad for (the others would just get over it, perhaps wondering why they had an erotic fantasy in the first place, but this one is really, really screwed up, so just... try not to judge, okay?
Ellen would wake up feeling guilty and generally like a horrible person for fantasizing about her little brother (hey, I warned you it would be really screwed up) again, only to find him wide-eyed and staring at her. She at first tries to pretend she doesn't know why he's upset, then, when it becomes very apparent that he does, in fact, know what she was dreaming about, she'd probably try to keep a stiff upper lip, but burst into tears anyways, apologizing to him and telling him that she loves him (which would definitely not help her case at all). It... probably wouldn't end well (yes, it is a very screwed up story, I was going through an emotional rough spot when I came up with it. That's my only excuse).
Your character is spontaneously transferred to a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to early 19th-century Ireland. They don't speak either of the languages.
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Umm... so, I was here, I guess. If I wasn't, someone hacked my account. So, yeah.![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
That's a common incident in telepathic Mayatan society, but problematic under Foe Yay circumstances with the Web of Friendship chasing Sarquoql through the wilderness of whatever planet his spaceship was shot down at. Seenarnha would wake up bolt upright in shock, notice Sarquoql being a lurking creep in the campsite, and lash out with her claws and telekinesis while sounding the alarm. And then all five of Sarquoql's younger sisters would claw him for making plans to try using Seenarnha's crush as an entry point for mind control. While they're busy beating him up, Seenarnha will be hammering her head on a tree while chanting "Stupid hormones!" over and over.
Kynn Derra the Camelian alien wouldn't know the languages at first, but unlike human brains, Camelian brains don't lose the rapid language learning capacity of their infancy/toddlerhood. Unfortunately, when she changes her skin color to match humanity, she may look human as long as she stays still in specific poses, but otherwise her joints and respiration system move in all the wrong ways. Between that and the "unnaturally" fast language learning, she'll scare everyone, get (mis)blamed for local crop failures, and get chased out of civilization by Witch Hunts armed with Torches and Pitchforks.
Same as
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 8th 2018 at 9:46:50 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Queen of Neith
Armanda would be singled out for being a black girl (Actually a Lyonan in a sense) in a time period where the Great Famine was taking place and a time where anti-black, anti-semitic and anti-Indian sentiment was common or equivalent thereof.
She may adapt because of her own enhanced intelligence and her gadgets, but she must be careful because the indigenous are quite supersitious. In the meantime, she may use her Transceiver to call her local Paragons or Orlando's Paragons in that timeline or dimension.
Your characters are de-aged between the ages of 7-21. What do they do?
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Max is 10 again and degrades into the vicious little shit he was at that age. He robs, he steals, he gets into fights, eventually ending up caught by the authorities, since he's far away from his hometown where such behavior would be tolerated (encouraged, even) from a child of Warrior caste.
Your character decides to write a book. What will it be about?
Edited by Millership on Sep 12th 2018 at 5:11:24 PM
Spiral out, keep going.
In the name of being honest
Yesuntei writes a memoir on the years she spent growing up in a nomadic merchant band travelling along the Eastern Domains' inland frontier. It's fairly straightforward and dry in prose, except for when she starts describing people's clothing. On some pages, she'd off-handedly mention shooting down entire attacking bandit gangs with her bow and moving on like it was nothing.
Sarnai is illiterate and cannot write.
Narek is illiterate and cannot write.
Orovim writes an anonymous manual on how to craft a Song of Unmaking. The text itself will be full of volatile runes that burn a straight shortcut to the Spirit-Roads, making it very dangerous to handle and copy by anyone who's not gifted in the Liminal Arts.
Your character has just gotten evicted from their residence.
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- Roshni Shirazi figures Alice is behind it (probably correctly) and goes to live with either Aseyu on Alos, or one of her fellow anti-corproate resistance members back on Earth.
- Aseyu ul'Valmoth figures the Order of the Moon Hawks is behind it (probably correctly) and picks one of her lovers to crash with.
- If the eviction could somehow be enforced in rural Qorisa, where the rule of law is more like a suggestion, Koyel ul'Netho would go to another village, offer his services as a hunter, and build a new house while crashing at a campsite, flophouse, inn, or temple.
On a stormy night, a strange old lady knocks on your character's door, pleading for them to let her stay a single night. If magic is known to exist, any attempts to determine whether or not she is magical seem to indicate she is just an ordinary, mortal old woman, nothing special.
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The Senate
Archon, creator of the universe, has no doorstep. The woman dies in the vacuum of space.
Klavigar, the sealed dragon, lives within a planet. After managing to find the woman, he eats her.
Ozirmok, king of the planet within which Klavigar is sealed, allows the woman in. However, he does not let her stay any longer than necessary - ruling an entire planet and keeping a world-eating dragon secret doesn’t give you a lot of free time.
Rin, advisor of Ozirmok, doesn’t answer the door. Like Ozirmok, she’s rather busy, and unlike Ozirmok, she doesn’t get any free time - she’s dealing with the supreme god of everything and the sealed world eater 24/7.
The seven judges don’t answer. They’re bound to a set of stones and can’t leave the palace.
Your character enters a portal to another world exactly like their own, with one exception - the world within is free of any and all life.
How unfortunate that you are attempting to deceive me.
Max: Goes mad from the isolation, with his PTSD acting up even stronger.
Iolana: Also goes insane, since there's nothing for a High Spirit of Chaos to interact with.
It's Saturday (or some analog of a weekend) morning, summer, and the weather is nice. What your character is going to do today?
Spiral out, keep going.
Queen of Neith
Baby dango
Since most of my characters can easily break free from such a scenario due to having superpowers, I'm just gonna use the ones who don't. Hayato and Jessica, both having non-combat oriented superpowers, wearing black swim trunks and blue one-piece active swimwear respectively, were probably looking for the treasure because the latter heard about it from his uncle. The MC, Hideki, following because he was worried, is able to absorb and release energy, ignores the iron rod and burn through his own reserves of energy and blast them out, but faints in the process. Hayato and Jessica were later reprimanded by everyone else for doing something so stupid.
Your characters have to find a way to get a priceless ring from someone who has a grudge on them, who vows never to sell it. How would they obtain it?
Ella-Maria would spend some time wondering which genre rules she should abide by, not an easy thing to determine in a Fantasy and Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink. Eventually she invites the woman in, but warns her to watch out for the vampires.
Varla would initially be relieved at finally escaping all the lewdness, only to realize there's no food (no life = no organic material). She'd fetch her tank (which is solar-powered and has a tiny atomic manipulator for food) out of the lifeless!Web HQ, load it up with mechanic's tools and spare parts, and start searching for the portal so she could go back where she came from, while obsessively checking the signal on her communicator.
Viporises live on a gas giant's moon. Their summer is when that moon is casting a solar eclipse shadow on the gas giant instead of the other way around. The Viporis population (the vast majority who aren't Void Maidens) would marvel at the volcanoes temporarily settling down, and they'd go outside to go sky-gazing, taking advantage of the greatly reduced volcanic ash clouds.
That's weird, what did Huthman do to deserve a thump? Anyway...
Sarquoql (the villain) would quickly resort to mind control. Presumably, a previous encounter with him doing that was what formed the grudge in the first place. If he misses his chance to mind-control the grudge-holding person, he'd go searching for a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire and direct that vampire to do some Breaking and Bloodsucking.
Your characters' home (or transportation for nomads) is on fire. What caused the fire, how bad does the fire get, and do your characters survive to find out what caused the fire?
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 13th 2018 at 9:54:16 AM
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The Senate
Archon, creator of the universe, realizes the entire universe is on fire and puts it out by drowning the universe and every inhabitant. Don't worry, he can create more. The fire was probably caused by pure, condensed plot, as Archon's enemy Klavigar is incapable of creating fire.
Klavigar, dragon locked inside a planet, is free after his prison burns to the ground. He proceeds to eat stars, moons, and planets before fighting Archon and being resealed. The fire was most likely caused by bringing the planet too close to a star.
Ozirmok, the seven judges, and Rin live in the palace of the Egg. Oz and Rin will live, given that they're immortal, but the judges will die when the stones keeping them in this world melt. After the fire, the palace will be rebuilt by some of the civilians, or immediately remade by Archon after it is requested of him by Rin. However, should a certain piece of the ground melt below the palace, one of Klavigar's ten chains will be released early and he will break free 4,900 years after his sealing rather than 5,000. As for the cause of the fire, it was likely accidental.
Soulburst holds an entire dimension as part of his empire, but does not actually have a home or a form of transport. As such, his own body is on fire, which he extinguishes with two magic vortexes. It was likely caused by one of his three dragons, who are always on fire.
Your character is wandering around in an uninhabited area at night. What do they encounter, and how do they deal with it?
How unfortunate that you are attempting to deceive me.Kudos to the out-of-the-box interpretations. Anyway...
(Friendly Neighborhood Vampire) Rosalind Lumina Eisenberg has a nightly habit of orbiting at a very specific distance away from her herd of mustangs. Too close and they'll be disturbed by her hunting and prowling, too far away and the sentries will fret at her absence and end up waking more horses to keep watch. Typically Rosalind clears out The Sleepless zombies that are looking for easy, sleeping human targets in the night. If she's lucky, she'll find and exsanguinate some nocturnal animal predator sizing up her herd, e.g. a cougar.
Any encounters with humans would be important to the plot, and would be handled extremely differently depending on how many humans there are, whether each human was awake or asleep, and how close the nearest zombies are.
It's Saturday (or some analog of a weekend) morning, summer, and the weather is nice. What is your character going to do today? If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Same.
Spiral out, keep going.