What's the Laconic version of your story?

Summarize your plot in Laconic Wiki format. If you've never done this before, it's a really good way to identify what the most essential elements of your story are.

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I'm working on two otherworld Urban Fantasy novels in the same universe right now. They'll get their own pages (and probably WB threads) when they launch.

• The Adroan: In a postmodern Land of Faerie, a teen dark elf learns how much It Sucks to Be the Chosen One.

• The Pigeon Witch: Slum harpy learns alchemy, breaks bad, then, with her human partner, tries to atone.

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Feel free to come up with a creative unabridged version slug for yours, I just can't think of any.

Edited by Wheezy on Nov 29th 2021 at 2:32:22 PM

• For my video-game project:
  • An adventurer seeks a rumoured means of reaching a long-held dream; the search itself is an adventure.

• For a long-form maybe-novel that I've been working on:
  • The life of an adventurer, including highs and lows and difficulties and joys; and through her life, an exploration of adventuring in her milieu.

(I also have a short story that might be fun to give a laconic for—and unlike the above, it's not adventuring-related—but in that case doing so might give too much away. That might not be a problem once it's published, but until then, I'd rather not. ^^; )

For my story:

• A Period Piece set from November 2007 to November 2008, following Allison (name subject to change) as she works between two world cities, London and Los Angeles.

• Protagonist gets killed early on, discovers to his horror that he has become an onryo after his death, and the grudge he carries is transferable by touch from the one that killed him, putting those people in-between him and the killer. The story follows the onryo as it desperately tries to complete and end its grudge before it ends up killing too many innocent people in the process...

My fanfic:

• Sibuna has to reunite once again to save the world, this time while out-of-school and separated.

My dystopian:

• A story that takes place in 2155 America, where a hyper-capitalistic religious group has taken over the country. Rebellion and in-fighting ensues.

Half Separate:

• A cursed man discovers a Perfect World that contrasts his own broken, conflict-ridden world of the Tower. He must decide if the Tower is worth saving or to embrace his curse against the Tower to protect the Perfect World.

Literal Portal Fantasy:

• Earth's only superpowered person ends up in a city between dimensions that feels like his home more than Earth ever was. But now he has to deal with the fact that he's the only one there left with his specific power.

(currently unnamed):

• An immortal guardian of a long-abandoned Earth attempts to reconnect with her old life and repair burnt bridges with other guardians who were once her friends.

The Error of Ashkelon:

• The quest to save the world has failed. When everything you know is living on borrowed time, what do you do with your life?

Edited by Novis on Mar 10th 2021 at 2:47:18 AM

A Tale of a Fox: Teenage furries fall onto another world and figure out their identities while getting an exiled Prince back to the throne.

For two of my in-planning webcomics;

The Great Escape: Treasure hunt story but based around Blur caricatures. And Anyone Can Die.

Coldfront: The apocalypse is snowy, apparently, and a single mum tries to raise her two kids through it.

Edited by Routeferret on Mar 16th 2021 at 10:52:50 AM

• Boredom, Murder and Apple Juice: Five idiots and one sociopath get up to random nonsense, attempt to turn Ersatz Kyle Rittenhouse into a zombie, accidentally make a pair of Q Anon supporters drive their car into the ocean in pursuit of "Deep State Mermaids", cause increasing chaos in their wake.

• New Dawn: A demon clown messes up the schedule of a high school quarterback who makes swords.
  • New Dawn II: The New World Order's leader wants to fuck the aforementioned quarterback, takes over the world to facilitate this. She gets betrayed by everyone. Superheroes are somehow involved I guess.
  • New Dawn III: An extravagant bisexual cult leader attempts to destroy the world, and everything gets tremendously confusing.
  • New Dawn IV: The high school quarterback is due to graduate, but first he must fight a Warhammer 40k loonie fan, the threat of genocidal walls, meta commentary, demons, and the Trump Administration.
  • New Dawn V: An Angel and a Social Darwinist have a spirited argument. Zeus proposes a wager. The Social Darwinist cheats by bringing in his friend, the giant apocalypse dragon with a retail store. The United States explodes.
  • New Dawn VI: Aren't sudden space overlord siblings just the worst?

Edited by NickTheSwing on Sep 27th 2021 at 10:53:53 AM

A farmer from a famine-stricken village stumbles on a relic from our world. Trying to sell the thing gets him wrapped up in the fate of an empire and the schemes of our desperate, dying world.

Edited by KillerClowns on Mar 15th 2021 at 10:52:15 AM

AI creates super-strong bulletproof Hermaphrodite Action Girls and watches as they become hunter-gatherers and form civilization.

The Dreamkeeper: Two hunters of nightmares fight the horrors that arise in a Mental World

Metaspace verse: Eldritch horrors from a plane beyond reality start gaining/emulating traits of humanity, results vary.

• Arc Angle: Counter-terrorist group fights terrorists by using a "weapon" that turns enemies' projectiles back the sender. Turns out that not everything is quite as much as it seems.

WIPs:

• Salmon Gun: Salmon life cycle in a World of Badass Weaponized Animals. It's as over-the-top as it sounds.

Edited by ironcommando on Sep 1st 2021 at 12:11:56 AM

Parody of L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series (aka, the most offensive novel ever written), with the hero and the antagonist flipped.

A superhero team consisting of women of color, and adventures on Earth and in space.

Five teenagers with newly awakened superpowers must survive their new life in addition to high-school stresses.

A second story I am working on is a reboot of Nelvana Of The Northern Lights. Here, she and her brother try and protect an anthropologist who discovered an ancient WMD from the Nazis, who seek to use it to conquer the world.

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Edited by NickTheSwing on Sep 27th 2021 at 10:51:51 AM

Eight Year Harvest: Single migrant mother tries to make a living as a delivery rider while fighting agents of the state for custody of her 12-year-old son using The Power of Friendship and dark spirit magic.

Edited by eagleoftheninth on Nov 2nd 2021 at 4:08:47 AM

Raven: priestess of Nocturne: former slave turned priestess saves slaves, stops vengeful serial killer, and finds lesbian love

Okay, a bit long but whatever

Probably more of a "Better Than It Sounds", but:

A young hunter and her seeing-eye dromaeosaur wander the steppes in search of a place they belong.

For my future web series:

A group of sentient phones find that no matter where they go in the world, they will never fit in.

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Edited by Jadabunz on Jan 25th 2022 at 11:58:11 AM

Literature:

A young woman is drops out of college and finds a magnifying glass. She joins up with a vaudevillian, a detective, a samurai, and a cat, and accidentally kills many birds. Things get worse when the giant mechanical octopus shows up... just as the man with no head intended.

Edited by Jadabunz on Jan 25th 2022 at 11:58:50 AM

Divine Wind: In between the two Mongol invasions of Japan, a teenage samurai and an expatriated Chinese merchant's daughter form a romance while trying to prepare for the invasion they know is certain to happen in hopes of surviving it and thereafter traveling the world.