2017-12-11 07:18:22

Hello.
This is something me and a couple people on Klango used to do, or at least this is close. Basically, I as the topic poster will start a story, and you guys add onto it. There are only 2 rules:
1. Try to read every post made on here to make sure you know the full story.
2. Whenever someone says something, just go with it. Don't try to change their story. Meaning, if someone says the planet fell into a black hole, don't say "no it didn't, it blew up." Of course, it's OK to say "there have been roomers over the years that the planet blew up, but scientists have concluded that it definitely has fallen into a black hole."
I'd love to see how this turns out. Here we go.
You can't believe your boss made you work unpaid overtime tonight. Not only do you have a baby at home to take care of, but your husband is sending you angry texts wondering why you're not at home yet. You keep working while thoughts of how stupid your boss is and how pushy your husband can be go through your mind. He constantly nags and nags, you think he's to much like your mother. At least he doesn't call her and tell her about you, then you'd never hear the end of it. A few hours later, your idiot boss finally releases you from work. As you walk home, thinking of how you could sew him for not paying you for the extra hours at work, you trip over a rock and fall down a hole in the sidewalk. The combination of fear and Adrenalin from the rapid descent causes you to black out, and your last thought is wondering if this is karma for the constant negative thoughts running through your mind. You wake up a couple hours later, and find yourself in a cave. What happens next?

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2017-12-11 14:05:44

Hay lovely idea, well here is my contribution.

Suddenly, a rasping voice rings out from the darkness behind you:
"compatible male human breeding subject acquired, phase one complete"

Oddly enough, the thought of who, this mysterious voice belongs to, and why the heck someone is talking about "human" breeding programs are driven from your mind by this very familiar dilemma.

"excuse me! but I am gay!"
You don't get an answer, so you wade in again just to be sure these people, or things, or monsters, or aliens or whatever they are get the point. I am a male, my husband is a male. Even if I wanted to do any "breeding" as you put it, it just wouldn't be happening, okay?"

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-12-11 16:55:59

At the end of your sentence, or demand, your voice raises in pitch and even though conveying how scared you are is really a bad idea, as you know that predators prey on fear, your physiological reaction forces your voice to quiver as you keep on stuttering out to the dark, demands to know why you are here, that you won't comply with their will, and to let you go at once. Your quivering queries is met with a damning silence.
Even though it's pitch black, you think maybe it's a good idea to start exploring the place using your other senses to find out if what you initially thought was a cave is what it actually is.

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2017-12-11 17:14:29

as you try to hold back the pangs of fear racing through your veins like cold ice, you slowly reach out with your hands, which touches nothing.
As you slowly walk forward, your hands suddenly come in to contact with a soft heal ding substance. and, remembering from some distant memory in the past,
you realize, it feels like moss, soft fungal growths you've encountered before. You can't remember ware though.
Pressing harder, you feel it hardens, and finally your fingers makes out the cold clammy feel of a wall. overgrown with the soft  substance. you lean closer to the wall. having it for moral support helps your confidence a little.
You take a few deep calming breaths, and say to yourself. okay, I’ve always wonder what I'll do if this sort of thing happens to me, I’m going to remain calm, I'm not going to let my self-panic, everything is going to be just fine.
Your brain seems to have a mind of its own though,  wondering on to paths of the oddest  things in time of fear, you suddenly wonder how your pet poodle Trixie is doing at home,
Will she be fed, will your husband remember to feed her on time?
oh, he can be so forgetful!
a soft hysterical laugh escapes your lips and you clam a hand in front of your mouth, startled by your own voice!
What nonsense is this, you think, I’m way smarter than this, it’s only some darkness, nothing to worry about.
okay, maybe for that dis embodied voice, but, one thing at a time.

There's a place for me in this universe.

2017-12-11 18:17:59

Abruptly that same disembodied voice rings out again.
"subject invalid for program, termination measures activated"

You curse to yourself, of all the aliens, or cave monsters, or whatever the heck these things are to get kidnapped by, why did you! have to get kidnapped by the homophobic variety.


You quickly increase your pace along the moss covered wall, your feet stumbling on the uneven rock of the floor. You need  to find a way out of here and fast!

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-12-11 19:17:17

There's no way that you going to let yourself be killed by these unknown creatures. You refuse to die!
You have to find a way out!
Its 2017. there's no way this can be happening!
The voice intones.
"subject 2020 is targeted and ready for termination."
"know way in hell I'll allow this!"
You begin to run faster.
The wall rushes by you on both sides,
your footsteps echoes hollowly through the damp passage.
The icy prickles of fear races through your veins like little soldiers  trying to overwhelm you. but you have to remain calm!
otherwise you'll surely die!

There's a place for me in this universe.

2017-12-11 20:16:31

As your feet pound across the floor, you hear the voice once again, its cold tones assaulting your ears. "Subject 2020 is attempting escape through the western entrance. Focus the termination ray directly between the two doors leading to the outside human world."
You're confused. Doesn't this thing understand you speak english? Why is it broadcasting its plans to you? You feel a brese on your left cheek. You stop and turn your head, trying to figure out if it's another hallway. Deciding that it is wide enough for you to walk in, you turn left and bolt down that hall as the voice updates its companions or whatever of your whereabouts.

2017-12-11 20:44:09

As you run further, you stumble over a metal contraption. It looks like a shield of some kind. You put it on, and just as you do, you hear a shot ring out. The metal contraption deflects the shot into the wall on your right, and part of it crumbles away. You're glad you have this metal thing, but a few more shots and the wall will collapse. Although, is that good or bad? You push a button on the metal thing, and a light comes on, illuminating the passage your running down. You now see where the disembodied voice is coming from, a dome shaped device with a face on it. It hovers just a few inches above the ground, and follows you every step you take in this passage way. You push another button on your shield light, and a blew ray shoots out of the device and hits the dome. You hear a grunt from it before it mysteriously teleports away. It's friends might be close by, so you continue running.

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2017-12-11 21:01:37

From behind you you hear a crackling hiss and look to see the corridor you just left filled with light and heat, some sort of stream of fire.
You realize two things, firstly that if the previous announcement was correct the way back home must be up that corridor, but secondly that the strange domed shaped device shooting at you from up ahead must be something different from the kill protocol previously activated.

Sure enough, as a second shot pings from your upraised shield you hear a very different whining mechanical voice come from the floating dome.

"Hay! male humans aren't supposed to have deflection equipment, they're a low level mob, they shouldn't be able to affect a fifth level float sphere with extra armour, much less pickup dungeon loot items"

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-12-11 21:55:15

Hahahaha, Dark, that was pretty awesome. I was personally going to take the story in a different direction but I like this none the less.
Also maybe this chould be some sticky for each month where someone starts a narrative and it builds up til the end of the month.
Anyway, let me continue after that. I have a story in mind based off my dream I had like 20 minutes ago (sob sob I want to go back into that dream). Actually now that I think about it that doesn't fit. Or does it?

Scanning the network of tunnels around you suddenly see a strange site. What appears to be a family carrying the oddest equipment is running down from one corridor to intersect you.
They are led by a boy and girl, the boy seeming to be around 20 and the girl a few years younger. As they come to the intersection, the countermeasures seize. The girl calls out: "deactivate dungeon. You have lost. We take this man home to us."
Her voice doesn't convey any sort of authoritarian position, but yet you suddenly find the surroundings are fading away.

As you come to it, recovering from the mental shock of what you just witnessed, you find yourself on a gravel path leading up to a two-house story in red brick. The family, ranging from the young man in his late teens or early 20's, from a girl that seem no older than 7 surround you, but not in a hostile manner.
You have a thousand questions racing through your mind but the only thing you can think to ask right now is: "how did you do that?". You ... well you don't know what you expected to hear, but the family suddenly starts speaking. You now notice a motherly figure in the midst of her flock, but rather than being the detainer of the flock, she seems to be a caregiver by the way she carries herself. The way they address you is something you would have expected from everyone but yet encounter so rarely. Their conversation flows naturally from mouth to mouth, everyone knowing what to say, not as if it was rehersed but rather as if they knew each other like one entity.
"we compliment each others abilities and thought patterns", the elderly girl says smiling at you.

Ok comment on the segment. It isn't as it turned out. And my brain is too sad to force any more bullcrap. I might continue pushing this narrative if I remember it that is. Because I have a particular point I want to show. So while I won't be forcing anyone's story part aside, the family will most likely reappear. Someone take over now. What I'd like you to keep in mind is that the family has no fighting or arguing. They are one entity of love. That isn't to say they have external issues but internally they're flawless. Feel free to continue to describe how the family describes themselves as using every member of them. My set up is mother, undetermined age, oldest boy, around 20, oldest girl, 116 - 17, middle boy, 14, another girl 11, and youngest girl 7.
Or dismiss this and fuck with as you please. rofl
. I'll go back to sobbing about the dream now.

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2017-12-12 16:09:18

Lol lord Lundin, I got the idea when Shotgun started talking about shooting and deflecting with shields etc.
Having a monthly story isn't a bad idea either, though we'll see how this one goes down.
Btw beware, heavy background section coming.

"what on earth is going on?" you ask, feeling as though you've been launched into an episode of the twilight zone.
The young girl speaks first.


"We apologise for the abrupt manner of your transfer and your exposure to physical harm"
Then the father continues, his voice having exactly the same cadence and inflection as the child's though in a deeper register.


"We had programmed the system to locate a compatible human subject so that we could expand the family with a human member , however when you were proved to be outside of the expected paradigm for psycho/sexual testing, the system defaulted to extreme hazard quarrentine protocols"

Oh brilliant! you think to yourself, uncomfortably reminded of all the arguments you've had with petty burocrats like the local council over the fact that yes you were married, but no there was not! a Mrs. O'riley, just two Mr. O'rileys. Of all the aliens, or group minds or extra dimensional entities to be kidnapped by you had to be kidnapped by the one looking for a compatible human female. Maybe all those scifi bee movies from the fifties about some  crazy alien overlords with ridiculous hair styles, huge cloaks  and pointy black beerds coming to steel earth women were true after all.

"so let me get this straight" you begin, wincing slightly at your own unintentional pun.
"You are some sort of alien single mind or something and were looking for a human female to mmmmm, breed with? but got me instead so decided to use me as cannon fodder or something?"

All of the family look shocked at the very idea.
"No!" they exclaim in unison.

then the mother speaks, her voice kindly.
"We are indeed as you have deduced not from your world, and yes we were looking for a member of your species to join their consciousness with ours since we wished to learn of your planet. The experience would not have been unpleasant and certainly it was not our intention to force any sort of joining  a human who does not wish it"

Then the young man speaks, sunlight gleaming in his blonde hair.

"Since we do not have the technology to gather or test members of other races, we had to commission a salvage and reality brokerage firm, and it was they who began the quarentine measures"

the young girl speaks again.
"We were able to hack into their reality server and open a pathway to another part of their system where they run a dungeon scenario, and then recover you by posing as a player, however this will not work for long"

"what do you mean?"
You look around nervously, expecting to see more floating spheres or waves of fire rushing at you, wondering exactly how real the apparently earthlike landscape of the parkland and small pleasant house surrounding you actually is.

The father speaks, his voice suddenly grave.
"Since you do not fulfil the request for the the object we commissioned from the salvage company, your reality rights have reverted to them and they have made you part of their dungeon scenario perminantly. As a player we can keep you in our residence for a short time, a few hours at most, but when that time finishes your reality will revert to the standard dungeon makeup and you will become part of that makeup, effectively another mobile entity in the dungeon for players to gain experience from"

You remember back to the online games you've played, thinking of all the times you dispatched hoards of monsters with magic spells or laser weapons and shudder.
"so what your saying is, I'm not what you wanted so now this salvage and retrieval company want to make me some of piece in a game?"

The family all nod gravely.
"Your only possible way of escape is to attain the status of an independent agent that can move through the system and thus cross out of the dungeon scenario into the retrieval program"

You frown, kicking up the gravel with your foot.
"what do you mean an independent agent?"
The family all smile at you.


"One specialised mobile responsable for the direct destruction of players of the game"

The mother says.
In an oddly childish gesture the seven year old girl claps her hands and smiles up at you.


"You need to become, what I believe in your world is called a boss!"

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-12-12 20:59:31

@dark wow that was beautiful, just, beautiful.
Well ugh. I don't really have anything to add to this masterpiece, because I'm not that good a storyteller, so I'll just show myself out smile

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2017-12-13 09:53:19

Comment: um ... Dark. I was actually going to delete that last post of mine but thanks for having enough LSD to salvage the situation tongue
not really how my dream invisioned these people though --- but then again I broke it. I'm sorry about that. I love the fact you were able to completely fuck me over and push it back to your cenario. It reminds me of times where I was actually a decent storyteller and I was at camps as a kid and we could sit around a campfire and tell a story.
Maybe after all I should be happy I broke it because I bet it was a bit of an exercise for you to salvage my horrible mishap big_smile

Ok I'm not very good at putting myself in the shoes of someone stuck inside a dungeon. No what I mean is I guess I'm confused about ... wait I actually have an idea.

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2017-12-13 10:10:40

"So let me ...", you struggle for the right way to word your question, "I am trapped in some kind of computer simulation of epic proportions? I don't even know how this works ..."

The young teenage boy takes over quickly:
"You were transfered to another dimention made up of another fundamental worldview where the human mind is a simulation. We would have picked someone from our own dimention but certain burocracies are in place to make sure that doesn't happen. But we found a loophole in it all and hence while you are here."

The second youngest child speaks:
"Don't worry. Since you were transfered to our dimention, you, don't panic now", the young man moves to put a reassuring hand on your sholder before the girl continues: "you essencially seize to exist in your world."

As she utters those last words you feel a sick twist in your guts and your thoughts start spinning - to your husband, to your job, to your aging parents living their last peaceful years in the shades of Wildlake Valley, to your silly coworkers you don't particularly care about - oh what you wouldn't do to see them again.

The youngest girl giggles, twists around on  her heels and lets a tiny  fist fly, smacking  the older sister lightly on the sholder.
"she chose the wrong words", she says planely, before pointing to the father of the family as to deligate.

"This should actually be good news", he says. "You are temporarily non-existing in your dimention. However once our dimention releases you, if that is so, all of this will be but a memory for you."

"You would have to become an agent first though - a boss", the young man adds sullumnly. "and we only have a limited time before you are reverted back into the dungeon. I suggest we use our time wisely to prepare you and brief you."

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2017-12-13 11:51:58

Lol Lundin, blaime too much Doctor Who, sorry if you thought I was overtaking your idea or similar, I was just trying to keep things going along a sort of reality bending semi sf horror type affair which we'd started off with so tried  continue in that theme and bring everything together. Now the question is how do we get the guy out of trouble?

Despite the fact that your now seemingly in a place where laws of physics are more sort of guidelines, your still slightly astonished when the door of the small  house opens to  a vastspace lit with bright artificial light.

Following the family inside you look around in astonishment at a space which seems to be something  between an aircraft hanger and the workshop of an insane artist.

A vast room, littered with unguessable equipment stretches out before you, all lit with harsh industrial lighting. Things like victorian diving suits all brass and leather and tubing sit in one corner, while what appears to be a cross between a velvet covered sherman tank and an over sized aracknid squats menacingly in another.
A shelf holds a number of the floating domed spheres you encountered in the cave, while a thing like a wire bookcase contains an array of strange, knobbly tubular devices which look like a cross between iron tree branches and telescopes.


The end of the room is dominated by a massive painter's easel the size of a cathedral door leaning against the wall. yet, the white thing that is stretched across it is a little too bright and glossy to be ordinary paper, and when you look down at the paint pallet set in front of the easel you can't help wondering if the small, sealed pots of paint are humming slightly.

The young girl speaks.

"We have a limited amount of  and equipment here that is compatible with the dungeon scenario, but we can equip you with some protective devices and weaponry"

The young man crosses to the easel.

"Using quantum visualisation technology, we can also make you a copy of something from your own plane of reality to be of assistance. For example if there is a tribal weapon your race is familiar with, or even a member of your own race who you would wish a copy of as a subsidiary slave unit"

You hold up your hands.
"Wait a minute, i don't want a slave, not even a slave who is a copy of somebody not the real person"

the mother speaks in a kindly tone.

"Unfortunately, since your best chance of survival in the dungeon scenario is as a senior standard mobile, this necessitates that some of youu immurgent nature be used to create subsidiary mobiles"

You glance from one to the other of them, trying to get past the less than simple explanation.

"So what your saying is, because I am going to be the boss of a dungeon, I'll need to choose some minians to be the boss of, as well as some weapons?"

They all nod.

Your mind goes blank. Sure enough you've played your share of games, everything from Super Marrio brothers to call of duty, but you have never fired a gun in your life, and most of your knolidge of combat comes from Soul Calibur and street fighter games, ---- not to mention a few too many old Bruce Lee films as a child.
How the hell can you be expected to use even normal weapons, let alone these weird alien devices, much less  slaves, or minions or subsidiaries or whatever they were called.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-12-13 17:56:06

sorry to drop this in here, but this is always something I find really fun, if you like it there is a very accessible very expansive game like this with cardgame elements called Storium you might want to try. The community is super-friendly to the blind both in players and administrator.

Just thought I'd drop that in here real quick since this seems to be your guys' thing.

2017-12-13 18:23:45

@Dark first I wasn't mad at you for disrupting my narrative; it was obviously not planned out and I was disrupting your own narrative which isn't an issue because that's kinda the point of these stories imho, but I thought the way you were taking it was more interesting. I just woke up from the most beautiful dream ever and I wanted to preserve some of the spirit but the premis was wrong to begin with and my mind was hazy.
Also in regards to your latest contribution --- yepp, now I'm definitely out of this until we resume into the actual dungeon and I've learned some of the boss's abilities. I'm not very good, or actually I'm totally worthless at making up technological gismos and their descriptions, as opposed to classical magic settings in which case I'd say I'm really damn gifted.

@Bookrage yepp, I had a look at the storium website and completed the tutorial, but I have no idea how to join another game. Also it seemed to be a little too slow-going for my taste but I quite like the concept.

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2017-12-13 21:58:54

to join a game go to looking for players and apply to one, a lot of people expect art for avatars for your character but they're also accepting if they hear you can't see so well, also you can join multiple games, especially if you  buy a membership, which can be for as little as $3 per month if you go monthly. Also some people go faster than others, but it is slow sometimes and I'm part of 13 games, running 7. But go to "browse Games" and go to looking for players and try to apply to an open one or look on the forums for "looking for group"

but I have a forum thread in the new releases room so either get in touch with me privately on there "I am Rattannah there) on here privately, or I've got a thread on it about a month old in the New Releases room if you'd like to learn more or talk about it more. I'm not going to hijack this thing any longer.