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February 5, 2021
Batchery Prompt #26 - 02/06/21
Published on February 05, 2021 02:58
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February 4, 2021
Batchery Prompt #25 - 02/04/21
Prompt #25 – There’s a fracking-related earthquake, which unleashes a dormant breed of oversized monsters upon your town.
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Published on February 04, 2021 01:44
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Disturbing Thought of the Day - 02/04/21
Published on February 04, 2021 01:44
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February 3, 2021
Disturbing Thought of the Day - 02/03/21
A mad genius figures out a way to become a more "hands-on" super hero.
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Published on February 03, 2021 02:53
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Batchery Prompt #24 - 02/03/21
A group of mystics holds a friend’s bachelor party in a pocket dimension. What's the worst that can happen?
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Published on February 03, 2021 02:52
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February 2, 2021
Batchery Prompt #23 - 02/02/21
A remorseless hunter kills a childhood friend, then ends up regretting it.
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Published on February 02, 2021 12:01
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Disturbing Thought of the Day - 02/02/21
A billionaire genius survives a monster attack, then treats his revenge like a "problem" to be solved.
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Published on February 02, 2021 11:59
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May 27, 2018
Four Little Movie Prompts #4
Step 1: Take 4 movies you've seen and list them (no matter how bad). What's important is that you remember them.
For example:
1. Wonder Woman
2. Surviving The Game
3. Fist Of The North Star
4. The Shawshank Redemption
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Wonder Woman—Little girl wants to be a warrior
2. Surviving The Game—Being chased by hunters in a remote setting
3. Fist Of The North Star—Finding out your father's dead sets you off
4. The Shawshank Redemption—Framed for a crime you didn't commit
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
In a mystical land, a daughter shuns the comforts of her noble blood and learns the ways of war. Something of a combat prodigy, she rises in fame and rank, ending up second-in-command to her father. A general in the king's army, her father's framed for murder and beheaded. As is royal custom, all members of a traitor's family must die and everyone gets the headman's axe . . . but her.
With vengeance in her heart, she flees the king's realm with his best trackers on her shapely ass. Assuming she survives them, her aim's to return and learn the names of everyone involved in her father's death—and why they betrayed him. Then she'll "let" them die, one-by-one.
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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For example:
1. Wonder Woman
2. Surviving The Game
3. Fist Of The North Star
4. The Shawshank Redemption
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Wonder Woman—Little girl wants to be a warrior
2. Surviving The Game—Being chased by hunters in a remote setting
3. Fist Of The North Star—Finding out your father's dead sets you off
4. The Shawshank Redemption—Framed for a crime you didn't commit
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
In a mystical land, a daughter shuns the comforts of her noble blood and learns the ways of war. Something of a combat prodigy, she rises in fame and rank, ending up second-in-command to her father. A general in the king's army, her father's framed for murder and beheaded. As is royal custom, all members of a traitor's family must die and everyone gets the headman's axe . . . but her.
With vengeance in her heart, she flees the king's realm with his best trackers on her shapely ass. Assuming she survives them, her aim's to return and learn the names of everyone involved in her father's death—and why they betrayed him. Then she'll "let" them die, one-by-one.
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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Published on May 27, 2018 01:10
Four Little Movie Prompts #3
Step 1: Take 4 movies you've seen and list them (no matter how bad). What's important is that you remember them.
For example:
1. Machete
2. Terminator: Salvation
3. Looper
4. Coming To America
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Machete—Ambitious fed trying to get a big collar
2. Terminator: Salvation—A death row inmate donates his body to science
3. Looper—A temporal mob sends people into the past to set up shop
4. Coming To America—Mismatched love occurs
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
In 2019, the first female head of the FBI's Temporal Anti-Crimes Unit (TAU) targets an up-and-coming mob from 2060. The two main limitations of time travel are that you can only go into the past and that the process kills living matter. Since this mob can't safely send anyone through, they have to recruit crooks in the past through indirect means.
The FBI's been lucky enough to avert some tricky schemes thus far. But then someone figures a possible breakthrough, via an innocent (framed) death row inmate, who donated his body to science in the future. Freshly-executed, he's a disposable subject with no allegiance to the mob. The bad guys genetically modify his corpse and then send it back through time.
The temporal radiation jump-starts the subject, bringing him back to life. He wakes up in the past, surrounded by black market geneticists who want to run tests to see if the process is stable. The prisoner somehow busts out. Worse, TAU gets wind of this and goes after him with a kill order.
After all, this guy might be the key to safe time travel. If the process is confirmed, swarms of time crooks could descend upon the present with all kinds of future tech. They are to end him, destroy his body, and shred any research.
Hunted by both sides, the time traveler just wants to live. Along the way, both he and the ambitious federal agent bump into each other enough times for a romantic spark to occur . . .
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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For example:
1. Machete
2. Terminator: Salvation
3. Looper
4. Coming To America
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Machete—Ambitious fed trying to get a big collar
2. Terminator: Salvation—A death row inmate donates his body to science
3. Looper—A temporal mob sends people into the past to set up shop
4. Coming To America—Mismatched love occurs
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
In 2019, the first female head of the FBI's Temporal Anti-Crimes Unit (TAU) targets an up-and-coming mob from 2060. The two main limitations of time travel are that you can only go into the past and that the process kills living matter. Since this mob can't safely send anyone through, they have to recruit crooks in the past through indirect means.
The FBI's been lucky enough to avert some tricky schemes thus far. But then someone figures a possible breakthrough, via an innocent (framed) death row inmate, who donated his body to science in the future. Freshly-executed, he's a disposable subject with no allegiance to the mob. The bad guys genetically modify his corpse and then send it back through time.
The temporal radiation jump-starts the subject, bringing him back to life. He wakes up in the past, surrounded by black market geneticists who want to run tests to see if the process is stable. The prisoner somehow busts out. Worse, TAU gets wind of this and goes after him with a kill order.
After all, this guy might be the key to safe time travel. If the process is confirmed, swarms of time crooks could descend upon the present with all kinds of future tech. They are to end him, destroy his body, and shred any research.
Hunted by both sides, the time traveler just wants to live. Along the way, both he and the ambitious federal agent bump into each other enough times for a romantic spark to occur . . .
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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Published on May 27, 2018 01:09
Four Little Movie Prompts #2
Step 1: Take 4 movies you've seen and list them (no matter how bad). What's important is that you remember them.
For example:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. La Femme Nikita
3. Brotherhood of the Wolf
4. New Jack City
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—A stolen heirloom
2. La Femme Nikita—A runaway junkie
3. Brotherhood of the Wolf—A mist-filled, distant forest
4. New Jack City—Addicts
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
An ancient heirloom is stolen and broken open. Inside is a lost recipe for a combat drug. Whoever takes it becomes physically and mentally superior . . . but with a murderous intent. Side effects . . . who knows. In a remote lab, the ingredients are put together and the drug's synthesized. Animal testing yields promising results so human testing is authorized.
A runaway junkie is the first human trial. Within hours of being dosed, the frail young man breaks out of the lab, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Worse, two of the surviving researchers began to display symptoms of enhanced aggression and strength. Apparently, the drug's effects can be passed on by close exposure . . .
Security teams put the survivors down and race off into the woods. Their aim is to terminate the test subject and anyone he's infected before he reaches the nearest town and spreads the infection any further.
There. Done. Whaddya think?
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For example:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. La Femme Nikita
3. Brotherhood of the Wolf
4. New Jack City
Step 2: String together a crude plot by connecting one facet from each movie. Adapt to your needs as necessary.
For example:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—A stolen heirloom
2. La Femme Nikita—A runaway junkie
3. Brotherhood of the Wolf—A mist-filled, distant forest
4. New Jack City—Addicts
Step 3: Clean it up. Then wonder if this puppy's different/interesting enough to write out as a short story, comic, RPG, etc.
For example:
An ancient heirloom is stolen and broken open. Inside is a lost recipe for a combat drug. Whoever takes it becomes physically and mentally superior . . . but with a murderous intent. Side effects . . . who knows. In a remote lab, the ingredients are put together and the drug's synthesized. Animal testing yields promising results so human testing is authorized.
A runaway junkie is the first human trial. Within hours of being dosed, the frail young man breaks out of the lab, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Worse, two of the surviving researchers began to display symptoms of enhanced aggression and strength. Apparently, the drug's effects can be passed on by close exposure . . .
Security teams put the survivors down and race off into the woods. Their aim is to terminate the test subject and anyone he's infected before he reaches the nearest town and spreads the infection any further.
There. Done. Whaddya think?
https://www.patreon.com/home
Published on May 27, 2018 01:07