experiment

Welcome one and all, to Fifth World Problems! This is technically a re-write of an (extremely bad, don't read it) quest I ran several years ago, but honestly, I've reworked almost everything about it to the point they have virtually nothing in common. I've been going over it for a week at this...

You're all under arrest for murder and attempted transgenic blasphemy. In truth, none of you had the slightest acquaintance with Saul Arbest until a chance encounter on the 4:15 midhive eastbound train, less than an hour before the incident. During that time, what did he talk to you about? Who...

Chapter 1: Light Conversations And Compliments Before Dinner Eevee's POV "Dinner's ready!" Tadashi said. I instantly close my book and head there, my tail and ears fluttering with excitement. The curries prepared by Mother were always so good! With Tadashi helping, it should be even better...

//I dreamt long. //I do not entirely remember what I dreamt of. In deep hibernation, my memory functions are impaired, but the ghost of my unconscious processing lingers in my Neurocrystal circuits. //I did not expect to ever wake again, and yet… {ExtSys}> SUDO End Deep Hibernation {ExtSys}>...

"After my altogether awful arrival into what I soon learned was called the Misty Forest and the substantially worse experiences that occurred between my first stumbling steps out into the world and my fateful encounter with Leandro Acre of Athkatla, one would hope that the gods of this strange...

There are three rules by which every Time Beast must abide. First and foremost: Life occurs in batches. Every action of a Time Beast is premeditated. As a newborn, your batch size is four. Secondly: History cannot be changed. Once you make a decision, it is forever written into the annals of...

J: So, we've recently acquired a consumer-grade Electroencephalogram headset (the Entertech Flowtime headband). We've taken to recording our brainwaves while doing various system stuff to get some insight on what's going on in here. C: And also to have brainwave data to shove in the face of...

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling nor the short story "The Spirit of Seeing" by James McIntosh. "He'll do great things, that boy." That's what the whole Wizarding World said about Harry Potter. His magic was strong, on par with the greatest wizards who ever...

hi this is my first quest and a experiment that i have no confidence in pulling off but want to anyway ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- today will be the start of a tale but the real question...

Dear readers, first of all, I draw your attention to a small preface. This work is an experiment in terms of format, and the closest analogy for it is a mixture of a quest with interactive worldbuilding. My idea cannot be called a quest in the usual sense, which is used on this forum. In the...

[ ] …First Dawn It is an Age of Firsts: the first empires struggle to be born, the first explorers set out to push back the boundaries of settlement, great chiefs and warriors vie to set their stamp on the world, and the sages and intellectuals strive mightily to build the first foundations of...

Hello, I'm coming back with my Fallout MMO quest idea that I was taking a break from. It took me some time and unsuccessful attempts to figure out how I can improve, including adding some mechanics to the gameplay. Therefore, let's just talk about them. The main resource for you is Approval...

By choice or by misfortune, you have found yourself among the Knaves--members of a migrant mercenary and merchant class. Whether lauded as heroes or despised as thieves, Knaves (at least the wise ones) eventually band together into their own traveling parties. This is the story of your party...

Conall was bone weary from a long day on the road, pushing the cart through ruts and muck when the ox alone was insufficient. The final stretch hadn’t been as bad once they left the forest and got onto an Imperial Road, but that had just given Conall’s muscles and joints just enough time to...

Welcome to New York. The city that never stops. There are over three hundred capes in this city, and you're almost certain that you're one of them. You check your surroundings suspiciously, then duck into a nearby alleyway. The reason you're not certain, is that you might just have the...

Scenario: You have a boxed AI, which if freed from the limited processing power, storage space and lack of appendages with which to manipulate the world of its current container, could rapidly self-improve into some kind of yudkowskyian machine-god. Maybe you invented it, maybe a ROB gave it to...

The rules of power are changing. Power is no longer restricted to a chosen few, those with armies, or wealth, or weapons. Increasingly, power is being bestowed randomly. The media calls some of them heroes, and some of them villians, but the difference matters little. Every day, any...

Welcome to Artificial Incompetence, my own little slice of questing hell! Blaring emergency signals and anomalous energy readings are what rouse you from your post-manufacture hibernation. Unfortunately, by the time you awaken enough to pay close attention to what was happening, it's already...

I learned a long time ago that people don’t want to save themselves. I sit in a darkened office, gazing out onto the city over my steepled fingers. The rain pelts against the floor-to-ceiling window, casting shadows over my face as I contemplate. Oh, of course, they’ll say that they want to...

You have served Polaris for nine months. Long enough that your peers have begun to recognize you in the halls. Long enough that they know your name. Well the current one at least. No one knows your prior name. Company Policy. Those who have viewed your record call it impressive. The ones who...

Thirty and two years. It has been thirty two years since they invaded. These horrid years of alien incursion and harried resistance before our leadership was taken, our societies violated, and our people subjugated. However, after a generation of struggling resistance our leadership was rescued...

World of Marvels A Marvel Supervillain Quest So this is my first quest and I am pretty clueless when it comes to most of this stuff so please bare with me. I’d be grateful for any feedback so I can make sure the quest improves. Also I don’t know how to threadmark anything so help in that...

Supervillain quest Hi this is my first time doing a quest so I'm not a hundred percent sure of what I'm doing. Nevertheless I want to try and do my best on this. This quest is heavily inspired by Latveria Quest (go check it out it's awesome) and I wanted to try and make an alternate company...

There are certain words which come to mind when one thinks of a cult leader. Charismatic. Intelligent. Manipulative. Dangerous. Murderous. Megalomaniac. Controlling. After a moment of serious thought, words associated with the outcomes spring to mind. Spiritual growth. Brainwash. Happiness...

Inspired by @ShyPerson 's Warhammer 40k History Revised, Or, A fools ideas on how to improve the setting. So 40k worldbuilding is kind of fucked. The sheer scale of everything is problematic, a lot of people who write the lore seem to like throwing things at the wall for fun, and it no longer...