All Request Thread 2: Ecclectic Wordaloo

[WhatISeemIAm]

The Title Was in The Title Section​

Hello forum, and hello people in, on, around or occupying any extant implicate or explicate order parallel, or relative to the space in, on or around the forum. Welcome to a third iteration of WISIA's request thread. For years the original (or classic) edition was an iconic forum feature that delighted the people, but it is time for one of those bittersweet transitions where some things must be left behind in order to move foreward. You may argue that but for this preamble and a smattering of low-effort RP prompts the new thread is essentially a copy-paste of the old thread, complete with the same typos and coding errors.

Yes? Well, your face is stupid.

Facts #1 Fact #2 Fact #3

• A notable sage of the modern era once remarked, 'ah dew wut ah wuwnt,' which, translated from her uneducated (but not unwise) patois, means, ' I do what I want.' In that spirit let me say my average post length is as long as I feel like making it, and my posting frequency is as often as I feel like writing. Such things depend greatly on how much you inspire me. Naturally I expect others to be sensible and do the same thing because when it works, well, it just fucking works, right? And I'm in no hurry so I have no interest in trying to hammer things into a semblance of functionality at the cost of great effort.
• If you get the compulsion to relate things to me about other games, partners, your schedule, expected absences, morbid and depressing personal issues, etc., have at it. Conversely if you want to go all Mr. Sparkle, and banish me to the land of wind and ghosts, whether on a transient basis - whenever you're not literally in the process of writing with me - or permanently for that matter, for whatever reason you may, or may not care to discuss? That works too. Haven't posted for a month? I'll assume you have your reasons and don't need the added stress of me bugging you. Of course the inverse of this sensible arrangement is that I'm not your writing daddy and I'm not here to push you on the proverbial swing. I'll do my best to inspire and facilitate a fun exchange. If you expect more than that (I don't) then by all means help yourself to some of my unlimited capacity for, 'I'll just go do other stuff.'
• There was a time, far back in the mists of antiquity (and I occasionally get nostalgic thinking back on this innocent period) when I was eagerly flinging myself at anyone who would write with me. Alas, non sum qualis eram. I cry now for madder music, and for stronger wine. All those things most role-players find intimidating (the TLDR plots, the obsessively large and well-developed worlds, casts of NPCs, etc.) are not going to put me off. Actually the alternative is more likely to cause problems.

Once you're done crying about having a stupid face (assuming you do in fact have one) you should read the helpful facts section in the attractive side-panel. Located to your side. I tried to stick to pop-culture with my references, but all of them are 'for the kids,' in a manner of speaking, and if you get that joke and laughed in spite of your horror you can skip this entire phase and go straight to my DMs. For the rest: I trust that if you follow and peruse these (one, two, three, four, five) links, which should suffice as writing samples, you'll see that I can in fact write, yet I rarely RP and the former explains the latter. I'm generally comfortable using ideas I'm excited to write about in solo work. The appeal of RP is in the collaborative process. If you're feeling these vibes though, and would like to write with a classical cynic who posts with the prose of a frustrated poet, like Wodehouse with more drugs I've been told, we'll need a plot that fizzes and pops. Sadly the days of writing up five thousand word prompts are long past for me. So go ahead and read the part about erotic content and kinks, and then I'll show you what you get instead in a section where you'll find plots.

Spoiler: The Part About Erotic Content & Kinks

I had a conversation with a friend the other day. They asked me to describe the robots I was talking about and I said something to the effect of, 'human enough that you wouldn't have to be a freak to want to bang one,' they were surprised. I said I felt they could be trusted with fuckable robots.

It's a sad fact, but not everyone can be trusted with fuckable robots.

I'm not squeamish in the least about writing explicit or depraved scenes. I can do no better than quoting one of my heroes here, 'we like sex. It's jolly. Because it's a primary impulse it can also be difficult and dark and dangerous; it's a bit like food in that respect only even more exciting,' so yes, we like sex, it is indeed jolly, difficult, dark, dangerous and exciting. We also like characters and plots. They exist to facilitate conflict and drama. Sex can be part of that. It should not be central. The fact is things feel gross for me when it seems like the internal logic of the characters and plot are being degraded to facilitate a particular flavour of smut.​

The Section Where You Find The Plots
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In The New Community - a world where everyone is a homebody with a remote-job living their life in VR spaces online with real people or AI substitutes permits even the poorest to be eternally happy and fulfilled. There will remain those who wish for poetry, goodness, real danger and sin. People who 'claim the right to be unhappy.' You can find them outside. Spending their hours amid the eternally liminal spaces of a deteriorating real world. Let's tell a story about some of them.

Some Like it Bot - down-on-their-luck synthetic performers lose their only paying gig when their venue is ruined by bio-supremacists, and- OK sure this is just the plot to Some Like it Hot. Only cyberpunk, with robots pretending to be human musicians. Let's riff on the subject of AI art and content creation in the format of a classic comedy only in our story it will be the 'othered,' group getting a taste of life in the shoes of their oppressors.

Noblesse Oblige - now I know you want to write a story about a noble knight-in-shining-armour in a classic high-fantasy setup. All very by the book. Though ours is a young woman who was raised to pretend to be a man in a desperate bid to keep their family in possession of their lands and title. What a setup. I know. It can then segue happily into a story that only steals seventy or eighty percent of its meaningful plot-points from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Good writers know how to plagiarise with style.

A Plot Where I'll Trust You With Fuckable Robots - sorry, this one is already taken.

The Obligatory Urban Fantasy with Vampires - so our leading lady was bitten by a vampire, and did not die. Romance novel stuff, right? After all this means she's going to be turned. Except these are not your classic bougie ass sedentary vampires. They are a broke-ass, nomadic pack of feral predators, and this young woman just got an express ticket to the very bottom of their social hierarchy.

Thou Suffering Thing - this is what can happen when one of your ancestors annoys a demon. It attached itself to our protagonist's family several generations ago, and now (pending the death of a miserable and short-lived uncle) they find out all about it first-hand. Ending up with something like a malevolent imaginary friend who can mess up their life in very real ways. What the demon wasn't expecting though was to find itself stuck with a human who is so consumed with ennui they almost welcome such a novel occurrence. It could even be the start of a beautiful friendship.