Hey everyone! Some of you may remember that before I was a mod last year my gift to TOS for the new year was this giant prompt list that is still available for plot drops and has some of my favourite ridiculous plot ideas on it, but for this year I’ve done it again, as you may be able to see :P. Please use these, I had a lot of fun coming up with them! (And pretend this isn’t like... nine days late >.>)
There’s a door in your house. There was a point at which that door wasn’t there, but you don’t remember when. You also don’t know what’s behind the door, but you don’t feel like you don’t know, and regardless, every time you go to look through it... it just slips your mind once you get to the door. (Some sorta trickster playing with your character or strong magical enchantment hiding serious secrets)
Your character done goofed. They’ve upset someone with magical prowess in some way, offended something they shouldn’t have, dabbled with a bad potion, or something, and the outcome is they’ve become a cat for a few days. (Other animals may be substituted)
There’s strength in numbers, but someone put over a hundred chicken eggs in your house and now you’re not sure they’re chicken eggs. (Maybe cockatrice, maybe something else?)
Your character needs to remember something very important, something critical. However, after a mosquito bite, they’ve forgotten it. Knowing how important the thing they’ve forgotten was they’re incredibly stressed out about it. Meanwhile, elsewhere, someone has woken up with the memory of something that they know is very important but they’re not sure why, just that it is. (Brain Biter) (Could be great for a first meeting!)
Your characters are having a sleepover/one night stand/committed relationship and are sleeping in the same bed/room. One of them asks the other why they’re breathing so hard, except they weren’t. There’s something else in the room.
Your characters witness a murder, and the perps leave before their victim, an elderly man. As he dies he presses an amulet into one character’s hand. “Keep it safe.” After that, no matter what your characters do, that amulet keeps reappearing on them, and sometimes, just sometimes, it gets burningly hot.
Your character finds an oldfashioned envelope with a wax seal. Inside is nothing but a key and an address. However, when they pursue it, they’re just led to a box (perhaps another character’s inheritence that they’ve never been able to open?) with another key and another address. Do they dare chase up the next one?
Your character’s living room has been painted the same since they moved in: cream walls with one rich red highlight wall. After a break in, they find out something pretty scary - it wasn’t painted with paint but with blood.
One of the worst things about waking in a forest is when you get a spider’s web to the face when you weren’t expecting it. Especially a giant spider web that you’re actually trapped in and you can hear something coming near... (Arachne)
Your character has decided with the new year to get into gardening. So every day they start going out into their garden and dig. Always in the same spot, one hour a day exactly. Actually, now they think about it, they’re not sure why their still digging, nothing needs to be planted five feet deep. Their friends are getting worried. They won’t stop digging. Maybe there’s something that wants digging up.
Your character wakes up in their parents clothes. Their parents are in a diffferent town/country/continent/dimension/dead.
Your character is very annoyed at the person they’re living with for never replacing the soap when they use it up. And for being wasteful with the soap, there was no way anyone ought to be going through the soap that fast. It becomes a big source on contention between them as the oil starts going too. (Bannik)
Your character’s next door neighbour is a sweet old lady who no one sees very often, but now hasn’t been seen for a week. When your character sees her again, she’s walking a bit strange, looking a bit dead in the eyes... and you’re pretty sure you just saw her eat roadkill. (Bhut)
Your character wakes up with something like a mosquito bite on their cheek. They have a strange memory of a very dark secret and mystery, but no idea where it came from. When they do find out who it belonged to they also found out that person died, leaving some serious unsolved business that only your character can solve. (Maybe multiple characters get multiple fragments and need to solve it together.) (Brainbiter)
Your character ends up with a minor ghost problem for which they summon an NPC exorcist. Unfortunately, as they come to your character’s home, they get attacked by a caballi, killing them and leaving a dead body in your place. They’ve now got to explain this dead body in their home and they’ve still got a problem with a ghost and exorcists avoiding them because the last dropped dead.
Your neighbor’s daughter asks you to look after her pet guinea pig while they go on a family trip. You swear to this girl that come hell or highwater her pig will be protected. This leads to a very interesting and intense week with a Condenado.
Character meets a djab who has been hired for a mission, and finds them strangely amicable, even growing to befriend them. At least, until they find out the Djab was hired to kill their friend.
Mistakes are made. Your characters encounter a ballybog and start tripping, and in their inebriated state, they then have the misfortune of stumbling into an Eintykara nest. The mix is not pleasant and god spare the poor souls who come across them.
Your character is trying one of those new diet trends that’s going around, or alternatively a food cleanse, and it seems to be working impressively well. At least, until they realise it’s a fat flitter.
Your character wakes up one morning with a memory of a murder or otherwise terrible act that someone else committed. (brain biter) What they don’t realise is that the memory was one from the other character’s alternate universe self, bringing in some real complications.
Your character has been having a serious spell of bad luck recently. Maybe it’s a faulty good luck charm, maybe it’s that mirror they broke, or maybe it was that giant black monster they saw the other day, who knows. (Likho)
One character with average or less speed and one supernaturally fast character are walking along quite amenably, when they see two people not too far ahead of them. Suddenly, one of the two people’s jaws snaps wide open and they swallow them whole. The Mornlich then turns it attention to them. They better run.
The next door neighbor’s kid woke up without any bones left in their arm one morning and a deep hole in their elbow, and you’ve had a sinking feeling for a couple days now that there’s something in your home. (Rawhead)
Your character stumbles across a pile of warm, steamy organs in their garden one evening. By the time they’ve got the police, someone or anyone helpful at all, they’re gone, and all that remains is some bile. They’ve now got to convince people that it is definitely starting to become a frequent thing. (Stikini)
A yurei has a vendetta against your alternate universe self, but has now ended up AC with your current self. Have fun with that.
Your character sees a craiglist ad for “Willing volunteer needed for human sacrifice” They decide that this is probably a dodgy individual that needs investigating and expose and volunteer?
The last three people who have stepped into an elevator in a building of your choice have died. Why?
Your character is playing a musical instrument home alone. They hear someone clap.
When your characters agree to go to the circus, they weren’t expecting to be seduced by the magic of Pickle’s Family Circus. Bonus points if they’re a warden caught unawares.
There are some serious weeds growing in your character’s garden, and when they go to dig them up, they start screaming (Mandrakes, Supernatural Plants)
One character finds a four leaf clover and tucks it into the breast pocket of another character to give them luck, in an affectionate way. Unfortunately, it’s Raskovnik, and something gets uncovered if you get my meaning. (Supernatural plants)
Your character is attacked by vampires, but the attack suddenly stops after one bite. They declare your blood gross because it’s Rh negative. Your character is left, very confused. (Order of Everlasting Blood)
Day - (1) Lust for Vampyr - I Monster (2) Female of the Species - Space (3) In The Room Where You Sleep -Dead Man’s Bones (4) Human Behaviour - Bjork (5) Howlin’ for You - The Black Keys (6) Monster Hospital - Metric (7) Zombie Love Song - Your Favorite Martian (8) Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (9) The Geeks Were Right - the Faint (10) Parallel Universe - Red Hot Chili Peppers (11) Monster - The Automatic (12) Walking With a Ghost - Tegan and Sara (13) The Devil Takes care of His Own - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (14) Human - Daughter (15) Come away to the water - Maroon 5
Night - (1) Bottom of the River - Delta Rae (2) A forest - the cure (3) Sugar Water - Cibo Matto (4) The Devil Within - Digital Daggers (5) Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge (6) Red Eyes and Tears - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (7) Fresh Blood - Eels (8) Howl - Florence and the Machine (9) Afraid - The Neighbourhood (10) Aly walk with me - the Raveonettes (11) Closer - Kings of Leon (12) Virgin - Manchester Orchestra (13) Numb - Portishead (14) Eyes on Fire - Blue Foundation (15) Dirge - Death in Vegas
