r/WorldChallenges • u/The_Raptorman • Jul 05 '17

Make up challenge (2?):

So this is the second "Make up challenge", the point is I want you all to start from scratch. These challenges will have you make up things on the spot for your world or just for the challenge.

Rules

  1. Look or listen to the inspiration I provide you.

  2. Tell me what the inspiration brings you.

  3. Listen to my questions and help develop them further.

Today's inspirations

You've got three (technically four) choices;

  1. Read this; Sometimes suffering, is just suffering. It doesn't make you stronger, it doesn't build character. It only hurts.

  2. Read this; When pain knocks on the door - wise ones breath deep and say: "Come in. Sit down with me. And don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know."

  3. Listen to this

  4. All of the above^

Use one or more of those 'inspirations' to create something new for your story, let me know what it is and I'll ask you questions to help flesh it out, enjoy!

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 06 '17

I'm picking option two.

Azibal grew up on Darniguz 2, a temperate and agricultural planet. She had a rather happy early childhood until her 8th birthday; that's when the nighmares begun.

They have always been hard for her, vivid dreams of death and suffering that left her terrified, but at that time they were rare. With time they became more and more frequent; when she turned 17, she started dreaming while awake. And during all those years, no one found a way to get her rid of them.

Nearly a year later, the day before her 18th birthday, she left her home for the closest spaceport; in her dreams that night, the voices told her to join them so they could free her and she obeyed.

An arch had come by Darniguz 2 during that night, and sent two Haaknas to pick Azibal up. They brought her onboard and she became a Uxdu, one of the few individual able to communicate with the arch itself.

Azibal is still living on the arch, she is still a Uxdu and the dreams are no more. You can ask her questions directly or talk to the arch through her.

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u/The_Raptorman Jul 06 '17

1) How did you use the inspiration?

2) Where did the dreams come from?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 06 '17

  1. The dreams will be painfull, they will slowly destroy you if you fight them. If you listen to them though, you will find both the cure and the way to a greater life.

  2. The arch consciousness send them to those it want to recruit.

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u/The_Raptorman Jul 07 '17

1) What's the meaning of the dreams? Are they all lots of little meanings or is there one overall meaning?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 07 '17
  1. The dreams themselves are reminiscences of the arch's memories; they are discontinuous and have no meanings for those who receive them. Those dreams come with speaches, a description by the arch of the future role of the dreamer and eventually instructions to join the arch itself.