Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20150114214448/@comment-24463401-20150307062558

Ameagle wrote: EmpyrealInvective wrote: So let's get this ball picked back up and put back on track. Here are the ideas (in the author's words) I found most applicable for a collar project. This weekend I will set up voting. This would be a good time to argue which one you think would be best before voting begins and to flesh out your ideas. You can also suggest a new idea if you want.

1: There are suddenly a lot of really nice yet dirt cheap houses on offer in the same street. Several families/people move in, not knowing that there was a very good reason the old people moved out...

2: A post apocalyptic story where it does not rain. The rain is only provided by a either a series of trials some humans go through decided by Gods, titans, something supernatural (big, though). The humans do the trials and they receive rain for the next x amount of years experienced there.

3: A young adult (roughly 18) walks into a ghost town with little or no people in it & decides to explore. Then it switches between the stories of the town to the story of the boy between different intervals. Eventually all the stories link together & the last part of the story is the boy finding someone (or something) and then leaving it open ended.

4: Clarity Communications: Tales about its mysterious founder or board of directors. The advanced projects division and its attempts to weaponize ghosts. The company picnic from which no one returned alive. The middle manager having an affair with something not quite human. The offshore telemarketing service they offer where the costs are kept low by the staff being the undead, stolen from their graves and raised by a corporate houngan. The office block which disappeared due to the company's decision to build on a burial ground, using special generators to channel the energy from the dead to power the air conditioning. The frustrated, obsessive hacker who finally breaks into the company's main network support offices and discovers that the company 'servers' are the homeless with their brains exposed and wires erupting from the puffy meat like a drunken spider's web.

5: How about a pre-apocalypse scenario involving a meteor or something that's going to destroy the earth? I think it'd be interesting to explore the psyches of a group of people from different backgrounds, countries, races, and religions all being confronted with the end of not only their existence, but that of the world itself.

6: Perhaps an odd man that travels from city to city, and in each place, he witnesses something horrific. Each event can be a stand alone story, but the presence of the strange man ties it all together in some form.

7: A group of college friends sitting around at a cabin telling horror stories, ghost stories and urban legends. Or... Something happens at the end. The writers can use real urban legends from their locale. Every town has its own legend/stories.

8: I had an idea for a story where there's a small town that's really a front for a secret government lab where they can do whatever illegal things they want. Each story would focus around experiments, the running of the facility, or an aspect of the town and it would be up to the author to decide what exactly would be going on. We could have all types of stories in there considering it would focus on the town and the facility e.i. documents, audio recordings, journal entries, or just plain narration. I think this'd be a cool way for authors to experiment with new story telling techniques and ideas that you don't see much on the main site. I feel like #4 and #8 are very similar. Company/Government facility where they do different illegal things? The only real difference is whether it's a Company or the Government. Damn, I didn't even notice that post... well maybe since the ideas are so similar we could try to merge them into one thing. They seem like they wouldn't really interfere with each other's plot that much, and could still incorporate a majority of what we were trying to get through. Although, we would need the author's permission on it. I also fleshed out my idea a bit on the thread, so that might be a bit relevant.