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Post by hengest on Sept 22, 2023 12:06:56 GMT -5
464) You notice all the flowers are looking at you.
465) As the structure before you rises into the air, you fall to the ground, struck by sudden illness.
466) One oak tree remains green very late this fall.
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Post by hengest on Sept 22, 2023 12:11:27 GMT -5
467) In the middle of the blizzard, a hot wind begins to blow.
468) One guard runs in, panicked, his eyes shut tight.
469) Under the river-water lies a maiden, silent and still.
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Post by hengest on Oct 5, 2023 5:47:44 GMT -5
470) The cause of the fire seems to be a swaddled dragonlet. 471) The castle walls have the form of a pair of gigantic arms, their hands meeting at the gate. 472) The quicksand speaks.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2024 10:06:28 GMT -5
473) When the healer sneezes, flowers shoot from her ears. 474) A living heart in a box of stone. 475) Today, the wind sounds like a sigh.
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Post by hengest on Jan 28, 2024 18:25:52 GMT -5
476) You were sure it was a suitable stepping-stone until it spoke to you. 477) This wind blows the flesh right off your bones. 478) You wake up and know you have been replaced.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 3, 2024 14:17:20 GMT -5
476) You were sure it was a suitable stepping-stone until it spoke to you. 477) This wind blows the flesh right off your bones. 478) You wake up and know you have been replaced.Maybe you switched places with a double in a parallel world? Maybe you have become "taken over" and your mind is aware but not in charge of your body so you KNOW what's going on?
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Post by hengest on Feb 6, 2024 15:32:23 GMT -5
479) To those who can read the book, it describes their very process of reading it, and on the next page... 480) A couple, their garb charmingly old-fashioned, dances carelessly in the middle of the dragon's lair, mere feet from his snout. 481) Your bones feel hot, and as you look down, you see a glow from beneath your skin.
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Post by hengest on Feb 6, 2024 15:38:23 GMT -5
482) You wake up to find yourself on the ground, sunflowers peering down at you. (See #464.) 483) A sweetness to the wind this morning. 484) In the swamp, a large bubble keeps forming and popping in the same spot.
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Post by hengest on Feb 6, 2024 19:29:55 GMT -5
485) An hour before dawn, you catch sight of the sun nestled in the nook of a tree. 486) That crocodile has very human teeth. 487) Birds no longer fly, nor seem to want to.
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Post by hengest on Feb 6, 2024 19:39:55 GMT -5
488) As you look down on the valley, you see that the winding paths look like filigree. 489) Several garlic plants have uprooted themselves and are walking away from the vegetable patch. 490) In what sounded like a bustling tavern, you find no one.
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Post by hengest on Feb 7, 2024 21:54:39 GMT -5
491) The chamber, deep underground, smells just like the sea many days' travel to the west. 492) The black ball passes right through you all, then plops to the ground, looking inert. 493) You find yourself gazing down on yourself through the eyes of the tree you fell asleep under.
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Post by hengest on Feb 7, 2024 21:59:16 GMT -5
494) "Copper penny buys a new life, dearie. Silver penny buys a new heart!" 495) Heat lightening blazes all around in the deep blue night, and a hole begins to open at the very top of the sky, revealing... 496) As the lady touches you, suddenly you know what it's like to feel old.
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Post by hengest on Feb 7, 2024 22:04:55 GMT -5
497) Riding toward the sunrise just before dawn, you note that the first rays of light to break over the horizon are accompanied by one black bird each. 498) The healer gives you a piece of suet with a knowing look. 499) "Aye, aye, the graveyard, the garden."
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Post by hengest on Feb 7, 2024 22:06:37 GMT -5
500) After drinking the potion, you find your skin very hard and your heart even harder. 501) "Whistling always brings them!" 502) The ground is rippled for quite a ways around this boulder.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 7, 2024 23:12:49 GMT -5
500) After drinking the potion, you find your skin very hard and your heart even harder. 501) "Whistling always brings them!" 502) The ground is rippled for quite a ways around this boulder. Wow, 502 mini-hooks!! Have an Exalt!
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 8, 2024 8:21:56 GMT -5
500) After drinking the potion, you find your skin very hard and your heart even harder. 501) "Whistling always brings them!" 502) The ground is rippled for quite a ways around this boulder. Wow, 502 mini-hooks!! Have an Exalt! Yeah, that's incredible!
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Post by hengest on Mar 20, 2024 20:58:05 GMT -5
503) As you walk away with the coin, you feel a sharp pain in your hand as it bites you. 504) Starting down into the valley, you stumble, landing on your hands and knees as your heart plops out of your chest, sprouts legs, and runs away. 505) As you wake up, you find that only metal remains to you.
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Post by hengest on Mar 22, 2024 20:01:46 GMT -5
506) A voice from inside a standing stone. 507) The sun hangs frozen in the sky as night falls all around it. 508) Once the ghost passes through you, all your gear and garb fall through you and crash to the floor.
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Post by hengest on Mar 23, 2024 16:39:15 GMT -5
509) This apple is sprouting like an onion. 510) The man in the coffin appears to be breathing, while the mourners all are skeletons. 511) Your limbs all seem longer this evening, as long as their shadows.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Mar 23, 2024 17:49:31 GMT -5
464) You notice all the flowers are looking at you. 465) As the structure before you rises into the air, you fall to the ground, struck by sudden illness. 466) One oak tree remains green very late this fall.Maybe it's some sort of fairy tree?
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Post by hengest on Mar 24, 2024 9:51:03 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Mar 24, 2024 9:53:08 GMT -5
I'll see what I can dig up...
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 11:52:34 GMT -5
512) Your pack gets sick and throws up its contents. 513) A voice speaks to you from the flames and begs you to keep the fire going...forever. 514) The stream parts around a strange dry area in the middle of the bed, and you can see a stairway leading down.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 20:43:24 GMT -5
515) You feel strange and impulsively reach for an empty cup into which you cough a quantity of water. 516) The old man seems to turn only half his face to you as he inquires about your purpose there. 517) You notice that some of the braids of garlic are bruised.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 20:54:59 GMT -5
518) A patch of cardoon grows in the middle of this otherwise uncultivated plain. 519) Your reflections in the puddle seem to have minds of their own. 520) As you awaken, a sinkhole seems to be forming around you.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 20:55:37 GMT -5
On this thread, I will try to come up with mini-hooks. If you want to riff on or develop one, please feel free to post! Or if you want to post your own mini-hook. I'm allowing basically anything that fits into a reasonable sentence or sentence fragment (this is just a rule for myself). Two years and a couple months in. Not too bad.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 20:57:15 GMT -5
19) Teleporting turtles. 20) A house built from a gigantic acorn. 21) A potion that causes the drinker to glow in the eyes of all who have less power 19) How large are turtles? Are they intelligent? Are they trainable? Are they antagonistic or friendly? No larger than a man's head, some are smaller. They are highly intelligent but do not use tools. They cannot be trained but may be convinced. Neither antagonistic nor friendly, they know which side their bread is buttered on.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 20:59:07 GMT -5
18) Occasional phenomenon where night sky looks like a lava lamp. 18) How many moons are there in the sky? Does this effect happen when all the moons are visible at the same time? Does this effect happen everywhere or just near the poles? Two moons out of phase with each other. The effect is not limited to when both are visible. It happens locally without obvious predictability, and you do not know whether it is seen from other places.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 21:01:34 GMT -5
28) [x] causes bones to become briefly very soft. 29) The attribute of Insight with mechanical functions. 30) Tower of Optics. 29) Do you mean the Insight has a mechanical function? Or does it enable a mechanical function? Does it grant an ability to manipulate the world similar to what a machine could do, but without the machine? I meant it had a mechanical function, or potential mechanical function, in the game. I'm still not sure what I imagine here, but I'd like to hear from others on this.
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Post by hengest on Mar 25, 2024 21:02:40 GMT -5
410) In a dream, you are asked to choose a stew served by an old woman or a large piece of fish served by a young courtier. 411) Your muscle tone seems to be increasing and making you uncomfortable. 412) Stewed meat served on exceptionally crusty bread. Great, now I'm hungry.
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