The Prompt Zone

by Abyssal Angel

Story prompts and snippets that need a little love. Free to a good home! All I ask is that if you adopt a prompt, send me a link so I can see where you take it. As for why the M rating when most of the prompts are E and T, I'm just covering my bases. DISCLAIMER: If you recognize it, I don't own it. I only own myself.

9. An Eastbridge Style Challenge

I've seen a lot of stories that follow the Eastbridge formula lately. Two people die, one of which is from Earth and has played Starcraft, the other in some other universe who is usually an original character. The two combine in the body of the latter person with the power of either the Terrans, Zerg, Protoss, or some amalgamation of the two.

So let's take that a step further shall we?

First idea: How about a person who ends up becoming leader of an amalgamation of all THREE races? It'd be interesting to see someone's idea of how Zerg, Terran, and Protoss technology might look like and what they'd do with it.

Second idea: Forget the O.C. Picture this instead:

John Carver, your average gamer/geek/engineer/technophile, dies saving people in some sort of accident. Hero material. He gets granted a second chance, and who does he wake up with the memories of? Why, John Shepherd of course! Only John Carver Shepherd's got a HUD overlay in his brain he didn't have before that's given him power over the Protoss and/or Terrans and/or Zerg. How is John Carver Shepherd going to deal with the events he knows is coming thanks to having played Mass Effect, and how can he use his Zerg/Protoss/Terran power to change things?

So how's that? John Shepherd and Mass Effect not your style? Then how about 'Starcraft Gamer gets combined with X', X being Jack O'niell or Daniel Jackson of SG1, or Han Solo of Star Wars, or maybe le random presumed-to-be-dead-on-a-back-water-planet-and-abandoned Red Shirt from Star Trek, or Xander from BtVS, or heck, maybe even the T-800 from Terminator! Maybe something went wrong when he got sent back in time, causing him to catch the complete mental download of said gamer dude and now John Carver-bot has to deal with Terminator tech combining with Zerg, Terran, and/or Protoss stuff. Now wouldn't that be interesting?