Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #38 - Mad Machines
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Mad Machines
Tell me a story about the craziest means of transport in your setting ! What do the hooligans drive ? It could be anything; outrageous chopper-style steam motorcycles, mono-wheeled racing chariots drawn by baby dragons, tanks with jacked-up tracks and fishtail exhausts painted in garish pink and purple camo schemes, ornithopters fitted with afterburners and JATO packs - let your imagination go wild !
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
This one sounds like a lot of fun! I've always loved the style of vehicles of Mad Max.
I watched a bunch of behind the scenes footage of Mad Mad: Fury Road, especially the mechanics making everything in the film.
Mad Max had some amazing vehicles ! I've seen some of them made in 28mm scale for gaming with - serious weathering and rust needed 😁
But the tank idea came from one I saw many, many years ago. There was a thing called "The World Game", set in a fictitious but recognisable near-future world. Each country was played by an entire wargames club, with all the resources that involved, and the battles were played out in 1/72 scale. I only ever got to one battle, with about 300 tanks on each side filling a school gym, it was pretty impressive.
Back then, most of the models were Airfix kits (it was all we could get in 1/72 scale). So we were all frantically building Chieftain tanks, and a friend said that he was getting bored after making about a dozen identical ones. So the next one, he jacked up the suspension and made fishtail exhausts out of stretched sprue. It looked awesome !
Here's one I wrote which was inspired by your prompt here -
https://ecency.com/hive-191038/@killerwot/groups-of-talirda-world-building
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Awesome post, and well worth 2 SBI's 😀