Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #42 - Unexpected Technology
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 - Unexpected Technology
*Tell me a story of technology turning up where it shouldn't ! It might be a primitive tribe with access to firearms, or an ancient ruin with a calcified scientific instrument far beyond their level of technology, or maybe an alien probe detects signs of nuclear fusion on what should be an uninhabited planet. 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.
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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
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- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
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Very cool prompt, I love a good bit of genre-mashing. Science-fantasy is a fun mix!
Thank you ! Some of my earliest reading was science fantasy and space opera, two genres where realism takes a back seat to telling a good story with interesting characters. Modern authors could learn a lot from those, and I still love some of the basic ideas when it comes to prompts !
While not specifically built around the prompt, I think the Great Span may count as Unexpected Technology: https://peakd.com/hive-191038/@oblivioncubed/trothguard-player-resources-lavan-bridge-city
Yep, I reckon that counts 😀
It was the only entry (and much appreciated !), so 2 SBI's on the way !
Oh you didn't need to give me sbi bro! I keep meaning to carve out more time to answer prompts and will keep trying, but you definitely don't have to give SBI when I manage lol
It's the least I can do - you definitely deserve some reward, especially for all the work you put into doing prompts every day ! Also, I finally wrote a story inspired by one....
Oh nice! I'll have to read it!