Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #94 - Abandoned Ruins
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 - Abandoned Ruins
In our world, once a building is abandoned it is generally overrun by it's environment very rapidly. An abandoned house in a temperate zone will be covered in vines and climbing plants in a year or two. In the jungle it's even quicker, and entire cities have disappeared into the jungles of Central and South America. Cold climates don't have the same problems with vegetation, but frost damage can turn all but the most solid buildings into rubble in a decade or two. The desert is perhaps the kindest climate, just burying buildings under sand and adding a bit of erosion.
Tell a tale of abandoned buildings from your setting, or perhaps the story of how they were found again. Who lived in them, and why were they abandoned ? Did the inhabitants plan to return, and if so, what stopped them ? How did the buildings change after they were abandoned ? Have the been rediscovered, and if so have they been re-occupied or just turned into a tourist trap ?
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.
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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.