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Unexpected Conseq
Unexpected Consequences! (similar to Hijack a Wish)
It has been said that even the tiniest of things can trigger enormous consequences--such as, the flapping of a butterfly's wings can start a hurricane in another part of the world. That is what this thread is about--a writing game about chain of events.
Each person will reply to another person's small event by turning it into a story about its "unexpected consequences", and then will post another small event. Cheesiness, weird things, unrealistic events, and humor are highly appreciated; after all, with effects this large, things are bound to get silly.
(Cheesy) Examples:
User 1: The orange hat drew the girl's attention.
User 2: Janice was so busy staring at the eye-catching orange hat that she neglected to notice the beginnings of the alien invasion. As she examined the neon fedora, a slimy creature had just enough time to creep to the shelf behind her and snatch the material it needed to construct the super-weapon before escaping. If only Janice hadn't found the hat...the threat to humanity may have never materialized.
Bob dropped a penny outside the store.
User 3: The 1967 penny that Bob dropped just so happened to be the very penny Lewis was looking for--the penny that would pay off his debt. And now that he had enough money to break his debt, Lewis could fully focus on his conquest of the world...
(etc)
Enjoy! The first event is:
Due to a sudden stomach bug, Sarah left the party early.
submitted by WritingWarrior
(February 18, 2014 - 8:57 pm)
(February 18, 2014 - 8:57 pm)
Cool!
After she got home, she found out that the cake at the party was spoiled, and if she'd stayed and eaten some, she would've been even sicker.
Here's mine: Faith found herself looking out the window during her favorite school subject.
If it's too hard, let me know.
(February 18, 2014 - 9:45 pm)
Faith found herself looking out the window during her favorite school subject. As a result, she was the only witness to a robbery at the bank across the street.
Here's mine: Geraldine stayed home from the prom because she had the chicken pox.
(February 23, 2014 - 3:15 pm)
Her date got so annoyed at her that she told her secrets, that she liked Disney. This inspired writers on the CB who made it into an RP.
(February 23, 2014 - 8:36 pm)
Geraldine's true love was at that prom. Her future children faded into oblivion.
Mine's this: Max lingered at the muesem exhibit a bit longer than the others.
(February 23, 2014 - 9:21 pm)
(February 20, 2014 - 4:46 pm)
(February 22, 2014 - 1:20 pm)
(February 23, 2014 - 1:28 pm)
Awesome! I learned about the butterfly effect in Literature; it was brought up by my teacher because we were reading A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.
Because Max stayed at the exibit longer his companions thought he was kidnapped and the authorities scolded him when they arrived and found that they were called out just to reunite a boy looking at a fossil with his friends.
Mine is this: Silvia tried the necklace on carefully before replacing it to the case. Gram was in the other room at the time so she would never even know.
(February 24, 2014 - 5:11 pm)
BUT Gram was keeping that necklace to return to the store she bought it from, and she needed to keep it in mint condition with nothing on it whatsoever. There was a smudge of chocolate icing on Silvia's chin when she put the necklace on, and some of it brushed onto the necklace. When Gram found icing on it later, she couldn't get it off without rusting the necklace. She was going to use the money from returning the necklace to help pay for Silvia's college tuition, but unfortunately, the store would not accept the necklace when it had icing on it, so Silvia couldn't go to college.
BOOM.
Here's mine: Margot bought a new type of fish food for her goldfish.
(March 2, 2014 - 2:11 pm)
Top topppppp
(March 2, 2014 - 4:24 pm)
Because Margot bought a new type of fish food her goldfish got sick and created a mutant virus that got everybody sick, caused the apocalypse, and wiped ot humanity. Jeez Margot, you couldn't pay the extra 2$ for the good fish food?
Here's my event:
A single feather fell form Madam Lucille's boa as she left the palace.
(And yes I dug through old threads to find this.)
(And no, I'm not new to the CB. I posted under a different name before and haven't been on since about April.)
(November 6, 2014 - 3:38 pm)
TOP!
(November 6, 2014 - 3:39 pm)