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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:
Lily found a fluffy, exotic puppy in thepet store. She reached out to pet it..........................
submitted by Brooke E.
(September 12, 2014 - 7:27 am)
(September 12, 2014 - 7:27 am)
...Lily was so awed that the puppy's fur felt exactly like silk, that she didn't notice the snake had escaped from its cage and was enjoying itself as he constricted around Llily's leg.
A busy bank worker opened the safe to collect his client's money...
(September 12, 2014 - 11:53 am)
Which allowed a criminal to knock him out and steal a few hundred bucks.
Allie saw a rainbow.............
(September 13, 2014 - 2:49 pm)
(September 12, 2014 - 2:12 pm)
Allie was so busy staring at the rainbow that she failed to notice the tank approaching from behind her.
Kristy tripped.
(September 13, 2014 - 8:48 pm)
Which was lucky, as she had just been escaping from a Nazi concentration camp, and there were no less than eight Gestapo guards hot on her heels. When Kristy went down, the closest guard tripped over her, the next tripped over him, and so on down the line like so many dominoes!
Oliver had pea soup for lunch.
(September 15, 2014 - 6:41 pm)
Oliver didn't notice that the pea soup was really poison, so he soon started choking very loudly, which made Jenson wake up.
Jenson woke up.
(September 16, 2014 - 6:26 pm)
Jenson woke up to see a burglar stealing the silver plates and shooed the burglar off.
Eli smiled.
(September 17, 2014 - 5:48 pm)
Eli accidentally smiled at a frown monster, which hates smiles. The frown monster ate him.
Tim pressed a big red button at a factory............
(September 17, 2014 - 8:22 pm)
Joe didn't realize that he was allergic to smiles, and soon got bumps and stings all over him. But that was very good, as a kidnapper who was trying to kidnap him was so scared of his apperance that he went screeching away.
Lento burped in a far away galaxy...
(September 17, 2014 - 8:30 pm)
...and grossed-out his date.
Alex found his marble...
(September 18, 2014 - 2:06 pm)
but soon died because he was to intent in looking at his marble that a radioactivity site exploded.
Jiey ate a sandwich on a beach...
(September 18, 2014 - 7:31 pm)
...and was so busy watching the other guys surfing that he didn't notice that a malevolent seagull had switched the real 'wich for a sand-wich. A 'wich made of...sand. (corny joke)
Eloise watered her plant...
(September 19, 2014 - 5:56 pm)
And notice that it was a venus flytrap until it was too late.
Kelly was thirsty...
(September 20, 2014 - 5:57 pm)
Kelly didn't notice she was drinking a potion, and she turned into a rabbit.
Tim ate a cookie.........
(September 21, 2014 - 8:31 am)
This looked fun. Mind if I join?
Tim ate a cookie and dots broke out on his face, the reason being the cookie having nuts in it. ( Not sure if that's right. Sorry if it isn't.)
Morgan walked down the street......
(September 21, 2014 - 11:57 am)