ONC Prompts Through The Years

2021

23. Under the blue moonlight, the elves come out. For a transient moment, let there be peace and harmony.

24. You ask the faerie to let you and your loved one, who happens to be royalty, be together "happily ever after." 500 years later, with neither of you having aged a day, you learn that, when it comes to magic contracts, wording matters.

25. The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice.

26. You are hiking in the woods and decide to explore a cave. The stalactites and stalagmites are amazing! One cluster of stalagmites has holes in the center and looks like a set of giant pipes growing out of the floor. Just for laughs, you blow into one. The chamber echoes with the sound, and then...

27. You crack a math problem that has stumped experts for decades. The only problem is: you're only an undergrad and you stumbled across the problem while snooping in your professor's office while waiting for your appointment to start.

28. You're never without your playlist, so much so that it dictates every aspect of your life.

29. "I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky." - Virginia Woolf

30. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Rumi

31. "Just curious, how do I exit this game?"

32. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

33. When a loved one dies, the person is lost. Until they find a jar of 'fortune notes' which leads them to read each one every day. How does the journey start and end?

**Disclaimer: Since the 'each one every day' part of the prompt has caused some confusion, we encourage you to interpret this part as you wish to.**

34. Strange and unlikely circumstances lead to someone's pet iguana becoming the most feared and respected Captain, during the Golden Age of Piracy.

35. "Please tell me that is not the codex our chief has mentioned earlier."

36. You are Death, and you are obligated to roam the Earth for one week every hundred years to learn about what the humans are up to these days. The problem? You get stuck on Earth during 2020. Definitely not a social hour.

37. "Catch that chocolate thief!" And it was shouted at a pumpkin with tiny legs and hands.

38. The fact that the planet is nothing more than a zombie-infested wasteland, a harsh and unforgiving place, doesn't mean that true love doesn't exist.

39. Hello welcome to The Sanctuary - Oh, you wish to leave? Why are you pressing the x button? Why, are you trying to 'exit'? Why - no, you'll stay with us forever.

40. If only you knew you'd meet them, you'd have dressed a bit better. Especially since the only thing you can think of since you've seen their smile is 'Oh shit!

41. A writer has a vision of a distant future and is ridiculed by their peers, cast out by society when that vision is published.

42. In the early-Neolithic (around 10,000 BCE) a young individual perfects the recipe for ale, leading to a life beyond their wildest imagination.

43. You've traveled into the past, but you're not sure how. Somehow, you must make it back to the present without disturbing the timeline. However, that's made a little difficult when a character of a historical legend starts to take an interest in you.