ONC Prompts Through The Years

2021

**Please note: Prompt #43 specifically means historical-based legends/myths only, not real-life people/events. The historical legend aspect of this prompt can not be altered.**

44. When a raid on an enemy encampment goes awry, a child is taken in and raised by those they were brought up to believe were vile and monstrous.

45. The war has begun and soldiers are needed. You have two choices: serve as a soldier, or defy the call and disguise yourself as a shepherd

46. It's Saturday night, and you have no plans to go on a date. You're all alone and decide to re-watch the Shakespearean tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet', torturing your already broken heart. The next morning, you find that it's the late 16th century, the time when Shakespeare was still writing the play, and you spot the incomplete manuscript of 'Romeo and Juliet'.

47. A mysterious statue of an eye appears in a sleepy town. Nobody knows where it came from, but it seems to change locations every night when nobody is watching. One day, it appears on your front door.

48. Everyone who survived assumed the Zombie Apocalypse was the worst thing they would have to live through. Boy, were they wrong?!

49. 'Your safety is of utmost importance to us' is displayed on the handwritten parchment letter thrown in your hands previously. "Yeah, sure, except there is someone that just died a few minutes ago!"

50. From dusk until dawn you're human. During daylight hours, you are a creature straight out of even the most hardened individual's worst nightmares.

51. I've been doing my Latin homework for three hours, and the only thing that comes out for me is this huge chunk of demonic goo instead of whatever should be put on paper due tomorrow.

52. The day it started raining venomous spiders, we knew we were in trouble.

53. When wildlife starts rampaging, all the humans are forced underground. However, they come to a terrible discovery that being underground is no safer than being on the surface.

54. You get a mysterious message on your phone stating, Agent 23, you have been activated. You guess it's a bad time to have amnesia.

55. Three childhood friends on vacation tell stories from their past while trapped inside one rainy day. As the stories become more and more convoluted, they realize there are things in their past they have been suppressing all this time.

56. You can see the future by looking into people's eyes. However, if you tell them about it, it won't come to fruition. One day, you lock eyes with yourself in the mirror.

57. Death has records of everyone's existence. Except - according to Death - your records don't exist.

58. "This is fun." Your friend says. "Seriously? We're hiding a body!" You respond.

59. "Man, I could kill for a good beer," you say. The bartender looks both ways before leaning towards you. "Do you mean that? Because there is someone I would like...disposed of."

60. Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate.

61. I would've lived longer if it weren't for Lorraine. There's only one issue... who's Lorraine?

62. Waking up to an omen of death on your doorstep isn't exactly how you pictured your Monday morning.

63. You, a magic wielder, accidentally stole the most fearsome supernatural family's relic

64. What should have been a simple task for a trio of ghost hunters quickly becomes something for which the term 'Worst Case Scenario' is the mother of all understatement.

65. "Really? Of all the things you decide to bring on our underground excursions you bring salt?"

66. When you die, you come back. But you never come back the same, there's always a price to pay for resurrection.

67. "What? Why are you looking at me as if I grew horns?"

68. Haunted by the ghosts of your future, you go to great lengths to do what you can to ensure your life doesn't turn out as they predict.

69. When music becomes a way to communicate no words could compare.

70. You haven't received a letter in a month from your loved one. You know exactly how long it takes to arrive from them. You start to pace. Check the mail. And here it is! You open it but there's something different about it. The date on the top right corner -- it's in the future. A hundred years into the future.

71. "This is our last dance, my dear." They said, to which you reply, "Then make it the best dance, my love."

72. You met the love of your life at a music festival, but after that weekend you never saw them again. Twenty years later, that changes.

73. In a group chat, you reply to a message that was not aimed at you and yet inadvertently start something new with your crush.

74. Thanks to your parent's last will and testament, you find yourself living out in the English countryside with the grandmother you'd never met before and an apparent servant whose only goal is to make you fall in love with them. The problem here is that this grandmother has already promised your hand in marriage to a noble in line for the throne.

75. The planet has succumbed to climate change, depleting our resources and pushing humans to the verge of extinction. When a new continent surfaces with fresh resources, Earth's survivors discover something they never dreamed of.

76. There are two things keeping this world operating: The clockwork system, and the dimension-traveler.

77. In the shadow of a dying star a new civilization rises, a new civilization that has the potential to change everything.

78. Earth and all that comes with her is put up for auction, with several incredibly wealthy intergalactic conglomerates competing for the prize.

79. The Virtual Implant was supposed to be a revolutionary breakthrough; for a time, it was.

80. In an alternate reality the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event never happened. The asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater instead skimmed Earth's atmosphere and passed harmlessly by.

81. Scientists have discovered a 'dark liquid' that is really at the base of the universe's continual expansion. What happens when your team isolates some of this mysterious dark liquid in your lab?

82. Age and wisdom are certainly not mutually exclusive, but when a case of mistaken identity results in a teen taking charge of a small nation, who knows what might happen!

83. "This assignment requires us to behave like adults. I have never been this stressed."

84. This academy isn't a typical boarding school. No, it's where kids train to become villains - if they pass the entrance test, that is. Nobody at the academy knows you're descended from heroes, and that's the way you'd like it to stay.

85. "This prom is not my cup of tea. I would rather be up on my roof, watching the stars."

86. The whole school thinks the most popular person in the school hierarchy and the hottest football player are together, but in reality, they have the most epic friendship.

87. With the Kingdom Heir coming-of-age celebration fast approaching, the search for a match begins. It is decreed a dance will be held; an anonymous masked ball.