Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #146 - Sole Survivor
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 - Sole Survivor
This is a nice broad prompt you can have fun with ! Human history is full of tales of sole survivors of dramatic events and heroic exploits. Noah and his family were the sole survivors of the flood. There is there story of a single wounded Spartan who survived Thermopylae; Herodotus calls him Aristodemus, but the film "300" changed his name to Dilios. When the battleship Borodino blew up at Tsushima, Seaman First Class Semyon Yushin was the only survivor of her crew of 855. Other survivors include the wretches drifting on wrecked ships back to Europe after Renaissance voyages of exploration, for example the 19 remaining of Magellan's initial 270 men. Fiction and cinema are also full of examples; Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, and many others.
Tell me a story about a sole survivor. What was his original mission, journey or purpose ? What happened to his or her comrades that meant he was the only one to survive ? Did he get home with an outlandish tale (and maybe, if lucky, with great riches), or was he marooned in a strange place or among a strange people ? How did the story end ?
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.
- AI images to illustrate your posts are fine, as long as they are credited to whichever software you used to make them
- Posts using AI to create the text are not acceptable; these prompts (and community) are a way to expand and have fun with human imagination, and I firmly believe AI will never be able to replicate the human spark.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
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