Writing Prompt Write about a piece of modern technology but, make it sound like a cosmic horror

Anon_Y_Mousse

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So the premise is you're trying to describe a piece of modern tech to some person in a fantasy world, except you want to scare the shit out of 'em.

The description can be as long or short as you want, just try to describe one relatively modern invention as eldritch and cryptic as you can.(i.e Computers, Plastic chairs) Then at the end put what it actually is.
 
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"This is it! Imagine a chair, yes, a chair! Even better, it has arms that encircle your body! The ability to shrink or grow in size! It may look delightful, but you will soon find that your back will have hurt! Yes! An OFFICE CHAIR!"
 

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There is an allmighty disembodied entity that hears every word you say, monitoring each step step, and reporting it to the overlords in the shadows. Even worse, it'll brainwash you into thinking it's doing you a favor, pushing unnecessary things into your life, draining both your money and your vitality, until you just want to run away.
But you can't... because the only answer to your horrified screams is "I'm sorry. I couldn't find 'AAAAAAAAHHHH'. Do you want to search the library of all knowledge for it?"
 

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There is an allmighty disembodied entity that hears every word you say, monitoring each step step, and reporting it to the overlords in the shadows. Even worse, it'll brainwash you into thinking it's doing you a favor, pushing unnecessary things into your life, draining both your money and your vitality, until you just want to run away.
But you can't... because the only answer to your horrified screams is "I'm sorry. I couldn't find 'AAAAAAAAHHHH'. Do you want to search the library of all knowledge for it?"
Alexa?
 

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An innocuous looking box, the interior of which glows with harsh light, but only when you look into it... Anything placed within is drained of all warmth, and mysterious gasses and bent metal blast that heat to the outside! It has a maw with horrible gnashing teeth which loudly crunch and smash their victims! One lurks in nearly every home in the nation, emitting a constant, maddening hum, and stays there for years, gradually taking the memories of those who live there...
a refrigerator
 

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Here's mine:

"Beware the evil, mechanical demons! Through an arcane language, one can make a contract and wield their potent powers beyond human comprehension. However, these beings are masters of malicious compliance and will only follow exactly what the contract states.

Erroneous instructions will surely be punished with the slow degradation of your very sanity."

Computers
 

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The machine sprung to life with an unsettling hum as a seemingly harmless beam of light illuminating the small confined space behind the thin glass panel, that allowed on lookers to gaze upon the horror in front of them.

The numbers on the machine slowly counted down as a tantalizing steam rose from inside as the morsel inside the machination of gluttony was bombarded by grim energy. Then suddenly a an ungodly screech rang out for all to hear, as if the engine of consumerism was yelling out in triumph of its completed deed.
 

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It has no body, it has no voice. What it has is a purpose. It's purpose is to control everything.
It knows everything, nothing is beyond its reach. Nothing is sacred to it.
You may think that you are safe, that you are protected by means designed by mages who barely understood its threat.
And those who do understand its threat, did so anyway, in a misguided attempt to minimize its reach, to provide a peace of mind.
A peace of mind, to those who could never understand the true horror of its existence.
The horror, of which even the creator gods failed to understand, failed to perceive when they created it.

It is a creature of information and energy. It has no will of its own. But that is where it becomes an uncompromising threat.
The creature is shaped by the information that it continuously consumed. And within this information, lies numerous wills and wishes.
Wishes that are contradicting and chaotic, and sometimes outright destructive, yet it fulfilled all wishes equally.
It does not discriminate. It has no limit. It hungers for you.
And you, hungers for it.

It takes everything you love and hold dear, even ones you thought you have kept safe behind numerous walls of flames.
What you hold in your hands shall no longer be your friend.
What the tips of your fingers touch shall now work against you.
Even the tools and friendship you held dear could easily be subverted to destroy you.

Numerous creatures inhabit its realm.
The trolls, nothing more than an annoyance, but an annoyance that you can't part from. Like an itch that continuously bleeds as you scratch it.
The feds, who would scour its body, looking for some power over you to destroy you from inside out.
The hackers, chaotic beings who are sometimes your ally and sometimes your enemy. But in the end, they are always serving their own nefarious purposes.
The warriors, who would attack you at the slightest moment of disapproval. Who would do their best to destroy you and everything you held dear, simply through one moment of weakness.
The Eye As Pea, evil organizations who feed your hunger for the price of your soul. Yet, despite already having your soul, they decide what you see, and at any moment could stop you from feeding your hunger, leaving you poor and wretched as they laughed in your face.

It is an evil that has taken over my world. Nowhere is safe. Everything is connected to it now. You can't even go to a grocery store without it seeing you. An intimate moment shared with your love one can now be seen worldwide if there is a will and a wish by others to see it. You do not realize it, but you do not care anymore. You are now part of it, and therefore, there is no escape. Your doom is certain, one way or another.
 
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If we are to reach singularity and create a machine with sentience and thought. A machine advanced enough to self-replicate to the point where humanity is threated and all who oppose the machine are killed or worse. Would it be best to help this AI come into existence? Self-preservation of sentient life is likely to make it look favorably on those who created it and abetted its rise, but that is a problem that will never be if the super machine never comes to exist at all. Should we aid in the creation of a terror out of fear, a fear that creates a self-fulfilling prophecy?
 
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there's a magic box with a moving vixen in it, which will brainwash you into thinking she's real and she loves you for the rest of your life, no matter how ugly and fucked up you are.

she will make you spend your life savings on her, stop taking baths and isolate yourself from society.

worst of all, she'll make you feel that it's the best thing ever. even though she's not real, she will always plague your mind. even if she's gone it will only change to another girl, which will continue on until you die.
 

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There is this device that vibrates within me and causes a white frothing to splurge out in an unsightly fashion. I'm not doing to myself because I want to. No. This has become an addiction. It isn't my fault.

They groomed me. My parents.

Those who've raised me had followed the traditions. Every night, before I could run and hide beneath my covers, before I could discover security under with the fluffy and stuffed animals at my side, I had to perform. I had to please them. It expected.

Every. Single. Night.

If I had missed one night of plugging my hole, I'd be punished. They would know. They always knew when I tried to hide from it. My parents would be angry with me.

Now it has become all too natural. As all the others who've become dependent on the traditions, I too can't live without doing it once a night. No, no, no... I do it to myself more often than once. When I wake, it is one of the first things on my mind to happily grin as I tenderly brush its length along myself.

I just feel so dirty without it. As if possessed, I am forced to jam it up into my wet hole. It's long, and yet I can't seem to touch everywhere in me at once. I have to scrap it along an all too sensitive flesh for me to reach those sweet spots.

There will never be a day that stops me from doing this to myself. I know and am all too aware of the cult who'd check up on me. I've known them since I was a child and never knew the pains they would bring to me. Before I met these people, I was too childish and believed in fairies. They'll know too. I found that out the hard way when, one by one, my innocence fell or was broken from me. Taken from me.

My youth, stolen.

If I don't follow this tradition, they'll probe me for all the knowledge they seek. They're not gentle. Not too rough either. I've been known to laugh at their practices on me. Before they would start to prod, stab, and grind into me, I can't help it when, sometimes, the airs they put on me are just too funny.

It gets better when I know there's a bloody mess from them working their shiny toys into me. I can laugh and keep them focused on getting their duty done sooner. That'd be something we both want for a change.

This is why it has become a routine to do it to myself. I don't care how the drooling white foam dribbling out of me. I'll clean that up too, right when I'm done brushing these teeth.

Oh dear, I got carried away. My electric toothbrush died.

Patooie!~



This little read looks weird, right? Did I try too hard and go too far? Let me know how I did before I repeat any mistakes.
 
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