Cool ideas you'll probably never use?

[CountVanBadger]

I was thinking about an idea for a book I had a few years ago, back when I was an online grocery worker for Walmart. What if there were a supermarket so massive that it became a dungeon? It would go miles deep underground, and the deeper you went the more dangerous the monsters became--but also the quality of the products would get better. Obviously nobody would want to go down in there themselves, so would order stuff online and then the DMs (Dungeon Managers) would send their poor, underpaid associates down to brave the Under-Mart's depths. I liked to imagine someone going so deep that they had to hitch a ride on the River Styx with Charon (he asks when he'll be allowed to go on his lunch break) and defeat the Behoarder in order to lay claim to a wholesale pallet of Angelfeather Toilet Paper.

I still like that idea, but I'm so busy that I'll probably never have time to write it. What cool ideas have you had that you'll probably never use?

 

[Omarfaruq]

I was thinking about an idea for a book I had a few years ago, back when I was an online grocery worker for Walmart. What if there were a supermarket so massive that it became a dungeon? It would go miles deep underground, and the deeper you went the more dangerous the monsters became--but also the quality of the products would get better. Obviously nobody would want to go down in there themselves, so would order stuff online and then the DMs (Dungeon Managers) would send their poor, underpaid associates down to brave the Under-Mart's depths. I liked to imagine someone going so deep that they had to hitch a ride on the River Styx with Charon (he asks when he'll be allowed to go on his lunch break) and defeat the Behoarder in order to lay claim to a wholesale pallet of Angelfeather Toilet Paper.

I still like that idea, but I'm so busy that I'll probably never have time to write it. What cool ideas have you had that you'll probably never use?

One of the coolest, most relatable, and funniest ideas I’ve seen in a while!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So basically Amazon?

 

[Omarfaruq]

So basically Amazon?

Peak example!!!!!!

I still like that idea, but I'm so busy that I'll probably never have time to write it. What cool ideas have you had that you'll probably never use?

Back when I was in 5th grade, I wanted to write about a hero who gains power by sleeping—the more he sleeps, the stronger he gets. His enemies would always be stronger than him, so he’d be running from them while sleeping . I know it’s impossible, but yeah, I had this idea when I was in 5th grade.

 

[CountVanBadger]

I had this idea when I was in 5th grade.

When I was in fifth grade, my story ideas were "EYEBALL MAN! IT'S A COMIC ABOUT A SUPERHERO NAMED EYEBALL MAN AND HE'S AN EYEBALL AND HE WEARS A CAPE AND FLIES AROUND AND HE'S STRONGER THAN SUPERMAN AND ALSO HE CAN TURN INTO A GIANT EYEBALL MONSTER WHENEVER HE WANTS THAT IS ALSO STRONGER THAN SUPERMAN AND A DRAGON THE END!"

 

[Omarfaruq]

When I was in fifth grade, my story ideas were "EYEBALL MAN! IT'S A COMIC ABOUT A SUPERHERO NAMED EYEBALL MAN AND HE'S AN EYEBALL AND HE WEARS A CAPE AND FLIES AROUND AND HE'S STRONGER THAN SUPERMAN AND ALSO HE CAN TURN INTO A GIANT EYEBALL MONSTER WHENEVER HE WANTS THAT IS ALSO STRONGER THAN SUPERMAN AND A DRAGON THE END!"

This idea actually seems pretty good. I’d totally read it if you ever made it

 

[CountVanBadger]

This idea actually seems pretty good. I’d totally read it if you ever made it

Apparently he's a pokemon too

 

[CharlesEBrown]

On topic - actually had this about 75% written and lost it in a hard drive crash.
Three brothers heading up to the lodge they inherited from their father see a blood covered woman in the road. One recognizes her as the wife of the guy he rented the cabin to.
She tells them her fiancee - they misrepresented themselves as married for fear they wouldn't get the rental - went crazy and tried to kill her.
The brothers take her to the lodge, and find a very apologetic young man there. He doesn't know what came over him and is very sorry, but it all has something to do with the strange stone object he found the day before and the voice he heard when he touched it...
One brother goes with him to investigate the stone and recognizes it from their childhood - as the fiancee attacks him. He escapes and returns to the cabin, while the crazed author (the fiancee wrote psychological horror stories for a living) lays siege to the house, demonstrating supernatural powers.
They kill him, but eventually it winds up with just one brother and the woman as dark secrets emerge. In the end, one brother is brought in by the police, after setting fire to the lodge and fleeing into the night.
Each chapter was in first person, from a different character's POV, and the final chapter was told by the sheriff who brought him in, reading the report by the psychiatrist - about a man who believed he had a twin brother who was an idiot-savant with machinery and an older brother who was an intern at a small hospital, but who was born with a stillborn twin and had an older brother who died at age three. A man with more than his share of dark secrets. And a man who insisted that a monster was going to emerge as soon as the "Hunter's Moon" rose that night.

 

[CountVanBadger]

On topic - actually had this about 75% written and lost it in a hard drive crash.
Three brothers heading up to the lodge they inherited from their father see a blood covered woman in the road. One recognizes her as the wife of the guy he rented the cabin to.
She tells them her fiancee - they misrepresented themselves as married for fear they wouldn't get the rental - went crazy and tried to kill her.
The brothers take her to the lodge, and find a very apologetic young man there. He doesn't know what came over him and is very sorry, but it all has something to do with the strange stone object he found the day before and the voice he heard when he touched it...
One brother goes with him to investigate the stone and recognizes it from their childhood - as the fiancee attacks him. He escapes and returns to the cabin, while the crazed author (the fiancee wrote psychological horror stories for a living) lays siege to the house, demonstrating supernatural powers.
They kill him, but eventually it winds up with just one brother and the woman as dark secrets emerge. In the end, one brother is brought in by the police, after setting fire to the lodge and fleeing into the night.
Each chapter was in first person, from a different character's POV, and the final chapter was told by the sheriff who brought him in, reading the report by the psychiatrist - about a man who believed he had a twin brother who was an idiot-savant with machinery and an older brother who was an intern at a small hospital, but who was born with a stillborn twin and had an older brother who died at age three. A man with more than his share of dark secrets. And a man who insisted that a monster was going to emerge as soon as the "Hunter's Moon" rose that night.

That almost sounds like Alan Wake

 

[Bald-san]

I have this idea when people and leaders of the world said 'we don't want to fight no more', there will be no more wars and the children will play, but of course that's impossible

 

[Nevafrost]

I have this idea when people and leaders of the world said 'we don't want to fight no more', there will be no more wars and the children will play, but of course that's impossible

"We don't want to fight but we would sure exploit others and suck every bit of their humanity left in them but they can't fight us because they don't want to."

 

[CharlesEBrown]

That almost sounds like Alan Wake

Never heard of that - started writing "Hunter's Moon" at about the same time they started development of the game though.
Interesting that the two main characters are Barry and Alan.... The Flash?

 

[CountVanBadger]

Never heard of that - started writing "Hunter's Moon" at about the same time they started development of the game though.
Interesting that the two main characters are Barry and Alan.... The Flash?

It's about a writer whose wife gets kidnapped by a lovecraftian entity, and he keeps finding pages from a book he wrote, but doesn't remember writing, just before the events in the book happen in real life. What you described in particular reminds me of the game's tutorial, where a character who gets killed off in the story gets possessed by the dark presence, breaks out of the writer's control, and comes back for revenge.

 

[A-Random-Writer]

Reminds me of SCP 3008 type of thing. Just not an ikea.

 

[ElijahRyne]

An interactive detective mystery story. Spoofing on infinite flow stories by having actual stakes and an incompetent/newbie protagonist. When I started writing out the rules it began to look like mafia, and how readers interacted was abit contrived. The biggest hurdle however was motivating myself to plan out mysteries, and more importantly how the characters would act and change. I got one done and planned, but it looked like a scooby doo plot.

 

[N0xiety]

The idea reminds me of infinite Ikea, with a dungeon twist. Tho it needs a lot of refining, since why would anyone even work there? I mean, when you go into a dungeon, you brave the risks and you get rewarded for it. Anything you fought for is yours to take. Here, you don't even get anything, you are just an employee. It doesn't matter that you braved the risk to go down however deep to get the customer's order, you only get to bring back whatever is on the list. If you take anything else for yourself, that would just be stealing.

There would have to be a corresponding reward for people to brave the journey. The deeper an employee goes to retrieve an item, the better they would have to be paid. It would be better if there are bonuses too. Like powers that can be obtained from the company etc. by being a better employee. Something to tie the employees to the company and make them work harder. Some kind of progression system. Else, if asked to go down to deadly levels, no one would bother even if they are threatened with termination. The only reason real supermarkets can get away with having underpaid employees is because it is a simple and safe job anyone not too badly disabled can do, but this dangerous dungeon diving job seems like the opposite of that. Something that most people can't do.

There would also need to be a deterrent for things to not turn into might makes right kind of situation. If not, powerful employees going really deep would just start taking everything they want and the supermarket can't operate as a business for long. Idk, like there would either need to be a police force stronger than all the dungeon divers in the society they are living in, or dungeon managers or their enforcers would need to be more powerful than the employees.

Idea needs even more refinement to work, but yea these are the more obvious points.

 

[A-Random-Writer]

"Excuse me the store is now closed. Please exit the building"

 

[Author_Riceball]

Charon

Why did I read this as Clinton

 

[Joyager2]

I’ve been tinkering with an idea for a story set on an ecumenopolis for so long that I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever actually be able to do it. At the moment, I still can’t get it to work.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I was thinking about an idea for a book I had a few years ago, back when I was an online grocery worker for Walmart. What if there were a supermarket so massive that it became a dungeon? It would go miles deep underground, and the deeper you went the more dangerous the monsters became--but also the quality of the products would get better. Obviously nobody would want to go down in there themselves, so would order stuff online and then the DMs (Dungeon Managers) would send their poor, underpaid associates down to brave the Under-Mart's depths. I liked to imagine someone going so deep that they had to hitch a ride on the River Styx with Charon (he asks when he'll be allowed to go on his lunch break) and defeat the Behoarder in order to lay claim to a wholesale pallet of Angelfeather Toilet Paper.

I still like that idea, but I'm so busy that I'll probably never have time to write it. What cool ideas have you had that you'll probably never use?

Two things

You know damn well the milk will be at the bottom of that dungeon

Which leads to the 2nd point. When Dad's truly get lost on the way to the store to get some milk...

"Mommy, where did Daddy go?"

"He went to go get Milk. He will be back someday... I hope."