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Story Game

@Crisis forum 485 comments schedule
@Crisis

So we take turns choosing a short prompt, and then we each tell a two to four paragraph story based off that. Anybody up for it?

@SaltyLasagna

yussss

@Natasha

Hi I'm game

@Crisis

Dope! Let's wait a bit to see if anyone else wants to join in

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Deleted user

Me me me me me!

@Natasha

Okies, I might have to leave soon tho

group

This sounds fun! Could I?

@Crisis

Oh, we'll see if we can get a round in before you have to leave

@Crisis

Yep! You can join in. Let's start b4 Natasha has to go

group

All righty! What's the prompt?

@Crisis

Who wants to do the prompt first?

@Relsey-TheElder

Ya lets start

@Relsey-TheElder

Oh oh I will!

@Crisis

Okie dokie!

@Relsey-TheElder

Alright, my prompt/ topic/ I don't know is Drum roll A Fish tank

@Crisis

I watch them swim around. The fish.. do they know they are being held captive? All they do is swim around in the same 2 ftx1ft tank of water all day.
Poor fish. They're meant for something greater, they're meant for the ocean.
I lightly lay my finger on the glass. A small beta fish swims up to it. I smile, and giggle a bit. "Blub blub!" I say quietly, and make a fishy face at the fish.
It's face morphs into my own. I freeze, terrified. Then it spoke.
"Human noise, you appropriating butthole!"

@Natasha

Weird, but okay.
snickers I was literally just checking my marine rescue rp……

@Crisis

Lol

@Relsey-TheElder

I Love it, it's great

group

Tap tap.
Tap tap.
Tap tap.

Wide, blue eyes stare at me from my hiding spot behind the treasure chest. They blink; long, dark eyelashes falling over them slowly.

Every day. Every day is the same. The lights come on, I swim around the tank with my friends for a bit, and then we get fed. After that is more swimming. And then we get stared at by hundreds of different people, hundreds of pairs of different eyes. Blue, gray, green, brown, even violet or golden.

As soon as the lights go out, I swish my plumy, pale-pink tail up and down, pushing the water past my shoulders as I swim to the top of the tank. My friends await me at the top, and I grin upon seeing their uniquely-colored tails hanging down into the water as they sit atop a rock. Ah, the life of a captive mermaid…

@Crisis

Ooooohhhh mermaidsssss

group

It started out as fish, but I thought mermaids would be a fun plot twist! Lol.

@SaltyLasagna

I flick my tail. Is this what life is going to be like for me now? Held captive in a cold, unforgiving box of glass? The bright light flickers above me and I blink in annoyance, darting in an out of the artificial grass, just for fun.

That's when I saw them approaching. The surface monsters. Covered in thin, stringy hair on their heads and soft skin surrounding a slender skeleton, they lean down, staring into my prison.

I I immediately panic and swim behind a rock, attempting to hide. But they can still see me.

They can always see me.

I'll never escape…

@Natasha

Tara stared at the fish tank in the marine reserve's lobby. She watched the shimmering tropical fish swim contentedly in the water, twisting around all the coral and decorative items in the tank.

They didn't seem to have a card in the world. Unlike Tara, who had to sustain her cancerous mother and a six year old sister.

"I wish I could be a fish. I wouldn't have a care in the world." Tara whispered.

Be careful what you wish for.

@Crisis

Ohhhh mysterious

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When I cry, the tears get instantly lost. Swept up in the current and carried to various waters across the seas. It is quite as if I can't cry at all. But that is highly untrue. With the barrier around us, there's nothing we can do to escape. Soon, we will all fall prey.

I truly do not understand freedom for what it is worth. My life has begun here, and it will end here. There will be no effect that I have on this world, should I do nothing. But, as many who have come before me have cleverly noted, What is the price to pay for happiness?

(This is awful, I'm sorry…)

group

It's not awful! It's really good!

@Crisis

It's actually really good! So sad, though…

@Natasha

Ohhhh mysterious

For those in the Marine Rescue rp, aka Camie, it's a direct spoiler.

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Ohhhh mysterious

For those in the Marine Rescue rp, aka Camie, it's a direct spoiler.

AUGH ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!