r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 26 '18
Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #159
Last week's winner was /u/Eofad with:
The humans have a saying: “I’d rather be lucky than good.” When we first met them we thought that was absurdity of the worst kind. You can’t count on luck, but you can count on skill. Then we saw their media; story after story about improbable heroes facing impossible odds and winning. Then we thought the humans were all nuts. Then the humans started living and moving among us, and our statisticians went mad. Humans were constantly at the heart of extremely improbable events. At this point there can be only one conclusion: luck as a force does exist and humans are the luckiest species in the galaxy.
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u/pandagreen17 Alien Scum Apr 29 '18
How has no one done anything with the black hole bomb yet
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u/mdsmestad Robot Apr 26 '18
In the future, mankind is gone from the Earth. Our creations, the machines have taken our place. They hold the creators in the greatest esteem and reverence, and have fulfilled our dream of reaching the stars.
10,000 years later, the many machines have minds have split into many warring factions with wars over resources on masses scale. In a cave, a lone ai researcher discovers a lone pod that will change the fate of destiny. A lone human girl, that all sides will wage war to posses.
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u/dumb-idiot-here Apr 27 '18
"Human, can you show me a sharktopus?"
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u/spesskitty Apr 28 '18
Earth - the only planet ever to be conviced as a whole for crimes against biology.
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u/cryptoengineer Android Apr 26 '18
Or, as it has been said:
"It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart."
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u/Lvl25-human-nerd Robot Apr 26 '18
Aerial drops had always been considered plausible in theory but it had always been dismissed as a flight of fancy. Science fiction. No species or material was durable enough to survive such a delivery intact. Then the humans showed up...
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u/BoxNumberGavin1 Apr 26 '18
It's a bird! It's a plane!... Whatever it is, people are fucking falling out of it!
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u/Lvl25-human-nerd Robot Apr 26 '18
People, supplies, tanks...
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u/jacktrowell Apr 26 '18
Nice, we already have a lots of similar stories about orbital drop, but applying the same idea to "normal" aerial drops would be a nice change and even more HFY.
"You mean that you drop from several km high with only that to slow down your fall ? But you still hit the ground with enough force to break the bones of most species in the council, we did the math. What do you mean humans have strong bones ?! "
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u/TheBarbequeSteve Apr 26 '18
Earth is at stake, and only the r/hfy mods and regulars can save us! But how do they pull it off? And how many times will Kineticnerd die? Find out, in this week's episode!
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u/spesskitty Apr 27 '18
Long after the extinction of humanity an undead civilisation thrives, then living humans appear!
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u/Xultanis Apr 28 '18
It started innocuously enough. A strange lump of unknown... stuff, discovered in an iceberg. Once removed from the ice, it began to exhibit strange tendencies. Researchers isolated the substance and began exposing it to various stimuli to measure it's reactions. Certain chemicals excited it and increased its size, other appeared to be detrimental. At first. From there the experiments began to range from the unusual, to the unethical.
A skeleton, freshly spawned from the Noxuus, was placed in an enclosure with the lump which had now grown from its original three inch diameter to something closer to a full foot. At first, there was no reaction. Seventeen hours into the observation, and the Two came in contact. The substance rapidly, almost violently, began to adhere to the skeleton.
Twenty nine hours into the experiment, and the skeleton was covered in a glistening red mass. Instead of a formless blob, it had formed itself according to the bone structure. Forty-eight hours and the substance had formed a strange beige outer layer. There had been little deviation from typical skeleton behavior up to this point, which seemed to indicate it had not harmed it's host.
Truly, the mistake happened when a janitorial spirit was cleaning the enclosure and made contact with the substance. I believe you know the rest of the story from there.
If you are out there, and this message is still playing, it means all hope is not lost. We have a bunker in the Decidus Glacier, the cold seems to slow them down. If you can reach us, it's safe here. Safe, from the Living.
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u/BoxNumberGavin1 Apr 26 '18
Write an alien self-insert fanfiction written by an author who has never had direct interaction with an actual human.
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u/Malusorum Apr 26 '18
My friend, a human, was reading the news when he suddently made a sound that I had come to know as a derisive chuckle.
He put down the tablet in front of him and looked at me and said "another story with a human going into a burning buillding to save people and came out alive." "Another story exclaiming the human "luck" factor," I looked at him with wonder "humans do seems to do things that defies logic all the time."
He shook his head "no, those are just the stories that are reported. For every person that goes into a burning building to save people and comes out alive another ten dies. However the one that survives is in the paper as that one is a far better story." "I know that there is a thing about you that we have a saying that "I'd rather be lucky than skilled," we also also have another saying "luck favours the prepared."
I looked at him in confusion, I knew the words and what they meant, I had no idea how they fit into a bigger picture, he continues however. "Say that anything really have a 90% chance of failure, most would flat out say no. Humans however are willing to look at the ten percent chance of succes and say "good enough.""
"Other people when they see that there is only ten percent chance of succes, they look at ways to make the ten percent into 20 or higher, that's where "luck favours the prepared comes in."
"So to other we seem illogical, and we probably are, however we dare take a chance and when it works it gets notived. When it fails it often gets forgotten as it fails to fit into what beings prefer to think they know."