Free story idea

[hopeless87]

Again, I have a story idea that I know I don't have the attention span to attend to so here it is for anyone to do with what they will.

After watching "The guardians tale" on front page I wondered what would happen if the monster was a human and the big prize he was trying to defend was something that would destroy the world?

The story idea is: On an alien planet we see a foreign race of people. They speak an unknown dialogue and so it would have to be subtitled. They come across an object like the nuclear reactor or something from a human space ship that had crashed on the planet. As they try to take it, one of the human survivors yells at them (in english that the audience can understand) warning but all the aliens think is that it's a mysterious howl.

"Go away, this thing is dangerous" he/she yells.

The human finally decides that in order to save this alien race from their own curiosity he/she must kill one or two to scare them away. It's not easy to do and the human is tormented by the idea but it's for the greater good.

Whether the aliens defeat the human and destroy themselves is up to the person writing the story but the idea is that human nature is reflected in such an alien subject. It's a classic "curiosity and ambition killed the cat" type story. It becomes an allegory of humility in the face of the unknown, and a cautionary tale about not being prone to destroy what we perceive as obstacles before we take time to understand them.

Anyway, there you go. I hope someone does something with it. would be interesting I'm sure.

[hopeless87]

At 8/20/13 11:06 AM, Amaranthus wrote: so you want someone else to write a story for you?
or what

heh no, I don't want a story written FOR me. It's just an idea I had that I don't have the time for. Feel free to write it and take it for yourself and make it your own. Or leave it, whatever. *shrug*

[Ranger2]

One day, Joe and hopeless87 are flying through space when they crashland on a planet. Their nuclear reactor falls off a mile away from their spaceship, but they have a tracking device on it. They travel to it so that they can fix it to power their ship and get off the planet.
Unfortunately, a bunch of aliens are at the crash site of the reactor, staring in awe.

"Oh no, Joe," said hopless87. "We can't let these silly, curious aliens take our machine! They may get hurt or blow it up! We'll have to kill some of them to scare them away."

Joe smiled and handed hopeless87 his medication. "You're not thinking straght," he said. "Why do we have to kill them? Why not simply guard it ourselves? We have to fix it anyway? And if anybody comes to try to sneak around, we can threaten them with spears and bare our teeth. That should make them nervous and leave us alone!"

"But Joe," hopeless87 whined. "But what about their apparent absolute curiousity? We should slaughter the women and children in the tribe and hang their bodies around the area to deter the aliens!"

Joe sighed, smacked hopeless87 in the face and said "and that would cause them to rebel against us and we'd really be screwed. No, let's just work on fixing it, and if some aliens come along, we nudge them away or yell and shout and act angry.

So they followed Joe's plan, and they got the ship read y to go.

"Hold it, I have to take a leak," hopeless87 said.

Joe waited 5, 10, 15 minutes for hopeless87 to finish. Where was he? He looked outside and saw hopeless87 running from a crowd of aliens, with a bloody alien head clenched in his right hand. His killing instinct had gone unchecked.

Realizing that he didn't want to spend the next few weeks with a homicidal maniac, Joe left hopeless87 to his fate and returned to Earth. Wow, was he glad that he didn't listen to hopeless87.

The end.