SciFi/Fantasy First Line Game

badducky · Oct 18, 2011

The shambling dead are no worse at stevedoring than anyone else, excepting maybe they can be a little slow up the gangplank.

badducky · Oct 21, 2011

If a vampire drinks enough rancid zombie blood, the vampire becomes a ravenous ghoul.

AlexPiper · Oct 21, 2011

badducky said:
If a vampire drinks enough rancid zombie blood, the vampire becomes a ravenous ghoul.

Vlad cursed as he checked the 'drink by' date on the bloodpack, and realized it had expired last week.

Vaguely Piratical · Oct 22, 2011

When the immortals ignore a problem it dies of old age.

badducky · Oct 23, 2011

Vaguely Piratical said:
Immortals are rarely proactive, problems tend to grow old and die before they notice.

Alas, this is a classic comma splice. There are two independent clauses improperly joined by a comma, without a conjunction.

Please, edit this post to correct the error in grammar.

My entry:

We didn't know if we could compost the latest GMO crops or if the natural pesticides bred into them would kill off our precious, endangered worms.

Tanydwr · Oct 23, 2011

As it happened, the first sign of the Apocalypse was not fire and brimstone, but a worldwide depression of the economy.

Vaguely Piratical · Oct 23, 2011

Previous post edited for grammar fail.

New entry:

Nothing that smells of dead man's blood and rue is child friendly.

GCU_Dramatic Exit · Oct 23, 2011

After the physical simulation, I realise that my clone has some strange fetishes.

badducky · Oct 23, 2011

The hatchlings of the dragon queen are the best little morsels of flesh I've ever encountered, and they come about the same size as a good roasting chicken, too.

Vaguely Piratical · Oct 25, 2011

The catalog aria in Don Giovanni is much more offensive in martian.

Smiling Ted · Oct 26, 2011

When the angel tapped on his window for the fifth time, McGill shot it in the face with his semiautomatic.

Kitty27 · Oct 27, 2011

I died on Tuesday,February 14th. One year later,I woke up.

Jersey · Oct 28, 2011

Those stupid aliens are paying me a fortune to tell them when the blizzard comes, and now they can’t seem to get their asses down here to harvest it.

Inarticulate Babbler · Oct 28, 2011

The first time I understood the obfuscatory language of inanimate objects, I hit a fifth of tequila with the fear I'd gone insane.

M R Mortimer · Oct 29, 2011

"But you are insane, you're listening to me aren't you?" said the brick.

(LOL at all of these gems. I haven't been in the thread a while

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Donkey · Oct 29, 2011

"Ask me again," said the voice coming from my Rolex watch, "and I'm likely to give you a different answer every time, but that still doesn't make me as crazy as you are."

Jersey · Oct 29, 2011

No more of their words could be heard after that, drowned out by the screams of the tequilla.

ETA: Ever since I put this line in here I can't get that bit from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (the miniseries) out of my head:

"What's wrong with being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water."

<rim shot>

reiver33 · Oct 29, 2011

Death by shotgun blast is always messy, even when its an android.

badducky · Oct 30, 2011

I was born the same color as my mother's lover: aquamarine.

som1luvsmi · Oct 30, 2011

Leave it to a mad scientist to take it literally when you say you're going to give him a piece of your mind.

badducky · Nov 1, 2011

The hibernation cycle always leaves me stiff in the back for weeks.

Inarticulate Babbler · Nov 1, 2011

Magic does little good against a switchblade when the spells you cast are unreliable.

Donkey · Nov 2, 2011

They were merely an exceptionally large, newly discovered species of arachnid, the scientific community insisted - until we found their cache of silk bullet-proof vests.

badducky · Nov 2, 2011

A Chemistry Degree and accidental attendance at a Christian-Communist Party rally was enough to get me flagged as a terrorist threat in cop computers from here to Europa.

badducky · Nov 3, 2011

Relevant:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/weirdly-epic-a-century-of-first-lines-from-weird-fiction/

My entry:

Werewolves are silly creatures more interested in disco dancing than working for a living.

SciFi/Fantasy First Line Game

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Wayward Wordsmith

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Ah-HA!

So Goth That I Was Born Black

Pissin' Everyone off, 1 at a time

SF Author

Monolithic

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

My brother loves me thiiis much! :)

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Pissin' Everyone off, 1 at a time

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.