The Original Concept Game

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Here's the game: the first poster tries to come up with an original concept for a story and the next poster shows that that concept is not original but is already elsewhere and then posts their own attempt at an original story concept.



Starter: humanity has finally become a true spacefaring civilization, having colonized our entire solar system to the extent that it is physically possible to do so, and we're about to send our first superluminal craft to another star system only to be stopped by a technologically superior race, the Psittacorian Imperium, who have informed us then that we are quarantined to dwell within our own system alone.

Impossible to make an original sci fi story really

A well funded shadow organization takes it upon themselves to capture an extraterrestrial spacecraft and reverse engineer whatever technology they can. With this advanced technology in hand and biological weaponry developed from the extraterrestrial biology the organization creates a false flag attack on the Human race, leading them to a system wide state of emergency. The human race organizes under a single banner, directed from the shadows by the splinter group. A xenocidal war of expansion is waged on the extraterrestrials in the name of the salvation of humanity from extinction

A wacky basement hobby scientist tries to cope with the impending bedbug menace by genetically engineering them to leave anesthetics and perfumes in their bites. Then he releases them into fancy New York hotels. Instead of waking up with painful bites, the visitors of the hotel have small, painless bumps that exude a pleasant odor when scratched. Specific "flavored" bed bugs become a fad, with people intentionally giving themselves scratch and sniff "scatoos," smell bug bites in designer stencil patterns. Rock show attendance drops drastically, when all the people bumping into each other create an intolerable miasma of sickly sweet smells. The perfume industry is furious when their sales plummet, and begins to engineer "smell bugs" that exude noxious fumes. People begin fleeing urban areas and run to the hills. The army drops 10k water balloons filled with DDT on New York City in an effort to make it habitable again. Everyone loses. The end.

did I win?

People wouldn't find being bitten enjoyable

It is the story from the point of view from an ipod.
Simply that.

Yes, they have done it from toasters and computers.....but not a ipod.
I win.

Dingus, that sounds an awful lot like smoking DMT.

Hehe, feel free to pm that to me dingus! Sounds enormously entertaining.