No I’m not gonna keep doing that with the E’s for the whole chost lol that’d be annoying
Anyways! This is a prompt Sofsh gave me two weeks ago for this thing I did, and it’s been sitting in my inbox since then. I wanted to include 3 prompts per story, with each prompt being from a different user, and Sofsh gave me two. I thought about incorporating this one in that first story, but ultimately decided against it. And since I haven’t gotten any other prompts to combine with this one, I’d like to share my ideas for how I originally planned to include it!
By the way, read the story if you haven’t already before proceeding! Or don’t. I will be talking about it, though.
I didn’t really have many plans for what item would inflict the “no words with the letter e” status condition other than this: it’d happen without me noticing. I was gonna make it so any time I said a word containing the letter e, the sound of my voice would be cancelled out for everyone but myself. In other words, I’d think I was talking normally, but people wouldn’t be able to understand me.
So, the story was gonna go a little differently. I was gonna realize I was transforming while still in the store, and try to ask one of the shoppers for “help” because of the “fire”. The condition would cause this to fail, without my being able to understand why. Honestly, this would’ve been… kinda dark? Maybe a bit too real? I don’t know what it’d be an allegory for from my life specifically, but like, yeesh.
Another idea I had, in the same vein, had to do with how I kept myself from dying at the end. I’d realize, somehow or another (I guess I’d need to figure out the condition in the first place which uuuhh I’m not sure how that was gonna happen), that the effect had worsened, and I could no longer cast certain spells, namely spells to create “water” or “ice”, because those words contain the letter e. My magic doesn’t require me to say anything out loud, it was more like “the concepts themselves were no longer mine to control”, or some nerd shit like that. I’d solve the scenario in the same way, though, by causing it to snow, since that word doesn’t have an e. I guess the story ending the way it does, with the snow, is a result of my original plans to include the “no E’s” prompt.
Anyways I had fun thinking back on this, and I hope you had fun reading about stuff I thought about writing and then ended up not writing! Thanks for the cool prompts, Sofsh!
