Sprocket is a Toku-high student and #14 La Muerte who manipulates time. He quests with Molly, Nax and other students, uses different AlterNet roles, and helps people who discover that their surroundings are a game.
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Original writing prompt[WP] Your best selling book, "Told Ya: Time Travel is Totally Possible!" Was just found hermetically sealed in a tomb recently discovered chamber of the Great Pyramid. But you're only 14, and you've not written a book.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] As a HR person at a university, your job is mostly paper pushing. You're asked to put together a list of long tenured employees for an award. Your colleague mentions that the janitor has been there for a long time. Looking into his file you notice that he's been working there since 1896!Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] After having the absolute worst day of your life, you take a walk hoping to clear your head. Suddenly, an odd flyer catches your attention; "Tired of your lonely, joyless life? Sign up now and become a sorcerer today! Anyone can learn magic, and so can you!" You call the number and sign up.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] A first person death game/obstacle course where all participants are equally likely to die. If the person you are writing the view from dies, it jumps to another contestant.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] Defeated by the villain, the hero has only one weapon left: Wit. So, in an act of desperation to keep the villain occupied until help comes, they ask: "Now what? What do you do since you've won?" It gives the villain pause.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] Throughout the years of being a time travelling agent, you have learnt that one cannot change the past. This begs the questions: Why does the agency send agents on lethal missions that, through the influence of agents, have a terrible outcome.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] The secret agent has dragged you along, blowing up buildings and flipping cars, because they heard you graduated at the top of your CIA class. But what could a secret agent want with a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America?Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You wake up and a mysterious entity tells you that all major events that happened and will happen in your life are directly influenced by the speaker. Your life isn't too bad, but not too good either, which makes you ask that entity why it has an eye on you.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] The HERO slams into the Dark Lord's throne room, ready for battle! And finds a nondescript man sitting at a large table covered in paperwork. "School budgets... school budgets.. Where are the..Ah! Oh, another hero. Could you wait to fight? I need to get this done before the end of the month.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] Ever since you moved into the neighborhood, weird things keep happening. You get a DNA sample and a dossier in your pizza box instead of a pizza. Your cereal box is filled with bullets. And your neighbors keep calling you Number Nine...Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] An explorer enters the tomb. A scraping of stone against stone reverberates against the cold, hard walls and an unearthly voice speaks out. "Fool, you thought you could enter without feeling my curse?" The explorer replies, " Exactly what I'm after."Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You're a spy. You and your partner always suspected that there was some deeper, hidden reason The Agency assigned the two of you together. Turns out the reason was: they thought you'd make a cute couple. They were RIGHT, and you DO make a cute couple, but still. It's the principle of the thingOriginal prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You're a spy. You and your partner always suspected that there was some deeper, hidden reason The Agency assigned the two of you together. Turns out the reason was: they thought you'd make a cute couple. They were RIGHT, and you DO make a cute couple, but still. It's the principle of the thingOriginal prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] A heist at a fancy upper class auction turns to chaos when it turns out that many of the people attending are...Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] As the top agent of the organization you were tasked with monitoring the movements of the most dangerous file there is, a kind old couple running a small book store. You were only given 3 instructions. Note all who come in or out, don't let them know who you are, and NEVER read any of the books.Original prompt source ↗
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: AlterNet Class
Source date: 2022-09-13
Original writing prompt[WP] While in a high school English class, your teacher has assigned you to find a theme in the book you're all reading. The only problem? You authored the book anonymously, and know dam well that there is no deeper meaning.Original prompt source ↗
Content note: War and weapon-making (brief fairy-tale dialogue); prolonged magical sleep (discussed, non-graphic).
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2024-09-21
Original writing prompt“So, run that by me again?” “Ah, well, it is a tradition in the royal family that, in times of peace, the ruling monarch lets their hair grow out, only cutting it in times of war. This has been the tradition ever since my ancestor, Rapunzel, ascended to the throne.”
Content note: Fantasy combat and animated skeleton imagery (depicted, non-graphic).
Mention · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2024-10-05
Original writing promptIn an alternate world where the Great Library of Alexandria still stands, you uncover a secret artifact capable of altering the course of history. As the Library's ancient spirit awakens, the line between knowledge and power begins to blur
Content note: Death, lethal threats and mass destruction (reported quest legends, non-graphic). Stigmatizing legitimacy language about a child/offspring (brief reported legend).
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2025-02-17
Original writing prompt"So where you from, young man?" "To the north, by the sea." "That's a good joke, lad. The only building there is that old cottage. They say some heroine gave birth to an illegitimate heir there and kills any man or beast what walks within a mile of the place. Killed the king's army, they say."
Content note: Discussion of inaccessible history and a gap in collective memory; no graphic harm depicted.
Mention · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2025-04-09
Original writing promptThere is no future, there is no past, these are all illusion. Time is one eternal perfect moment frozen in glass, and if you could look at it from the outside, you'd be able to know everything that can, has, and will happen
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