Adventure Plots Up For Grabs

[Snowyowl]

Every character, no matter how minor, is the same person. Some of them are future selves, some are clones or duplicates, some are alternate universe versions or robot impostors. But every character (even if they only appeared in the background once) is the protagonist.

[ashdenej]

Every character, no matter how minor, is the same person.

I thought that this was going to be a really deep reflection on how authors only write themselves and then saw what thread I was in

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You are an INNOCENT BYSTANDER in the CITY OF DREAMS. Your job is to convince people that they're not dreaming, whilst still doing surreal things (a la many dreams). Twist: you used to be alive. Further twist: you also dream - and you know that when you die, you'll ascend to that higher (lower?) plane of existance.

[Jovian]

You wake up one day to find out you've completely changed. You have no superpowers/abilities anymore, your best adventuring buddy is your roommate but doesn't seem to understand what you're talking about. You never had any powers, they say. You were never a hero. What are you talking about?

You go out into this new city that's apparently been your home all your life, meeting former antagonists and friends along the way. No one has powers anymore, no one's special. Maybe you're just crazy.

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The main plot twist is that these were superhero/fantasy/what have you characters where the author didn't like those types of stories anymore, so decided to rewrite it into a slice of life. The main character is the only one who remembers (at least, at the start...?)

[OldManRupee]

Its the 17th Annual FanFiction Character Get-Together Symposium! Every single "original" character derived from fan-based fiction gets together to have fun, gossip, trade stories, and party! Each room of the function-building is for different areas of fanbase, plus some common areas to mingle in, there's even a cordoned off prison block for Mary Sues!

Except you are a "canon" character stuck somewhere in there, if anyone recognises you they'll either want to forcibly befriend/seduce you to get canon credibility, or try to murder you because of envy/jealousy. Dammit there's gotta be an exit here somewhere!

[McBearson]

YOU ARE NOW HAM-CAT
YOUR MISSION IS TO COLLECT HAM
AND THEN EAT IT

[Patchman]

Alright here's an idea: Physicists (and maybe other types of scientists) with super powers. They won't have super hero names, just their normal famous names. Ex: Isaac Newton will have powers pertaining to the fundamental forces.

[The One Guy]

You are, or rather were, the protagonist of a survival horror game, but that story's long over. The only thing is, you got the bad end. You didn't die so much as your will was broken, you were driven insane, and ultimately, you became part of the madness that you once tried to escape. Now a new protagonist has arrived; what do you do?

[Jovian]

You are the secretary of the afterlife, tasked with organizing people based on the way they died, time period, age when they died, etc.

[Kíeros]

You are everyone in the world but the protagonist. You can tell anyone to do anything, as long as it does not directly harm them, or goes against their goals (with conflict resolved in self). Your goal is to get the hero to defeat the evil antagonist and his legions of doom. Problem is, quite frankly, they don't really want to die or get defeated. Have fun trying to maintain one goal while sticking within contradictory laws.

[Crowstone]

You are the secretary of the afterlife, tasked with organizing people based on the way they died, time period, age when they died, etc.

Oh i did that for a project in java last semester.
We were learning about how to use TreeMaps and HashMaps.

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You are a general, leading the fight in a war against EVIL.
This takes place in a special world with there is no such thing as healing.
Everyone slowly loses health through aging, and their lifespan only gets shorter when they get hurt.

Another gimmick, your army can grow because whenever you reduce an opponent to less than 25%health, their genetic disposition or something automatically and permanently switches them to your side, such that they are suddenly as good as they were previously evil. However, you have to be careful, because the same applies to your soldiers as well.

Later on in the story, you are reduced to less than 25% (it took quite some time, since you are the general and thus have a finalboss-tier health bar) and discover that the same applies to you as well.
You spend the rest of the adventure being evil, involving undoing all the good things that you did earlier.

This would actually make a pretty good video-game concept I think.
Since for the last section of the game, the opponent is everything you worked for previously, the difficulty curve is based directly on the skill you have already demonstrated in the game. If you apparently suck at the game, it will be easy for you to undo all the good deeds... if you rock at the game, the latter part will be a worthy challenge.

[kabbage]

You are an elaborate labyrinth that holds a grand treasure at the end. You heard right, you ARE the labyrinth. Meaning you can even move otherwise unmovable parts of it and communicate to your minions. Recently, though, the nearby Adventure Village has heard of your existence and sends a party to investigate. The catch is that if your treasure is taken, you die. Now you have to stop those hungry adventurers from taking your loot. It's you or them.

[ashdenej]

You are SHAGGY 2 DOPE.

What the heck do you do, now you've got the entire world under your thumb? What's the point?

This is the story of a reluctant clown - one who was trying to subvert the establishment from within, but was thwarted by his partner and a bisected middle. This is the legend of a man who almost managet to save the world from the Condesce, but failed because of Guy Fieri. This is the tale of...

[Reecer6]

You are an elaborate labyrinth that holds a grand treasure at the end. You heard right, you ARE the labyrinth. Meaning you can even move otherwise unmovable parts of it and communicate to your minions. Recently, though, the nearby Adventure Village has heard of your existence and sends a party to investigate. The catch is that if your treasure is taken, you die. Now you have to stop those hungry adventurers from taking your loot. It's you or them.

You do realize labyrinths contain no branching paths, it's just a confusing line?

[Jovian]

A history teacher finds a time capsule in her yard from 1918.

Now a ghost of a dead teen soldier from WWI is haunting her.

[ashdenej]

A history teacher finds a time capsule in her yard from 1918.

Now a ghost of a dead teen soldier from WWI is haunting her.

Is it a romantic comedy

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You are a bacterium. You must consume and grow larger until you are big enough to have a shot at defeating a human! Modify yourself to be deadlier by taking down other bacteria that have adaptations you need.

Having taken control of the human, it's your job to go forth and multiply - ideally by obtaining a high ranking position in the UN and infecting the rest of the world from there.

[Crowstone]

The readers control a body with superpowers.
The body isn't a character, because the superpower it can perform a body switch with itself and any other body in the whole world. This power can only be activated by the reader's command the readers just follow whichever individual happens to have been switched into the body at the time.
The adventure starts by creating the body (and thus the first character to have lived in it).

Clarification: a character will be switched into the body of the next character the readers want to control, so a character won't necessarily end up back in their original body.

[The One Guy]

Not my adventure, but it seems ashdenej's Clownquest idea has been put to use!

[98714123340]

You are on a quest to cure male pattern baldness. More specifically your male pattern baldness. Cause your bald.

[Reecer6]

You're in a large city, and the ground outside is covered in zombies, literally. You can barely see the roads with all of their bodies in the way! You have to find a way to navigate from building to building, finding survivors and getting equipment to help you survive while you search a way to leave the city alive, or kill all the zombies.
Also can work as a game, I guess.

[Crowstone]

You are on a quest to cure male pattern baldness. More specifically your male pattern baldness. Cause your bald.

The antagonist is a mysterious stranger from the future who is trying to disrupt your quest.
Because (s)he is trying to prevent the future that she comes from, where your not-bald and not-shiny head did not reflect the alien death apocalypse laser back into space.

[98714123340]

Dear sirs or madame. Or who it may concern. Child, adult or intelligent animal.
I have in my possession one million dollars. And I hid it somewhere on this planet.
There are clues scattered across the planet and history thanks to eight generations of hard work.
The money can be yours if you can find it.

Yours sincerely so on and so forth.

[Reecer6]

Dear sirs or madame. Or who it may concern. Child, adult or intelligent animal.
I have in my possession one million dollars. And I hid it somewhere on this planet.
There are clues scattered across the planet and history thanks to eight generations of hard work.
The money can be yours if you can find it.

Yours sincerely so on and so forth.

No, make it a trillion dollars. Tons of people have a mill already. It's too much work into it.

[kabbage]

You and your buddies decide to go dungeon raiding. However, you and your buddies happen to be very, VERY faint of heart. A single attack from any enemy will make you or your friends faint.

[Ouroboros]

You are a normal human being, and you find yourself in a world of magic. However, you have one advantage: The natives of this world are physically very weak, to the point where they're barely capable of anything without using magic, whereas you do not particularly have to worry about rationing MP and other such concerns. (Basically, it's the inverse of the "magic guy comes to the real world" plot).

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You are a character in a fighting game. Go about your normal day while maintaining your 3-year-long 164,023,783,124 hit combo.

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You are the villain, or at least so they say. They say you are a cruel man, a ruthless and greedy man, a man with not a shred of kindness in his heart. And you have, indeed, set out to take over the world. The question that they have forgotten to ask, however, is why you seek power. And you seek power not to have it, but to use it, to bring the nations of the world together, that war and pain shall be things of the past. Some see your vision, and seek to help you. But there are others, well meaning yet short-sighted "heroes" who would seek to stop you and maintain the status quo.

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You are most certainly not a zombie. Anybody claiming otherwise is clearly insane.

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You are not this guy. You are a spirit of change following this guy. You cannot give him commands. However, you may change one word in the description of his current location to alter reality. The alteration will apply to that world in all locations where it appears. (For example, you can change "Charlie boards the boat" to " Charlie boards the plane", and this will also change all references to a boat within the narration into references to a plane. Changed realities still have to make sense, so you can't change "Boat" into "Existentialism".)

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Welcome to Puppet City, the city of the unliving. Rumors of this city abound. That it moves about on its own, that it is impossible to leave once its entered, that it is populated solely by constructs that simulate the activities of humans. And look around you, seems that the rumors were true. A storefront run by marionettes to your right, a clockwork policeman standing on the street corner, and a pair of very, very locked gates behind you. And all you have to your name is a sword and a handful of gold. Well, there has to be some way out of here, right?

[The One Guy]

You are Chef Excellence. You have failed, and your arch nemesis, Chef Ineptitude, has gained all three evil chef's souls, but rather than becoming Chef pestilence as you expected, he has become Guy Fieri, and under command of the formerly overlooked Betty Crocker. Now you have to find them and seal them in your Stay Fresh Evil Bags or die trying!

'An Excellent Adventure'