April Gothic Bingo Card

[nsfwords]

This is my prompt card for the April 2023 Gothic Bingo Fest challenge at the AllBingo community.

I'm sticking with the plan of making 200+ word fills for my prompts - these might not end up being a complete story for each fill, but many of them connect into longer stories in my ongoing series:

• The Earthen - Fantasy - The tales of The Earthen, tiny nutlike beings who live in warrens, and are highly cooperative.
• OtherWorldly - Dark Urban Fantasy - Carnelle the Succubus is on the Hunt for a killer.
• RePrint - Science fiction - Althea has chosen to undergo an unusual medical procedure that will allow her to imprint new memories of important first experiences.
• Village Witch - Edwina - Steam Punk/Fantasy setting - These stories are being created as a playthrough of the Solo TTRPG "Village Witch." Edwina has a year to find the village where she belongs as their Village Witch.
• Green Skies G.T. - Cozy Science Fiction - The monthly logs of G.T., a sentient apartment dwelling, and it's inhabitants. Currently there are 3 monthly logs posted, and I'm actively writing the log for April 2053.

I'd appreciate reader suggestions that expand on any word or phrase on the bingo card. Feel free to make suggestions that tie into my ongoing series or for something completely new.

 

Squares that have been filled with 200+ words of story will be Struck Through so it will be easy for everyone to keep track of what's been done & how close I am to a Bingo!

Candles	Fog / Mist	Old Tinkerer With a Strange Artifact
Opening Pandora's Box	"The most interesting plants grow in the shade."	Haunting
Roommate / Housemate	Magical Training	Who is the monster?

Comments

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

GT Green Skies -- Old Tinkerer With a Strange Artifact
Someone builds peripherals for sentient buildings to use. Consider things along the lines of FarmBot, lawnbots, or warehouse robots. These can give a sessile person more control over their building-body and its immediate environment like a yard.

Fill: Green Skies G.T. - April 2053

[nsfwords]

I have a fill for this prompt as part of my December Amnesty. "Green Skies G.T. - April 2053" is available on my blog now. :-)

Re: Fill: Green Skies G.T. - April 2053

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! That's so exciting. :D

[siliconshaman]

Hmm.. I wonder how G.T would react to urban myths? Something like, combining the Haunting and The most interesting plants, and Candle squares to get a shut-in tenet who the other tenets think is either a ghost or vampire as she never seen during the day (photo-allergy) but she's got a passion for night-blooming flowers and G.T links her up with that other balcony gardener.. or something like that maybe?

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think Haunting would register as either a different class of resident (which is how we view our houseghosts) or a different class of vermin (the usual perspective from live humans).

Re: Well ...

[nsfwords]

*Sneaking through all the comments, harvesting all these great additional prompts for future inspo!*

Re: Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Good idea! I've pulled prompts out of crosstalk plenty of times. :D

Fill: Green Skies G.T. - October 2053

[nsfwords]

I have a fill for this prompt as part of my December Amnesty. "Green Skies G.T. - October 2053" is available on my blog now. :-)

P.S. - there is also a "Green Skies G.T. - May 2053" that was posted on 12/28/23 that was prompted by another DW user, in case you're interested.