Unwritten Imaginings

In the final episode of Unwritten Imaginings, Aetheo introduces the idea of a world with a genie who grants an individual three wishes approximately every 30 years, and all the hilarious and disastrous consequences of the wishes being made.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a character whose hugs can heal and buff physical abilities - but only if there's an emotion connection with the person being hugged. They get hired to work with a group of battle-hardened soldiers, who react in comedic and heartwarming ways to being given a mission to earn hugs from the young and inexperienced main character.

In a mix of virtual reality and xianxia, Aetheo introduces a world where people can access a virtual reality that allows them to train to their limits and beyond without worrying about dying. If they die in the training world, they will wake up in the normal world and can jump back into the training world exactly where they left off. The MC's problem? They've been thrown into a dragon's lair that they've been trying to escape for a thousand years. When they finally get out, there will be a reckoning.

Unice5656 introduces a world where conventional and magical technology have both developed to highly advanced levels, which turns into an action/adventure movie where a spy operative must escape a group of cultists hell-bent on resurrecting their defeated lich master, aided from the outside by another operative they've worked with before - one who does not appreciate having been ghosted after their previous James Bond-style mission together.

Aetheo introduces a world of highly specialized magic users - who insist that they are not witches - who create lifelong magical bonds in groups of thirteen - which they insist are not covens. Enter a main character who grew up in the non-magical world, suddenly discovered to have magic powers and sent to magic university, where they must learn to navigate the complex social relationships that will determine which fellow students they ultimately form a coven with, all while trying to catch up with years of magical education. Unice5656 and Aetheo argue about educational systems.

Unice5656 rehashes her own story Fantasia and creates a story based on a near-future world of immersive virtual reality games, where one company is famed for the realism of its NPCs - and has a world-spanning conspiracy to hide the fact that those NPCs are all played by human employees rather than artificial intelligence.

Aetheo introduces a world where according to the infinite universes theory, a mad scientist has linked authors to the worlds their fictional novels describe, causing duplicates of their characters to be pulled onto Earth. Unice5656 rashly promises to make commemorative coins for Unwritten Imaginings' 100th episode.

In a tangent-inspired plot, Unice5656 introduces a world of superheroes who go on a dating reality TV show based on the show Love Is Blind, which lets heroes search for love while keeping their identities hidden. This season's theme: heroes with immortality or agelessness. The main character's power is deceptively simple and extremely overpowered: none of their skills or abilities ever degrade, meaning they can only get better at anything they do over time.

Guest sunflowerofice introduces the idea of virtual reality gaming being used as therapy, and a main character on a psychiatry ward who is challenged to explore the game world to grow and change after being admitted due to a suicide attempt Special Guest: sunflower of ice.

Aetheo proposes an interdimensional first contact story with an alien civilization that is very similar to humanity, in a tangential, mind-bending kind of way, and both sides scramble to understand the crazy physics surrounding the connected dimensions while preventing interdimensional war. Unice5656 comes up with the idea for a very-needed app that you can get to call you to escape awkward social situations.

In this rehash of the webcomic Please Marry Me Again, Unice5656 and Aetheo mix gory political intrigue with fluffy romance as a woman sets out to seduce and marry her husband from a previous life while gathering enough political power to prevent their future deaths.

Aetheo introduces a magic system where individuals are able to summon individual elements or types of energy, which evolves into a medical drama as individuals find the healing applications of their very destructive powers. Unice5656 and Aetheo come up with a lot of ways for people to accidentally and on purpose kill themselves with magic.

Unice5656 introduces a world where people and animals' strength is divided between magical power and physical abilities - sometimes to extreme imbalance. An evil mastermind produces horrifying experimental creatures in the quest for immortality - as well as successes that are horrifying in their degree of dual magical and physical ability. Aetheo predicts that Unice is going to die in 2040.

Aetheo proposes a story that subverts the enemies to lovers trope with the story of a self-made CEO and his annoyingly organized assistant who end up alone and sharing a room at a conference where the power has gone out. Unice5656 swears multiple times.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a world where people can trade places and skills with versions of them from alternate universes and creates an agency where they guarantee that any job can get done, for a price.

Aetheo introduces a world where people have personal AI assistant/companions who become specialized based on thee person's interests and direction.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a world where a mysterious technology inactivates damage it considers friendly fire. An aberrant-thinking individual manipulates the system with double-thinking to seize power while becoming immune to damage, while another aberrant gets creative in order to restore the balance of power.

Guest sunflowerofice introduces the idea of an Earth-based organization that helps refugees fleeing from other worlds across the multiverse, many of whom have powerful magical and technological abilities. In this combination of halfway house, orphanage, immigration office, and job placement agency, a telepathic Matron must manage the chaos of a household full of rambunctious superpowered teenagers while raising a baby god. Special Guest: sunflower of ice.

Aetheo proposes a world where superheroes are called in to fight monsters and overthrow villains - and then the more skilled, better paid cleanup crew moves in to fix whatever mess the heroes made.

Unice5656 proposes a world where people go on dream quests, navigating a surreal world that challenges them with their own inner demons brought to life in order to come out with magical powers. A reckless main character with past trauma decides to undergo the quest at extremely high risk without the usual preparations and therapy to manage their issues.

Aetheo proposes a world where people have innate expressions of superpowers that need to combine with other people's projected domains of control in order to manifest, leading to combinations as absurd as "defenestrate fire" or as universe-ending as "delete one tenth of time". A preternaturally talented matchmaker enlists five unlikely individuals to create a surprisingly effective hero team.

Unice5656 proposes a sci-fi universe with an elite espionage agency who have portable teleportation devices that are limited to 150kg (330 pounds) and therefore require their agent pairs (and their equipment!) to fit strictly within this mass limit. Enter one very tall character whose only chance at joining the agency comes around when the lightest recruit to ever pass the qualifying exam appears. Unice5656 and Aetheo have way too much fun fleshing out the idiosyncrasies of a world where making things ultra-light is paramount.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a professional dreamwalker who has gotten separated from their body and needs to jump from mind to mind until they can find someone to wake them up in real life, which turns into a surrealist adventure of a loose association game mixed with the world of dream espionage.

In this rehash of Lisa Shearin's SPI Files, Unice5656 and Aetheo take the premise of a seer who is immune to illusions and enchantments, hired to investigate supernatural crimes, and turns them into an enforcer who eliminates those who reveal the existence of the supernatural to the general public.

Guest SirNil joins Unice5656 and Aetheo in imagining a twist on the classic author-migrates-into-a-story-they-wrote trope - this time, the story involved is the first one the author ever wrote, complete with embarrassingly Mary Sue main character, inconsistent characterization, generic big baddie, and a hugely unnecessary amount of angst. What's an author to do to make sure everyone gets their happy ending? Become the Demon King, of course.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a world where magic is fuelled by performance art, which develops into the concept of a godlike embodiment of magic who grants spell activations in return for being entertained, a main character who learns to communicate with magic, and an entertaining quest to revive long-lost art forms that the magic really wants to see again.

Unice5656 proposes a world where every person can ask one question in their lifetime and receive the absolute truth, which devolves into philosophy and tangents.

Aetheo proposes a world where magical enchantments continuously increase in power as they age, which turns into the story of a classic "hero" freeing a centuries-old sword-in-the-stone whose attributes have become so unusably strong that they must embark on a quest to collect cursed items to neutralize its effects.

Unice5656 imagines a world where the tectonic plates are actually immense, living behemoths that wake and sleep on timescales of centuries, and humans have to scramble to survive when they move.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a world where magic can be created only by inscribing runes on spheres, with the minimum size of the sphere depending on the complexity of the magic. This develops into the story of the most ambitious - and therefore largest - magic sphere ever created: and area of influence where it is impossible to lie, as part of the development of the world's densest collection of judicial courtrooms.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a type of magic that has to be regularly exercised to get stronger or stay fit, with magical fatigue similar to physical exercise, and a society that is facing the advent of magical machines and magical obesity. There are a lot of tangents and worldbuilding around utility magic.

Aetheo proposes a subversion of the sci-fi trope where ancient technology is set to destroy all life in the galaxy, following anexpedition that trails a similar discovery millennia ago that found the solution - at the cost of their own lives. Unice5656 goes on a lot of tangents.

In this episode, Unice5656 and Aetheo rehash vampire concepts and come up with the idea of an ancient vampire who has chosen to revert to their original self at the time they were transformed, and now must deal with their legacy - and enemies - without the benefit of their accumulated knowledge and power.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of semi-sentient magical artifacts that have a tendency to wander around and choose their own owners, which evolves into the story of an average citizen finding an innocuous-looking item on the ground and becoming its unwilling new owner, with all the attendant hassles and responsibilities of suddenly having superpowers.

Aetheo proposes a magic system where spell threads cast by one person must be anchored on another person, weaving complex spells depending on their complex configurations. Unice5656 hijacks the idea and introduces the sport of magical dance battles complete with anime tropes.

Unice5656 introduces a world where deliberate use and repetition imbue everyday objects with magical powers (and an uncertain amount of sentience). Enter an idealistic journalist with one of the world's first printing presses, and one of the world's foremost news agencies is born.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a psychic private detective who can read emotionally charged conversations imprinted on objects by touching them. What starts out as a housewife's suspicion her husband is cheating on her quickly escalates into uncovering a drug cartel manufacturing psychic boosters - made of other psychics' brains. Aetheo and Unice5656 discuss prion disease and argue about the nature of bigotry.

Guest Elliot Staude introduces the idea of a world where people's emotions manifest as physical charms that can be stolen, destroyed, and transferred to others, which evolves into the story of an emotional crimes detective uncovering an insidious criminal organization whose manipulation of world powers and average citizens alike is pervasive to a terrifying extent. Special Guest: Elliott Staude.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a magitech mercantile society where leaders regularly disguise themselves and pose as entry-level employees of their commercial empires in order to uncover problems and scout talent, which cascades into a world of corporate espionage and incipient rebellion.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a used-to-be artist who is kidnapped by elder beings to create art and Unice5656 goes on various tangents involving the principles of negotiating with kidnappers and the scariness of centipedes, among other things.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of a half organic medic robot put in charge of taking care of a crew navigating the dangers of a newly discovered planet, then spends the rest of the episode relating too much with robots rather than going into plot details.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a classic team sport underdog plot with a magical twist, producing a hybrid of ball sports and combat in a 3D field. Throw in a cast of characters with interesting personalities and no teamwork whatsoever, make them a team, and watch them reach for the top (but get second place because the world is a harsh place).

Unice5656 introduces the idea of two very powerful mages waking up one day with their unique - and very different - magics swapped, and having to deal with controlling an entirely new set of powers while fulfilling the other person's governmental responsibilities and trying to figure out how to switch back.

In this writing rehash of the Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, Unice5656 attempts to introduce the idea of cool magical horses while Aetheo points out all the dystopian elements of the original story's system of governance and they end up with a story of creepy magical happy-land where magical horses subtly influence everyone to feel unnaturally positive about their country, and a main character who breaks through the rose tint.

Playing off a Unice5656's previous comment of wanting to have her consciousness uploaded into the computer world, our hosts design a virtual world created by a genius eccentric who gently guides humanity away from dystopia, watched over by a Caretaker who holds the reset switch to the entire world, and has been designed to be trusted with it. Only, a personality-altering virus has been running amok, and if the Caretaker is affected, humanity is doomed. Aetheo and Unice5656 go on a lot of philosophical/psychological tangents about the consequences of immortality and the disappearance of many limits in a virtual world.

Unice5656 uses a random word generator to form the basis of a sci-fi story about genetically modified acidic rabbits accidentally released into the wild of a newly terraformed planet and the race to prevent worldwide ecological collapse.

Aetheo introduces the idea of spontaneously generated not-Pokemon that can mix mysteriously in magical inventories to create new species. An eccentric scientist accidentally creates a creature that acts as a cosmetic fountain of youth, then has to rally their collection of unusual creature friends to defend against the unscrupulous corporation that comes to acquire the obvious money-maker. Unice and Aetheo argue about Pokemon for a while.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of an afterlife soul-laundering business which evolves into a comedic horror that alternates between a workplace comedy following the trials and tribulations of a team given unrealistic targets by Management and the hellish experiences of the souls undergoing stain removal.

Aetheo introduces the idea of a Journey to the West-style travel story which evolves into the story of the delivery of a mysterious box containing a mysterious creature across the land, with fun biology learning snuck in. Unice makes an unwise Google search.

Unice5656 introduces the idea of an atheist vampire hunter who can repel vampires through the power of self-confidence, which expands into a world where the placebo effect works so well it can be classified as magic.

In this writing rehash of John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series, unice5656 and Aetheo take the idea of a legendary order of rangers and expand it to a kingdom where 60-70% of the population belong to a secret society with highly specialized skills, all except one being completely unaware of the other orders. They must band together to defeat the ultimate evil: pyramid schemes.