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Everyone know to stay home at this time, except you. Now you're lost, stranded in an alien world.

Why do you travel in such a dangerous time?

1. Desperation. You need to reach your loved one before they took the last breath. You have to send for help to save your people. The need is bigger than the risk, as you have thought.
2. Curiosity. You want to know what exists beyond your home village. You have heard the call of the wild.
3. Forsaken. You're betrayed and abandoned in the wilderness. You're exiled and drawn away from any shelters.
4. Ambition. Rumours and ancient manuscripts spoke of potential award in the other worlds. You believe that you can master the way.
5. Ignorance. You thought you have enough protection. You thought it was safe. Now you paid the price.
6. Abducted. Some beings took a fancy of you. They lure you away for their purposes.

Where do you find yourself?

1. A dark sun dappled forest that seemed to stretch into the horizons. It doesn't like you.
2. A cosmic library that holds books in every forms and languages.
3. An underwater crystal city, where people like you are bound to serve the water spirit
4. Ruins of a lost dead civilization. Burnt cathedral guarded by clockwork angels
5. A dungeon with undecipherable inscription on the wall. Roars and screams are approaching.
6. An overgrown abandoned palace flying in the night sky
7. The land of lost, where everything lost eventually find themselves in
8. A sleeping deity's dream. Tread lightly lest you topple a world.

Good luck. You'll need it.

1. Stay home in foggy or rainy days. Be quiet during the new moon. Remember the constellation until you imprint it in your heart. It's the first tell you're on the wrong path.
2. Pay respect to shrines before crossing any bridges. Bring a torch no matter day or night. My neighbour once crossed the bridge in hurry - no one has ever seen them again.
3. Don't pick up money or food on the streets. The spirits use these as bait to abduct unsuspected people.
4. If you see graffiti or notes with strange wordings not in any known languages, close your eyes, turn away and forget about them. Don't try to copy them.
5. Block your ears when crossing the forest. Don't try to listen to its sound, no matter what they promise.
6. Don't make any sudden movement in the meadow. Sing and hit a bell when crossing it. Surprised spirits have a bad temper.

A setting premise inspired by books and blogs I have recently read:

In this world, people travel without the certainty that they'll arrive in their destination. It's easy to unknowingly go through the rifts between our reality and other worlds. Beware of fog, bridges and doors that appear suspiciously new. Rituals, customs and charms are developed to secure safe travel. People watch the sky to ensure that the sun, the moon and the stars are alight during their travel. Eclipse is a disaster as the supernatural roam freely in the land.

Some people dedicate themselves to navigate the unknown. The risk is great, but the potential reward is huge: magic items, creatures that thought to be mythical, knowledge beyond imagination.. Siilarly minded people group together to develop theory and practicalities to travel. The dreamers project themselves into the dreamland. The gmers play games that pass from the old to go to the the fey realm. The faithful throw themselves to saints and deities for blessings.

The astral sea is the realm of collective unconsciousness. Some powerful psychics's imprints re so strong that they trap unsuspecting travellers. They can only get free if they resolve their unfinished business. Powerful kingdoms compete to build ships to navigate the sea.

Inspiration: You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam

Soul Collector:

You start your journey to collect soul fragments to restore the soul. Perhaps it's for a lost loved one. Perhaps it's someone you feel obligated to. You won't rest until you finish your quest.

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Frontline Therapist

You are always at the front with your clients. It's just a natural extension to go into your client's mind to heal them.
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Dream Agent
You have a mission: to enter your target's mind to retrieve important informaation, to counter psychic war fare.

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Exorcist
Some people's obsession and unfinished business are so strong that they trap themselves and sometimes others in their psyche. You go into their psyche to set them free.

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Realm Scholar

You travel across the astral realm for knowledge, prestige and tenure. Dream is just another frontier.

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The Lost

You have no idea why or how long you are trapped in this nightmare. You have to find your way out before forever lost.
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The rivalry between the two rich book collectors in the town is legendary. They will stop at nothing to one up the others. Now one of them has just got a rare book and is about to show it off publictly. Their rival is hiring you to steal it, but trouble is brewing.

Characters:
1. The proud new book owner, your planned target
2. The rival book collector, your client.
3. Your target's assistant
4. Your client's valet
5. Your client's tired elder child
6. Your client's younger child

Complication:

1. ...is a cultist and wants to use that book to summon an otherword deity.
2. ... plans to elope with their forbidden lover... after taking a huge sum of money.
3. ...makes your job more difficult by making additional request/counter offer
4. ... is possessed by a rival deity and is trying to destroy the book and anyone in their way.

This mission generator is based on a specific quick transmigration sub-genre: deep dive into someone's mindscape and heal them through solving mysteries and adventures, while the diver also affected by the journey

So you go into/get stuck in someone' mind. Roll a dice to figure out the details, or pick and choose an option from each question.

Why do you go into this person's mind?

Out of obligation/assignment, because they are too important to be stuck in their mind.
It's the last step to get approval for our experimental MindTech. Our profit margin depends on you.
This person's mind sucks me in. I have no choice at all!
It's my best chance to get access to their knowledge/manipulate them.
They are haunting the place. It's the only way to understand their unfinished business/trauma and let them rest/recover.
It's the only way to save them from a psychic/alien/magical/rouge AI attack/trauma/etc

What kind of constraints are there?

You're on your own once inside. No back up.
Don't let the person discover your true identity. You have to blend in.
This person's mind is literally dangerous.
There's a time limit. Staying too long and you'll fail/get stuck
This's a new tech. We can only give a guess what you'll find there.
You have to follow/derail the dream script and find out how best to do it.

What kind of challenge you may face?

Figure out the person's mystery and secrets
Get their trust and favour.
Save them from danger manifested by their mind.
Concinve them that they need to wake up.
Figure out the situation and help them resolve problems
Hide/disguise your presence as well as possible.

What kind of complication is there?

The mission brief is incomplete/misleading.
You discover that you have a strong connection to the patient in real life.
You develop feeling about the patient/manifestation in their mind.
You're not the only one who has been to their mind.
You receive contradictory orders.
The patient's mind treated you as a threat.

The public bus service in the city is cheap and efficient. Follow these tips for an enjoyable journey.

1. The bus service runs from 6 am to midnight. If you see buses in service outside the hours, don't get on those buses, even when you see people getting into them.

2. You have to pay exact changes in coins. If the bus drivers offer to exchange the money, say "no" politely and take another bus (with the exact fare of course). This is for your safety.

3. Important: don't collect fare from other passengers. If anyone does this on your bus, close your eyes and don't respond until the sound died down.

4. Hold onto the railings all the time when the bus is moving. The bus driver won't wait for you. Yeah, even when you're sitting.

5. You should board the bus from the door on the front and take off from the door in the middle. Remember: there're only 2 doors in the bus. If you see a third door, don't take the bus and wait until you no longer see it.

6. No pets are allowed except for guides dogs for blind people. If a dog keeps barking, don't take the empty seat or stand where it barks at.

7. If you get on the bus from the third door, avoid catching the bus driver's attention as only they are authorized to remove you from the buses.

8. If you feel a light electric shock from holding onto the railing, ask passengers nearby for any coins, especially those with a figure on their back.

9. Be considerate to dogs.

10. Double check if the seats are vacant. Remember that you can't see everyone on the bus.

Follow our guide for everyone's protection. Enjoy your journey!

What kind of corp is this? Throw a 6 faced dice to decide.

Private Security Firms that doubles for private police
Cybernetics Manufacturing Factories manned by robots
Cybernetics Installation/Maintenance Stores that literally cost an arm and a leg. Subscription only.
Backstreet Cybernetics Clinics that face frequent crackdown
Water Suppliers that may or may not have drugged the water
VR Game Developer/Publisher that send advertisements to your brain

Prompt: Combat scenarios

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Prompt: fight and / or making up (first)

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Prompt: rubbing

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Prompt: hazing

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Prompt: Mistaken Identity

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Title: We help the evil
Prompt: torture.
note: inspired by this post.

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Title: Dance
prompt: jealousy

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Title: Swan's song
prompt: singing
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Title: Camaraderie

prompt: silence

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Title: Waiting
Prompt: Hallucination/vision

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B	I	N	G	O
singing	torture	jealousy	wings	silence
artificial beings	character death	authority figures	reading aloud	enclosed spaces
distress (and rescue)	long-lost love / friend	FREE SPACE	friend in need	wooing / courtship
tickling	fairy tales / folklore / mythology	coming home	resurrection	romantic relationship (assumed)
epistolatory fic (emails, letters, etc)	slavery	character study	hallucinations / visions	time loops

Title: Just your typical mission
Prompt: Social event - working place
Rating: General Audience
Content note: none

Summary: a superhero teamis sent on a seemingly routine mission, but nothing is simple in their world.
Introduction: The characters belong to the same superhuman unit. It is newly formed and the characters are inexperienced. As a team trust exercise, the team is sent on a routine surveillance mission. But when complication arises, everyone needs the whole wit and strength to survive.

The Spine: There are three acts in the story: the Briefing, the Lair and the Confrontation. The first act allows the characters to know more about each other. In the second act the characters arrive at the super villain 's lair.

The Briefing: Just before the mission briefing, the team leader will go over with the supervisor about the team and evaluate them. Meanwhile, the team recall previous missions they shared withe leader and each made an observation about the leader. It allows the characters to voice their concern and uncertainty about the others. Then the briefing begins. The team is asked to survey a suspected supervillain 's lair. They are supposed to gather intelligence for further missions, not doing anything fancy.

The Lair: The lair is on an volcanic island on Pacific Oceans. Recent satellite scans show unusual level of human activity and the supervisor suspects that a new super villain has set up home here. In Act Two, the characters investigate the island. Clues on the island suggest that there may be something more at work here so the characters must explore the island. The question is, are the characters willing to trust a screaming marshmallow man and mysterious cave dribbling?

Confrontation: The characters do battle against someone they are not expected to see. It can overlap with Act two to let the doom hang over the characters if you want.

On the one side of the mirror, I am an illusionist. I manipulate light and mind with a wave of my hand. Flowers boom from nothing, a tiger can turn into a woman, when you think you can find out my secret, you have already been in another trick.
On the other side, I am an engineer. I plan, I calculate to make every production come true on stage. Nothing can be left to chance. The timing must be right.
I walk on a tight rope, with a watchful audience and no safety net. But it is what makes magic addictive.

Title: Dr Abby 's Advice Column
Rating: General Audience
Summary: Super people with relationship problem? Dr Abby is the person to ask.
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"There is a rose for me. But the card has no name. How strange." Kelly picked up the rose carefully and put it into a vase.
Her colleague Mary walked by and smiled "Oh, the secret admire strikes again."
Kelly stopped her action and turned to Mary. "What secret admirer?" She tried not to sound too curious. Mary can be teasing sometimes.
"You don't know? It is an office tradition. Every year a new colleague get a rose, no name attached. No one know who the admirer is. We would have suspected the boss, if she were not too practical for it."
"Weird. Did any one ask?"
"Some tried, but none succeeded. A paranoid colleague did chemical analysis on the rose. But it is just a plain ordinary rose."
"I would like to thank the generous person."
"Only thanks?" Mary winked at her. When Kelly glared at her, she relented. "OK. Time for work now. See you later."
Unknown to them, a computer blinked. "Job done." it signaled to its partner in accounting department..
"High five!." its partner messaged.

Prompt: coming home

Lost Toys, Finding Home

A.N. I see the article here and want to elaborate it into a mini setting.

Introduction
Lost Toys, Finding Home is a systemless fantasy RPG setting In this game you play one of the Lost Toy and start a journey to be Real. The Lost Toys may spend their time saving a child from nightmare, discovering hidden knowledge or getting the right tool for the right work. There are many ways for enlightenment. Not many can succeed. Some lose their dream and become cynics. Some die trying. But maybe some of those can reach the destination.

Character Generation (ripped off from here.)
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Setting:
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GM Section
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Author note: I see the disturbing vampire lore here and it inspires me.

setting:
For centuries vampires have been hunted down and burnt. Some unscrupulous people kept them as exotic slave. In WWII governments experimented on them and sent them on dirty missions. in 1970's inspired by the civil right movement they came out and fought for their civil right. After protest, murder and mob violence, they now live in an uneasy truce with humans. Some people still think they are monsters and kill them, but there is legislation against it. Vampires are divided on their positions of the movement and the relationship with humanity. Some vampires prefer to keep their identity secret and keep a low profile while others campaign for equality openly. Some vampures dream of having their own nations. Many prefer to keep the fact that vamprism is inheritable secret because they want to keep them safe. Some vampire parents feel guilt for their children, and struggle to help them adapt. With a greater degree of integration, some seek to embrace their vamprism.

characters:
Margaret is a geneticist. She is working on discovering the gene responsible for vamprism and developing a cure. She is friendly but mostly kept to herself.

"Why do you risk death?" I want to help people like me, to give them a choice to be normal and end the curse.

"What do you stand for?" The choice to be normal.

"What made you who you are?" When I was a teenager, one day I found myself unable to stand the sun light and had a thirst for blood. Then my father told me was because I inherited the vampiric heritage. I was furious and shocked. I was a cheerleader team leader but what good was one that couldn't stand under the sun? It was then I read a lot about vampires and genetics. I want to know the cause of it and what can be done to help. It is what I am doing now.

"What is your fate?" I will develop a cure for vamprism, at all cost.

What do you think about Rachel? I love Rachel 's straight-forwardness and sacrastic humour. It is very refereshing to be with someone who dare tell her mind. I think transhumanism is bit immature now but who knows? With her stubborness and competence, she may achieve her dream one day.

Rachel is a cybernetics engineer. Her colleagues think she is a bit weird but most don't know that she is a vampire. She prefers this way. Her interest is transhumanism and her dream is to help build a future that vampires and humans grow beyond their bodies and discrimination.

"Why do you risk death?" I fight for a future that sentient beings can coexist and transcend the limit forced on them by the Nature.

"What just happened?" Someone crashed into my lab and destroyed my research result.

"What do you stand for?" Transhumanism. That sentient beings can better themselves through the will and technology.

"What made you who you are?" I was bitten in the Great War. At first I searched for knowledge that could help turn me back, but then the advancement of technology gave me an idea. If vampires can not turn back, why not turn humans instead?

"What is your fate?" I am destined to make a breakthrough in cybernetics. I can feel it.

What do you think about Margaret? I met Margaret in a self defense class (I received threatening phone message and I didn't want to involve the police - they were useless anyway. ) I found out that we were both 1920's music fans so I asked her out for coffee. She was surprisingly intelligent and scientific-minded, which I liked. We have very different idea about the future of vampires but I must say the conversation is always very inspiring.

Plot:
Rachel received an email today with a picture of Margaret staked in a room filling with water. She tried to contact Margaret but the phone is dead. Then she received mysterious phone call dictating conditions on setting her friend free. She decided to investigate. Meanwhile, the clock was clicking...

Prompt: stuffed animals
Rating: G
Content Notes/Warnings: none

"Mum, where are you?" Lin Lin shouted, holding her Teddy tight. The sound echoed in the dark street. She could have sworn Mum had walked down this way, but where was she now? The wind chilled her to shiver. She really should have put on a coat. But there was no time --- the wail of wind held her up for the night, and when she decided a glass of milk may help, got off the bed with Teddy, and went to the kitchen, she saw Mum drifting through a doorway that had never been here before. When Mum disappeared, Lin Lin rushed after her without second thought.

She walked and walked. Finally she saw a man in long coat with his back to her. She went to the man and asked politely. "Excuse me, sir. Did you see my Mum?"

The man turned around and Lin Lin looked up ---- The man had no face! Lin Lin screamed and run. She could hear the man chasing her. Not knowing the way, she was soon backed into a corner.

"Twist my arm." Teddy whispered. The man was about to grab her and she did what Teddy said.

The man screamed and collapsed. Lin Lin got out of there as fast as she could. "Thank you, Teddy. Is it hurt?" she asked.

"It is Okay. Now let's continue..." They walked silently toward the darker street.

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I have hope to hit 2 lines. To motivate myself, I post my casting for the main characters:
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Title: Just your typical mission

Prompt: mirror rating: g (drabble)

orig_bingo: prompt: yenta/matchmaker

origfic_bingo: secret admirers

Lost Toys, Finding Home: an attempt at a RPG setting

origfic_bingo: prompt - stranded/survival scenario

Title: Once Upon a Time

I got my origfic_bino card.