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Old 10-27-2018, 12:11 PM   #561
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A house where the furniture is oddly placed. A bedroom with two beds, one of them sideways and blocking the doorway and a living room where the couch also blocks the entry way so that you have to climb over it to get into the living room from the rear of the house.
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Old 11-02-2018, 07:04 PM   #562
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A computer on an old TV stand that spontaneously bursts into flames before it can be used.
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Old 11-03-2018, 10:05 PM   #563
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The use of a mixture of vampire dust and salt as an effective weapon against vampires.
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Old 11-04-2018, 06:01 PM   #564
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An island inhabited by amnesiacs being held prisoner for crimes that have already been wiped from their memory.
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Old 11-05-2018, 07:45 AM   #565
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An island inhabited by amnesiacs being held prisoner for crimes that have already been wiped from their memory.
The rehabilitation utopia: it's quite gentle imprisonment, revolving around psychotherapy to uncover the reasons those crimes were commited so those psychological causes can be wiped, as well, resulting in a cured individual. That's a work in progress, though, so for the characters of interest, it's not yet complete -- those criminal tendencies might still be present, and the process can still go wrong. The setting is going to have some attributes of The Prisoner's Island, though likely less wacky. It's the Luxury Hotel California, where you can never leave (and your memories of attempts to do so get wiped as well, as that's just another crime, if a minor one).

The revenge dystopia: Even though the prisoners have no memory of their crimes and no reason to commit another one, they're still imprisoned just so they can suffer extended punishment for their deeds, which misery serves as a deterrent for potential criminals outside. There's a reality TV show featuring the prisoners running outside for the edutainment and indoctrientation of the main population. Prisoner's memories are routinely wiped daily. Starting over ever day keeps the prisoners bewildered as to why they're there and why they're being punished, as well as helping to prevent the prisoners from forming any internal gangs, escape plans, or even mutual support groups or social relationships.
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Old 11-13-2018, 08:52 AM   #566
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I had the idea that they were mostly political prisoners kept ignorant of their pasts so they wouldn't know who who to trust or that they had a cause.

A small town grocery story with an elevated third story viewing gallery.

A gigantic bail bondsman office with two very long counters but only two staff.

A chariot race with crude chariots built with planks of wood.
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Old 11-14-2018, 11:45 PM   #567
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Talking to Howard Tayler about which SF writers read Schlock Mercenary. All the ones we discussed are dead.
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Old 11-24-2018, 11:17 AM   #568
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An obese cyclops who wears an eyepatch except when he wants to use his power to hypnotise people.
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Old 11-27-2018, 04:07 PM   #569
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A man sitting in one of those elevated beach life guard chairs...but it's just on the corner of a city block. He's arguing politics and economics with passersby.
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Old 12-22-2018, 01:51 AM   #570
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An airbus that takes the name more literally. It's a small commuter "jet" with stubby vestigial wings too small for the rest of it. Even so it takes off and up to about fifty feet in the air, and flies across town only to land vertically at a bus stop to let off and take on passengers.
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