Shrinking Story Ideas
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oooh. Don’t mind me. I’m just going to steal this idea.
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@littlest-lily
You know, looking at this thread again, I see this and am reminded of one of my older ideas that I tinker around with every now and again: a god simulator story.For those who don’t know, a god simulator is a video game where you… simulate being a god. The exact details, how serious it is about you as a god and so on change depending on the game, but the broad formula always goes: you’re overlooking some broad stretch of land. People can or do live on that land. And you can interact with them, but only in a limited capacity; outsides of blessing, curses, or just killing them, all the little people just live their lives independent of you.
Now, apply that to real life.
One day, some guy wakes up, goes into his living room, and finds a little continent sitting on the big table in front of his couch. And, when he looks at it, he sees into it like he’s looking through a microscope… and there are people there! Little, tiny, fraction of a fraction of an inch people, living their pre-industral lives in a little village. And as he watches on, it turns out they see him, too, and a kind of priesthood forms and raises a crude statue, to him. Problem is… the head priest is some old guy, and the home owner is half asleep and still thinks he’s dream. So he response, knee jerk, by saying something to the effect of, ‘Eww, I don’t want to be worshipped by some old guy. From now on, the clergy is only going to hot women.’
Then he goes on with his morning, because it was just a weird dream, right? Comes back from work, and the continent is still on the table. And now the priesthood is entirely female, with some strategically placed rips in their robes.
And the guy just… goes with it. He’s half convince he’s hallucinating, but he stops thinking too hard about it, and accepts there’s a continent with filled with people ants could step on on his table. He looks at them, give some approving comments, carefully squashes a forest filled with tigers with his finger and gives them a crumb every once and awhile. It’s like a super low effort fish tank, but filled with women!
But what he doesn’t know is that, the more the population grows, the more they worship him, so does his power over them. The stronger he becomes, the bigger the content grows and the more influence he claims over the land. But since the growth is in less than an inch at a time, it’s super easy for him to miss… though it becomes more noticeable when the changes he makes becomes less, ‘I’m telling you what to do’ and more ‘I said something and it happened, common sense be damned’.
I have a vague end game for the idea, which includes such gems as him accidently sending his girlfriend onto the continent, where she becomes a looming giantess, able to crush villages under her feet, that’s smaller than his finger.
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This whole thread reminds me of a twilight zone ep called the invaders where in the giant has size and location on there side while the Tiny’s have advanced science and tech to more than level the playing field. Giant try’s to leave house tiny has mag locked the doors and windows he try’s to call for help the lines are jammed he try’s to shout for aid all the speakers in his place start playing the latest pop songs at full volume. Doors are no match as she has ways of cutting or blasting holes to enter or escape out of a personal force field keeps them safe from harm a holo projector to camouflage when people come to investigate. Plot twist it’s not a invasion force just some collage students doing a theorist on first contact with a alien race the story ends with giant committed and aliens getting there degree
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@The-Big-G The original Twilight Zone episode featured a woman living alone in a remote farmhouse terrorized by tiny alien astronauts. The woman was played by Agnes Moorehead, later the mother-in-law on Bewitched.
