Unwritten Imaginings

Unwritten Imaginings

By Aetheo and Unice5656ArtsBooks
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Unwritten Imaginings episodes

  • Winning Combinations

    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.

    49 min
  • Making Weight, With Espionage

    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.

    53 min
  • Six Degrees of Inception

    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.

    38 min
  • Seeing Clearly

    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.

    39 min
  • Rookie Mistakes, With Much Regret

    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.

    Special Guest: Sir Nil.

    41 min
  • Patron of the Arts

    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.

    39 min
  • If You Had Just One Question

    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.

    38 min
  • Like Fine Wine, Up to Eleven

    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.

    42 min
  • Earthshattering Revelations

    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.

    38 min
  • Bubbles, or, The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

    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.

    37 min

About Unwritten Imaginings

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Aetheo and Unice5656 (with the occasional guest) talk about story, worldbuilding, character, and plot ideas to lay out the bones of a story, once a week.