How to participate in a Chrono Stars Writing Weekend:

Responses to these prompts must be Chrono Stars-related. It's fine to use the prompts for other things if you get an idea for something else, but do not post in the Chrono Stars Writing Weekend board if they are not specifically Chrono Stars.

Make a new thread for your responses to the writing prompts. Do not respond to this thread. Please also mark your thread as having spoilers in the title (and what it may have spoilers for, such as "Mioura Spoilers" or "General Game Spoilers") if it contains anything that new players should not know.

You can respond to as many of these prompts as you want, and they can be however long and in whatever style you want. As these are just writing prompts, you do not need to follow the prompt exactly when responding to it. Much of the text is simply there to generate ideas for writing and are not meant to be precise instructions.

Give people feedback on what they wrote! Respond to their threads and tell them what you liked or your reactions to it. If you specifically do not want critical feedback, please make mention in your thread, and if you see someone doesn't want critique, please respect their decision.

Without further ado, here are the prompts for this week.

"Your lights will go out. The darkness will envelop you. And you will fear the shadows that move within it."

Prompt 1: Throughout Chrono Stars, characters have been subjected to a variant of the Vision of Hell spell where they see something that is so personally terrifying to them that they become shaken for a huge duration of combat. If your character were victim of a Vision of Hell in this manner, what would they see? What would actually cause them to become so afraid that they cannot fight as effectively? Write what your character would witness (and how they would react, if desired).

Prompt 2: They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Perhaps not all villains truly see themselves as so villainous. What kind of cause or event might drag your character down a darker path -- the sort of road that would make them an antagonist where people are justified in trying to stop them? Would they keep going on realizing what they've become and what they have done? Or would they withdraw and retreat from everything? What kinds of things might your character do if they don't stop themselves? Write this antagonistic version of your character.

Prompt 3: Your character is placed in a cruel dilemma where they are forced to choose between saving two people that they know. Saving one means the other will be executed immediately, removing any possibility of saving both of them. Do they still try to save both? Do they save one and regret it, or possibly try to justify it? Do they flee, unwilling to let the decision be on their head? Who in your character's life would make this dichatomy the hardest choice? Write the aftermath of this decision or your character reacting to being put in this situation to begin with.