Spooktober

Spooktober is an unofficial challenge, with one spooky prompt for each day of the month. There's no rules, do with them as you wish! Combine them with other halloween prompts, combine them with eachother, skip them all or do only every other, it's up to you! My recommendation; write the ones that you get inspiration for, and leave the rest.
If you comment on this article with your response to one of the prompts, be it an article, art, or something else, I'll add it below!

Batch 1, Alliterative Allusions

Batch 2, Cycles of Creation

• 8. The Beginnning of the End
• 9. History Repeats Itself
• 10. A Creation with a Horrible Price
• 11. Regeneration
• 12. The Study of the End
• 13. A Funeral Rite
• 14. The Life Cycle of a Creature, Plant or Fungi

Batch 3, Harvest Moon

• 15. A Harvest Celebration
• 16. A Meal Worthy of a Feast
• 17. A Recipe for Disaster
• 18. A Crucial Crop
• 19. A Harvest Tool
• 20. A Fading Light
• 21. A Traditional Game

Batch 4, Poe's Woe's

• 22. Who knows upon what soil they fed
• 23. Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?
• 24. Good for the trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
• 25. We'll see who hates best.
• 26. Something dead that seems to be alive.
• 27. Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek,
• 28. Something wicked this way comes

Batch 5

• 29. Liminal Spaces
• 30. Threshold
• 31. Afterlife

1. A Mysterious Mushroom

Appropriate Prompts

Here's a few World Anvil Prompts that may, or may not, work for this prompt.

• Create a plant species for your players (or main characters) to interact with - a trap, environmental hazard, or even an attacking creature in your world!
• Describe a rare organic material and what it's used for in your world.
• Tell us about a farming profession in one region of your world. What species and products are produced?
• Create a plant species that is harvested for use by at least one culture in your world!
• Describe an unusual or extraordinary plant species in one biome of your world!
• Tell us about an important food staple in your world.
• What is the most prolific drug in your world? How did it come to be and what does it do?

2. An Omnious Omen

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• What childhood stories are people still afraid of as adults in your world?
• Write about an asteroid or comet that's important for your world. Does it have a special meaning?
• Describe a weird animal in your world. Why do people consider it "weird"?
• Write about a clothing item worn by an organization with bad reputation. What's its purpose and what does it represent?
• Describe a historically significant piece of jewelry in your world. What stories does it carry?

3. An Ancient Art

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• Describe the most famous pieces of art in your world. What made them so famous?
• Write about a technology that has greatly impacted daily life in your world
• I want to become a master swordsman in your world. What unique methods of training do I use?
• What substances or materials in your world are considered to be purely cosmetic high status or luxury items?
• Reviled or revered, describe a profession that causes strong reactions in a culture.
• Write about a conflict in your world which was fought with non-standard weapons.

4. A Macabre Memorial

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- Whose death is still greatly mourned or remembered in your world? - Describe a ruined structure that nature has reclaimed. What was its original purpose? - Describe a natural or constructed wonder in your world. What purpose does it serve and what is the significance behind it? - Write about a conflict in your world known for being unprovoked or unfair.

5. An Intriguing Implication

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• Tell us about a famous explorer in your world. What did they discover?
• Describe the largest diaspora in your world. Why did they leave their homeland?
• Describe the fossils of an ancient species, do they still exist?
• Describe the common symbols and color associations with a culture in your world.

6. A Sinister Secret

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• Tell us about a religious text in your world
• Tell us about a famous family or dynasty in your world!
• Whose death is still greatly mourned or remembered in your world?
• Write about a city or town in your world which is unusual or unique in some way.

7. A Ghastly Gamble

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• Tell us about a popular parlour game played in a region of your world. What are the rules?
• Describe a cult in your world. How did they form and what do they believe in?"
• When people say "the middle of nowhere" or "the frontier" what settlement name do they use?
• Write about a dangerous insect or animal in your world

Batch 2, Cycles of Creation

8. The Beginnning of the End

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• Write about a conflict in your world known for being unprovoked or unfair.

9. History Repeats Itself

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10. A Creation with a Horrible Price

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11. Regeneration

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12. The Study of the End

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• Who is the greatest philosopher of your world. Describe what they taught and how it changed the the way people react to the world.
• Describe a cult in your world. How did they form and what do they believe in?
• What is the leading cause of death in your world?

13. A Funeral Rite

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14. The Life Cycle of a Creature, Plant or Fungi

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Batch 3, Harvest Moon

15. A Harvest Celebration

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16. A Meal Worthy of a Feast

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17. A Recipe for Disaster

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18. A Crucial Crop

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• Tell us about an important food staple in your world.

19. A Harvest Tool

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20. A Fading Light

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21. A Traditional Game

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• What do people do when they go out in your world?
• Tell us about a popular parlour game played in a region of your world. What are the rules?

Batch 4, Poe's Woe's

22. Who knows upon what soil they fed

This line is from Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti.

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“Lie close,” Laura said,
Pricking up her golden head:
“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
“Come buy,” call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.

— Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

23. Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?

This line is from To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath my Window by Adelaide Crapsey.

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I watch all night and not one ghost comes forth
To take its freedom of the midnight hour.
Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?
The very worms must scorn you where you lie,
A pallid mouldering acquiescent folk,
Meek habitants of unresented graves.
Why are you there in your straight row on row

— To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath my Window by Adelaide Crapsey

24. Good for the trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

This line is from The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

— The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

25. We'll see who hates best.

This line is from The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

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If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best.

— The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

26. Something dead that seems to be alive.

This line is from Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede by Richard Siken.

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backward into first causes—stone in the pond of things,
splash splash—or we throw ourselves into the future.
We all move forward anyway. Ripples in all directions.
What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be
alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

— Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede by Richard Siken

27. Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek,

This line is from The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe.

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What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,

— The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe

28. Something wicked this way comes

This line is from Macbeth by Shakespeare.

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By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

— Macbeth by Shakespeare

Batch 5, The End

29. Liminal Spaces

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30. Threshold

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31. Afterlife

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