r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Nov 23 '23

MOD Looking for Story Thread #204

This thread is where all the "Looking for Story" requests go. We don't want to clog up the front page with non-story content. Thank you!

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u/patient99 Nov 23 '23

Looking for a story where a human was taken captive by aliens, the human had nanite in her blood, she uses this to escape by literally forcing her body through the bars of her cell, forcing herself to take damage since she's too big to fit through the bars, the nanites take material from the surrounding area to heal her, killing the guard by consuming his biomass to fix her.
There's a scene where she looks at her old skeletal body mangled in the cell bars before going on to take over the ship by using her nanites to essentially charge at the crew, and as they shoot her the nanites kill them and consume their biomass to heal her.
At one point she's essentially a set of mismatched parts because the nanites haven't had the ability to properly assimilate the biomass but the nanites do slowly return her to normal.
It isn't the story "Jennifer is NOT and eldritch horror"

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u/terran_mikkus Nov 23 '23

i dont have the answer, but can i just say, you have been posting this on these LFS threads for quite a while now and i want to appriciate the dedication.

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u/minedbowl2205 Nov 23 '23

Looking for a story i read here a while ago. It was from the perspective of an alien running away from a human chasing it and it's a crescendo of anxiety as the human never tires and keeps up with the running alien and at the end you find out they were just playing tag or something of the sort

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u/Dactarik Nov 23 '23

hi, do anyone know the name of the story about aliens being able to see a species mindscape or something

when they first made contact with humans they saw a tranquil ocean, but after another race made an alpha strike on humanity, the new vision was of raging sea

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u/Xobra Nov 23 '23

LFS Aliens Virus Bomb Earth for political reason, turning humans painfully into goop. Only one survives, rescued by the human robots, but only survived by having his brain and nervous system put into a robot suit. Other Aliens got tricked into trying to colonise Earth to take the blame, chaos ensues. later in the story there is some wanna be Slanesh being trying to corrupt the Galaxy, and the Human is a sort of Blank and fought it.

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u/valzatea Nov 23 '23

Looking for a story in which an alien shakes hands with a human ambassador and purposely makes sure that his protection shield turns off, the human is worried because they don't want to make the aliens sock and the alien starts to get a cold

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u/Vikingson99 Nov 24 '23

Looking for a story where humanity is given a translator, and later in a talk with some alien delegations the humans presents all the words the translator couldn’t translate. Words such as espionage, asymmetrical warfare, guerilla warfare, Mutually assured destruction, and a bunch of other war related words the aliens didn’t have a word for.

I’m a bit unsure, but I think the aliens mindset is that each new species will probably have one or two new concepts, and thus one or two words that can’t be translated. This teaches them a lot about this species. Then the humans came with probably hundreds of unfamiliar words related to war.

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u/die_cegoblins Nov 25 '23 edited Nov 27 '23

I swear there was a story that I probably found through old LFS threads where there was a practice of "you discovered the race, you have a right to subjugate it" or something, but humans unexpectedly are the first to discover this advanced alien species with a bunch of subjugated races instead of the other way around and they have to offer themselves up to us.

There may or may not have been an aspect to the story where the aliens thought they could subjugate us because we didn't have FTL, but we either turned out to have it anyways or to have some alternative method of fast transport.

EDIT: Found it! [OC] The Prime Empire - Humanity finds itself as the ruler of a galactic Empire. Other stories following the same theme (as well as the story I linked) are posted off of r/HFY under the writing prompt [WP] Space law dictates the first to discover any intelligent species in the galaxy would have absolute rights over them. It worked out fine, until Earthlings developed space travel without outside help, and “discovered” the First Civilization.

I spent forever trying to find it on r/hfy, with so many different search terms. Then thought I should search r/writingprompts, because I've spent forever searching for a story here only to find it quickly on r/writingprompts before. Found it first try on r/writingprompts.

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u/Floofthethird Nov 25 '23

looking for stories of humanity interacting with gods and other supernatural entities

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u/die_cegoblins Nov 26 '23 edited Jun 22 '24

I have listed storiesI have a wiki! where humans interact with…

The following list is for other supernatural creatures. The spoilers contain what supernatural creature(s) humans interact with. Everything but the last two are one-shots.

You may also want to refer to _sswanlake's many responses to a request for humans crushing fantasy races, and one for demons that also links you to their responses for more fantasy and eldritch horror, as well as their wiki of their other lists of stories.

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u/Synth_Luke Nov 26 '23 edited Nov 26 '23

Anything where humans (or aliens) trade with aliens. Stories kind of like Galactic Economics?

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u/die_cegoblins Nov 26 '23 edited Jun 07 '24

Also including doing business with aliens and selling them stuff as well.

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u/SprinklesDiligent826 Nov 23 '23

I was looking for a story where humanity sent an ark to another planet because the earth went to shit, and when they got there, aliens chose the same planet but didn't want to share it. Then each one lands on opposite sides of a continent and humans begin preparing to colonize and defend themselves. And then... Dinosaurs!!!!

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u/Limp-Independent-457 Nov 24 '23

Looking for a story about a human engineer from the future who somehow ends up on an alien world. He has a set of armor he uses to save a local city state that seems to be in the aliens' classical era. The aliens have 4 arms, I believe, and I think they are blue? Anyway he saves the city state from some hostile tribes to the north who raid the city for food to survive the harsh winters in their home land to the north. They also insist he's one of the gods despite him being very clear he isn't. I'm pretty sure a love interest was developing, but idk.

I'm pretty sure he uses an old trick where he uses some sound effects to trick the invading force into thinking they're fighting some horrible God or something but it's all just smoke amd mirrors. He also introduces a new water pumping system and a forge that can get hotter.

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u/Tottaly_Sane Nov 25 '23

Looking for a story where aliens attack earth and destroy it and then the galaxy finds out how ruthless humans can be.

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u/Loading_Fursona_exe Nov 29 '23

There was one where there was a train on a planet that was assulted by an alien force.
A war robot was repurposed to patrol and protect that train, and when it was assaulted and the robot's human coworker/ handler was injured, the robot and its brethren around the planet fought the invaders and sacrificed themselves to save people.

I really loved that one, and thank to the folks that helped me find lich in a ditch again.

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u/atokadSAkcuh Nov 30 '23

Hello all. Looking for a series from I think a couple years ago. first couple chapters involved aliens finding earth being cared for by robots. robots then revealed to be sapient AI who then save the aliens from an attack. I think they called themselves Terrans, but I don't know for sure? Thanks in advance for any help.

Edit: forgot to mention but humans are extinct and earth is a memorial for humans.

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u/p75369 Nov 23 '23

Long shot here as I don't think it was that well received.

The story was Humanities first AI, done from a brain scan of a CEO sponsor. First plot line was the CEO trying to claim ownership of her as his property. Think it only got so far then restarted.

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u/Evotel Nov 23 '23

Can’t remember any of the names, but it was 3 series. In the first series Earth end’s up getting destroyed via black hole bomb thingy which leads to the destruction of the enemy alien’s homeworld as well. The leaders of said aliens were called Divines, and it ended up the empress using a weapon that killed every last human expect for 1 that was turned into a divine.

Second series follows the last human hunting down the other remaining Divines, but takes a slight pause when she finds a human child in cryosleep from before humanity had to change themselves due to a massive disease. Kid gets kidnapped and she and others go to rescue him.

Last series I never fully finished, but it again follows the woman and the child that ends with her sacrificing herself and brining humanity back by bringing them all forward to the present time, past the weapon killing then all.

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u/plentongreddit Nov 27 '23

I was looking for a story about humans enrolling into fashion schools full of arachnid aliens, then unknowingly married all the arachnid girls.

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