A river guide must lead an archaeological team out of a canyon after a landslide destroys the route they mapped on the way in.
18 Adventure Prompts Prompts
These prompts create a starting constraint, question, or situation. Use one as written, combine two, or change the audience, setting, objective, or limitation to make a new exercise.
Two estranged siblings inherit coordinates rather than money and discover the first location is reachable only during the lowest tide of the year.
A rescue pilot is hired to retrieve climbers from a mountain where her mentor disappeared on an unauthorized route.
A cartographer joins an expedition to map an island whose coastline changes after every major storm.
A museum courier must return a disputed artifact across three borders after every official transport permit is suddenly revoked.
A wildlife photographer follows a tagged animal into a valley omitted from modern maps but visible on a century-old survey.
A sailing crew discovers their emergency beacon is transmitting coordinates hundreds of kilometers ahead of them.
A cave-diving team finds a recently installed ladder in a chamber believed sealed since prehistoric times.
A student expedition racing to document melting ice uncovers equipment from a research station that officially never existed.
A desert bus breaks down beside a road marker pointing to a town absent from every passenger’s map.
A delivery cyclist accepts a final route before a storm and learns the package contains medicine for the person who caused her brother’s injury.
A mountain railway closes behind the last train, leaving passengers to continue through service tunnels while an avalanche blocks the valley road.
An amateur astronomer travels to photograph an eclipse and discovers every hotel guest received a different warning not to watch it.
A diver searching a wreck finds a sealed modern room built inside the nineteenth-century hull.
A park ranger follows illegal trail markers that lead deeper into a wildfire evacuation zone instead of toward safety.
A food historian retraces a vanished trade route and finds one village still using currency discontinued a century earlier.
A courier crossing frozen lakes must decide whether to abandon the cargo when she learns the destination settlement has been evacuated.
A geology team discovers that the safe return route requires crossing land controlled by the community their sponsor displaced.