/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humanity has touched the stars. Countless millennia have past and Earth has become a myth, a story to tell your children at night. You were one of those children, inspired by the idea all of humanity coming from a single planet, you set you sights to Earth to try and find the human birthplace.
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[WP] you have always pretended to be a mute because of the terrible power you have. Every time you answer a question correctly the universe changes to make it false. The first time this power manifested was when your mother asked "who's your mommy?" As a child.
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[WP] You accidentally wake an ancient deity from her tomb. In an effort to help her cope with her forgotten legacy and waning power, you give her a book. "This is the Dungeon Master's Guide, it can make you very powerful." Your DnD group was not prepared for the monster you created.
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[WP] You spouse has invented a time machine. Rather than going back to visit ancient history or stop atrocities from occurring, they just use it to prove you wrong during arguments.
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[WP] families send mining ships to distant star systems to mine materials and bring back wealth for their decendants. You, a person living on the street, had a ship arrive for you with... something strange.
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[WP] Humanity finally makes first contact with aliens, and they find out every other sentient species in the universe is telepathic and empathic. Not only can humans not use either power, they're completely immune to it. Communication soon begins to prove...difficult.
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[WP] Long after the magical and technological worlds merged, you upload a video to YouTube, “hydraulic press vs 1000 year old indestructible cursed artifact”. It’s two days later and you’ve just woken up to a queue outside your door.
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[WP] You are an Ellumvir, an incredibly rare subspecies of vampire that consumes illnesses instead of blood. Your peculiar existence has gained you an alarmingly loyal cult following...
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[WP] You were just going home on the subway and things started getting weird. A woman in a demon costume gets on and sits next you, and a man in a black hood carrying a scythe sits to your other side. He leans in and whispers. “Don’t panic, I know what you are, I’m going to get you out of here.”
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[WP] When we made first contact, many aliens were rather disturbed at our nukes. Not that we had them, MAD was pretty much a Great Filter. No, it was our extensive portrayal of nukes. Fallout, 50’s pop, almost any apocalypse not caused by zombies; our fascination with worldwide nuclear fire is… odd.
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