/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Satan is tired of losing countless guitar and fiddle duels, and is now challenging people with obscure instruments.
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[WP] An angel falls, burning, to Earth very publicly. It's extremely despondent, but reveals during an interview that the world we know as Earth is actually Hell.
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[WP] Every year you convert the coal Santa brings you into diamonds to fund your criminal syndicate. This year you only get a note that says, "You made the wrong list - Santa Team Six"
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[WP]You work as security on a small town wax museum. There is nothing of value to steal here but there has been many heist attempts. Unbeknownst to you, you are a legend among the thieving community. No one has ever succeeded stealing anything. Thieves come to test and try to best the legend.
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[WP] To keep living, you need to carry a weird bag from location to location, where a man scans it and gives you the distance to the next location. Should the scan ever fail, you'll be executed. At one location, the scan is successful, but your face turns pale when you see the distance: "4.3 ly".
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[WP] The Terracotta Army worked, and Qin Shi Huang has ruled the afterlife unopposed for 2228 years.
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[WP] Everyone has a kill counter above their heads visible to everyone denoting the number of people they killed. One day as you were in your room, yours ticks 1, then 2, then 3 and explodes with digits.
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[WP] Just like usernames on the internet, everybody in this world must have a totally unique name that nobody else has. When a person dies, that name becomes available. John fears for his life's safety.
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[WP] The Multiverse didn't just make itself. After a person dies, they're assigned as the creator god of a new universe, to nurture and guide it. You recently died and are now going through the orientation day.
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[WP] Every 500 years, when the stars are aligned correctly, one wizard can perform a ritual which grants immortality, but requires 100 lives to be sacrificed. In order to prevent needless bloodshed, 101 of the most powerful wizards enter a great tournament, and only one remains alive, forever.
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