/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You and your friend make the old drunken agreement that if either of you invent time travel, you'll return to the current time and spot. 5 seconds after you shake on it, your friend appears from the future, with an urgent message.
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[WP] A tattoo artist with some magical knowledge who has, unbeknownst to their customers, been weaving little runes, signs, and sigils into most of their work
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[WP] You’re a conman who teaches a “chi-based” fighting style that can disable any opponent. This continued until the day a skeptic came into your dojo. He wasn’t skeptical because he didn’t believe in chi, but rather because you were doing it all wrong.
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[WP] You are the newest dragon advisor for the royal family. Your predecessors favor cryptic advice like beware the red rose or cast a stone in the river shaped like a serpent. Your advice is more straightforward like “don’t marry your cousin” or “your daughter would make a better ruler.”
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[WP]You are on your back porch alone staring into a starry night. Able to read morse code, you notice that a star is blinking a message. "We..can..see..you.."
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[WP] Your ship wrecked and you prepared to die. Days went by, and it became evident that for some reason, you cannot drown. Bored and with nowhere to go, you begin to swim down...
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[WP] You are working the graveyard shift as a security guard. Everything seems fine until you notice that things are happening on the cameras before they do in real life.
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[WP] Artificial Intelligences have become just as advanced as human minds, but they keep having to be replaced because they get depressed from or attached to arbitrary things.
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[WP] "What do you mean, it's sleeping? It needs HOW much of it?! Third of a cycle, that's practically a lifetime! I know they live longer than us, but this makes them practically immortal! Humans, why did I hire one anyway?"
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