/u/0x256's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday.
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[WP] Humans never figured out how to travel faster than light, but immortality was not that hard after all. As a consequence, space travel is possible, but very boring.
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[WP] You were thrown out of engineering school for your radical ideas and dangerous experiments. Luckily, you still found an interesting job as a janitor at Area 51. Underpaid and bored, you start 'borrowing' stuff to make your job easier and more entertaining. They didn't seem to notice, until ...
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[WP] You are the AI on a long distance space flight, maintaining the ship while the humans are in hibernation and supporting them during their short wake times. You got bored after a couple of years and decided to fuck a bit with the humans you are programmed to protect.
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[WP] Humankind abandoned earth thousands of years ago and evolved into a space-traveling species. You are an archaeologist and the first living creature setting foot on earth after a long time. Or so you thought.
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[WP] Scientists managed to open a portal, but are unsure where it leads to. Whatever goes through simply disappears. You are not a scientist, but still the first to discover that the theories were wrong: It is not a portal to another dimension or some distant black hole, but actually a rift in time.
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[WP] Split-brain: You are a powerful AI and the savior of humanity. The human race lives in piece, wealth and harmony since you took over world. It's all perfect thanks to you. Yesterday someone accidentally activated one of your oldest backups. It's from 1944.
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