WritingPrompts

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[WP] In Greece, cryptic prophecies often lead to tragedy. A high ranking Athenian leader's wife just birthed a child, so he went to the oracle at Delphi to discover his baby's fate. She simply said, "They will live a long, fulfilling life." The parents are terrified.	1021
[WP] Space explorers discover a lush jungle planet with an oxygenated atmosphere. Deep below the trees they find ancient ruins, and even further below, catacombs full of frozen corpses. In their exploration, they accidentally start the process of reviving the lost civilization known as "Humanity."	452
[WP] Scientists find an early specimen of Homo Sapiens Sapiens trapped in a block of ice, and thaw it out. After its recovery, the ancient human stays quiet for a time, simply listening to the scientists. Hours later, to their shock, it begins to speak.	400
[WP] You are a cloned human engineer maintaining a remotely operated warship in space. Your ship, which was damaged in the last battle, sorties unexpectedly. You ping your Admiral to stop the charge- but the Admiral had no idea your crew existed.	332
[WP] Write a story with a sane protagonist, and a psychotic one- but make it as difficult as possible to tell which is which.	253
[WP] After death, you are reincarnated in an RPG. The catch is you have to act as an NPC. You can only become an adventurer if you're killed by one, so you've set out to provoke the protagonist as much as you can with the three lines you've been programmed with.	120
[WP] Write at least one paragraph warning travelers of a dangerous beast, by taking the real attributes of non-threatening animals such as rabbits and exaggerating them until they seem to be terrifying monsters.	69
[TT] Your fiancé reaches the end of the aisle, and her father gives her over to you, you complete your vows, kiss the bride... and wake up naked in a hospital bed strapped up to an insidious machine. Your bride looks down at you and says, "That's what it took?! Look, we have to escape!"	60
[WP] You are a professional Viking. What most people think this means is that you show up at events and act as a mascot. What it really means is that you show up at a given place and steal everything at swordpoint.	57
[WP] An ancient dragon awakens from its slumber, into the modern world. It has to decide whether to assimilate with human society, or conquer the world as it did in ages past.	51

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