/u/Amablue's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[EU] The One Ring is actually a placebo. Sauron isn't sure why people keep attributing their own magic powers to the ring and becoming so obsessed with it.
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[WP] The alien reaches out and touches fingers with a human making literal first contact, and then says the words "You're it" and flees.
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[WP] A new virus sweeps the nation killing hundreds. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it.
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[WP] One hundred years ago, several city-ships left earth. Each one was devoted to a different poitical ideology (communism, anarchism, libertarianism, etc). Today the ships meet, and see how each other are doing.
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[WP] "I will avenge my brother's death!" yelled the adventurer. "You have my bow" his archer companion said. "And my axe" said the warrior. "And your brother" said the Necromancer.
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[WP] Most people are familiar with parallel dimensions - mostly inaccessible realities that are almost like our own. Only a few know of perpendicular dimensions - realities that are completely different from our own, and for a brief moment in time intersect completely.
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[WP] Emperor Blackdeath - the wise and benevolent ruler of the peaceful land know as the Bloodstained Empire - can't figure out why his country has such a bad reputation.
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[WP] An enormous kaiju emerges from the sea. It is completely impervious to all harm. Nothing distracts it from its goal of commiting wanton destruction. It's also relatively slow. The US decides nothing can be done and just lets the monster wander the country, evacuating and rebuilding as it goes.
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[WP] You are a kindergarten 'assassin'. You don't kill people though. You are paid (in candy, toys, etc) to get other kids grounded.
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[WP] In a world where Lamarckian evolution is true, there are groups of people who train their bodies in specific ways to pass on those traits to their children. After several generations of this, the evolution of these groups is becoming increasingly apparent.
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