WritingPrompts

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[WP] Cleaning out your late uncle’s things, you realise he has a fantastic collection of costumes. For fun, you put on the wizard’s costume and pick up any one of four staffs. Spouting nonsense words you remember in a kid’s cartoon, you point the staff at the dog. It immediately turns into a fish.	213
[WP] In a world of monsters and heroes, you are a beloved servant/minion of an adventuring party. You cook dinners, do the laundry, and purchase the supplies. You also dabble in magic when no one is looking … and you’re pretty damned good at it.	173
[WP] You’re an acrobat from a circus troupe that has learned to work with gloves on to hide the strange phosphorous tattoos you’ve always had. In the middle of your performance, amidst the hush of the crowd, you see several people in the front row, each bearing the same tattoos; watching you.	169
[WP] You’re an ancient stone golem that’s terrifying to look at and even scarier to deal with. A decade ago, you inadvertently adopted a handful of young orphans who for some stupid reason weren’t afraid of you and had nowhere else to go. They grew on you. Like a fungus. Now, they’re teenagers.	167
[WP] You and your parents are labelled eccentric. You have all avoided the ocean, yet when they are killed, you arrange a sea burial for them. As the caskets sink, you watch the rest of your family swim up from the murky depths below to take them home, and some of them pause to wave at you.	163
[WP] You’re a high school student who’s enduring the usual lecture about hell and its denizens during Religious Ed. What has become blatantly clear is this blowhard has never set foot in the fiery realm. You were born there, and some of your best friends are demons. Take Max sitting beside you.	159
[WP] You’re a rare variety of adventurer. You retired after decades of fighting all manner of creatures. You're still an outsider in your village and have been relegated the smallest hut on the outskirts. It’s peaceful, so long as no one goes poking around in your four fully-loaded bags of holding.	158
[WP] You were once caught pickpocketing from a wizard, and now the back of your hands are runed against stealing at all. Stealing is all you know, until someone spotted the runes and offered you a job. One you are now perfect for.	156
[WP] You take a job to assassinate someone. It’s worth a lot of money, and only one target name. Azrael with no surname is about the cutest thing you’ve ever heard and you’re positive their pseudonym is just as adorable. After all, ‘the Angel of Death’ can’t possibly be literal, can it?	145
[WP] You’re a retired hitman/enforcer for the mob. You take your wife to the movies and let her pick since you don’t care. Until partway through the movie, you realise it’s a mob movie where the names of all the characters are real people. And someone is playing the part of you … in great detail.	143

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