/u/ArseneArsenic's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Attention shoppers, the store will be closing in thirty minutes. Anyone still inside of the premises by closing will be hunted for sport.
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[WP] The Evil Overlord, bored of going completely unchallenged, decides to moonlight as the prophesied Hero for a month or two to shake things up a bit.
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[WP] You're the child of the legendary hero, the one who had single-handedly saved the world. Most of your friends told you about how jealous they were, wishing they were related to someone so famous and powerful. You only wished that they were home more often.
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[WP] The site of the Tower of Babel is discovered, and humanity makes an interesting discovery upon unearthing its foundations. It was a gun barrel.
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[WP] People are born with literal hearts of gold and stone. You run the very lucrative, and morally gray, business of extracting good people's hearts to help them help someone else financially. Usually it's family or a lover or or a friend. You wonder what your heart is worth.
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[WP] In a no-holds-barred boxing tournament with specially-built cyborgs and vat-grown genetically enhanced homonculi competing, the reigning champion for the past half-decade is an aging, flesh-and-blood boxer.
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[WP] All dragons hoard something. Most pick gold. Others who fancy themselves more refined choose art or remains of past civilizations. You hoard friends.
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[WP] You, a vagrant and wanderer, are the best swordsmaster in the world and constantly have to fend off challengers and hopefuls who want to learn from you. You are not the best because of raw skill, however, but because you cannot die. No matter how much you wish you could.
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[WP] You, a two-bit purse snatcher, skip town and decide to hide in the big city for a while. Nobody would give you a second look, you thought, they've got bigger fish to fry. As it turns out, the city's underworld is run by the actual underworld, and you've turned some heads by showing up.
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[WP] Every party needs a deft bladework, powerful spells, skillful healing and occasionally a dirty trick or two. Fighters, black and white mages and rogues all cover these, but in your professional opinion, every party you've met sorely lacks a good singing voice.
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