/u/BurningEmbyr's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The greatest thief to ever live, you quickly grew bored with how easy it was too pull off elaborate heists, and get into "impossible"-to-infiltrate facilities. After a while, you found a new hobby: mugging other thieves during their greatest heists.
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[EU] After travelling to Japan as a foreign correspondent, Clark Kent is shocked at the number of people he has to save from being hit by trucks as Superman on his first day alone. A few days later, a consortium of other worlds contacts him, and asks him to stop poaching their protagonists.
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[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave."
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[WP] After getting to the end of your quest, the treasure room merely contained a sign reading "The treasure was the friends you made along the way." Looking around, you notice for the first time that your "friends" are just crudely cobbled-together golems made out of valuable items.
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[WP] You live in the Kindgom of Rock, at a stalemate in the war with the Kindgdom of Paper and the Kingdom of Scissors. Your scientists, however, have just had a breakthrough in weapons tech: finger-gun.
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[WP] Two years ago, your city came under siege. You were part of the volunteer force guarding the walls. You fought through the day, then the night, then the next day and the next and next, never sleeping, running from one incursion to the next to drive them back. They have begun to fear you.
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[WP] Whenever you look at someone, you instantly know what to say to drive them to their greatest triumph, and the words that would plunge them to their deepest low. You've always used this to help people. For the first time, however, you've met someone where the two are the exact same speech.
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[WP] You've always been able to twist any situation to your advantage. Accidentally saw classified data? You got a great job protecting said government data. Got captured? You ran the enemy's tech support. Got killed by your original employers? Okay, this one might be more difficult.
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[WP] At the edge of the city lives Forge. Every aspiring adventurer visits them before they set out. Every adventurer is Tested. Every test is different. Some leave in tears and become farmers. Some leave with new resolve and win fame. And a lucky few leave with a weapon.
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