/u/CarolineJohnson's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The last magic user tries to find a compatible person to take on as their disciple, in a world dominated by advanced technology.
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[WP] A wood elf leaves the ancient forests of the north and finds himself in a modern day town with no knowledge of humans, their tongue, their ways, or their abilities.
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[WP] Because you gained the ability to use magic so late in your life, you're now a 36 year old in a magic class full of 5 year olds. Describe the first day of class.
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[WP] Humanity invents an AI that is so empathetic, it needs to learn how to stop loving so much and stop trying to make 100% of the world's population happy, because it's starting to interfere with worldwide affairs.
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[WP] The prophecy stated the one to overthrow the king would be a farmer, and so farming was outlawed. The next prophecy said hunter, the next gatherer, and so on, until no methods of obtaining food remained in the kingdom.
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[WP] You are determined to have mana of an unknown affinity and trigger, so you have to figure out how to cast spells without a teacher. The only problem: mana can build up in a human's system. You need to cast at least 1 big spell every 20 years or the buildup will kill you. Your 20th is soon...
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[WP] You die, and you wake up in a situation like one of those isekai stories. But as you talk to the god in front of you, it's increasingly apparent he's trying to hide something from you and stall for time.
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[WP] After the extinction of humanity, aliens descend upon Earth to investigate what happened. But one happens to find a live human baby. Fearing its quality of life if it were discovered, the alien decides to raise it in secret.
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[WP] One million years after the death of humanity, an alien race discovers an antiquated set of hard drives. After extracting the data, they find several thousand text files from a database called "Archive of Our Own".
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