/u/CarolineJohnson's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A witch curses you so that you cannot become a stronger mage, but her exact wording in her spell is "your amount of mana can never change". As you soon find out, that wording is more helpful than harmful.
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[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation...
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[WP] You've contracted an unknown disease, and x-rays show it's eating away at your bones. Curiously, even when your limbs have no bones left...you can still walk and use your arms just fine. It's as if the bones are still there.
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[WP] Humanity finally makes first contact with aliens, and they find out every other sentient species in the universe is telepathic and empathic. Not only can humans not use either power, they're completely immune to it. Communication soon begins to prove...difficult.
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[WP] At 18 years of age, everyone gets a weapon based on their personality and strengths. All your friends got traditional weaponry, but you...oh, you got something interesting that no one knows how to wield.
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[WP] Every time you die, you awaken the morning before your death with your memories intact so you can avoid death. This is the 300th time you've died on July 13th, and you've never once figured out what kills you.
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[WP] A wizard finds an artifact of ancient times. "Robot", he thinks they called it. It has a humanoid shape, so he decides to turn it into a golem servant. It works...a little *too* well.
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[WP] A student of necromancy tries to figure out magic's technical definition of what can be considered "dead", in that necromancy will work to revive it.
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