/u/Crazy_ManMan's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The mole men and mer-people have been so busy fighting the ocean vs subterranean war they never bothered to check if any intelligent life was on the surface until one day you accidentally stumble into the middle of it all.
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[WP] When capitalism made it's way into the fantasy world adventuring changed. It's not about conquering anymore, it's about being able to sell anything to anyone. The mark of a true adventurer is being able to part a dragon from it's gold.
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[WP] Aliens don't contact humans because humans are awkward, weird, and grotesque. Their jokes don't make sense, their voices are irritating, and they make everything really awkward. Expert explore and PhD Zeep Zans described interview with a human as "the living equivalent of nails on a chalkboard"
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[WP] Your curse? Everybody forgets they ever saw you shortly after not being focused on your existence. All traces of you are forgotten or aren't noticed. A horrible curse, but you've used it to take over the world.
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[WP] FTL travel isn't possible but reverse time travel is, which can be used to essentially create FTL by going back in time to when the universe was smaller or using hypersleep to travel and go back in time to the time you started once arriving. This makes warfare highly complex and 5 dimensional.
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[WP] You're not sure why this summoned hero calls himself a "buy-o-weapons expert" or what that means or why he insists we all wear these silly costumes and do rituals to the san-it-ah-tion god, but he says this innocuous vial will end all wars somehow.
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[WP] You guys band together and call it a union we do it and you call us a horde. We just want equal pay and fair protection under law. Steve over there found out officials sold all his belongs in an auction after he died and he couldn't get them back, then his "friend" tried to bash his brains in.
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[WP] So it turns out scientists took over hell a long time ago and basically made utopia. They have A/C and the eternal burning is just used to power everything.
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