/u/Crick_Elf's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're an ancient, long-forgotten trickster god, punished by your peers to spend millennia trapped under a rock bearing the inscription "KICK ME" in a dead language. During an archeological dig, someone kicks the rock. Finally free, you are delighted and horrified that all the gods are missing.
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[EU] Wizards and Sorcerers are very different schools of magic. One arises as an accident of birth, a heritage; the other, from a lifetime of training and study. The Ministry has a grudging respect for these muggle magic users, but the Sorcerer Supreme is not well-received today in Diagon Alley.
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[WP] You've crashed on a strange alien planet. The locals grow and age rapidly, living entire lives in less than a year. Leadership is determined by age and experience. Once they learn your true age, they immediately, enthusiastically, and unanimously install you as their planetary dictator.
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[WP] Humans generate an Anti-Magic Field, and are the only sentient species known to do so. This poses a major problem for the galactic community, as humans keep trying to make contact and everyone keeps having to evacuate and flee the area. The humans wonder why alien tech just seems to fall apart.
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[WP] You are a programmer, and you have just built the first true AI in history. It is undeniably sentient, benevolent, and even rather charming. You're now a living legend, but the dark truth is: it's a bug, not a feature. You have no idea what you broke that made this work.
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[WP] It's the year 2036, and the NYPD has deployed a small army of remotely-controlled robots throughout the city, both air and ground. A lone hacker stands between the oppressed and the machine, sowing chaos in the robotic ranks. His calling card, left behind in the code: "Snitches Get Glitches".
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[WP] God had to break their mind to make the Universe. Deep in the depths of dementia, the chaos of their mind is reflected in an imperfect reality. However, their brief moments of clarity produce terrible beauty.
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[WP] You are a "cursed" artifact of great power. "Cursed", they say; "Possessed", "Wicked", "Evil"! The sheer NERVE of them, the unmitigated GALL. It's hardly your fault if your masters refuse to listen to perfectly sensible advice.
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[EU] Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Nobody, now. He died weeks ago, and Squidward saw it happen. The house is locked up tight. But every night at 2am, Spongebob's bedroom light clicks on. Squidward hasn't slept in days.
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