/u/DankAndOriginal's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] It is discovered that our universe is a simulation. After great effort, a small team of experts manages to reach the higher dimension - only to find that this too, is a simulation. This gives rise to Dimensions Climbers: those who dare to ascend higher and higher toward the true world.
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[WP] When Earth discovers FTL travel, the world never unifies into one government. When new species make contact, they are surprised to learn that the twenty strongest empires in the galaxy have their capitals on the same planet.
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[WP] After world peace is attained, it is discovered that there is a fixed amount of evil that must be present in the world - or the world will balance itself. You are a member of the U.N’s newest department: The Ministry for Necessary Evils.
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[WP] You are an ancient entity, contracted to defend the village’s sheep from danger. The times move on, and you begin to hibernate. Once more, your services are requested, and you agree that, technically, defeating intergalactic invaders would be protecting sheep.
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[WP] Your generals are staging an intervention: the budget can’t handle anymore daggers stabbed into valuable maps.
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[WP] You are constantly on the run from heroes, careful to erase any traces of your presence. Not, mind you, because you are a villain, but because your “deaths” were an important formative for several of the greatest heroes, and you feel too guilty to let them find out you’re immortal.
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[WP] In a world where magic can be cast through song, musicians rule over society. You are the last of your kind, a Scandinavian Death Metal Singer.
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[WP] As a vampire, you've always needed to ask for permission to enter a house. Ever since being ejected into space, you've been looking for a way back to civilization the only way you know how: knocking on the doors of passing spaceships, asking them to let you in.
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[WP] A human sings to a plant to help it grow. The plant grows so that one day it can strangle the human and put an end to the infernal screeching.
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[WP] An explorer crash lands on a planet and begins the grueling tasks of securing food, shelter, and making repairs. What appears to be a series of coincidences to the stranded explorer is actually the planet-sized organism enthusiastically showing hospitality to its first guest in a long time.
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