/u/DankAndOriginal's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The lizardmen make first contact and have a really tight time convincing us they don’t already control our government.
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[WP] You've reached the heights of magic, conquered aging, and propelled your country into an interstellar nation. With no frontiers left to conquer, you turn within yourself and ponder the emptiness of power... PSYCHE! You're going plasma boarding at six and immortality couldn't be more rad.
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[WP] You have the most powerful magical ability of all: the ability to copy any magic you've seen before. Unfortunately, everyone knows this, and you've never actually seen someone else use their magic before.
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[WP] A group of aliens suddenly appears and announces that, due to a technicality in galactic law, they can now annex Earth with no consequences. Fortunately, you’ve been bootlegging episodes of Galactic Law and Order from an illicit space station for years and can prove they’re full of it.
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[WP] A team of mad scientists embarked on ill-conceived quest to prove whether souls existed at our core. They subjected mankind to countless engineered timelines by repeatedly changing the past. Among all the chaotic streams of time, one person remained the same regardless of the "nurture" provided
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[WP] You have to lead a medieval army, but didn’t pay much attention in history class. But making sure everyone is well hydrated and stuff seems to be working..?
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[WP] A dragon is mighty, but can still be felled by tens of thousands of cuts. As one flees, it stands before deaths door. Perhaps the old man standing before it will be the one to inflict the final cut... Huh? ‘Tea’? What is that?
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[WP] Earth is avoided by the rest of the universe for a very simple reason: everyone is too busy freaking out about the static conga line of ghosts left in its wake that keeps getting denser and denser.
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[WP] In the year 1453, as Constantinople teeters on the brink of collapse, a legion of men descend from the sky, wielding machine guns and donning fedoras. One of them pats Emperor Constantine’s shoulder: “We’ll take it from here.”
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