WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your father is an eccentric billionaire who has dedicated his entire fortune to the ultimate prank - convincing you that you are a wizard. All of your friends and family are in on it, but there's just one problem: You actually do have magic powers.	866
[WP] “It’s Average Guy!” “What’s his special power?” “Oh, he doesn’t really have one, but villains have a soft spot for him, so the let him get away with minor heroics from time to time.”	854
[WP] You are one of the most powerful wizards in the continent, but because style points make up half of the Wizard License examination, you’ve never passed.	771
[WP] "That's odd," it says while drumming its fingers. "You should be screaming. All of our data says that you should be screaming right now." It pauses, and its soulless eyes stare into you. "Why aren't you screaming?"	728
[WP] Aliens arrive at Earth, and inform us that our solar system must regretfully be processed into rocks to throw at the invasion of the Outer Gods that has been ongoing for billions of years. “Well, why don’t you let us take a crack at it for a hundred years or so? What’ve you got to lose?”	691
[WP] You find yourself stranded on a backwater planet, where strangely, the primitive inhabitants understand in great detail how to repair your FTL drive. Their oral tradition explains in great detail how to reach the stars, while stressing that they should never, EVER try.	650
[WP] You are an ancient Egyptian pharaoh trying to enjoy the afterlife, but all of your stuff keeps disappearing as tomb raiders steal the physical objects. Finally having had enough, you decide it's time to go back to Earth and get some cursing in.	626
[WP] It's been four years since the apocalypse. However, you slept through it, and honestly have no idea what happened. People refer to it as vague things, such as The Cataclysm, The Event, or That Day. You've begun to suspect that nobody actually knows what happened, but doesn't want to admit it.	615
[WP] A star drifts too close to our solar system. The sun unfolds arms and legs as it prepares to do battle.	476
[WP] After a long and bitter struggle, a king lets his only daughter marry for love instead of politics. Years later, she still gets really smug about the fact that her husband ended up conquering the world anyways.	467

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