/u/EndOfToaster's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?"
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[WP] The reptilian sighs and shakes his head. "This is going to be a long night. Okay, firstly, we *don't* run a shadow governm... well, in the Philippines yes, but not worldwide. If you'll lower the gun I'll tell you what I can."
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[WP] You're the "evil twin," impostor, clone or otherwise evil doppelganger of your world's most prominent hero. In your exploratory exercises in mimicking him, though, you find no one falling for you, because you're so much nicer than him. You begin to wonder if you're really the evil one here.
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[WP] On board the Titanic's return voyage, you see a fellow with a strange device. As he stares at it, he begins to curse vehemently under his breath, then mutters, "I *have* to sink it?!"
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[WP] When Earth became uninhabitable, several Arks were sent out to other earthlike worlds, equipped with genetic engineering labs (Much cheaper than terraforming gear.) The descendants of the colonists now meet for the first time in centuries. How has everyone changed?
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[WP] Your superpower: Erasing memory via eye contact. Your hardest mission yet: Just getting through superhero registration and staying on a team of supers for five freakin' seconds.
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[WP] As the adopted child of alien diplomats, you struggle to adapt to a human school. As a human yourself, your peers and your teachers don't quite understand your difficulty.
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[WP] After three or four psychiatric appointments, you begin to think maybe your patient *is* who/what they say they are.
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[WP] The Flat-Earthers turned out to be half-right. The Round-Earthers turned out to be half-right. The government has hidden for years the truth of Yggdrasil, the Norse World-Tree.
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[WP] The party of adventurers approach. "Allfather, maker and master of all that is, we come with heavy hearts. Your children, the gods, control our actions. We seek to wage war against them." You wake up in a cold sweat, wondering what your players will say when you tell them D&D night is canceled.
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