/u/Exceon's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You know the random driver in every action movie where the hero jumps in and orders to "follow that car!". Yup, that's you. Every single time you're trying to get anywhere.
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[WP] Your alarm gives you math problems to wake you up, but you mindlessly solve them all to snooze. The difficulty keeps increasing until you start cracking historically unsolved problems.
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[WP] You have the power to swap places with anyone, anywhere, at will. You've set up a business where you charge by the hour for tourists to swap places with you. Today is different, because your latest client sent an emergency request. It is a hostage.
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[WP] Wishing to use your time machine to visit 15 BC, you accidentally enter the year ”-15!”. The resulting factorial sends you back before the big bang, and to your surprise you are not dead. You discovered What Came Before.
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[WP] At a run down food place, you place a special order which just happens to be a codeword for their illegal sidebusiness. Your attempts at clarification are just further codewords to them.
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[WP] You live in a world where everybody has the ability to quicksave in life, except they keep aging normally independent of saves. One day, you're approached by a stranger who in the blink of an eye has aged years before you.
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[WP] You're in charge of running harmless simulations in which the world ends in various ways for researching purposes. One day, you come across a message in the simulated world that makes you realize it might not be so harmless after all.
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[WP] You're the landlord of a complex which features a haunted apartment. Nobody wants it, and now you're pissed. It's time to make the ghost pay rent.
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[WP] The elders were right. All that joins you in the grave, joins you in the afterlife. Most brought clothes, gold, weapons and trinkets. But not you. Oh, no, not you...
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