/u/Flaky_Explanation's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your time travel was successful, and you end up near a cliffside where you find a man seated on the edge gazing at the ocean. Activating your language translator, you join him for a chat.
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[WP] 16 years ago, the doctors pronounced you blind on birth, even though all conventional eye tests showed your eyes were functioning as they normally should. Only you knew that you could still see.... outside humanity's visual spectrum.
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[WP] While playing a game of fetch with your dog, you cheekily hide while your dog ia distracted. After a few minutes of your dog searching, you hear a strange conversation "Good boy to Control, I've lost my human. Requesting Operation Search and Rescue."
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[WP] You've received your mark, a prominent person of power attending a jovial and important event. Your task, as the Onion Cutting Ninja, is to make sure your mark sheds tears on that event, at the exact moment at the height of the party.
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[WP] You have been sentenced to death, but one request of yours shall be fulfilled. You decided to trick the law by requesting to document and catalogue all forms of living organisms to have ever existed and will ever exist. That was 1 million years ago, and you finally find the last planet. Earth.
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[WP] After a successful eye surgery, the bandages come off. The doctors say your eyes should be working fine, but you cant see a thing. Its only when night sets in, do you gradually realize that your perception of light is inverted. Pitch black darkness is bright daylight to you and vice versa.
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[WP] Humans have finally created a doomsday device unlike any other, and detonated it on their home planet. It had no effect on Earth and the rest of the intergalactic civilizations promptly dismissed the event, until strange time anomalies began happening everywhere in the galaxy, except Earth.
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[WP] The police department is absolutely livid. Someone has been locating and leaving documents and clues to follow and solve cases even before the department is alerted of the crime for months now. You're a detective that is trying to crack the case.
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[WP] You encounter a sphinx in your travels that poses an indecipherable riddle. This sphinx is different from the others, because it actively helps you to arrive at the correct answer. This is the Tutorial-Sphinx.
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