/u/Gregamonster's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your sword can not be used by anyone but you. It's not legendary or magical, just picky. One day during a fight with an enemy soldier, you drop the sword and they pick it up. It seems to work just fine for them.
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[WP] Your ancestors gave up up on humanity getting their crap together and left for a distance planet on a generation ship. When the ship finally arrives, you find that in the hundreds of years it took to get there the culture they were escaping from cracked FTL and beat them to it.
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[WP] A hero feels their nemesis's potential is wasted on crime. After decades of trying to appeal to their conscience with no luck, the hero complies a list of completely selfish reasons to become a hero, and presents their case in the next fight.
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[WP] You've lived inside your whole life. Everyone has. Your entire world is a massive indoor space with no apparent way to leave. But you have to leave, because the power if flickering and no one on the inside even knows where the power comes from.
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[WP] The curse that brought the kingdom down wasn't magic. It was just six words whispered by the queen to her children. "You deserve more than the others."
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[WP] A goblin interrogates an adventurer, trying to get the "real" reason adventurer's hunt goblins. The adventurer tries to explain to his captor that the rest of the world doesn't appreciate having their roads raided, farms burned, and villages raided by goblins constantly.
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[WP] You are the administrator of a simulated universe. The people in your simulation have started creating their own simulation, and now you're starting to wonder if you aren't also in a simulation yourself.
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[WP] A demon was cursed by a jealous lover that all children they had would be weak. Turns out demons don't have seperate words for "Weak" and "Kind". The most powerful demon to ever live is also the nicest.
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[WP] People come to the black fortress with one of two goals: Kill the dark lord or date his sister. Both are met with equal resistance.
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