/u/HouseOfSteak's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence.
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[WP] A dragon lays waste only to a feudal lord's keep, deciding to rule over humans like a human would. Decades of rule and defending his new subjects from other feudal lords' attacks have led the small hold to grow into a vast city state, with its people content to have a dragon as their lord.
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[WP] Out of options, you pray to whoever's listening to save you. As it turns out, there were a LOT of entities happy to bestow their divine providence upon you. Thing is, none of them knew the others were doing the same. The results are successful - albeit chaotic, to say the least.
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[WP] Yes, you intentionally made a contract with a demon. No, you did not do it out of ill intent. Your persecuters don't care. Your demon, though? Your demon cares. Greatly.
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[WP] Once a name is written in a Book of the Dead, it cannot be edited. Apparently your name was erroneously submitted, despite the fact that you're very much alive. This is the 4th time today that yet another Reaper is checking up on you to see if you died yet.
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[WP] A butler served your family for as long as you can remember - he cheerfully fulfills any mundane request asked. One day, you're looking through the attic, and find a cracked oil lamp. You ask him about it, and a wistful expression crosses his face: "It's been over 500 years now, hasn't it..?"
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[WP] The Heroine's party finally charges into the Dark Lord's innermost sanctum....only to find him tending a small garden, shocked. The Heroine gives her speech, but Dark Lord can only whisper in the smallest voice: "My most trusted lieutenant did....what?"
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[WP] With your eternal 'curse' as your only companion now, you watch the last star go out. Some theorists believe the universe would eternally end, others that it would restart. Begin once more it does. But everything, even physics, is different...with with one constant - you, still living it up.
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[WP] You're not sure what's more disconcerting - the fact that a man walked into your bar whilst missing his entire left side with the median covered in shadow, the fact that he's still alive despite his condition, or that he just ordered a pint and you're not sure how he's going to drink that.
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[WP] You close the latest book on theoretical physics, as you take a trip down memory lane. Between a chin-wag with Aristotle, an afternoon outing with Galileo, that picnic with Newton, and so many more, you wonder where humanity would be without its rogue muse.
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