/u/Kancho_Ninja's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Armageddon began, and it quickly became apparent that bullets beat swords and claws every single time. Now Heaven and Hell have joined in an uneasy alliance against the humans who have invaded Hell and begun using its endless fires as a power source.
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[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
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[WP] You woke up in a bathtub full of ice with fresh stitches on your back and abdomen. The emergency room reveals that several organs are missing, replaced with something unknown. They want to cut you open, but you're feeling awesome, stronger and healthier than you've ever felt in your life.
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[WP] The edge of the world is real and every few years miles of it crumbles away into the void, forcing people to constantly move toward the ever expanding centre. You're a RimRunner, scavenging the abandoned cities before they slip over the edge.
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[WP] Your gimmick is the ability to jump back in time 10 seconds. You're in a pub trying different pick-up lines with this one girl and resetting with each failure. As you walk up for your next attempt, she tosses a drink in your face and says "How many times do I have to say no!?"
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[WP] Our universe is a simulation and the aliens keep lowering the reality settings. Some people started noticing at 90%, but as the level dropped, a large portion of the population kept denying anything was wrong. Reality is now 40%, things are getting weird, and some are still in denial.
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[WP] The face you see in mirrors is not your own. It's not the face others see. It's not the face you see in pictures or video. As you're making coffee for a long line of customers you spot a familiar face at the end of the queue - the same face you see in the mirror. They run.
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[WP] Sometime between 13 and 17, every child is summoned to another world as a hero to save it from evil. Except you. You've never been summoned. But as you tell your daughter and her friends to quiet down their slumber party antics, a summoning circle opens and engulfs everyone. Including you.
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[WP] Your father died 5 years ago, but he always calls you on your birthday from a blank number. You got over the shock years ago and verified it really is him. After his call today you accidently hit the redial button and a pleasant voice answers "Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?"
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