WritingPrompts

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[WP] The world is a meritocracy. Every child is given the same access to education, healthcare, etc. Jobs are a lottery based on scores and talent, nepotism and favoritism is a felony, and everyone starts at the bottom. You're child of a wealthy tycoon and just received your first job assignment.	63
[WP] several alien species spent centuries at war, leaving behind graveyards of destroyed ships in random systems. You're a Salvager, one who searches for those ancient battlewrecks and you just discovered a mothballed base - and a clue to the strategic value of the system.	63
[WP] You're a carnie in a medieval fantasy world, responsible for operating the enchanted rides and keeping them in repair. There's been an accident at the Haunted House run by the alcoholic necromancer.	62
[WP] You get into a heated argument with your GM about the application of a game rule. The GM shouts “Fine! I’ll prove it!” - and then everyone at the game table is transmigrated to the game world. “Screw you guys, deal with it.” He says, then vanishes.	62
[WP] if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you. You spent all night gazing into the abyss before falling asleep at dawn. When you wake, it's afternoon and you have a text message: "Hey, you're really cute. Maybe wanna grab a coffee or something? ~ The Abyss"	62
[WP] John Shoester is a bitter old man who travels around and tells people their approximate time of death. Five years. Twenty years. Two months. And he's always been 100% smugly accurate - then he met you. Last week!?	61
[WP] A Magician uses magic. A Sorcerer uses the source. You are the first Wizard in 7 generations.	61
[WP] International culinary school finals are fast approaching. You've had many challenges; the metric system, angry instructors, etc. and look forward to the day you can open your own restaurant. Eager to help, your grandmother sends you a cookbook she found at an estate sale - the OmNomNomicon	61
[WP] Every generation that's born has a small chance of developing partial immunity to the hardships faced by their ancestors. Your people have been slaves for three score generations now, mining from an active volcano on a small island.	61
[WP] It's a story old as time: You wake up hungover on Mars, discover your aunt has been declared dead and left you her Light Freight Hauler. You also discover a fragment of a starmap, an alien artifact, bounty hunters after you, and you're an illegal Simulated Personality in a clone body.	60

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