WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're pretty sure you got the better end of the bargain - your soul in exchange for immortality, no gimmicks, no undead lich, etc. It's been a decades now, and you're heading back to your private estate to review your diaries just in case you've somehow changed.	20
[WP] The Academy caters to the children of both noble and common ancestry, even scholarships for the poor. All students must wear masks and conceal their true identity in order to keep politics and discrimination to a minimum. Now the entire school is abuzz with shocking news - a body has been found	20
[WP] Major cities have ancient "Gates" that connect them to one another. Each gate opens for 24 hours before cycling to another destination. These gates are essential for trade and commerce and you've been called to investigate why they are malfunctioning, losing a minute every day.	19
[WP] There are two known methods of increasing magical power and knowledge. The third is cannibalism. Students go missing all the time at the Academy, so it's been a regular buffet for you, until your distant cousin shows up and old family rivalries boil to the surface.	19
[WP] Once a portal is open it can never be shut. You cannot open more than one portal to a world. Once the barrier around a world is broken, anyone may open a portal to it. A year after opening the first portal, a hundred appeared on Earth, including the one that just opened in your backyard.	19
[WP] A Deck-Mage can only construct one deck of spells in their life, so most follow traditional rules like the Fire Starter or IceWind decks, even though it limits the spell combinations available. Only a gambler like yourself would build a deck around an untested system of their own invention.	19
[WP] “No one has ever seen a so-called God,” you said, forking a potato into your mouth. “And all the so-called miracles can be explained by trickery. But if one ever appears before me, I swear I’ll devote myself to them.” Moments later, a glowing figure appears before you. “Oath accepted,” it says.	19
[WP] You’re trapped a series of tiny realities no bigger than a square mile. Different cities, different locations, all accessible by a certain door you can sense. 24 hours after you move to a different location you can sense a presence hunting you, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but inexorable.	19
[WP] Seven mana springs exist on earth, all capped at the end of the last era, sealing away magic. But the legends don't say why they were capped, nor did they warn of the tremendous pressure that would be released when you broke the first seal.	19
[WP] A cyborg samurai, a mutant ninja, an illegally cloned pop-star, a hyper-intelligent plant, and you, a space cowboy who just walked into a bar looking for the varmits who rustled your herd of solar aphids.	19

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