/u/Kancho_Ninja's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The ruined alien megastructure orbiting Tabby's Star was mankind's first encounter with an alien civilization. You're tangled in the middle of powerful interests who want to harvest the tech, ignoring the cause of destruction.
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[WP] you're an Ectomancer who can summon spirits to unlife, making the ethereal physical. Necromancers hate you for pulling the souls out of their undead. And even though it upsets people to see their loved ones brought back as a ghostly servant, you still got drafted into this war.
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[WP] You believe your eyesight is failing because you can see a ghostly double image around everything. One day a bird hit by a car and moments later its ghostly double rises from the ground and flies off. This inspires you to see if you can manipulate or interact with the double images.
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[WP] After waking from cyrogenic sleep after 150 years and having your terminal disease cured, you're still a modestly wealthy man. The biggest issue with your new life is the Civil Penalty Monitor, an implant that records every illegal action and fines you instantly.
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[WP] Every time you die, you swap to an alternate universe where it was just a close call or never happened. You're getting older now and it just occured to you that you might end up trapped as a 90 year old invalid on his deathbed, eternally dying.
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[WP] You "wake up" at random times and places, surrounded by strangers in some sort of long term care facility. Each time you're told that you have dementia and memory loss. But you're beginning to suspect something went terribly wrong with the Lethe Project and there's been a cover up.
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[WP] The accident left you with a concussion and seeing people with animal features that reflect their personality. Now you live in a world of animal-people; loyal dogs, independent cats, dangerous snakes, manipulative spiders… Just when you get used to this aberration, you spot a new species.
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[WP] Not even the bodyguards know who is a paid double and who is actual royalty. When enemy troops invade, you flee the country with your young charge, looking for clues that you're guarding an actual member of the royal family and not a double so you can carry out your mission.
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