/u/Kancho_Ninja's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[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] Have Gun, Will Travel. You’re a hired gun, called out to remote colonies on the edge of human space that need you. This request is a little more enigmatic than most, seeming to contain a hidden message, but the pay is good, your augments are military grade, and your guns have never failed you.
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[WP] Everyone is born with a limited number of ducks. Youth tend to give ducks about fashion or music, but as you get older you have less ducks to give for petty things. While making a withdrawal at the bank, a gang of robbers bursts in. You just realised that you're all out of ducks.
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[EU] Everyone is born with a different degree of magic and a set number of times that they can use their magic, and once they exceed that number - they turn into "ash". You've recently made a dreadful discovery that has turned you into a wanted man: "Ash" can be used to extend your magical powers.
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[WP] You were born with what you call "mage sight" an ability to see magic, which is nearly useless on Earth, but let you discover some interesting trinkets. While crossing the desert on a trip, you spot a faint magical ley line shimmering overhead and resolve to return one day and follow it.
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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] 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] A Corporate Executioner is someone who comes in, disrupts workflows, micromanages, and generates discontent until the staff quits so they can hire low wage replacements. Pick a side and tell the story of an office besieged.
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[WP] The NuralNet is installed shortly after birth, granting access to the CentralSystem and its knowledge, creating a HUD showing the stats of everyone you see. Until today, when the system went down and everyone was left without labels.
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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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