WritingPrompts

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[WP] A planet and its moon both have intelligent life. For 400 years they have watched each other through telescopes. Now one of them is launching its first rocket to pay the other their first visit.	831
[WP] The villain actually is right. But the hero didn't come all this way just to go home with a bruised ego	692
[WP] When a million people become aware of someone's existence, they die instantly. All public figures are dead, and society must split into small factions	177
[WP] Alien technology relies on different laws of physics - not just atm or gravity, but actual constants. When humans make contact with alien life, reality glitches and technology from both races begins to malfunction	76
[WP] An inhumane form of exile involves making a convict immortal, then ejecting them into space. After millions of years of frostbite, starvation, and asphyxiation, you land on a small, terrestrial planet. Some additional millions of years later, a second exile makes it to the same destination.	69
[WP] Anyone can "overclock" their body, being twice as strong, but this causes them to age twice as fast (also works with 3x, 4x, etc.) Society is ruled by those who can coerce others into overclocking on their behalf	64
[WP] Someone already killed the villain, not for the sake of heroism, but revenge. The media tries to pry into their life, but they have no interest in the greater good, or having a public image	24
[WP] CIA operatives are given a drug whose withdrawal symptoms cause insanity. You've left the CIA and are determined to leak their conspiracies, but no one will believe you and you can't even tell if you're being followed	21
[WP] The world is at war, and everyone born with superpowers is drafted into the army and dies young. Having superpowers is effectively a death sentence.	20
[WP] An uninhabited planet is turned into a penal colony, with researchers manipulating the environment from space to conduct psychological and social experiments on them	20

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