/u/Kielenkantaja's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A blacksmith forged a coffin of steel. Death lays down to rest in the coffin, the blacksmith seal it shut and throws it into the sea. For 300 years there's no death, old people are tired of living and begin to search for Death.
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[WP] The Earth's crust is actually almost paper-thin and there's nothing below it. Barely around ten to twenty feet of dirt. Geologists have known this for years, maybe even centuries, but for various reasons have told no one. This begs the question, what are the mine shafts and wells digging into?
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[WP] Creation is no more. What remains is an endless black swamp of rolling midnight. Terrible and boundless. The only thing that persists, that continues on into the darkness, is the Last House, an old construct that harbors all those that are left from the feast of Night.
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[WP] You've been hired to retrieve a priceless artifact from a museum. The artifact is from the remains of a civilization long dead. Inspection of the art and history of the civilization reveals worship of a deity bearing a striking resemblance to the man who hired you to retrieve the artifact.
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[WP] The age of elves is long gone, the dense forests of elven people are no more. For millenia they've dwelt instead in the vast desert that now covers the whole world, defending the last of their sacred trees and eking out a living in the shifting sands.
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[WP] A robot investigating the death of his creator, not understanding the concept of natural death.
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[WP] The age of elves is long gone, the dense forests of your people are no more. For millenia you've dwelt instead in the vast desert that now covers the whole world, defending the last of your sacred trees and eking out a living in the shifting sands.
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[WP] A wizard slowly going senile with age hires you, a private detective, to enter his mind and secure a laundry-list of memories. Along the way you journey through parts of his life and are forced into battle with his inner demons.
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[WP] Paladins infiltrate evil, corrupting organization, and become convinced that each other have become corrupted. Turns out the entire outfit runs because of undercover paladins lost in its cogs waiting for each other to slip and not knowing who else are paladins.
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