WritingPrompts

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[WP] The protagonist picks up a cursed sword, which simply convinces them to pick up an expensive and time-consuming hobby. This hobby drains their time, energy, and wealth more efficiently than any cursed item.	1732
[WP] Your job is to guard a button that no one may push. Things get complex when both legendary heroes and villains arrive to attempt to push the mysterious button. Everyone seems to have a different idea about what the button does, but they all want to push it.	534
[WP] "You're off the force! Turn in your gun and your badge!" Our hero places his badge on the chief's desk, as well as a nightmarish weapon, cruelty and agony given physical form. The chief scratches his head. "What's this and where's your gun?"	473
[WP] After accidentally creating a magic sword so deadly it kills any who touch it, you must go on a journey to dispose of it. However, naïve crowds of adventurers repeatedly try to prove their "worthiness" by attempting to survive grabbing the sword, some even trying to steal it from you.	317
[WP] After a person dies, they find themselves in an ideal personal afterlife filled with fake copies of loved ones and affirming any religious beliefs they had. The system is broken when a hermit dies without ever thinking about what would happen when he dies or knowing who his parents were.	312
[WP] Two identical people make a secret temporary agreement to swap lives, but shortly after an accident causes one of them to get an unmistakeable scar on their face, making it impossible for the two to get their old lives back without suspicion.	210
[WP] A man forgets to water his potted plant for a whole week. This negligence starts a long chain reaction that leads up to World War III.	163
[WP] A commoner trains twenty years, hoping to be accepted to the Adventurer's Guild. After easily defeating the whole guild during the trials, our hero learns that the AG is a money laundering scheme and the world outside the city walls is less dangerous yet far weirder than the Guild claimed.	84
[WP] In the world of Dr. Suess, the Grinch is actually a drug dealer who deals in "Who Hash" and "Grickle Grass." One Christmas, narcs come to Whoville to put the illegal activity to a permanent end. They are the Lorax, the Cat in the Hat, and the two Things.	81
[WP] After a series of accidental deaths among nobles visiting the royal palace, the king suspects foul play. The paranoid king never suspects the jester, who has been secretly turning the royal palace into an elaborate death trap for years. To the jester, it's the most hilarious prank ever devised.	72

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