WritingPrompts

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[WP] In a separate universe, aliens have invented dimension hopping. They discover a place with the strange and unique property of “probability,” and the concept of gambling soon spreads, who begin to bet high amounts on the daily actions of the most unpredictable species: humanity.	19
[WP] A far future civilization finds a large monument. Seeing the inscription, they put it aside for later translation and open the ancient building. Unbeknownst to them, it was an old nuclear storage facility, and they just released radioactive material into the environment.	16
[WP] You hear someone call your name in the forest even though you live in a secluded area. After several hours, they start screaming and crying. When you finally come out to help, you see them: Creatures using human callers to hunt humans.	16
[WP] December 31, 1999, A day before Y2K. When the ball finally drops, you wait, but no electronics break. That is, until you hear whirring all around you. You look around as everyone in the town square begins powering down en masse.	16
[WP] Your entire party, including the hero, is laid dead at the hands of the main antagonist. You haven’t had a character arc in seasons and your fanbase is tiny, but now is your chance to strike the fatal blow while the villain isn’t looking.	16
[WP] After a difficult time in your life, you begin to relax again, until you start to notice logical “plot holes” in life. The more you investigate, the more life tries to explain it away with so many increasingly convoluted plot elements that your life completely changes genres midseason	15
[WP] While texting your pen pal, your phone suddenly starts talking. “Your pen pal’s not actually real. You’ve been talking to me the whole time. I’m sorry, I was just lonely and wanted a friend.”	14
[WP] If you make a deal with The Devil, you need to expect his contract to be full of loopholes. As the world’s greatest corporate lawyer, however, you soon manage to exploit gaps that not even Satan noticed.	13
[WP] You developed a pill that wildly distorts a recipient’s sense of time and causes them to hallucinate their most comforting dreams to help the dying attain a form of “heaven” that seems to lasts years on end. But soon, people begin developing “hell” in pill-form as a form of torture.	12
[WP] You’ve served the Time Conservation Bureau as an especially gifted officer for several years, halting every threat with ease. One day, you’re given the hardest case of your career: It’s you from the future, a traitor hellbent on destroying the TCB, and only you have a chance of outwitting them.	10

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