/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A team of scientists discover how to communicate with a parallel Earth. Years later, we share a unified Internet and people from each side openly communicate but the hardest thing is when two people fall in love with each other online other but discover they are quite literally worlds apart.
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[WP] You are immortal, having lived through thousands of years and witnessed much of human history firsthand. A quirk of your immortality however is that the person physically closest to you at any given moment also ceases to age making you a highly prized commodity by friend and foe alike.
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[WP] Rampant use of performance enhancing drugs amongst elite Olympic athletes coupled with lifetime bans has led to the creation of the "Performance Games" which encourages pushing the limits of human ability by any means possible. But what happens when things are taken too far?
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[WP] An elite poker player in the final years of their life receives an invitation to join other elderly players in an exclusive tournament. The buy-in: what little remains of their life-force. The winner will walk away with their youth restored.
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[WP] "Being immune to magic doesn't make you invulnerable" intoned the instructor. "A warlock for example might not be able to set you on fire directly but could turn your clothing into lava to attack you indirectly. Conceal your ability to the final possible moment and use your advantage to win!"
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[WP] We fear Earth only because the Ancients did. We know not why, only they saw fit to strip the knowledge of the stars from humanity and confine them to their home world. But now the Ancients are long gone and humanity stands on the cusp of stepping back into the interstellar twilight once again.
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[WP] Human DNA is like an agressive virus with the ability to cross-breed with almost any sentient life-form, becoming more and more dominant in successive generations. Their world's message of love and unity to the galaxy isn't an appeal for peace - it is a declaration of assimilation and conquest!
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[WP] You are a natural born Technomancer but were unfortunately born before the invention of any real technology you could sense or influence. All this changes when a craft not of your world crash-lands near your village, you feel a strange and unnatural calling to you for the first time ever.
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