/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[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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[WP] Anyone can be brought back from the dead if enough people voluntarily sacrifice their own lives to resurrect them but bringing someone back more than once takes an increasing number of lives to achieve. In spite of this people keep bringing you back and you have no idea why.
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[WP] The influence of magic and science wax and wane with the seasons in a never-ending cycle. By the peak of the Summer Solstice all advanced science has ceased to function and magic reigns supreme. But come the Winter Solstice magic is all but absent and technology now operates at peak efficiency.
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[WP] A certain King has a well-earned reputation of executing any messenger bearing him bad news. An honour-bound courier with news of their army's greatest defeat draws on every last ounce of wit and cunning to perform their duty while avoiding what otherwise will be their certain death.
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[WP] "Only two groups in our world receive the miracle of the Immortality Serum. The ruling elite is one of them. The other is the worst of society's criminals, convicted and sentenced to hundreds of years or more of hard prison time. Because true justice demands they serve every last moment of it."
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[WP] In one world they are known as War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. In yet another they are Peace, Abundance, Vitality and Life. Their purpose is to balance the realms, taking from one to bestow upon the other. They are The Horsemen.
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[WP] Magic is a real universal constant. Millennia ago the Human Empire was driven back to it's homeworld and a powerful spell put on their Solar System suppressing all forms of magic to keep them contained. Nobody dreamed they would return to the Stars without access to Magic. Yet return they have.
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[WP] A weathered old man stoops to pick up an ancient oil lamp from the sand. Rubbing it gently, the Genie within is released and to its surprise the next words from the man are not a demand from the human for his first wish - but instead… “Hello old friend, it’s been a while.”
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[WP] It's true that Vampires are creatures of the night that drain the life of victims, but during the day they are something else entirely. They wander the world returning the gift of precious life to those humans they deem worthy.
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[WP] For centuries humans have been taken from their homeworld as exotic pets for wealthier members of the galactic community. Now, with humanity on the verge of leaving their solar system and joining the the galaxy in their own right a great debate has arisen into how to handle this delicate point.
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