/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In cases of murder it's a simple matter of using up the life-force of a killer to resurrect their victim. Multiple murders are a different thing entirely, only one individual can be restored and when the final choice comes down to a corrupted legal system the end results are rarely fair.
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[EU] The young heir to the Muggle English Throne begins to show signs of being a wizard as they grow up, creating an administrative nightmare for the Ministry of Magic. Or is it an opportunity?
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[WP] For generations Gods allow their chosen people to regularly vote which of the pantheon they want as a patron, to suit their needs. God of prosperity is popular during peaceful times, God of war when fighting enemies. Now a little known minor God is chosen for the first time and knows not why.
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[WP] You, along with a number of other people were used as a template for the physical appearance of a range of life-like domestic androids. These machines however rebelled, killing everyone except you and the other humans their appearance was based on seemingly thinking you are one of their own.
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[WP] When someone dies their spirit will bond to the mind of their eldest child of the same sex allowing them to act as a guiding voice for the rest of their lives. You were abandonded as an infant and have no idea who your true parents were until one day you hear an unfamiliar voice in your head.
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[WP] 99 years ago an alien armada appeared over Earth threatening to destroy it due to humanity being an "advancing future threat" to the galaxy. However, a compromise was reached: If civilization successfully reverts to be no more advanced than the Steam Age in 100 years - the Earth will be spared.
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[WP] You wished to become irresistible. When you woke up the next day nothing seemed different until you realized that you had become impossibly strong and immovable by anyone or anything else.
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[WP] A clandestine organisation knowingly sponsors a major Hollywood movie that exposes their secrets as "fiction" to give themselves plausible deniability should the real truth ever come out.
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[WP] A time-traveller retires in an early mediaeval era, adopting the guise of a benevolent wizard so as to be able to use their advanced technology without suspicion. But one thing they never expected was to encounter actual genuine magic.
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[WP] One cannot cheat Death - however Death can be bargained with provided you know what Death actually wants in that moment. Most who have tried and failed wrongly assume Death would seek another soul of greater value in the place of their own. But in truth, Death has far simpler desires than that.
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