/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As Pharaoh you are aware that countless thousands of time-travelling tourists from the future come back to witness the glory of your nation and monuments at their peak, stimulating your economy and prosperity in the process. It is a secret you aim to keep at any cost.
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[WP] The government has become aware of actual time travellers visiting our time from a century in the future. A secret agency was created in order to capture and strategically exploit one of these individuals for their knowledge of the future in the wake of a massive global war. The year is 1819.
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[WP] Instead of electricity, humanity developed it's inventions to be powered by the very life-force of it's users. Some choose to live an Amish style existence allowing them to live a long natural life. Those who choose the convenience of technology end up living a significantly shorter existence.
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[WP] Buildings that don't have a listed 13th floor actually do, accessible by pressing all the buttons for each level in the elevator whilst on the top floor. It is within this concealed space that those who would remain concealed from humanity reside.
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[EU] The classified report of the Elite British SAS team that very nearly took out Lord Voldemort, as told by it's sole survivor.
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[WP] Everyone is born with a the same fixed and finite quantity of magical energy. Most waste the lion's share in the recklessness of youth; what little remains is long gone by their twilight years. Not you though, despite being old you have never cast a spell in your life, nor wanted to. Until now.
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[WP] Your superpower is you live every day twice, the second time becoming permanently part of timeline. While you use this ability to help people with your knowledge of a previous day's events you do enjoy getting away with doing anything consequence-free on a first day from time to time.
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[WP] You are a vampire in command of a starship with a cargo of humans in stasis. The mission planners were fully aware of your nature and have secretly factored in an allowable "loss of cargo" to allow the mission to succeed. Unfortunately, you suspect you might not be the only vampire on board.
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[WP] When someone dies they can pass their memories and skills of their choosing to different people in their will. When a wealthy man passes away members of his extended family are shocked at what they have each individually inherited from him.
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