WritingPrompts

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[WP] Frontier era laws remained on the books into modern times and evolved into our modern dueling statutes. Litigants can hire professional gunslingers instead of lawyers to represent them in an alternative court of law where the last person standing wins the case for their clients.	16
[WP] It was bad enough Humanity through their science and arrogance shattered the Moon into a ring of debris around Earth. What they never believed or expected was the impact this event would have on the countless supernatural creatures of the world intimately tied to the mystical powers of Luna.	16
[WP] A human will develop the ability to use powerful magic once they reach 150 years of age. Many centuries ago an outside force artificially limited their lifespans to prevent this from happening, but modern advances in life-extension technology threaten to undo that which they sought to suppress.	16
[WP] Everyone has their own unique "Personal Kryptonite" that affects them in the same way as real Kryptonite does to Superman when he gets close to it. You have gone your entire life without finding out what yours is until one day you feel a sudden weakness rapidly creeping up on you.	16
[WP] Super-heroes are permitted by law to have a costumed secret identity until they turn 18, beyond this their actual identity must be made public. Most young heroes are encouraged by their sudden rockstar status to greater acts of heroism but a few don't cope so well with their overnight fame.	16
[WP] You start a website where people can "sign their souls" over to you online as a joke and it goes viral. The next day you get a knock on the door from the Devil himself, wanting to speak with you urgently.	16
[WP] Genies generally have contempt for humans which is why they typically twist wishes to ironic and horrible ends. But very, very rarely one will encounter someone who genuinely impresses and endears themselves to them, leading the Genie to go truly above and beyond when granting their wishes.	16
[WP] A man born with "kinetic precognition" - the ability to perceive motion a half second before it happens has used it to build his career as a successful boxer but is about to meet his match.	15
[WP] There are a dozen known magic spells anybody can perform but each will only work for them once during their lifetime, never to be used again. An old person nearing their final days has secretly saved their best spell for last.	15
[WP] A bored billionaire decides to lead a double life under a secret identity as a criminal who exclusively targets their own interests to avoid doing anything truly illegal.	15

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