WritingPrompts

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[WP] An unexpected side-benefit of FTL travel was the realisation when combined with advanced imaging technology a ship could jump several light-hours or days away from Earth to observe actual past events as they truly happened from the photons they caught up with, revolutionizing law enforcement.	10
[WP] A major science experiment has the peculiar side-effect of making events from several years ago play back as a ghostly after-image overlapping our own world. People learned to live with the effect and now Police use it to solve what were previously unsolvable crimes.	10
[WP] When someone dies their ghost remains visible in this world and is still able to interact with the living for up to 24 hours, before fading away into the afterlife.	10
[WP] They dared to challenge you. You naturally defeat them effortlessly, and now as you are about to strike the killing blow you hesitate on hearing their unexpected final words: "Teach Me"	10
[WP] Magic is neutral - it is simply how it is used that determines whether it's good or evil. Society considers certain spells to be "Dark Magic" and therefore outlawed. But a small group of magic users have realized the truth and secretly practice and teach the forbidden arts for the greater good.	10
[EU] Rogue Wizards are suspected of supporting terrorist groups in foreign countries. With the Statute of Secrecy at risk Aurors are covertly embedded in SEAL and SAS teams, their wands concealed inside their weapons - every bit a trained elite soldier but ready to confront Dark Magic in an instant.	10
[WP] "Humans are amazing creatures, there is literally no part of one that we can't use in some way"	10
[WP] As a child, your Great Grandfather - one of the last actual sorcerers - bound the spirit of a demon to your childhood toy, with the promise of freedom so long as it protected you throughout your entire life.	10
[WP] Nobody knows why one day every four years, February 29, doesn't exist. Everyone still lives through it except like a crazy Groundhog Day reset the First of March continues on with things as they were at the end of the 28th of February as if the 29th never happened. A day without consequences.	10
[WP] Sometimes someone of public importence dies inconveniently at the worst possible time. Your job is to scour the multiverse of parallel Earths for a duplicate of the individual and make a deal to have them step into the shoes of their double before the public find out.	9

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