/u/Mal5341's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You and a friend jokingly start a religion in order to avoid taxes. Not long after you are in an accident and put in cryogenic freeze. You wake up many years later to find that it is now a major world religion.
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[WP] When the aliens arrived to conquer Earth, they announce that they rule via trial by combat. Whenever they invade a planet, their Emperor personally fights whoever rules that planet. They have never lost, but they didn't expect the Earth to have so many governments...
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[WP] When the alien fleet arrived to conquer Earth, they were shocked to find the planet defended by all sorts of supernatutal creatures who called the planet home. Wizards, vampires, ghosts, fae, dragons and so on. The humans were even more shocked, because they didn't even know they were real.
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[WP] "Wait I'm confused. I thought you humans WEREN'T a hive-mind" "What? Oh! No that's the power of Freddie Mercury".
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[WP] Many years after the extinction of the human race, a new intelligent species has evolved / arrived on Earth. One day, they discover a mountain formation that can't have occured naturally: Mount Rushmore.
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[WP] "So you're telling me that on this planet the sky will turn dark, pure blinding energy will shoot down from above and explode anything it touches!?" "Yeah! We call it lightning".
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[WP] One day as a joke you send an anonymous message to your friend stating "They've found you. Run.". The next day you discover that your friend has vanished without a trace.
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[WP] You are the local village inn keeper, and one night the Princess of the kingdom comes in and asks for a job at the inn.
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[WP] Due to a spiritual revelation or scientific breakthrough, it is revealed once and for all that humans do have a soul and there is an after life. Now all the people who had jokingly or ironically sold their souls are freaking out.
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[WP] In the year 2000 you were abducted by aliens. They treat you as an honored guest, and as Earth's ambassador. You learn their ways and prepare them to make first contact with humanity at large. After two decades, you and the alien delegation return to Earth.
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