/u/MellyKidd's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As one of God’s top creative designers, it’s your job to turn his ideas into functioning animals, then put them on earth below. Unfortunately God has a habit of giving vague descriptions, and now wants to know how a Cthulhu-like beast ended up in Florida.
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[WP] It’s a typical morning on the farm. You’ve had your coffee and breakfast, and head out to do your usual chores; feed the animals, clean their stalls, etc, when your farm dog trots up to you and suddenly speaks for the first time. “Master, the livestock are in agreement, and we need to talk.”
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[WP] You are a blacksmith and swordsmith, who specializes in making magic swords that aid Knights and heroes alike in battle; granting abilities like healing, luck, or invulnerability against magic. One day a knight commissions you to make a sword that will guarantee he’ll loose.
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[WP] As the first spaceship to Mars passes the moon, it hits an invisible wall. Turns out we were someone’s pet “ant” terrarium all along, kept in the dark by an advanced alien species. The next NASA space mission; Escape.
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[WP] After the accident, your caretaker never thought you’d be anything more than a vegetable. Now, as you pull your roots off the floor and shake your leaves into place, you rise to prove to that silly human that you can be much, much more!
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[WP] As a mother dragon, you are presented with a worthy adventurer fated to do great deeds. It’s your duty to let them pick either an enchanted item from your treasure hoard, or one of your eggs to help them on their path, but you don’t really want to give up either.
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[WP] Your grandfather had always been a mysterious and secretive man, never letting people come to his house; though he adored you and left you everything when he passed. With this came a list of his belongings, including the instructions to never wind the clock in the corner.
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[WP] You are an Eldritch Abomination; a horrific monstrosity whose distorted physiology defies the laws of nature, created to strike fear into the hearts of men. But to those who know you, you’re simply known as “Ed”.
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[WP] You wake up one morning and everyone is deaf except for you. The concept of sound is suddenly considered a myth, and everyone is worshipping a massive metallic spire that appeared overnight in the centre of the city; glowing with a strange, green light.
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[WP] You wish you knew why the twin suns had become three, their heat drying your crops and turning the purple, fruit-bearing grasses beneath it black as it lands. It’s a metal capsule with strange markings on it, a bizarre creature stepping out and speaking; “One small step for man-“
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