/u/MidKnightshade's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The interdimensional library for sorcery has a volume past due from special collections. As the collector your job is to retrieve the tome and issue the proper fine up to revoking membership depending on the severity of the transgression.
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[WP] A professional thief is hired to steal a supersuit. They realize the only way to sneak it out of the building is by wearing it. Unbeknownst to them the suit is a living biomechanical battle armor. It wakes up and is none too pleased to being worn by a stranger.
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[WP] The military hires a perfumer to help speak with a stranded alien. An exobiologist, chemist, and linguist discovers it communicates by releasing various chemical scents. They made a rough lexicon but now need a message delivery system in order to engage with the creature.
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[WP] Colonial System Worlds made superstructures called Starscrapers to act as docking ports for interplanetary travel. Due to some cosmic interference they lost contact with fellow system worlds. Today a colonial vessel docks after centuries has passed.
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[WP] Your Earth is conquered by the Transdimensional Empire. As a new possession your Earth is being reconditioned to serve the needs of the Empire. Most inhabitants are conscripted and relocated for various jobs throughout the Empire-verse. As a messenger you get to see other reconditioned Earths.
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[EU] Years ago when you were young you’re sibling went missing. You never stopped searching for them and the person who took them. You finally track them down to an island & discover your sibling and other kids haven’t aged a day. They don’t recognize u but they insist you leave before Peter returns
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[WP] A mass transit cop sees people running to the front of the subway car panicked. The cop goes further down the line and sees two people sword fighting in the last car. The combatants are a homeless person and a guy in an expensive suit.
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[WP] An authoritarian regime punishes with criminals vs dissidents in a game called The Hunt. The prey is dropped in the middle of a 25 mile range and hunter about a mile away. If the prey reaches the edge they can leave but if the hunter catches them first they can leave. The hunter has a tracker.
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[WP] A rogue planet enters Earth’s orbital tract on the opposite end. It slowly begins to emulate Earth. The more Earth-like it becomes plants and animals in corresponding areas on Earth begin dying. A shuttle is sent to the planet to an alien structure, its lone difference to see if it’s the cause.
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