/u/MidKnightshade's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A soldier with advanced computer skills is sent in to deactivate a rogue sniper droid. It received a download and then it went dark but is still attacking targets. It’s advanced cameras allow it to see satellites to avoid detection. Following its attack trail it’s heading to a civilian area.
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[WP] Superpowers were outlawed making anyone who manifested a de facto criminal. Special teams are brought into arrest those that manifest. The choices are medical treatment or imprisonment. A team is called in on a frequent manifestee with a high medical tolerance.
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[WP] A conspiracy theorist gains the ability to make people tell the truth and compel them to answer their questions. They decide to ask questions of high ranking officials in a public forum and get more than they bargained for.
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[WP] You’re a character assassination specialist. Supervillains hire you to conduct smear campaigns against designated targets or teams. It serves to demoralize the heroes, diminish public trust, and in extreme cases put up the cape. You get hired to takedown the Premier Hero Team.
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[WP] The ghost of an ex-lover will not allow you to leave your home. You’ve run out of sick leave, excuses, and your bank funds are low. You try to keep visitors out because what happened last time. You concoct a plan to escape.
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[WP] A small population of homeless people are squatting in an abandoned decommissioned military base. One day they wake up to find themselves locked in and a group of people keeping them inside. At nightfall something starts picking them off.
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[WP] A group of homunculi and automatons go looking for their Maker after a long absence. They find the Maker’s corpse but don’t understand the concept of death due to be cloistered their whole existence. They take it back to the lab and the oldest among them performs the spell that made them.
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[WP] You’ve been at the institution for treatment but they won’t say what for. You don’t remember how long you been there. You stop taking your medication and start showing signs of superhuman abilities. But now you’re also starting to remember how you got there but the memories don’t make sense.
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[WP] The villain known as Stalker has the power of teleportation, intangibility, and invisibility. They’ve used these powers to discover various superhuman secret identities. They then regularly blackmail these people under threat of selling it to their enemies. Some have had enough.
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