/u/NTCans's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You and your crew have been selected for a 1500yr Cryo Sleep journey to a possible first encounter. You enter your pod and the cryo sleep process starts, you never lose consciousness. After hundreds of years of mental torture in a frozen body, your psyche begins to evolve.
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[WP] You are the most intelligent person on the planet, but only when you are in unimaginable pain. Your IQ scales with your pain level, and on days when your healthy and pain free, you struggle to make a sandwich.
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[WP] It's called Detachment. It happens shortly after a person's 27th birthday. The only advance indicator is the loss of your shadow. It separates slowly at first, becoming its own entity, and then it vanishes. As soon as this happens, the person becomes static. Exactly one year later, they resume
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[WP] The economic separation between working and upper class has grown exponentially. Now there are walled cities for the "earners" and everyone else is considered a scavenger. The newest form of "earner" entertainment is based off one of the oldest. The scavenger hunt.
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[WP] After billions of generations, the last energy of the Big Bang has been expended. The everlasting expansion of the universe has stalled. With the laws of physics and time called in question, the universe begins to retract.
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[WP] "Elevator out of Service" said the sign, so you take the stairs. After 5 flights you notice there are no floor numbers. You double back to find out your only one flight from the top. Heading down you check the doors, they are all locked. You can hear others in the stairwell, but no one passes.
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[WP]Three deep breaths later, she got the tremors under control. "One more to go.." she whispered quietly to herself.
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[WP] Pi. The most famous, non-repeating, infinite number. Contained within its digits, are the binary sequences that form the images of everything that is, was, or will be. You've created the device that can "see" all of it.
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[WP] You are currently in a car accident.As your vehicle flips end over end hurtling towards a cliff, your head bounces against the wheel. Every impact temporarily sends you someplace in time, for an unknown duration, and the cliff is getting closer.
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