/u/Nebarious's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Enthralled with your magical studies, you only leave your retreat every 10 days to buy supplies from a nearby town. However, you've become something of a legend. The mystical hermit who arrives every 10 years without having aged a day.
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[WP] You're an ordinary person that works a 9 to 5 job. You pay your taxes and regularly contribute to your retirement fund. In a world of magic, prophecy, and calls to adventure this makes you extremely unusual. People are starting to notice.
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[WP] You are not human. Your race has infiltrated Earth in order to subsume humanity. The only problem is that you're not sure that there are any humans left because everyone around you is trying to act as overtly human as they possibly can.
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[WP] Carcinisation is the name of the game. You've seen species come and go, but eventually everyone becomes a crab. Humans are reluctant, but you're sure you can convince them to upgrade.
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[WP] Newly admitted to a college of magic, you find it strange that the beginner spells you learned tutoring under your master are considered some of the most difficult and dangerous spells known to humanity.
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[WP] Summoning rituals require the entity you're summoning to have a reason to enter our plane, usually a bargain, but unbeknownst to you your parents were something of a big deal. Now even your simplest summoning ritual can conjure extremely powerful eldritch entities who just want to meet you.
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[WP] The plane crash left 5 survivors who managed to make it to a nearby deserted island. Each survivor only made it because of their supernatural nature, but are otherwise completely unaware that's how the others survived and now each of them must desperately keep their secret from the others.
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[WP] You and the ghost of your brother run a profitable scam where he haunts a house until the owner hires you to 'exorcise' him from the home, but he seems to have fallen for your next mark and now refuses to leave.
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[WP] You and the ghost of your brother run a profitable scam where he haunts a house until the owner hires you to 'exorcise' him from the home, but he has fallen for your next mark and now refuses to leave. You're about to perform your first real exorcism..
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