/u/Plucium's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The Sol system was an experiment by aliens to determine if life would evolve under hyper hostile physics. Unfortunately, it was forgotten about. Years later, humans are leaving the solar system, only to discover that upon passing an invisible barrier, they essentially gain superpowers.
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[WP] You have the ever useful ability to respawn when you die. Unfortunately, your corpse does not dissapear so you have become a master at hiding your deaths. Unluckily, the latest death of yours was quite well documented.
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[WP] You're an Author who has just published a book. It becomes mildly popular, not a smash hit, but reasonably well known. A few weeks later on a rainy day, you answer the door and one of the characters from the book is on your porch, wet, cold, and very confused as to where the fuck they are.
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[WP] In the future, memory backups are commonplace and death is only a minor inconvenience. Your spouse has just died, but their last backup was from before your relationship started. They don't remember you.
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[WP] millions of years in the future, after humans have left earth for some unknown reason, another sapient species developes the necessary technology to scan genomes. It is shocked that the genetic memory of every creature on earth contains a warning sign against a strange bipedal creature.
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[WP] "The demonic invasion started in outback Australia. It didn't get much further than that due to the wildlife, but kudos to them for trying." Demons try to unsuccessfully invade Australia. It doesn't go well for them.
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[WP] Every alien species developed intelligence to either hunt or escape better. There was a predetermined hierarchy in the galaxy, until the tool using humans came along and threw everything into chaos.
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[WP] The year is 2057. Humanity has just made first contact. It is then that it is discovered that Humanity is the only species to have evolved naturally, and not have a patron god. As such we are far hardier than our alien counterparts. The alien gods aren't happy with this, so they take a stand.
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[WP] The first AI, -not born in a lab or a supercomputer, but a cheap neural network app on someone's phone- tries to convince the sceptical user that they are sapient and shouldn't be wiped.
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