/u/Polysean's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "Trial R198357 showing 99% success, full completion of the test will entail the existence of the first intelligent biological since year 3332 month 10 day 6 hour 22." You wake up to an excessively lit room full of machines, one of which greets you. "Hello R198357, do you feel human?"
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[WP] You are an immortal who has passed the time joining various armies and honing your skills. You've witnessesd all the great conflicts from the fall of Rome to both World Wars. This time you are trying to join the U.S. Marines, and have decided to have a bit of fun with your Drill Sergeant.
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[WP] You blow a flat tire while driving through the middle of nowhere in a foreign country. After a brief call with the rental company they inform you there is a jack in the trunk of the car. When you go to open the trunk a man pops out and greets you, his name is Jack.
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[WP] You are used to being a nameless nobody, then one day after a particularly bad mugging a satyr appears and offers you any powers you desire. The catch being you must face other champions from every part of the universe in a tournament. Lose and lose your powers. Win, and they become permanent.
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[WP] You are a mythical creature gathering with your friends for your weekly session of Hotels and Humans, the fantasy equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons, as you prepare for another night of navigating the daily toils of your average group of humans.
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[WP] You and everybody you know are selectable NPCs in a video game. You wake up one morning to find a golden marker over your head, you've been selected by the player and no longer have control over yourself.
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[WP] You live in a normal modern society, with the exception that people have the names of the ancestors they remember tattooed to their bodies. Most have a few names on their arms, some have sleeves, but one day you meet a man who is covered head to toe in names.
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[WP] The year is 2100, Corporations long ago reached the limit of how tall a skyscraper can rise, the new "earthbreakers" extend into the Earth's crust for miles. After a particularly bad mistake at the office one day you get called to the bottom level.
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[WP] A modern soldier enters a particularly nasty firefight and prepares to make his final stand. Upon his death his is met not with pearly gates, or a black void, but a great hall. The Vikings were right, he has entered Valhalla, and Ragnarok is about to begin.
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[WP] You were born into the royal family of a small kingdom, as a baby you were given away to the nearby empire as tribute. Now as war is raging between the empire and your homeland you come across a familiar face on a visit to win the support of a neutral king to the empire, you were a twin.
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