/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A great cosmic evil arrived on Earth millennia ago, taking on human form to manipulate mankind into destroying itself. Over time it learns to enjoy being human however and is now desperately trying to stop its own plans, now dangerously close to success
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[WP] All paladins receive gifts from their gods shortly after pledging their allegiance. As a new paladin, you are worried about what types of gifts Avergus, god of mediocrity, would give his followers when the fateful day arrives.
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[WP] You challenged Death to a game when your time came, not because you feared your death, but because he was the only one left you had yet to best
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[WP] When the first wave of colonists landed on the moon one of the first things they did was look for the legendary site of the first moon landing. Along with the flag however they find a decrepit lunar lander and three human skeletons
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[WP] It took millions of years for faster than light travel to be developed, by then a significant portion of humanity had set off and long since settled distant worlds via the slow route. Millions of years of divergent evolution later recontact becomes more like first contact
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[WP] Time travel is possible, but one cannot travel further back than April 24th 2198, the exact date time travel was invented. Anyone who tries to go back further simply disappears with nobody knowing where they went, but after a series of bad decisions you are probably going to find out
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[WP] After tens of thousands of years of interstellar travel the milky way has been found to be devoid of any other intelligent life and hopes of contacting an alien species are getting slim, until an expedition to another galaxy reveals that apparently everywhere else is full of intelligent life
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[WP] At some point in any relationship one must go through the ordeal of meeting a significant others parents. This is how you ended up across the table to a literal and surprisingly reasonable demon drinking coffee from a number 1 dad mug which happens to also be a human skull
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[WP] The dominant intelligent species in the galaxy is a vicious, predatory species gifted technology that almost seems like magic from long lost precursors. There was no point resisting them, until one day a strange alien race enters the galaxy and reduces the terrible Canid empire into "good boys"
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