/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Just the other day you could have sworn you saw a hole get torn into reality with a horrific eldritch abomination crawling out at the local McDonalds, which handed a few notes over, asked for "the usual" and returned to the screaming Void from whence it came with a big mac meal
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[WP] The whole fire and brimstone thing never really worked out for making sinners repent for their mortal crimes, so as a result hell has shifted focus from punishment to rehabilitation
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[WP] The older a living thing is the more magic they accumulate, such is the reason why the best mages are ancient, elder dragons have so much power and sacred trees have such importance. You have pinpointed an indescribably large source of magic that appears to be a sponge?
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[WP] Being truly immortal beings angels and demons can never truly die, instead shattering like glass upon 'death' and having their shards rain onto Earth to inhabit and influence a human. Very rarely does anyone have more than one shard and always of the same type, you somehow have one of each
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[WP] You have angered a witch and she cursed you to a quick death. Little does she know that thousands of years ago you were also cursed with immortality, and these two opposing curses have strange effect on the body when both are applied at the same time.
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[WP] Zombies aren't the ravenous beasts that media often depicted them as, rather they are just like they were in life in every way aside from the fact that they are now dead. The real horror of this situation is the unfortunate undead being fully aware as their body slowly rots
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[WP] The new Dark Lord has ascended to the throne of the wastelands, but they are less interested in conquest and murder than fixing the horribly inefficient systems currently in place.
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[WP] The world's most powerful supervillain has suddenly started using their great wealth and amassed inventions to improve the world, naturally arousing suspicion on what the true purpose of their actions were. However there is no grand secret evil plan, they just had a genuine change of heart
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[WP] You were reading an interesting book in the library when your friend remarked that they didn't know you could read any other languages. As far as you can tell the book is completely in english.
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[WP] Your father used to often take you to a strange island that does not appear on maps where he claims he once lived, covered in ruins of a city as beautiful as they are ancient. However when you tried to your friends there they instantly broke down in a fit of insanity upon looking at R'Lyeh
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