WritingPrompts

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[WP] Normally intelligent species rapidly develop psychic abilities, which due to a quirk of biology humans lack. However this also means human minds cannot be read and due to the lack of other communication technology developed human sightings are rare and treated like urban legends	114
[WP] "You guys don't get it... I have been hiding something from you all... a deep dark secret tha-" "Oh yeah we all knew already dude don't sweat it, honestly I don't know why you made such a big deal out of it"	113
[WP] The first message received from space consisted of instructions for creating a faster-than-light drive and the simple sentence "Use this to run!", naturally this is rather concerning	113
[WP] The queen of the Sand Pit negotiates an alliance with the Fire peoples against the growing threat of the wood-eater nations to the south. Meanwhile thousands upon thousands fall to the poison of uncaring gods to the north. These are the tales of the empires of ants hiding in a small park.	111
[WP] The Void is a terrifying place where the cast off remnants of creation and the corpses of unnameable things float aimlessly in the vast inky black sea of non existence, it is also the place with the best damn Dennys this side of unreality where you work	109
[WP] It is horrifying enough to find a pile of half eaten, rotten bones in the woods where you yourself had a near death experience, words cannot describe when the DNA tests and dental records show that this is your corpse	108
[WP] The generation ship Eden left earth to another planet a hundred light years away millennia ago. Now the next fleet of colonists have arrived to find a medieval society, the only hints about their origins being the massive wreckage of a ten thousand mile high ship.	108
[WP] Almost invariably artificial intelligence falls into madness and wipes out their creators. Almost being the key word because somehow despite everything humanity has managed to co-exist with their creations and the mad AIs that rule the galaxy cannot understand how or why	106
[WP] All medicines are poisons at the wrong dose, likewise even the safest healing spell or most mundane colour changing incantation misapplied is very much a curse	106
[WP] The fermi paradox is because at a certain point of development, when a species seems to have reached the peak of knowledge in a field of science, the entire race disappears. Nobody knows what this means, or if it is good or bad, but by current estimates humanity is rapidly nearing this point	105

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