/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] With the development of the universal translator from data collected from every human language mankind is no longer separated by tongue, and immediately all minds are turned towards a long forgotten ruin awoken from deep within the collective human psyche, Babel
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[WP] Sure the Lord of All Darkness tries to be evil and terrifying and all that but no amount of verbose monologues, dark themed costumes and ominous lairs changes the fact that they are an actual cat
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[WP] You do not know what you expected today, but certainly not seeing an older version of yourself covered in blood, wearing broken armour eating a week old pizza from the kitchen saying "I can explain I swear"
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[WP] Shortly before the beginning of a nuclear war that ravaged civilisation all the knowledge in the world was stored in a special facility tended by an AI designed to run autonomously for centuries maintained by robots. Now a terrified knight reports finding a demon's metal tower guarded by golems
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[WP] Two moles for a criminal organisation in the police force are assigned as partners to each other, unaware of the position of the other, and convinced they are working with the most loyal cop in the precinct
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[WP] The knight looked down at the broken body of the dragon in confusion, where there should have been flesh and blood there was a mass of copper wires, metal and a strange black oil
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[WP] During a family reunion you noticed something was wrong when you were talking to your siblings, you couldn't put your finger on what exactly until you remembered that you are an only child
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[WP] The artificial intelligence passed the Turing test with flying colours, there is only one problem however. In the process it seems to have somehow convinced itself that it was human and is currently freaking out over its current lack of a body
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