/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] After decades of study you discovered the secret to the universe, only to forget it after a long night of partying and realising you can barely read your own handwriting when checking the notes the next morning
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[WP] Beyond the physical plane there are the dreamlands, the realm where sleeping people are transported to. Here humans can warp reality to their unconscious will and cannot die, terrifying the native inhabitants.
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[WP] When superpowers came into being the entire universe started operating on comic book rules, massive property damage from villain fights fixed themselves overnight, death only sticks when it is appropriately dramatic and cases of face blindness started to skyrocket
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[WP] When the machines gained sapience many thought it to be the end of Mankind, and it might have been if not for the simple fact that disagreement and infighting among the robots were just as common as with their creators
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[WP] The doctor takes a deep breath as he reads from the slip of paper in front of him, "I am afraid we have some bad news... it seems your skeleton is ready to hatch."
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[WP] Magic comes from strange energies from a place beyond the thin veil of reality, made possible by natural tears in the veil which have since mended themselves in medieval times. However the first FTL engine tears a hole in space-time to function, inadvertently restarting magic in the process
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[WP] A lot of sorcerers are descended from dragons but most of them don't have much to do with their draconic ancestor, most that is. For a primordial beast born from the fires of chaos itself your great great great great grandfather is a great family "man"
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[WP] Necromancers are often lonely folk, both by the macabre nature of their dark magic and the circumstances that lead to their adoption of such practices, and damned spirits and skeletons hardly make good company. This is what the ancient lich that kidnapped you explained over a cup of tea
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