/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have heard many stories about the great dragon who lives on top of the highest mountain in the kingdom, that it is larger than a small village, that it sleeps on a pile of gold and has wings that could blot out the sun. All of these are true, but nobody told you how cute the dragon would be
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[WP] The planet is littered with ruins of an elder race, beings who came far before that conquered every secret of science before vanishing like dust in the wind. Many things have been found about them, but at the same time so little is known that only recently their true name was found, Humanity
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[WP] For weeks you have been plagued by strange monsters at night, you do not know what they are, why they are here or where they came from but you have discovered that they absolutely love baked beans
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[WP] The problem with space warfare is due to the strange nature of time in relation to faster than light travel, the sheer distances involved in galactic travel and the truly massive numbers of worlds, ships, systems and empires often battles start long after the wars are over
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[WP] The ultimate weapon of any holy warrior is a special spell that is able to use the foe's evil against them causing damage proportional to their moral corruption often to devastating effects. Somehow it fails to cause any harm on the undead dark lord in front of you
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[WP] After interstellar travel became a reality it was found that the further one travels from Earth the less real reality seems to become, matter starts to phase through other matter, the exact same planets repeat over and over and the most fundamental laws of physics break down
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[WP] You are well known for your terrible memory and forgetting extremely important events, when you woke up in a strange bed with a killer headache in front of horrified family members you simply asked what you did this time. As it turns out you have been dead for a while, you just forgot
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[WP] Beneath your house is a great cavern, in which unnamable things older than man hide in ruins of truly alien architecture. It was disturbing at first, but one gets used to it, especially since the eldritch horrors are really quite nice once you really get to know them
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[WP] When in danger you go unconscious and become strangely impervious to harm until your body decides it is safe again. This has saved and ruined your life many times, and you are having a hard time deciding which one it is as you try to adapt to the new world as you finally wake after a millennium
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[WP] The heroes think they are looking for the Artefact of Doom in order to destroy it in the flames that forged it, in reality the Dark Lord who created the artefact was too embarrassed to reveal that he had lost it and could not for all his power track down a mundane piece of jewellery
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