/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Most mages learn ancient spells and copy them down exactly to use later. Not you, you research and improve these millennia old spells, now its time to test them out.
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[WP] While visiting your hometown you find yourself drawn to a strange, old gravestone. Peeling away the thick growth of ivy you recoil in horror as you see your full name, exact date of birth, and date of death recorded as ten years ago
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[WP] All of a sudden both Mars and Venus instantly become copies of earth, each one with slightly different life evolved to deal with the hotter/colder temperatures. Even stranger is that the intelligent inhabitants of the planets all remember once being on the only planet that can support life.
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[WP] Ever since detecting the first transmissions from another star depicting a world being conquered by invaders humanity has prepared. Hundreds of years the earth is basically a planet sized fortress and we learn that those ancient messages were just their equivalent of War of the Worlds
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[WP] Whatever causes superpowers targets people completely randomly and grants completely random blessings. Some have both the will and ability to do great harm or good, but most are random normal people who barely know what to do with what they were given if they could do anything at all
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[WP] Deep in the woods roams an old god, where it goes madness follows, time stands still and reality shatters like thin ice underfoot. Despite its very lovecraftian nature all things considered it is actually a rather pleasant god
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[WP] The gods initially made the various species of the world to be perfect but all came out flawed somehow, the Dwarves were hopelessly greedy, the Elves were disconnected from reality and the Orcs were unable to do much but fight. In response to this the gods then designed Humans to be flawed
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[WP] People have many reasons for wanting to slay a dragon, most do it for glory, some for revenge, others for riches or for power. You just want to know what they taste like
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[WP] All of humanity becomes strong enough to lift cars and durable enough for bullets to simply bounce off skin with no sign they even hit at all at once and without warning. This is how society adapts to a world where everyone is superman
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[WP] After accidentally freeing an ancient demon from its prison it asked you for a final wish as a reward before it took your soul, and not thinking straight you asked it for a date. Now you are waiting at a fancy restaurant for the formless personification of mindless evil
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