/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Here you stand before an endless void, reality fracturing around you with islands of land floating above a featureless abyss. The perfect fishing spot.
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[WP] You were born extremely unlucky and have had little else but misfortune occur for your entire life. One night, as usual, you prayed for an answer to your suffering only to be met with a distressed and frustrated "I don't know! This wasn't meant to happen!"
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[WP] Whenever you get blackout drunk something unusual happens, you always wake up next to a pile of blueprints, welding equipment and scrap metal despite having no idea how any of it works. One wild party and a few bad decisions later you wake up to the finished machine
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[WP] You always found that by simply hitting a broken machine you would instantly fix it, which was odd but you never really thought too much about it. One day you trip over while trying to fix a broken radio and hit the floor with your fist, immediately the world below you begins to reform
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[WP] Funny thing about the supernatural is after being exposed to it soon it just becomes natural, and thus when the secret world of aliens and magic became public knowledge it rapidly became mundane. As a former conspiracy theorist especially you learn being completely proven right is boring
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[WP] The first message received from life outside of Earth caused a worldwide frenzy as every nation with the means scrambled to translate the alien language. Soon it became apparent that this message was not some ancient secret of the universe, a warning or even a hello, it was simply a TV show.
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[WP] Tens of thousands of years ago there was a human civilisation who knew the secret to magic, who escaped into another world when their empire was on the verge of collapse. With experiments into wormholes they were rediscovered, and both sides are shocked of the developments of the other
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[WP] It began slowly at first, strange, small but consistent mutations reported across the world in seemingly unrelated cases, mutations that only grew more pronounced each generation. Soon there were two subspecies of mankind, the same in mind, but completely different in form
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[WP] A party of adventurers were paid to track down and kill a monster sighted in the area. A week later they return saying they have found the monsters, before drawing their weapons on those who hired them
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