/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your best friend was always very superstitious, even believing in things like fairies and magic as well as following very strange and specific rituals. As a joke one day you chuck them a hunk of iron, which you are horrified to find burning them badly
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[WP] You have a seemingly invincible power that requires an absurdly specific set of circumstances to function. You have to make sure all requirements are met before any confrontations without letting anyone know you even need any requirements
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[WP] Scattered across the galaxy ancient monoliths containing mysterious codes were discovered on dead worlds, each one carrying instructions to find the next. After countless millennia the pieces are assembled and the galaxy witnesses the largest prank ever finally coming to fruition.
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[WP] The ultimate irony is that the AI programmed to maximise human death saved more lives than any of the AI designed to minimise it
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[WP] You went to the doctors because of a cough that just doesn't go away. Soon after you learn that your very existence violates several laws of biology and physics.
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[WP] As the supervillain rises out of their seat, prepared to face off against the heroes they are destined to battle, they notice something is wrong. The heroes seem disappointed, apparently they were expecting somebody more... impressive
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[WP] A strange glowing humanoid appeared in the north pole and began making its way south at a walking pace. Anything within 500m of it is instantly scorched, no weapons seem to phase it and no barrier can stop it, worst of all nobody knows why
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[WP] You got scratched by a werewolf after being bitten by a vampire and a zombie in the span of a few terrible minutes. You can feel yourself changing already, but to what isn't exactly clear in the slightest
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[WP] Every night the ghost of a young boy wanders through your house, eerily floating in the hall, phasing through walls as if they didn't exist and crying for his parents in the dead of night. One night you finally talked to it, and before you even noticed you became the spirit's parental figure
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[WP] After being defeated the dark lord loses their memories, joins the same holy order as the ones who defeated him and becomes a hero of great renown across the land. Years later they stumble across a dungeon, thickly cloaked with dark power yet strangely familiar, on one of their adventures
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