/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The knight looked down at the dragon's body with confusion. Instead of flesh and bone there was a mess of wire and metal and instead of blood the thing oozed a black oil from the cut
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[WP] So far you have created several variations of the elixir of life, the philosophers stone, the cure for cancer and various other substances in your endeavours, but you still cannot get that marmalade recipe quite right
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[WP] And so the bloodiest war in human history was fought over a single rock in the middle of nowhere.
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[WP] After an absolutely wild night of drinking you wake up on the floor of your room with a black suitcase full of wads of cash on your left, blood on your shirt and an absolutely pounding headache
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[WP] There are many powerful beings who roam the land, like the mad sorcerers in the north that monopolise the magic of the world, great dragons from a forgotten age that rule the ancient caverns, old gods without names but great power, but greatest of all is the entity only known as Tim!
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[WP] Every race was created at a specific point, crafted by one of the gods to fulfil a certain role in the world. Humans are presumably similar, but as far as anybody knows humans had always existed, a fact not helped by the many myths of mankind describing dozens of often conflicting origins
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[WP] You cannot change the final outcome of a prophecy but you can choose what happens along the way, and that makes all the difference in the end
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[WP] The final stage in any civilisation's evolution is to become a great gestalt entity, not quite physical anymore, and powerful enough to alter the very stars themselves. By all means humanity should have reached this level thousands of years ago by now, however for some reason they just haven't
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[WP] The dreaded Dark Lord of the west, Dragon King of the wasteland and Scourge of Man secretly always wanted a kid but due to an unfortunate accident is unable to sire children. Because of this he decides to adopt an orphan from an eastern village, who happens to be the one destined to slay him
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[WP] The true beauty of demonic deals is that they always work exactly as advertised, with only the innate selfish desires of every person who makes those deals inevitably twisting their lives into living hell. However very rarely the impossible happens, a truly selfless deal
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