/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]Magic is influenced heavily by the ideas and knowledge of the time period. During the modern age the increasing influence of scientific and skeptic thinking almost made magic extinct, and now in the much less enlightened post-apocalyptic world small traces of magic are returning to the survivors
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[WP] The year is 3500 and you are a searcher, who combs the vast fields of grey irradiated snow looking for the burnt husks of abandoned technology to sell. Today you found an entire city, one seemingly intact from the various apocalypses yet completely abandoned
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[WP] You are a sprawling eldritch hive mind that regularly consumes sapient creatures, twists their bodies into unnatural shapes and removes their free will. You are also benevolent and all of your actions are, at least in your perspective, for the greater good.
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[WP] Like any family the Smiths have some issues with rebellious children, specifically their middle child Greg who refuses to join in the annual goat sacrifice
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[WP] The city was overshadowed by the immense shadow of what was essentially a fleet of fortresses in the sky, strange white beams and immensely powerful bombs fell out of the sky around you and the ruins of your home. The humans have arrived.
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[WP] You trip over and cut yourself and are shocked to find real blood flowing out of the fresh wound
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[WP] At birth every person is written into the Book of Life by the gods which dictates the entire course of a persons life from first words to final breath. Unfortunately the book is running out of pages, and with birth rates are not slowing down the entries are getting shorter to compensate
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[WP] Instead of dreaming normally every time you fall asleep your soul leaves your body leaving you free to explore the outside world, only returning to your body once you wake up. It has been several days since you left your body and it is quite the understatement to say you are panicking
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[WP] You have been summoned to serve as a hero of legend in a cliché fantasy world. Unfortunately for everyone you happened to have a bad case of the flu when summoned and apparently healing magic doesn't really work on earth viruses
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