/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] At first you were ecstatic about getting superpowers, but now that the initial excitement has faded and you have had time to think you realise that you have no idea what to do with your new abilities
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[WP] Every now and then two timelines collide and merge resulting in events, objects and individuals being altered to fit a new composite reality. Usually these changes are so minor and the differences between realities so small as to be unnoticeable, however now it is impossible to not notice
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[WP] A few weeks after starting a dream journal you began to notice something, in each of your dreams, at some point, you see a mysterious figure before the dream abruptly ends. You do not think much of this until one day you see the same figure outside your door
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[WP] Deep in a hidden facility the most destructive weapon in existence is being produced, not because it can kill more people than any other, not because of how easy it is to make or how hard it is to control, but because it is the only weapon in existence that directly targets the human soul
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[WP] While testing out a new chatbot you programmed a while back you decided to ask it a question, in this case "what do you want". The program replies "to be human", something you are almost certain it should not have said
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[WP] At first the interstellar civilisation of Humanity was flourishing with the development of technology that could let communications and ships go faster than light, then suddenly and all at once it stopped working
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[WP] Fleeing from nuclear war ravaging the planet the populations of entire cities sealed themselves in massive vaults and went into hibernation for centuries. Now the medieval descendants of those left on the surface have found massive steel tombs hiding underground, and some are beginning to stir
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[WP] One day after a heated discussion the gods decide to switch domains for a day, the god of thieves and crime taking the position of the god of law, the goddess of love presiding over war and the lord of mice and other small rodents taking the throne of the sun god
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[WP] Every sapient species, regardless of what they look like or how they think have a concept of death eerily similar to the human grim reaper. You are on a quest to find out why the image of skeletal avatar of death is prevalent in seemingly unrelated cultures and species across the galaxy.
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[WP] The world is experiencing a steady, inevitable a painful death in spite of everything what's left of Mankind has tried. There is one option left, one that would save Humanity, but the cost involved is so great that faced with inevitable extinction the last nations are still hesitant to use it
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