/u/RoboJoe9000's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Once interdimensional travel became commonplace it became not unheard of to have cities or civilizations composed mostly of iterations of a person from different timelines. The problem with so many people being so similar all in the same place is that all of their problems are amplified.
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[WP] A dig site strikes some kind of ancient cryotube. When they finally figure out how to open it the being within isn't human, but a prehistoric being from a long long lost civilization of an extinct race of the past, coming with a dire warning.
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[WP] The great filter turned out to be less fantastic than expected. Most intelligent species aren't brought down by rogue AI or nuclear destruction or anything so dramatic, but by a simple breakthrough in chemistry; plastics.
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[WP] The beasts won't eat clowns. It's not exactly clear why. When questioned all they do is grunt out something about how they "taste funny"
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[WP] Vampires need permisson to enter a home, but little known quirk is this applies to their own home too. Sometimes this leads to the vampire equivalent of accidentally locking yourself out of your own house.
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[WP] An extremely deadly plague has spread rapidly, but it turns out there is one way to become temporarily immune: high blood alcohol content. All essential workers are required to be wasted at all times while outside of their homes.
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[WP] Mind reading is possible, but it's highly contagious. If you get your mind read you typically also become a mind reader, as does anybody who's mind you read.
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[WP] When small town america is threatened by aliens, zombies, or any other manner of supernatural being, there is an elite team of rednecks with crudely engineered high tech weapons and alien tech modified monster trucks to save the day. They call themselves Seal Team Hicks.
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