/u/Ronin_Ikari's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your friend throws down his game controller in a huff. "It's not fair, damnit! You're just as bad at this game as I am; the computer just likes you more than me!" Before you can speak up to argue how ridiculous his claim is, the monitor screen displays a message: HE'S NOT WRONG.
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[WP] If asked, Joe thought he handled finding out his mystical heritage quite well. He even accepted his inherited responsibility to defend the Earth from supernatural threats, and took the job seriously. If only he didn't have to explain that the outfit wasn't his idea.
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[WP] They've been your best friend for years, stuck with you even after the world went to hell and zombies started being real. You want more than friendship, and you've finally mustered the courage to reveal your feelings. Just one problem: you were bitten and turned weeks ago.
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[WP] When magic returned to the world, humanity found their modern weapons a superior match. Vampires and werewolves didn't have a prayer against phosphorus rounds and silver-loaded landmines. Giants and dragons fell in droves to SAM batteries. But humanity still faces a deadly enemy: Fairies.
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[WP] It's been a month since that moonlit walk, when you and your dog fended off that wild animal attack. As the full moon rises, you watch as your faithful pet starts to change... and you start understanding it's cries.
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[WP] D&D night took a horrific turn when your new host and DM killed your funny friend who died in-game, right at the table. Then you all heard the house rules: try to leave, die in game, or fail to stay IC, you die for real. You look down at your character sheet and gulp nervously. Time to play.
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[WP]No one would explain why you were brought here. Then they brought in another you, identical in every way. Then you're told that only one of you can exist. The two of you must decide which will lead your life from then on; the other will be killed. If the two of you can't decide, both die.
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[WP] You are summoned to an infernal realm by a demon without warning. Once there, the demon, in desperation, offers to sell its soul to you.
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[WP] An experimental mental exercise is developed, allowing you to forgo normal sleep by resting the brain one section at a time. However, the rest of the brain can't process the resting section's typical input while it's resting...or ignore what it normally tunes out.
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