WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've been raised learning from the best tudors, fighters, and stylists. You will be the most deadly assassin the world has ever known. Then one day while undercover you discover video games. Now they can't get you to take assignments, you are too busy playing healer on MMOs.	14
[WP] You have just died only to find yourself behind a desk. It turns out the saying "Life is a gift" is quite literal as you choose who takes the place of yours. The applicants have all written compelling reasons why they should be the next to live.	13
[WP] You're a long forgotten demigod in the modern day. With no worshippers you have no real purpose. Who can compete with these "social media" people anyway? So you spend your days pranking people, in epic ways.	12
[WP] You believe the world doesn't exist beyond your own personal bubble. News that happens beyond it is randomly generated. People and locations are fictitious until they come in proximity to you at which point they are procedurally generated.	11
[WP] You pioneered the robots that are now used for almost all labor and were celebrated, at first. Now that robots are used in most jobs humans struggle to find work. Conflicted with your part in the obsolescence of humanity you finally have a plan to fix it.	11
[WP] You just met your superhero idol. You ask if you can touch his super suit. He says it is fine because it is coded to his DNA. The moment you make contact the suit envelopes you.	10
[WP] You are starting to doubt your initial thoughts on your curse. When initially cursed with "purpose" you thought it sounded laughable. Going on day 214 without taking a day off you are beginning to understand. Never again will you have the luxury of taking a relaxing lazy day.	10
[WP] In the future there are no selfies or livestreaming. Everyone is recorded and tagged by default. You start to notice a person in the social archives that is never tagged. You obsessively scour the archives until you finally find their home. Driven mad with curiosity knock on the door.	9
[WP] "You get a zero on this paper and go speak to the principal since this entire thing was directly from the Einstein source book," the teacher scolds. You head to the principal and explain that it is absolutely a 100% paper, since you are Einstein. Then you open a time rift to prove your point.	9
[WP] The house you just moved into has a 30 minute timer switch in the utility room. Occasionally when you pass it you turn it on even though it doesn't seem to do anything. Little do you know every time you turn it on a light turns on somewhere else in the world.	8

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