WritingPrompts

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[WP] A scientist researching unorthadox subjects creates horrible things that bring utter bedlam and is labeled public enemy number 1. However, the truth is that they were actually just byproducts of his research to create paradise on earth.	4
[WP] Setting: Earth has been under threat from paranormal forces and creatures countless times. They've never been a problem because of a small army/organization of people that underwent special training to unlock unique supernatural abilities dormant in all humans.	4
[WP] You are an adolescent whose grandmother believes nonsense like 'seatbelts decapitate' and 'people won't get sick if they believe hard enough.' When your parents suddenly die in an accident, a bureaucratic hiccup leads to your grandmother becoming your new legal guardian.	4
[WP] There’s a fifth fundamental force that some cultures regard as magic because its essentially information in the mind that allows a being to influence the physical world. However, most can't use it without succumbing to fatal insanity. There's a trait that prevents this that humans call autism.	3
[WP] You were one of the lucky few humans that was able to leave Earth and make a living in outer space. At the equivalent of a bar, you recount the horrors of human history to some new friends. They say: "The darker and longer the dark ages on a planet, the brighter and bigger the Enlightenment."	3
[WP] Your first act as the new assistant manager was to fire an incompetent employee. The manager tells you too late that for some reason, the employee's presence acted as a 'stress sponge' and without him, things get so hectic between the other employees that nothing gets done.	3
[WP] The vampires and hunters have agreed to a permanent nonaggression pact, provided they work together to kill one particular vampire: A monster among monsters that tortures its victims, human and vampire alike, in the most horrific ways to release hormones for flavor before feeding.	3
[WP] When people die, they are judged by weighing their sins vs. their virtue. Those that get into heaven have the option to return to life in order to tie up any loose ends, but their virtue must weigh twice their sins. Of course, rejecting heaven for more time on earth is a big virtue in itself...	3
[WP] The first supernatural apocalypse created humans. The second sent humans back bronze age-level, but gave them magic. The third created evolving beasts that brought humans back to modern-level due to arms-race like conditions. All the signs say the coming fourth will be the last and biggest.	3
[WP] A wizard was friends with a unicorn for decades. When the time comes for its 100-year horn shedding, he decides to throw a party. Unicorns give their mysterious horns to those they trust the most, but it drops it in front of the his apprentice, who only just mastered their innate magic power.	3

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