/u/ShadowDurza's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
"Why in uncreation's name would you make a sympathetic magic focus, sorry, 'voodoo doll' in your own image?" "Can I help it if I'm capable of so much when I have all that self-control literally in the palm of my hand?"
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[WP] Somehow, the human scream induces such a primal fear in almost all known life in the universe that it can helplessly paralyze even the most lethal and remorseless of beings. This may be the key to peace and diplomacy not possible otherwise.
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You and a few others are employes of the modern-day Ghostbusters. You were called by a person to deal with a Class 4 Full-Torso. Upon confrontation, the ghost reveals that they were the latest victim of the serial murders of the one that called you.
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[WP] Your severe mental illnesses have brought you nothing but suffering your whole life and all modern medicine has proven ineffective, so you researched supernatural ways to find peace. Your guides have assured you that it works and it's fast, but that those are the ONLY good parts about it.
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Everyone in your world is born with the ability to use, manipulate, create, and/or embody an elemental power. These elements can be as simple as fire or water to as complex as machines or space-time. You were discovered to possess the anti-element, and are the only one that can save the world.
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The Ministry of the Universe pitted two of the most terrifying species ever against eachother (humans for their determination and ambition and dea'munzz for their supernatural powers and knowledge) hoping they'd destroy themselves. What nobody expected was for them to join forces to conqure all.
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A tribe of primitive humans was able to survive not because they were strong or smart, but because nature was fond of them. As the last living descendant of that tribe in the modern world, nature is pulling out all the stops to make sure you live a happy and prosperous life. With you none the wiser.
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In a world where the most profitable business is adventuring, you made a lot of bad financial decisions and are forced to accompany an excursion to a place called Adventure's End, where you'll either strike it so rich you'll never have to work again or meet a gruesome demise.
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[WP] All over history, humans contained supernatural entities by creating representations of them to serve as traps. Ancient Egypt used ceramic statues, Renaissance England used portraits, early industrial America used photography. You've invented a way to trap them in data from scanners.
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You are an adolescent whose grandmother is a crackpot that believes nonsense like "seatbelts can decapitate" and "people never get sick if they believe hard enough" When your parents suddenly die in a horrific accident, a bureaucratic hiccup leads to your grandmother becoming your legal guardian.
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