/u/ShadowDurza's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your family calls it "The Gift" a telepathic ability that appears every other generation. As a research assistant, you were stationed at Antarctica and felt something beckoning you inland. Your team finds an unnatural cave, and something massive in the ice made up of tentacles, eyes, and teeth.
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[WP] The Neverzone is a space beyond reality where time travelers from every era get stranded whether they use science, magic, or a combination. You, one of the natives, have grown sympathetic to their desires to return to their loved ones and try to help them despite your brethren's disgust of them
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[WP] You've always been able to see the near future, but you've never been able to see yourself. One day, after meeting a group with similar abilities, you figure out that this means you can change the future, at least where you're concerned.
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[WP] You wound up in another, more primitive world. You managed to gain an easy place by using your modern technology and basic science to convince them that you were a sorcerer. In this world, magic exists and reacts to the people's belief. Now you have real magic powers and no idea how they work.
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[WP] The ancient Egyptians figured out how to permanently trap paranormal forces. Foreseeing their end, they erected a seal to prevent the worst of them. You, a student accompanying an archeological dig, accidentally destroyed that seal and because of that are the only one that can put things right.
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[WP] Supervillains can commit the most heinous acts and sleep like babies. Which is why they hate you more than any of the other heroes because you can attack them where it hurts: their peace of mind.
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[WP] There is a talisman that grants those that use it great wealth, but the wealth is doomed to never last long, requiring many uses to retain a prosperous lifestyle. The more it's used, the more it rots the user from the inside out, with the only cure being to willingly pass it on to someone else.
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[WP] A fantasy world has two "high" races: the humans with limitless talents and the demons with limitless magics. The legends say that the angels, who had talent and magic, kept them in line but dissapeared. In a modern world, both sides discover that they kept them hating each other on purpose.
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[EU] After climbing a fence covered in warning signs in Brittany France, you stumble across a man with a large mustache and primitive clothing. They take a swig from a canteen, easily tie you up and bring you to a village. They speak an old dialect, but you can understand "Asterix the 65th"
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