WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're a magical artifact OEM. You build powerful generic artifacts with no moral alignment. The forces of both Light and Darkness bid for the rights to rebrand your products as their own, and wield them in glorious battle.	20
[WP] Luck is a quantifiable phenomenon whose presence varies from person to person. Wishing someone good luck takes some of your luck and sends it to them. You're an extremely unlucky person who just wished someone good luck by accident, exhausting your total luck supply.	20
[WP] For tens of millennia, your country has been the birthplace of dozens of civilizations. Now, 90% of your land area is covered in ancient ruins, and a storm is brewing, with historians, Conservationists, and archaeologists on one side...and property developers on the other side.	20
[WP] Every few centuries, you, an immortal mage, are visited by a party of humans and demi-humans to seek your aid against the demons. You've obliged a few dozen times by now. One day, you get a knock on your door - and find a party of demons asking for your help against the oppressive human empire.	19
[WP] Whenever you blink, the universe you're in is destroyed. When you open your eyes, you're seamlessly transported to a new universe very similar to your own. You've destroyed tens of millions of universes without even knowing it. One day, someone grabs you and pries your eyes open. "We did it!"	19
[WP] A spacefaring civilization is powered by an active black hole's radiation - but it's running out of mass. To keep themselves alive, they capture nearby asteroids, moons, planets - even if they're inhabited.	19
[WP] The hero of the story rewinds time whenever he dies, allowing him to correct his mistakes. He started dying prematurely any time he failed to save even one person. But after years of rewinding, he began dying if he was just late to a party. And in all loops, the world continues after his death.	18
[WP] You approach the love of your life, getting ready to ask them out. As you enter speaking range, the earpiece in your ear comes to life. "Telemetry from target social circle inbound. Relationship Status reported Single, 6 months. Mission Control is OK to go."	17
[WP] You wake up with superpowers. Convinced that some government agency will soon discover and imprison you, you break into the Pentagon and reveal yourself, asking for immunity in exchange for cooperation. But as it turns out, no agency exists to deal with people like you. So you start it.	16
[WP] You have to convince the Universe's Creator-God that he doesn't have to end all existence just because he's FINALLY done baking his apple pie.	15

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