/u/SocialDeviance's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have an ant farm, which you have cared for since its humble beginnings. Having developed into a healthy ant society, you release the ants near your house. Days later you return to check on them, only to find a mini statue of yourself by their base's entrance. The ants stop once they see u.
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[WP] You are an average person, as average as anyone can be. Not particularly evil but also not a beacon of kindness. When you reach the afterlife, Death is unsure of where you belong, heaven or hell. You plead for your soul and are given a test, protect someone as their guardian angel. You fail.
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[WP] A slow zombie, an asshole ghost and a snarky skeleton meet up at a bar in the afterlife and become good friends. When evil threatens their world, they fuse with each other and make the ultimate destructive being, a human being.
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[WP] You are the only human to ascend to a higher level of existence, turning into a sentient being made of pure light. You watch the universe live out the rest of it's existence as it's sole watcher, until what remains is just stray particles, black holes and you. Suddenly, you are not alone.
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[WP] In the underwater city of R'lyeh, a certain eldritch being lies in wait, utterly bored as he waits for eons to pass by or to be drawn to the surface by humanity, whatever happens first. To pass the time, he has no better idea than to prank call humanity.
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[WP] After the last Miss Universe contest held on Earth, humanity is visited by aliens. Instead of them being offended for not being invited to the contest, they formally invite humans to participate in the Miss Reality contest. The loser's race will receive on hell of a consolation prize.
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[WP] For eons the Old Ones have kept in contact with humanity as a form of entertainment, either to see us drowning in madness or to stir conflict in their name. A bored tentacular priest from the underwater city of R'yleh has no better idea than to pass the time by prank calling humanity.
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[WP] Looming in front of you, the millennial pyramid and it's riches are within your grasp. But the ancient guardian of the pyramid blocks you from entering, unless you answer their riddles. Answer correctly, you can pass. Answer incorrectly, you die. It just so happens that you are a lawyer.
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[WP] You are a PI, highly renowed for cracking impossible cases. Your secret? You can see the path the killer weapon, the corpse or anything related to the case travelled by touching them, your mind showing you the past and how things came to be that way. One day you see a vision of yourself.
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[WP] The gods of this fantasy world throw the dice for all its citizens. Some people are destined to be great heroes while others never ascend from their lowly position. As amusing as this tends to be for them, you are the source of their recent obsession. Somehow, rules don't seem to apply to you.
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