/u/Subtleknifewielder's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[EU] Xanth has been at peace for a century, but the peace is shattered when the next wave of colonists arrives. All the past Main Characters have long since disappeared--even the Good Magician Humphrey is nowhere to be found. The denizens of this world must find new Main Characters to save the land.
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[WP] You thought you'd conquered the entire world--and then the simulation flickered. It wasn't supposed to do that!
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[WP] A science vessel had been observing this species for some time. They were unusual, but they managed to overcome all the natural hurdles to becoming sapient and achieving spaceflight anyway. And now they were deemed ready to join the interstellar community.
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[WP] People joke that the best way to make it rain is to wash your car. They have no idea how right they are.
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[WP] When we get to space it's not going to be all excitement and adventure. Civilization will still need the cogs and wheels. Blue-collar workers keeping everything running. And the people on extraplanetary settlements will still need emergency dispatch...
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[WP] Ever since you entered this strange new land, you can feel them--thousands of eyes just...watching you. You don't sense hostility, but they never. Stop. Watching. Turning to try and catch sight of them shows nothing there. And they don't seem to be bothering anyone else in your party. Just you.
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[WP] When dreamwalking was patented, the reactions from the world's governments were swift and decisive, cracking down on any potential business monopolies seeking to exploit it. Of course, no one really believed the crackdown was out of a sense of goodwill.
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[WP] It wasn't conventional, by any means. No one could have foreseen a method this odd to enforce the peace, not even the ones who negotiated it in the first place! But hey, since the solution to the most recent conflict was apparently working quite well, who was really going to complain about it?
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