/u/TheFirstMillionWords's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[PI] When summoning a demon, something very unexpected happens. The demon bellows through the fire and smoke, “Who dares to call upon me, Mortal- wait.. dude, is that really you?” The demonic voice immediately switches to the familiar voice of your high school best-friend, who died years ago.
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[WP] Talent can be bought and sold. The rich can afford to become superhumanly talented at anything, while the poor live baseline lives full of struggle. An underground resistance upgrades you with a plethora of highly illegal pirated skills. Your mission? Infiltrate high society. Bring it all down.
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[WP] "Impressive. You've drawn all the magical symbols perfectly, without a ruler or a protractor. And you did the equations in your head, too." "What's an equation?"
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[WP] You think you’ve been possessed by a demon, just like Father always warned about. The voice in your head, however, insists that it’s a ‘genetically engineered glucose-powered symbiote’ and that your society is a ‘low-tech civilization’. It wants your help going back to the stars.
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[WP] A civilization once thrived in the Underworld. Each generation of new arrivals was greeted and trained by the previous generation. People stopped arriving one day, and the civilization fell apart. You’re the first new arrival in generations, and all you see are ruins.
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[WP] You buy a used phone off the internet. As you start to use it, you notice something strange; it's impossible to take a bad photo with it. Your photos always look stunning, no matter the lighting or angle.
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[EU] Had a seizure at home? Been poisoned at a restaurant? Took two gunshot wounds to the chest in a firefight? It doesn't matter where you are or what's happened to you; help will reach you within 180 seconds. This is a day in the life of the heavily armed, medically trained Trauma Team.
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