/u/Thisnameistrashy's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have the ability to tell how powerful an organisation is by looking at its headquarters. However, you’ve never found which one is number 1, despite walking past many world governments. Today, you find what number 1 is: a small flower shop in Tuscany.
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[WP] You begin giving your monologue about what drove you to become evil, only to learn that the hero already learnt all pertinent information by reading your Wikipedia page.
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[WP] There is a group of time travellers who create small changes and rely on the butterfly effect to change history. Now they need to prevent World War 3 by making a janitor lose his job. Detail how this stops World War 3.
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[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened across almost the entire planet. However, Switzerland has somehow remained so neutral that zombies never set foot in the country.
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[WP] You work for an organisation that works to prevent atrocities with the use of the butterfly effect, receiving bizarre orders from an ultra-intelligent AI that tells you weeks later what disasters your actions prevented and how. Recently, you start to suspect that the AI has ulterior motives.
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[WP] In all of history, it is estimated that there have been around 109 billion deaths. Tell me the story of one of these 109 billion people's last moments.
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[WP] It's been the heaviest snowfall in your town, and now a lot of children are doing the biggest snowball fight ever. However, it appears that it's being structured more like an actual war with towns, military bases, arms races, supply chains and even warcrimes.
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[WP] Over the course of one long speech, a dictator slowly realises his entire ideology is based on lies.
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[WP] An alien invasion of Earth fails because they expected our technology to be centuries ahead of where it is today.
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[EU] Four years after dinosaurs escaped Isla Nublar, the world has been teetering on the edge of an ecological collapse due to dinosaurs being invasive species in every ecosystem on Earth. In many nations, soldiers and former poachers work together to hunt dinosaurs into extinction again.
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