/u/Tim_Depp's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You stand in shackles before the king. "You have angered the gods for the last time!" his high priest declares. Stubborn as you ever are, you look to the sky and defiantly reply, "Prove it."
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[WP] The first radio transmission to ever reach space was Adolf Hitler's speeches during the Nürnburg Rallies. A distant planet and its people, who have never conceived of the idea of Fascism, discover this signal and become enthralled with Hitler's philosophies of nationalism.
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[WP] An alien being arrives in the Sol system, but they do not hide their presence. In fact, after a peaceful landing on Earth, they are totally cool with letting engineers pore over their ship and letting surgeons vivsect them to understand their biology.
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[TT] A great villain and a powerful hero come to a standstill during one of their many battles after the two begin a debate . The villain reviews all of the good he has ever done, even if it was to manipulate; the hero considers all the insidious things she's ever done to defeat her nemesis.
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[WP] A fabled paladin, famous for his undying resolve against the wicked, finally meets his match when one of his closest friends perishes in battle but is resurrected to fight him as a Death Knight.
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[WP] The all-too-predicatble zombie outbreak happens, but rather than a virus that spawns cardboard cutout zombies, you have a frightening realization: all things undead, including vampires, werebeasts, demons, imps and everything else terrifying, are also coming to life.
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[WP] The lumber and textiles industry has taken an extremely wild ride up and down in the recent weeks for no explained reason. As an investment banker, you visit the NYSE only to find a man surrounded by several brokers with a sign that reads, "selling yew logs 63g".
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[WP] Out in the wilderness of any given region, the National Pokémon League holds correspondence with a Guru, an unlisted Pokemon Grandmaster who rewards anyone who can best them in an unofficial battle with that region's highest dignitary honor.
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[WP] One of the best Jedi-bounty hunters around is no one special. He's not physically imposing, he's not smart, and he has no connections to the underworld. He just comes from a galaxy where firearms are still the norm.
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[EU] In a deadly war sometime between the Dark War of Darths Revan and Malak and the Rise of the Empire, you are a fledgling Jedi Padawan who becomes a Knight shortly after the passing of your Master. You receive a new lightsaber as a gift of condolence... from a notorious Sith Lord.
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