/u/USPO-222's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] At 18 you got your power; the ability to vaporize anyone you wish with just a touch. By 38 you’re the most feared villain the world has known. However, exactly 20 years to the day, your first victim rematerializes. Turns out you’ve just been sending people 20 years into the future all this time
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[WP] “The Guardians have always been, young rhino. They watch us from afar. Never interfering with our own struggles, but keeping their own kind from interfering as well. Ours is not to question their ways.”
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[WP] Last night, one of your parents made a deal with an otherworldly entity. In exchange for power, they traded their firstborn child - YOU. Now the entity wants to collect, and it doesn't seem to care that you are a self-sufficient adult rather than a newborn.
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[WP] Despite their ability to exceed human intelligence, new sentient AIs must still learn from experience. In order for them to empathize with humanity, they are enrolled in school with other children.
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[WP] You are stripped of all of your gear, thrown down the mineshaft, and it’s sealed behind you. All you have left is a torch and your cursed d6: roll a 6 and your luck increases, but roll a 1 and you die. With nothing left to lose, you start rolling…After your 30th “6” you feel ready to break out.
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[WP] You wake up, half naked in the woods with the taste of blood in your mouth. ‘Not again’ said the wizard beside to you, ‘I really thought I had the spell right this time.’ You look up, just in time to see the paladin fall from the sky. ‘Anyone seen the rogue?’ asked the spider next to your hand.
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[WP] The discovery of Heat Sump technology, which coverts the ambient air temperature into usable electricity is a marvel. Within a decade global warming is stopped, then reversed, then things start getting pretty cold as no one wants to stop getting “free electricity.”
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[WP] After a year of being alone in a world frozen in time, you wake up and notice that time has resumed. However, you soon realize that everyone you passed during that period of frozen time remembers what their eyes saw you doing in front of them.
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[WP] Instead of Native Americans being highly susceptible to European diseases, the reverse was true. By the early 1600s the Old World had lost over 90% of its population, while New World civilizations remained largely intact.
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