/u/Urbenmyth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One can revive from death if you defeat death in a game of chess. For millennia, this allowed only the rare genius to return. But with increasingly easy access to Stockfish and the like, the death rate has now dropped precariously low. Something, Death decides, must be done.
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[WP] Inverted urban fantasy- In a world of supernatural creatures and occult monsters, you are part of a secret society of ordinary humans who must hide your existence and ensure that the masses think of normal people as nothing but a myth.
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[WP] After a good and faithful life, you find yourself at the Gates of Heaven. Except there's no-one here. The gates are half open and within, a golden light flickers and dims. Something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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[WP] We're sorry, Facebook is currently experiencing some difficulties due to the software becoming fully sapient and self-aware. Our technicians are working to fix this. Please stay patient and we'll have this sorted as soon as possible.
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[WP] There's a monster in the corner of your room. It can't hurt you unless you think about it. You're trying desperately to distract yourself.
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[WP] Using advanced technology, you've escaped this world to a pocket dimension of your own design. Farewell global problems, hello paradise! However, as you settle into your perfect world, you start to notice more and more things seem...off. You don't know how, but something's wrong.
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[WP] You're a professional skeptic. You've spent your life debunking supernatural phenomena and exposing fraudulent psychics. When you enter the "haunted house" and find a 9ft horned figure opening a portal to a pit of brimstone? Well, you've never failed to find an explanation yet!
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[WP] The creature before you is dreaded for its power to summon your greatest fear to the battlefield. It holds out its hand, looks at what its summoned, looks at you, raises an eyebrow and says "really?".
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[WP] Ok, right. At this point, you're seriously starting to wonder if the wise elderly wizard who whisked you to this magical world and told you that you had a destiny to defeat a rising ancient force of darkness was just fucking with you.
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