/u/Urbenmyth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The figure puts a gun to your head and chuckles darkly "Thought you'd never see me again? Well, you should have killed me properly. I survived your betrayal, 'old friend'. And now I'm back to return the favor." You have never seen this person before in your life.
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[WP] The sphinx stands before you, its wise expression barely hiding the razor sharp teeth. "Answer my riddle or die!" it sneers. You nod, confident in your intelligence. It smiles. "Tell me mortal...how do I get my wifi working?". You sigh. Fantasy Tech Support is the worst.
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[WP] Over the last week you've discovered you're half-alien, are chosen for a sacred destiny, are the secret heir to the throne, have once-in-a-generation magic powers and are blessed by multiple deities. You're starting to think someone's fucking with you.
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[EU] The King In Yellow is a play that breaks time and space, opening the door for timeless horrors to enter our reality. Each performance paves the way for Carcosa to intrude upon our world. So whichever one of you fuckers uploaded a full recording to YouTube has a lot of explaining to do.
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[WP] Your daughter is 5 years old. She's happy, healthy and utterly adorable. There's just one problem. Although everyone tells you they remember her, yesterday, you didn't have a child.
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[WP] "BE THOU NOT AFRAID! I AM AN ANGEL OF THE LORD HERE TO TELL YOU...shit, tell them that? Really? Wow. Ok, disregard my first statement, you should probably be utterly terrified right now."
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[WP] The small town is trapped in a time loop until the jerk out-of-towner gets some character development and becomes a good person. Unfortunately, due to a mix up, everyone remembers looping except the out-of-towner,
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[WP] "You see, your honor, I don't owe any money here. Yesterday the person in this debt used a teletransporter, and is thus dead. I, while admittedly seemingly identical to a 36 year old man, am technically a minor at less then a day old and have never met any of these people before in my life."
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[WP] The deep web is overrated- mostly just drug dealing and smuggling, nothing exciting. The Umbral Web, the supernatural part of the internet that can only be reached by magic? Now that has some interesting stuff on it.
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[WP] You are preparing to enter the world of Faerie, and have all the rules- don't say your name, don't leave the path, don't refuse a gift, so forth. But those rules are from medieval tales, and are now centuries out of date. You need to figure out the modern rules of Faerie or die.
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