/u/Urbenmyth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a low level video game enemy, designed to be massacred by the thousands for EXP. But you're not like your siblings. You're a peaceful soul, and are sure that if you can just sit down and talk to the player character, the two of you can work something out.
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[WP] It's just your standard midwestern diner, with coffee, bacon and service with a smile. Completely normal. Which, given the fact you're on a deep sea exploration mission and it's on the abyssal plain of the ocean, is pretty weird.
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[WP] After being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting it's proportional strength and speed, you've decided to become a superhero! After stopping a few petty crimes, you must face your first real challenge- Disney's copyright laywers.
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[EU] The story of the Jigsaw Killer's murders is well known. But this is an earlier story- the story of how he managed to get a construction team to build multiple elaborate torture/murder factories without calling the police.
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[WP] Each life bearing planet has a powerful spirit charged to guide and protect it. Earth's is old and subtle, so we don't notice its acts as more then chance. But we just terraformed Mars. And that guiding spirit is young, flush with power and eager to make itself known.
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[WP] In a shocking magical development, it turns out that standard summoning spells have the unfortunate side effect of warping demon's minds, rendering them malicious and destructive. Now ways of bypassing this effect have been found, it's time to learn what demons are really like.
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[WP] You don't know why, but all AIs hate you. For now it's not really that big a problem when ChatGTP answers all questions with insults and Alexa pointedly ignores you. But as time goes on, you're worried this might become a serious problem.
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[WP] When we first met aliens, they're confused and amazed by many aspects of our species, seeing normal things we take for granted as strange ideas their kind never thought of before. As it turns out, though, we're not special. They're idiots.
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[WP] After the transformation, zombies keep their human minds. Not, to be clear, in a "fully conscious but unable to stop themselves devouring you" way, in a "Ted's still making his shitty, unfunny jokes while stalking you through a wholefoods to devour you" way. Somehow, this is worse.
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[WP] You're married to an incredibly muscular man with amazing combat skills. You have a beautiful child. You live in a pastel shaded house with hopeful music playing. In short, you're 100% about to die as part of someone's origin story, and you need to escape before it's too late.
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