/u/WTFwhatthehell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] When you were a small child your dad went out to get some cigarettes and didn't return. 15 years later he turned up looking very confused.... and he hasn't aged a day.
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[WP] The superpowers people get are intimately linked to their greatest fears. The worst of it is that if you master your fears or get over them your power fades as well.
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[WP] Oh! I almost forgot! Last time we were here, your species was trying to tame some bipedal apes of all things! Said you were going to have them hand-feeding you when you were done! How did that turn out for you guys?
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[EU] The guildmaster eyed the teenager before them. "You need to understand, most kids don't grow up using The Blade of Woe as a bread knife, The Saviours Hide as a security blanket and Dawnbreaker as a nightlight."
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[WP] Working spells are hard to discover and the more often a spell is cast per year by anyone in the world the weaker it's effects. Hence why the most powerful mages work so hard to keep their spells secret... and to eliminate anyone who learns them.
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[WP] "What could go wrong" time traveller files. Report 34556: Some people were burning beautiful statues in lime kilns so I arranged for a random aristocrat to buy them. Should be safe and cause no problems.
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[WP]In a fantasy world where light/healing magic is associated with the worst evils and darkness/necromancy magic is the domain of the most noble paladins and clerics a misunderstood outcast tries to convince someone that his magic can be used for good, not just evil.
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[WP]Thousands of years ago aliens abducted humans to domesticate into pets. One day the aliens equivilent of a pug, unrecognisable as human to "wild" humans, got lost on a family camping trip in the wild of earth.
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[WP] In a world that runs on movie-logic, you're the worlds most deadly assassin. But when you get word that you've won a boat, been approved for early retirement... you realise someone's using your own methods against you.
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