/u/WorldOfSilver's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a child therapist who treats extreme cases of children terrified of a monster in their closet. They're extreme because they're real, and you're actually secretly a demon hunter using these therapy sessions to gather intel on the monsters before killing them.
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[WP] You are a humble baker selling your pies in a medieval village. Unbeknownst to you, you're an NPC in an RPG, and the devs gave you ridiculously high stats as a joke. A speedrunner is now abusing every last trick, glitch and dialogue option in the book to get you to kill the final boss for him.
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[WP] The bikers all look in horror as their leader shatters like a porcelain doll, leaving a pool of putrid yolk on the bar floor. The unknown number texts them all again. "I trust this proves I was serious. I shall not ask again: All of you, go to the Grand Canyon. Last one there is a rotten egg."
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[WP] Once the mightiest knight in the kingdom, your career ended when you were cursed to just barely lose every battle you fight. But when an ancient and unknowable horror arises, "just barely losing" is suddenly your kingdom's only hope to buy more time.
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[WP] Decades ago you and your school friends were stuck in a time loop until you prevented the murder of your history teacher. Today you all reunite to visit him dying in the hospital... and find yourself back in that history class the moment he dies. The time loop never ended.
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[WP] Vampires are real and have lived publicly in society for decades, but they're still played by humans in movies because real vampires don't show up on camera. A director who prides himself on authenticity has a vampire on set to make sure the actors are portraying vampires correctly.
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[WP] A teenager, thoroughly disappointed with the ending of the last game in his favorite video game series, screams at his TV that he wants those 67 hours of his life back. Years later, as he lies dying in a pool of his own blood, an angel approaches him and tells him his refund has been approved.
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[WP] The universe doesn’t actually have any consistent physical laws. We’ve just had an insanely improbable 14 billion year long streak of coincidentally consistent results. That streak ends in the middle of your Friday lunch break.
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[WP] "The fact that you cannot do real magic, good 'stage magician', is precisely why we need your help! Neither can we! And if the neighboring kingdom figures that out before we can restore our access to the mana pool, we're all going to die!"
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