WritingPrompts

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[WP] Faced with certain extinction, humanity created virtual reality playgrounds and uploaded their minds, leaving robots to tend the dying planet. Node 1545 has vanished, and thousands of minds are missing. You have volunteered to upload into a human body so you can investigate in the Real World.	834
[WP] You're a Borrower. Ask someone to borrow something they own and it appears. Once you return it, you can Borrow something else. A thief has stolen something you Borrowed. You must return the item not only to regain your power, but to prevent other more dire consequences.	195
[WP] The world ended in 2199. Mountains crumbled, oceans boiled, but man survived. Three great cities were constructed, one deep in the earth, one deep in the sea, another in orbit. After 300 years, the survivors emerge and confront one another.	178
[WP] The Human-Mobadiq war has dragged out for nearly a century across a thousand star systems. You are the first mate aboard the UFP Ishmael, and your captain is obsessed with hunting and destroying a ghostly white Mobadiq battle cruiser.	99
[WP] Due to a mix-up in the Galactic Registry, Earth is removed from the Do Not Contact list before they discover FTL travel. Predatory salesmen arrive by the hundreds.	29
[WP] Times Square is crowded and as you're hurrying along you bump into a guy with a big sign. He says to you "The World is Doomed! The End is Nigh!" And you snap "In just a few days if I don't stop it!" He blinks and shoves a large box in your hands "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This," He says.	25
[WP] Your name is Jesus Garcia, and you're a 15 year old jerk who works in mysterious ways. Yesterday, you punched the school janitor and got suspended - but thanks to you he went to the doctor and they discovered a brain tumor. Now, you have a fortnight to take care of more important things.	16
[WP] Every capital city is the home of a God, some more active and fickle than others, all grant power to those they deem worthy or interesting. You're a nonthiest, unimpressed with the Gods and their games until a power awakens within you and you become an unwilling pawn.	13
[WP] a strange rumour circulates, repeated in coffeeshop conversations and internet forums: Ordinary doors will sometimes open to strange lands, offering escape from this increasingly dysfunctional world. Preparing for a shower, you open your bathroom door to reveal instead a golden summer meadow.	13
[WP] Homeless, hungry, desperate, you follow Hobo Mike to an abandoned building filled with other indigents. They say if you jump down the busted elevator shaft during a full moon, you travel back in time. ...But they don't say what's waiting at the bottom, or the price you have to pay to leave.	9

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