/u/Xcmd's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] If you haven't found your soul mate by age 30, the government turns on your trackers so you can find each other. Your tracker app has led you to a cemetery.
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[WP] You went to bed with a splitting headache. The next morning you woke up with some kind of info display in your vision and a soothing voice speaking directly to your mind. "Upgrade complete. Would you like a tutorial?"
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[WP] Humans have been slowly leaving Earth for centuries, as space travel becomes faster and cheaper, and human lives are extended to thousands of years. One day, you realize it's been quite a long time since you last saw anyone in person. You soon find out that you're the last human on Earth.
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[WP] So the bard is actually a rogue in disguise, the druid is really a monk who rarely bathes, and the healer is a warlock that made a pact with a medical textbook. Yeah, they're definitely going to save the world.
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[WP] Nobody understood why the dragon decided to live at the zoo, but she's long been the most popular attraction there. She'll pose for pictures with anyone, loves it when visitors throw gold coins in her enclosure, and she's not above playacting for the young "knights" that come to do battle.
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[WP] Your roommates aren't so bad. Sure, one's a literal witch, and the other's an actual vampire, but other than that they're tidy and they pay your rent and buy your food. In fact, your only job is to watch out for Hunters. Good thing you used to be one.
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[WP] Magic works much like handedness, in that magic cast with the right hand tends to be destructive, while magic performed with the left is restorative. Most mages are only able to cast with one hand or the other. You are one of the rare mages who can cast with both hands at the same time.
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[WP] About a month ago, you woke up with a small pair of wings growing out of your back. A week ago, a pair of horns began to grow from your forehead. While cutting up breakfast this morning, your knife turned into a flaming sword. It might be time to consult someone about this.
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[WP] "Look, you've been in this loop for ten thousand years. You figured out what you needed to do to solve it by day three, and you were bored with the loop by the fiftieth time." The grim-looking man says. "This is torture, I just want you to finish the loop so I can go home."
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[WP] The twin gods take a mortal spouse every thousand years. One twin gives rise to the next Champion of Light, the other to the next Champion of Dark. Their children fight, and whoever wins reigns for a thousand years. You've just killed both Champions in fair combat.
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