WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your family has long been sworn to protect the village, a job that was much easier for your ancestors when there were dozens of your family, and about twice as many villagers. Now, there's just you, and a city of millions. Still, the enemies attack nightly.	160
[WP] There's a knock at the door at three in the morning. It's an intergalactic bounty-hunter, and they're after an escaped criminal they've tracked to your home. They show you a photo of the fugitive: It's your pet.	159
[WP] You have the uncanny ability to tell if you're going to have a good day. Every morning, you wake up and roll a d20, and try to pass a DC of 10. Yesterday you rolled high and had a pretty good day! This morning, for the first time ever, you rolled a 1. Then your phone begins buzzing crazily.	155
[WP] Every time you die, you wake up six hours later soaking wet by the nearest body of water to where you died. This is the first time you've ever awoken to find someone next to you, also soaked. They remember dying just a few moments ago.	151
[WP] The last time you tried to make a cake, you summoned a demon. This time, you're prepared. You carefully ensure that nothing could possibly go wrong! The cake is done, and you're just about to take it away, when the Lord of the Underworld taps you on the shoulder.	142
[WP] You've built a machine that seems to randomly materialize pens, socks, car keys, and lottery tickets. You're confused by this, until the day that the machine materializes a set of keys you lost about ten years ago.	127
[WP] "You're a mage," said the man, brandishing a blade. "And for that you'll have to die." With a word and a gesture the man was no more, burnt to cinders. That was a decade ago, the first spell you ever cast, and you've been fleeing the Mage Hunters ever since. Today, you run no more. Never again.	119
[WP] You invent a machine for crossing into parallel universes, but are captured by a shadowy agency before you can use it. They recruit you into finding others that invent similar machines, to either recruit them or kill them. So far, you've killed 19 versions of yourself and recruited none.	114
[WP] They took no notice of us when we ventured beyond our solar system. They didn't ignore us, they just weren't in especial awe. We were normal. Average. No different than the rest of the species out there. Humanity had to learn to deal with its worst possible fear: mediocrity.	106
[WP] First contact went well. We had a similar biology, and communication wasn't that difficult. It was when the astronomers got involved that we figured out why: the aliens originally evolved on Earth millions of years ago. In fact, all known aliens species did.	103

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