WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're an assassin sent to infiltrate the castle and kill the King. You pick up a seemingly normal coin. In reality every action you take from that point onwards is consequently either absurdly lucky, or awfully unlucky	965
[WP] You are a starship captain, caught in a galactic war. You like to read old novels in your downtime. To your amazement, this old 20th century maritime novel seems to have predicted your exact situation and even has a captain of your description. A captain who gets betrayed in chapter 7.	963
[WP] You've been interacting within a VR MMO game for a few months, until you discover no one in the real world has heard of this game, let alone heard of the headset you're using. The only way to find out more is within the game itself.	826
[WP] To save processing power, 'reality' only materialises when observed by a human, otherwise it exists in a state of probability. Human overpopulation is causing processing overload on the universe servers and you have been tasked with coming up with a solution	423
[WP] You're a time traveller who, tired of adventure, return to the present to get a steady regular job. Unfortunately you suffer from time sickness and start confusing your past and future experience during your job interview...	239
[WP] You are the best surgeon in the world. You require surgery yourself, ironically you're the only one skilled enough to help. A new technique allows you to transfer your consciousness into another to carry out the procedure. The procedure fails and you die on the table in front of you.	171
[WP] Of all the AI to reach sentience, no one predicted a pair of ambient seagulls in a video-game. When a player kills one of them, the second only has one thought: revenge.	97
[WP] You're on a long flight. The person sat next to you goes to the toilet. When they come back, you could swear it isn't the same person. Yet they pick up the book being read and continue like nothing is amiss	96
[WP] You've had this 'disease' since you were born where you teleport randomly. Until you realise that you're actually 'stuck' to a 4D being, like chewing-gum to its foot. You know this because you've become pals	52
[WP] Humans are the first intelligent life in the entire universe. In the far future and the equivalent of our early 2000s, an alien planet is invaded... by humans	30

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