/u/archtech88's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[EU] Using a combination of technology and magic, New York City has summoned the greatest police officers and detectives from throughout fiction to genuinely reform the NYPD. You're one of the summoned and you feel out of place among all these greats
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[WP] After humanity finally achieves faster-than-light spaceflight, we discover that Earth was created as test center for biological experiments. Earth-based humanity was the "rough draft." The first beings we meet are the "final draft" of humanity.
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[WP] "The damned cannot be redeemed, cannot be saved, cannot leave; nothing more can be done for them. That is the law, so this endeavor is a waste of time. As for those of you born here in Hell--well, simply put, have any of you ever TRIED to leave before? Or did you just assume you couldn't?"
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[WP] "Commander, the subspace beacons have lit up. Rigel-3 is officially requesting aid." "And Earth shall answer."
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[WP] Humanity has just join The Galactic Union of Planets had has discovered that most species' First Contact is done when they're still working out basic math and written language. Humanity is one of the few species that got skyborn on its own.
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[WP] Years ago, a group of fairies swapped you for a changeling, but before your (single) parent figured out the switch the fairy whose child you were swapped for came back with you, crying and begging for the return of their own child. You know this because that fairy is your step-parent now
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[WP] You're a therapist with a rather unique set of clients: ancient, magically-imprisoned (current or formerly) superbeings. You help them figure out their issues and hangups so that they can finally be at peace and stop trying to end the world
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[WP] An alien race has been sending waves of attackers to Earth, forcing humanity to unite and develop AI, Giant Mecha, and all sorts of SciFi things like that. When we finally meet face to face, they admit that the waves were meant to force us to develop "In, Like, A Way More Radical Way, Dudes"
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[WP] A broadcast is heard around the world: "Warning. Unexpected reality collapse. Shifting Bio-Type worlds to safe adjacent realities." Humanity watches two worlds pop into existence in Earth's orbital path, then hear the message "Shift complete. Worlds & orbits stable. Try to not kill each other."
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