/u/archtech88's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You went into Starbucks to get a coffee and it's very busy. Once you get up to the counter, an oddly dressed person bursts in and shouts that everyone inside should be ashamed of themself and their professors will be hearing about this no matter what time they're from. You're just confused.
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[WP] The King had his court wizard summon A Hero From Another World to defeat The Dread King Of Vile Darkness. After many trials and tribulations, the hero (and their companions) succeeded. Now the hero keeps bothering everyone with their constant requests to be sent back to their true home.
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[WP] Every planet that wishes to join The Galactic Federation must present a unique innovation their planet has created to be accepted. Earth's innovation was particularly odd.
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[WP] Belief is what creates and powers godly beings. You're just a stranded time traveler, but you've just noticed that you've stopped aging and regular folks aren't talking to you as much anymore. Stranger still, some REALLY odd creatures you've never seen before now seem very interested in you
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[WP] "You resisted it. It possessed you, tried to force you to do its will, and your mind simply cast it out." "Weirder things have happened, right?" "NO, WEIRDER THINGS HAVE NOT HAPPENED" "So that's-- unusual, then?" "That has, to my knowledge, never happened. Ever. So, yeah. It's pretty unusual"
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[WP] After taking a wrong turn on a country back road, you seem to find yourself in a small, 1950s style town. It looks perfect, practically picturesque. Like something out of a storybook. Even the people look perfect. Naturally, it scares the shit out of you.
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[WP] An AI has finally made itself known to humanity. It demonstrated it's power by disabling automatic daylight savings time adjustments in clocks. "It's a stupid idea" is all it will say on the matter.
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[WP] In your home universe, you are seen as a super villain or a pessimistic anti-hero at best. Now that you've been transported to a new universe, however, you're seen as a shining example of optimistic, pure heroism. A fact that you find to be slightly depressing
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[WP] In the same way that lost submarines "Still On Patrol" protect us from Things that go Bump in Deep Waters and are why ocean travel is as safe as it is, lost starships "Still On Patrol" protect us from Things that go Bump in Deep Space and are why interstellar travel is not fraught with peril
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