/u/arcturuspilchard's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Once every year, for exactly twelve hours, everything is available for purchase. Welcome to the Splurge.
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[WP] A group of ultra-rich college kids amuse themselves by travelling into the past and slaughtering innocent people with the aid of superior technology. None of these kids expected the 11th century knights to put up a fight. With the time machine blown to smithereens, there may be no escape.
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[WP] You’ve finally found it… the secret toothpaste that is recommended by the remaining one dentist from the Council of Ten.
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[WP] Closing one eye, you squish a distant person's head with your fingertips. Suddenly, you hear screams. To your horror, the unsuspecting victim's head has actually been crushed.
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[WP] You are the Jolly Reaper. You reap the souls of people who have died hilarious deaths and try to convince the departed that their passing wasn't so grim.
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[WP] Having completed your Master's in Wizardry, you enter the arcane job market. It's awful. No one wants to hire you. Worse, student debt has amassed into a murderous tentacle monster. In desperation, you travel to the fabled Sorcery Valley to start your own company in a garage.
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[WP] Twelve years ago you and your enemy swore to return to this place and finish it once and for all. Having trained to become a master fighter, you return to the designated meeting place only to discover that you have severely misunderstood what your enemy meant by ‘finishing it once and for all’.
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[WP] Millions of years after the fall of mankind, trees become sapient creatures. As their civilisation becomes akin to our 21st century society, they discover artefacts from human civilisation. This discovery changes them forever…
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[WP] Your brother can speak with animals, your sister can speak with trees. You, however, have never been able to communicate with any part of Nature, or so you thought... Alone in the forest, a voice cries for help in a language you've never heard before, but immediately understand.
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[WP] Coming back from a gruelling day at work, you notice a long-haired girl crawling out of your television. Absolutely fed up with the shit life throws at you, you push the protesting girl back into the TV set. The nine o' clock news takes a turn for the occult.
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