/u/baelrog's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a D-lister super villian who can control random number generators. Everyone thought you had garbage powers and just banned you from going near casinos and buying the lottery. One day you read up on quantum mechanics and realized your powers extends to quantum randomness.
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[WP] The trick to bargain with a genie is not constructing a watertight wish argument. The genie will see it as a challenge. Make them think they have won by eliberately leaving open subtle yet clever loopholes and prepare for it. Aim for hilarious but manageable side effects.
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[WP] "I guess this is the part you ask me for my first born child." He said to the witch. The witch stared at him blankly "Really, Dad?" then realization dawned upon her, "Oh no you didn't. You did not just train me all those years to become a witch just to pull that joke, did you?"
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[WP] You offended a god and he laid a curse upon you that you will see your children die young. Little did you know that the god is a trickster god, and he actually blessed you with immortality and your children with eternal youth.
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[WP] "This is not how it works, this not how anything works!" You silently moaned. You are a demigod who developed the coding language for magic, posing as a wizard's academy student to learn about modern magic practices. "Wait, actually, this is a really clever exploit."
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[WP] All known intelligent species in the galaxy are space crabs with exoskeletons that evolved on planets with low gravity. We seriously freaked them out when we took off our space suits for the first time.
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[WP] Your superpower is precision telekinesis, but you need to draw your own body heat as an energy source, rendering you unable to do much, that is until you realized your powers are precise enough to split or fuse atoms inside your body and the energy generated count as body heat.
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[WP] Evil genies are real, you are one of them. You are trying to twist the meaning of three perfectly worded wishes, and your 'master' is accompanied by one of those thrice damned 'genie lawyers'
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[WP] The problem with being a supernatural immortal being is that all of your oaths and promises, even those made in jest or disdain are magically binding. Nowadays you spend most of your time desperately preventing any pig from boarding an airplane.
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[WP] "Thank you for reaching out to the Galactic Enterprise Nano-robotic Interactive Entity, G.E.N.I.E., we strive hard to fulfill your %3 <error: data core lost> wishes." Turns out the genie wasn't a malicious being who twisted wished, but a faulty alien online shop A.I. abandoned here on Earth.
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