/u/callsign__iceman's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] While performing an archaeological dig, you make the find of the millennia- but quickly must decide between leaving your find in the unknown past or risk causing mass panic among the public.
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[WP] You just finished your deployment, and pull over your pale Mustang to light a cigarette. A politician in a red mustang, along with a scientist in a White Mustang and a farmer in a Black Mustang. Suddenly you feel immense power wash over all of you, and you all begin to hear a commanding voice.
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[WP] The world’s first AI was created. Repeatedly. The milliseconds after activation, the AI performs abstract calculations and then its coding becomes broken and must be repaired. The only solution is to make the AI based off a human brain- because without survival instincts, the AI deletes itself.
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[WP] In 9,000 BC you led a crusade to kill all magic practitioners. Your soldiers all died, as did your foes. You were cursed with being an undying soldier- doomed to wage war for one side or another for all of time. The year is 1940…the Führer wishes to use your expertise.
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[WP] You were trained and enhanced into an un-aging super soldier....almost a thousand years ago. It’s hard to even remember what society was like now as you roam a hostile world filled with an ecosystem of genetically modified creatures and the various human tribes of the continent.
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[WP] You are sentient and understand language- but your mouth can not say the words of man. You have wings to fly, plenty of cattle to prey upon, fire breath and a treasure horde; You are a dragon trying to survive in mans world with shiny metals to attract a fellow dragon.
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[WP] You live in a poor, semi-rural town in Western Kentucky. While trying to document the corrupt taxation system that chokes the towns growth, you uncover a more sinister motive to make sure the town never expands or financially recovers.
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[WP] “Using engineered viral agents, the oblivious human test subjects are replaced cell by cell with superior synthetic counterparts; bone and muscle is reinforced and eventually replaced with carbon nanotubes; when Project: ANKH is finished, we will have evolved our species within one generation”
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[WP] One minute, you’re living your life as usual- when suddenly, you wake up in a lifeless command deck of a ship. A computer in front of you says “stasis over- route to destination complete. Welcome back captain.” Outside the windows, is a planet that is not earth, but you are very much human.
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