/u/case_sensitive_tomb's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In a world where superpowers and the like are commonplace, you work as a contingency planner for the Department of Planetary Security. On the day of your last assignment, your boss comes to brief you, and hands over a mirror and multiple memory wipers.
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[WP] Chess, but the players are kids who are looking up the rules almost every move, and the perspective is that of a very confused Knight.
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[WP] Planar colonizers have scouted Earth as “moderate” due to a lack of magic, but citing a great depth of advancement nonetheless. When the invaders try to come back with their armies, wondering how such a development was possible, they’re intercepted by ...something.
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[WP] So it’s been a few weeks since “The Emergence.” The TL;DR, major cities across the globe have been rearranged, but it turns out dragons, magic, and whole lot of fantasy goodness are all real. Or rather, “became real.”
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[WP] Young heroes aren’t as common as they used to be. As an old hero king, you understand this, but still kinda bummed. With enlistment not going as planned, you decide to take matters into your own hands and set off alone.
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[WP] “There is no victory.” The oracle plainly stated this to the council. “Your actions have angered the world of those monsters; fiends that not even our Gods wish to face again. All we can do is hope that our Heroes can minimize casualties, so that our children may live yet another day.”
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[WP] “True martial arts” is being able to do the right action, move, or technique at the right time, in any situation. One day, a drunk mage issues a public challenge to one said master, and receives a reply the next week.
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[WP] In an effort to stay alive, gladiators were often more bard than warrior in the pits. So when they’re sent out to war, many are surprised at the troop’s improvements in morale among other things.
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[WP] As a result of karma, you were made “unlucky” in your endeavors. In practice it made life more predictable, and thus easier to anticipate and plan around.
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