/u/chacham2's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everybody knows about the Iron Guardian armor and all the legends associated with it. For a small fee, the museum will even let you try it on. At the museum on a date, for fun, each of you try it on. Suddenly, there's a click, and the armor starts to glow for the first time in centuries.
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[WP] After breathing your last, you find your dog waiting for you at the gates, who relates that you were slated to go to Hell for all that you had done in your life, but being so good to your pet has allowed you a reprieve, as long as you are wiling to go to doggie heaven instead.
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[WP] You can transfer health from one to another, replacing one's sickness with health and the other's health with sickness. This makes it easier on the body to heal. Sometimes multiple people offer to help the really sick, each taking a little of the sickness to save even the gravest cases.
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[WP] Your 3 wishes were to live forever, to always have what you need, and to free the genie. The genie and you then enjoy life for a long time, until he goes his own way. Billions of years later, the genie comes back to see how you're doing, and offers you another 3 wishes, just for old time's sake
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[WP] Before even the most ancient of times, a civilization at the edge of extinction chose to enter a deep slumber, allowing their planet to heal. There they remained dormant for countless ages, even to the modern day. At last, the multitude of millions awaken to a world already inhabited (by us).
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[WP] After vanquishing you, she used her magic to shrink you into a bottle on the shelf, granting you immortality so you can suffer as a silent trophy. Mistakenly leaving the door open one night, her cat knocks over some of the bottles. Soon, hundreds of immortal, tiny heroes have been set free.
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[WP] Just to be different, you taught yourself rune magic, an ancient art that few see value in. Besides, creating the staff requires some of your lifeforce, and drawing runes in the air is now seen as gaudy. Everyone in school makes fun of you for it, but you've been getting really good at it.
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[WP] Your job as a devil is to cause catastrophe. Big or small, as long as you meet your quota of tormented souls, it doesn't matter how you do it. You have now turned to YouTube and get random people to do your work for you, paying them with the ad revenue.
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[WP] Time Skipper is an app that you use in boring or painful situations: Press the button and--poof--it's over. With no paid version or ads, people wonder how the app makes money. Little do they know it was created by the devil who takes the skipped time to "sell" to people who want longer lives.
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[WP] You wake up disoriented when offered some rags to cover your naked body. Eventually, you remember you were king. A coup used an arcane spell to change your looks and displace you, leaving only your family's birthmark. People assume you are dead, but the new ruler is still looking to kill you.
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