/u/cqCCniNsQn's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "Good to see you, Mr. Bond," the Queen said, sliding a file across her desk. "Your next target is a certain so-called detective who has been prying too deeply into national secrets." Bond flips open the file, glancing down at the name. "Sherlock Holmes."
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[WP] Before, the Mandela Effect was inconsequential. A few misremembered children's books, etc. But now, it's real and catastrophic, with a war nobody recalls fighting in; millions who believe a different person won the election; and physicists convinced that last week, you invented time travel.
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[WP] In Spanish, the suffix "ito" implies a smaller form of a word's stem, ex. "hermanito" is "little brother" because "hermano" is "brother", "perrito" is "little dog" because"perro" is "dog", and "mosquito" is "little m... actually, we don't talk about that one. About the Mosquo.
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[WP] Humanity has spread throughout the stars, leaving cosmoarchaeologists such as yourself to rediscover any clues about human history. When exploring the third planet of a red sun, you amazingly stumble across the only sign of civilization on the dead world: A sword firmly implanted in stone.
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[WP]He materializes in the watchmaker's shop, blood soaking his futuristic robes."We couldn't stop them, this timeline will be overwritten any second-" "Then we need too go to the Vault now,"the watchmaker says, turning to you, a customer."Best you come too, mortal, unless you'd rather not be born."
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[WP] Yesterday, you saw an ad for a new risk-like military strategy game and decided to give it a go, only to get bored upon realizing that orders are carried out in hours, real time. Today, there is breaking news: Your in-game country of Algeria has invaded Morocco.
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[WP] You have always been able to identify where a key fits, be it with a car in Japan or your own front door. One day, you brush your fingers against a close friend's key-chain and are overwhelmed with locations. One of these keys... it opens every lock.
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[WP] Suddenly, everyone gets superpowers based on what their job is. Doctors get healing powers, politicians get mind control, pilots can fly, &c. Describe how your job unexpectedly makes you VERY powerful.
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[WP] Instead of time-looping yourself like in Groundhog Day, you somehow get looped such that you awaken each morning at the beginning of yesterday rather than that day. Every night, you age backwards, retaining all of your knowledge of the future, useless when you can never get there.
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