/u/creeperflint's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Automation and digitization have caused the number of people needed to run society to drastically drop, leaving increasing numbers of people unemployed. All these unnecessary poor people are proving to be a hassle to deal with, so the wealthy have decided to exterminate them.
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[WP] A being from a fantasy land describes technology as if it's magic, even after fully understanding it.
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[WP] There are 4 rules when dealing with the supernatural. The first three they tell you right away, but the fourth is only revealed much later.
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[WP] The group best equipped to deal with eldritch gods and their followers is not part of a government or an international organization; it's a unity of lesser eldritch beings and their followers who are pissed at the gods who are always trying to use them like tools.
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[WP] "Why'd you send a kid on this mission?" "Well, he was the only one who could reliably pass for human."
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[WP] People are frequently given quests by a variety of beings, ranging from small sprites to major gods and forces of nature. The rarest and scariest quests are the ones given by Existence itself.
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[WP] The villages have started to follow a new rule: Take care of problems yourselves, and avoid calling for the help of knights and sorcerers when at all possible.
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[WP] Just as you're about to shake their hand, someone runs in, shoots you in the arm, and yells "Don't make any deals with them!"
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