/u/et809's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One day you you wonder if thinking about thinking about thinking and so on would be an effective defense against telepaths. All of sudden, people around you start collapsing and convulsing on the ground.
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[WP] You are a sleeper agent tasked with assassinating the dictator of a small third world country. You were activated today. Only thing was, all the other assassins decided to make their moves on the same day.
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[WP] Like in some RPGs, every few years people get a chance to reroll their stats in real life. After getting a degree and busting your ass in the gym to get your levels up, you finally decide to reroll today.
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[WP] Life is a game and each copy has only one player. Unfortunately, for you, you're an NPC in a speedrunner's session.
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[WP] One day you're buying groceries and the cute cashier says "thanks for your purchase". You get nervous and reply some gibberish. Suddenly a bear appears. You just found the original word for bear, and the ancients were right: saying it out loud does summon them.
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[WP] A time traveler from the future shows up to you and claims that you become a terrible dictator three decades from now. You ask if his going to kill you. He replies that instead he wants you to reason with yourself to make future you stop.
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[WP] The key to immortality is doing something so shameful you'd want to die, but you have to live with it forever as a form of punishment. Support groups form to help dealing with it. You're a long time regular, but in your case, you just can't get what made you immortal in the first place.
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[WP] After you die, you wake up to see yourself in your oldest childhood memory. You discover that you have the power to start your life anew, retaining all your past life memories. This is now your fourth try.
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[WP] Every time you disagree with someone about something, you're made to live temporarily in an alternate reality where everyone agrees with you. You are arguing with your SO about your most mundane pet peeve. You end up in the worst version of the world you could imagine.
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