/u/gahidus's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A perturbed alien barged onto global broadcasts "Where are all your von Neumann machines? We sent ahead all the post-scarcity blueprints years ago. You've had more than enough time since then. You haven't even connected to galactic FTL internet! This uplift isn't going properly at all!"
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[WP] We finally completed a transmitter that would, in theory, broadcast at faster than light speeds. We sent out a galactic hail. Our first visitors soon came barreling up at tremendous FTL speed, but their urgent messages came through on only a tight-beam laser: "TURN OFF YOUR TRANSMITTER!"
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[WP] You're a unique sort of superhero. You're a villain. Your plots and schemes aren't meant to succeed. You're secretly training heroes in tactics, strategy, and power use, while building up their confidence and reputations.
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[WP] Due to a difference of philosophy and worldview, the genie trying to twist your wishes keeps giving you things you find awesome.
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[WP] Unexpectedly leaving our world, you are stranded in a magical, medieval realm. You see not a glimpse of anything from Earth, until you meet a half-elven girl whose "family crest" is unmistakably a Union Jack...
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[WP] Friendship is the greatest treasure of all! Truer words were never spoken. And so, the dragon began to build it's horde...
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[WP] Your boyfriend is a low-ranking superhero. You frequently masquerade as a powerful supervillain with plots that he can defeat to give him the occasional big win and to let him feel useful.
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[WP] Parapsychologists discover that Hauntings have been rare because becoming a ghost requires specific circumstances that normally only occur by accident. Now the recipe for becoming a ghost after death has just gone viral on the internet...
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[WP] You have access to an infinitely large library... a library that is both infinitely large and infinitely inaccurate. You have access to The Library of All Things That Are Not True.
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