/u/halosos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] This is not a drill. Stay in the light, do not remain in darkness. Repeat, DO NOT REMAIN IN DARKNESS.
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[WP] The signal from the stars told us how to make a generation ship and invited us to come meet them. 100 years to build the mighty ship and 1000 years to arrive. The planet that sent the signal is now dead.
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[WP] FTL travel is actually really easy, humanity has just been very unlucky with a flawed theory. They learned this when their first colony ship with stasis pods arrived over an alien world.
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[WP] You are an inventor, greatest in the world, creating mind boggling contraptions and devices that baffle the worlds greatest minds. No one can work out how you do it, because no one knows you are the last living wizard.
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[WP] Your luck is strange. In almost every situation you are as unlucky as you could possibly be. Except on situations where your life or the lives of others are in danger. During those fleeting moments, you are the luckiest person alive.
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[WP] "Ok Cupid, Human populations are declining. We need to swap your bow out for something a little more modern..."
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[WP] Aliens arrive in the Solar System. As humanity prepares to greet them, they instead land on Mars and just ignore Earth, setting up a colony.
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[WP] You are a luck based super hero. You are extremely lucky whenever your life is in danger. But all other times you are the most unlucky person alive.
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[WP] "We have made you immortal as part of our sentient being cataloguing initiative" was the last thing the alien said before placing you back on the dying earth.
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[WP] A world where almost all can use magic, there are a small group of secret non magic users, who use "Technology" to hide in plain sight. A young boy who has no magic. A strange letter delivered by a metal bird just arrived: "You are invited to attend The Horizon School of Science and Technology"
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