/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You just finished training and have virtually no experience, so you were surprised when you were hired as a bodyguard for the prince\ess on their trip. Turns out the king meant to have them assassinated, and purposefully chose an inexperienced guard. Unfortunately for him, you're a natural.
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[WP] People thought that the dragon was hoarding all the riches he'd stolen over the centuries. In reality, ancient humans actually paid him all that gold to defend the valley from a greater threat. Fed up with their constant attempts on his life, he finally leaves the humans to fend for themselves.
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[WP] A girl in an extravagant princess-like dress is handing out flyers on the side of the street. Nobody is paying her any mind, ignoring her as if she's invisible. Out of pity you take a flyer. It's for some strange fantasy-themed cafe you haven't heard of. When you look up, the girl has vanished.
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[WP] Years ago you stole a bike for your younger sister, not knowing that the girl you stole it from would grow to lead a band of punks and hooligans. You're in high school now and your unaware parents just put your sisters 'old bike' out for a garage sale, in plain view of the original owner.
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[WP] You take a job as an extended substitute teacher, only to find that the school hired you by mistake. The institute is for vampires, demons, golems and all manner of supernatural beings. To keep your job (and you life) you need to fit in, and ensure nobody finds out you're only human.
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[WP] Every year, before the Christmas season, Krampus, St. Nicholas, The Grinch, A Pagan Sun god, and Santa all battle in a competition to see who gets to run the holiday. Santa, an entity born of corporate greed, has been undefeated for the last century. The others begin to suspect foul play.
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[WP] Your hobby is electronics. You build a Ham radio, and start broadcasting in Morse code for someone to talk to. Someone answers. At first talking with the stranger is fun and interesting, exchanging first names and making small talk, but then they ask what planet you're from.
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[WP] You never knew that your D&D game corresponded to an actual fantasy world you were affecting with your choices. You were having fun playing a very evil character, but after getting summoned to that world as a hero, you're faced with the living-breathing consequences of the crimes you committed.
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[WP] A powerful wizard finds away to use unrefined magic to cast wildly powerful and chaotic spells, but they have an aftereffect akin to nuclear radiation that healing magic can't heal. The wizard, withering from radiation poisoning, is furious when the Bureau bans this kind of magic and its study.
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[WP] You're training to be a warrior, a knight for the royal army, but one day you get hit by a runaway carriage, and you wake up in a strange, magic-less, modern world full of technology. With no way to get home and no use for a swordsman in this world, you have to find a way to fit in.
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