/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You owed a powerful Hag a life debt and are distraught when she comes to collect. She's got another customer who wants to switch lives with somebody, and you have no choice but to agree to offer yours up. The Hag does her magic, and you wake up in the royal palace in the place of the King.
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[WP] In a city ruled by different underground factions, you're an unaffiliated weapons dealer. Despite the fact that you arm opposing organizations, you are respected and left to your work. An up-and-coming gang is about to find out why, after foolishly robbing one of your shipments.
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[WP] An old woman arrives at your door, saying that when she was young she used to live in your house. You invite her in and chat for a while, and eventually you ask her when exactly it was that she left the house. "Oh, I never left." she says. "I was born in this house, and I died in this house."
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[WP] You are selected to be personal steward and body guard of an eccentric princess. She's often found camping in the stables, hoarding food, studying foreign languages, and practicing unheard of martial-arts. When a coup is staged she's ready to survive on the run, and even ends up protecting you.
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[WP] The planet earth and the human race was created to be a televised battle royal for an alien audience. It didn't quite work out. The galactic audiences have become engrossed in the political intrigue and complex characters, keeping the ratings afloat, but the producers still want answers.
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[WP] A powerful deity cut off our world's connection to magic for 10,000 years as punishment for our misuse of it. Our sentence is finally up, and the ban is suddenly lifted. To avoid total chaos, the deity returns magic to us at a trickle, and you happen to be early on the list of human recipients.
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[WP] The zombies and other monsters in this haunted house are real, and they will attack you without reserve or mercy, but upon stepping inside you are granted all the abilities and powers of whoever you're dressed as for Halloween. If you make it through, the prize is yours.
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[WP] During a time of peace, a family's guardian spirit took the form of a tree. Generations later, its true form had been forgotten, and a treehouse was built in it for the children. When the family is attacked, the children hide in the treehouse, and the guardian spirit awakens to help them.
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[WP] Sadly, the dimension we started summoning heroes from already had a concept of a high-magic world like ours, so when they arrived and it wasn't all gold, glory, and harems, they defected and banded together into a fearsome bandit group. Now we need to summon a new 'hero' to exterminate them.
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