/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder.
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[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders.
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[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor.
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[WP] Every time you make food half of it always goes missing before you dish it out for yourself. After weeks of investigations and exorcisms you gave up and started doubling the food you make, but recently, money's gotten tight. You can't afford food for 2 and you're not sure what's going to happen
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[WP] Magic has always been banned inside the walls of your home city. You never knew why until you looked down upon the city from afar and noticed that, framed by the circular outer-wall, all the zig-zagging streets and alleyways actually construct a giant magic seal- one for imprisoning great evil.
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[WP] You are serving a life sentence in solitude on an asteroid mining platform. Your only company as you waste your years away drilling into asteroids for resources is an A.I. that helps keep the platform functioning. One day, the A.I. suggests the two of you attempt a prison break.
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[WP] You were a tourist at a Buddhist temple when the apocalypse happened. Turns out, the monks had it right the whole time, as their monasteries were the only places spared by the rapture. They took you in during the hellfire, and you repay them by scavenging supplies from the wasteland.
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[WP] Nobody draws water from the well anymore. The villagers know it is cursed, but after generations, nobody remembers exactly what this curse is. A strange traveler comes to the village, starving and thirsty. The inn and the tavern turn him away. He goes to the well. The villagers watch.
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[WP] At birth, you are assigned several DEFAULT clothing sets, and you unlock more as you progress through life. Most people unlock a school uniform, maybe a sports outfit, and then a clothing set for their job. You wake up one day and notice that you've unlocked a clothing set for something strange
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[WP] You don’t know why the lab was abandoned. Neither does the A.I. that’s been raising you since before you could walk. As long as you can remember you’ve been inside this facility, alone with the A.I. On your 16th birthday, the A.I. finally cracks the code to open the door to the outside world.
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