/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a glass blower, always innovating and pushing your artistic skills and your craft to the limit. One day, an investigator arrives and asks to speak with you about a murder. "Somebody got stabbed with one of my pieces?" you ask. - "Not exactly... eye-witnesses say it was... magic..."
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[WP] The Earth died. The seas became thick and poisonous and the land became mostly desert. Humans adapted somewhat, and survive in small pockets here and there around the globe. While hiking through the desert one day you come across an oasis, and and a strange machine sustaining the life there.
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[WP] You're a vagabond that happened to hole up for a night in an abandoned train yard. You didn't know that this old, rusted turnstile was actually a place interdimensional creatures use to cross world lines. (Un?)luckily enough for you, the conductor is hiring.
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[WP] A lab accident sent you back in time. With your knowledge of the future, you set out to invent two things before their proper time: Bicycles and Pizza. You fasten your sword to your hip and kick up the kickstand, ready to begin your first delivery.
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[WP] You're a normal everyday office worker. Also as a pastime you are studying the ancient forbidden art of becoming an undead arch-lich. Even if you're successful, you don't anticipating it affecting your work life, though you would have to find a new hobby.
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[WP] For a discount on your college housing, you volunteer to room with an exchange student and to help teach them about your culture. Your friends are bummed, but you needed the discount. When you reach your new dorm, your roommate is already there. They aren't human.
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[WP] Unicorns are real and they are evil, clever, and super deadly; the colorful rainbowy stereotype couldn't be more wrong. You are a trained soldier who hunts these creatures as they appear around the globe, fighting to kill them before they can wreak havoc on a world that thinks them only a myth.
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[WP] You are commissioned to design a set of evil creatures for a new survival-horror videogame, but the game is just a front. Your customer uses the designs for a demonic experiment, and unleashes your creatures on the world. Luckily, you know their weaknesses.
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[WP] A super powerful A.I. wants to take over the world, but somehow got stuck in a high school student's graphing calculator. The A.I. tries to convince the student to help with its plans of conquest, but the student has more important things to worry about, like the trigonometry test coming up.
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[WP] You are a zombie, but for some reason, you've retained your autonomy. You can even speak, although people don't often give you the chance to. Everybody screams and runs when they see you, and you've even been shot by a police officer. The last few days since you turned have been a pain.
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