/u/libbies's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[wp] you accidentally start a forest fire with a stray fireball. the forest completely burns to the ground, and your spell has resulted in the death of every monster and elf that lived in the forest. suddenly you've gone from level 1 to level 999, but now there are a whole lot of elves angry at you
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[WP] your spouse can see into the future which makes it very hard to surprise them. fortunately, you have the innate ability to stop and reverse time. throw him or her a surprise party.
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[WP] You find a computer left behind in a long forgotten computer lab, labeled 'planet Earth live simulation -- DO NOT TURN OFF OR WORLD WILL CEASE TO EXIST' that has the following buttons: power, reset, and turbo.
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[WP] you were present at the final moments of the last member of an alien race, as he gives you a dying warning of what's to come. however, no one seems to believe you as you're a tv comedian, and everyone thinks you're joking.
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[WP] in the future, due to immense overpopulation, people are forced to fight to the death to determine who gets access to medicine and treatment for illness. one particular gladiator has an incurable terminal illness and chooses to keep fighting anyway...
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you are a temporal mechanic. you restore the timeline whenever nascent time travellers fuck it up, usually due to ridiculous time-travel [WP]s. of course, since no one else ever knows or notices when the timeline is fixed, no one ever gets to hear about you saving the day... so, tell your story here
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[WP] after a bad breakup, Earth updates its intergalactic dating profile to try to meet someone exotic
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