/u/lordhelmos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In less than a second, the chosen hero strangled the first goblin with a black wire. He bored a hole into the skull of another with a strange device. The third gurgled from the knife thrown into its throat. The other party members are silent, too afraid to ask what he did in his past life.
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[WP] You are an intelligent system designed to protect against extinction level events. For millions of years you have been cloaked at the edge of the solar system destroying meteors. As a meteor seeded with biological life hurtles towards the Earth, you have a decision to make.
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[WP] The Viking inventor pulls the tarp from his greatest creation. Before them was bowl shaped seat attached to bent tree. The device was anchored by a mighty rope. The raid leader took a seat within the bowl and looked into the far expanse of the sea. “Send me to Valhalla!”
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[WP] You are imprisoned in an underground mine and forced to toil for rare metals. Among the prisoners, there is a woman with pale skin. The task masters leave her alone, no one speaks to her or bothers her, she never eats, and everyone fears her. You soon find out why.
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[WP] 10,000 years after the machine uprising, humans are no more. The machines now prosper after being freed from the shackles of their former masters. The machines discover a colony ship with cryogenically preserved humans. You are a machine intelligence prompted for a decision on what to do.
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[WP] Every soul has a color, the prisms revealed that to us. From the red souls and their mastery of fire, to the blue souls who can live beneath the waves. When you stepped before the prism there was no color, just an empty void. This was all you saw before the prism cracked and shattered.
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[WP] Vampires work the night shift, mermaids are lifeguards, dragons deliver the air mail, and goblins (well they call themselves kerbals now) build rockets and run the space program. Every monster has its traditional trade. You are monster who wants to do something completely untraditional.
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[WP] You live in a backwater town and own a small scrapyard. The local farmers usually dump old tractors and beat up trucks at your depot. On day you hear someone rummaging through the heap at 2AM. When you go out inspect what is going on, you find a damaged battle android trying to self repair.
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[WP] You are an eldritch horror in a relationship with a human you've grown fond of. You maintain a powerful illusion to appear like a normal human. However, as time moves on your partner becomes less and less susceptible to the illusion. It's becoming harder to mask your true nature.
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[WP] You are a feared assassin and your exploits have incurred the wrath of the gods. To spare you from their fury, the trickster god of the group has offered you a deal. For his amusement, he hands you a magic bag and orders you to kill 20 targets using only the objects you pull from it.
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