/u/lordhelmos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] On the 8th year of training, young summoners will approach the rune circle and call forth a mythic creature that will accompany them their entire lives. You have just completed your 8th year and approach the circle...
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[WP] You are a belter who is wage-slaved to an Earthen mega-corporation. Today you were drilling into an asteroid for rare metals when you accidentally discover and enter and alien ship powered by a sentient AI.
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[WP] The king is dead... actually he has been dead for some time now. A small circle of viziers have been preserving the body and running the kingdom under a false narrative that he is still alive. They will do anything to keep the ruse going so that they can remain in power.
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[WP] You are a monster trapped within a deep dark hole. Every now and then they throw prisoners into the pit for you to devour. You like to have conversations with your food before you devour them to pass the time.
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[WP] You taught humans the way of the sword and how to create the folded steel needed to slay demons. You fell in battle and were banished from earth for thousands of years. Now you return to cities made of glass, steel carriages, and someone "snapping pics" of you.
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[WP] You are an advanced biologist who has made a discovery so terrifying that you decide all traces of it must be destroyed: the frequency that commands human cells to die. As you begin purging your lab of research you look out of your window, four black cars pull up. They are coming.
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[WP] Among the skies, nations are built around massive floating islands. There is one island that is known and feared. Black citadels rise from its shattered lands and a dark fog heralds its coming. When it arrives and fires its chains, the result is always the same: War.
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[WP] You are with a camping group. While exploring the woods, you find a grove of twisted trees that contain eerily human features. One day one of the members of the group disappears. After a search you check the grove and discover a new tree that wasn't there before.
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[WP] A story told from the perspective of an Eldritch horror who mutates humans into "abominations" because it thinks it is helping us become better.
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[WP] You are in a library where you find an ancient looking book. The first page of the book has a picture of a keyhole on it. It reads "ask the old man in the black coat for the key." You turn to your left, an old man with a black coat is sitting at a small table alone... waiting.
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