WritingPrompts

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[WP] Years ago, the 10 mile long creature fell from the sky. It never moved and was proclaimed dead. It never rots and regenerates when damaged. We found that people who eat its flesh... change. You place the pale cube of meat in your mouth. You are ready to leave your humanity behind.	523
[WP] Dark clouds roll over the city, signaling the dark lord's return. A construction worker pulls an old warhammer from the back of his pickup, a street performer draws the sword hidden in his guitar case, a CEO ends her meeting and retrieves her staff. Heroes must return as well.	513
[WP] A long time ago there was a blade that held immense power. The blade absorbs the knowledge of anyone it decapitates and its wielder knows all that the sword knows. After taking the head of a powerful necromancer, a reanimated corpse rises to grasp the blade. The blade no longer needs a master.	506
[WP] You are a dragon that has slept for 100 years due to being bored with the humans and their warring clans. After waking into a Victorian age, you find that humans have grown more civilized. You don your disguise and prepare to mingle in high society, where words are more powerful than swords.	501
[WP] You accidentally wake an ancient deity from her tomb. In an effort to help her cope with her forgotten legacy and waning power, you give her a book. "This is the Dungeon Master's Guide, it can make you very powerful." Your DnD group was not prepared for the monster you created.	479
[WP] Chained to an immovable rock, he waits for the eagle to arrive and peck out his liver, as it has done countless times before. Instead a hooded figure emerges from the shadows. With a wave of its hand, the iron shackles are shattered. "Rise Prometheus. The time has come for Olympus to fall."	469
[WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed...	463
[WP] The sultan entrusted you with a crystal bottle. He told you that a great evil lurks within and to destroy the bottle by casting it into a bottomless sinkhole at the center of a dangerous desert. Midway through your quest, the bottle is shattered. What is inside is far from evil.	455
[WP] You are an incredibly powerful supervillain. Your nemesis is an ageing superhero that you string along out of pity. You do just enough villainy to get what you want but let your nemesis win every now and then. Things change when a truly evil supervillain enters the city and kills your rival.	430
[WP] The planet is surrounded by several large suns, causing permanent daylight. Instead of land, there are continent sized flowers that sprout from the world's surface. Night cycles are caused by the flowers closing their petals when the hottest sun passes by.	426

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