/u/netbie_94's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a weird gamer. When you play a videogame, you let the enemy bots win. Sometimes, after reaching a boss, you let the boss win. You've never beaten any game completely. 20 years later, when a super-intelligent conscious A.I. is taking over the world, it becomes aware of your odd compassion
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[WP] You're the moderator of an online forum. Unknown to you, users of the forum are all Gods from different mythologies. One day, fed up with your life, you post, "Wish I was a God for a day!" Someone replies, "Ok."
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[WP] Millions applied. Thousands were shortlisted. A handful were interviewed. You are finally chosen to be the world's first human test subject for teleportation. However, as you emerge at the destination, you find out the exact same world with one difference: Everyone's genders are opposite.
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[WP] You're off with 4 other friends hiking. You suddenly want to relieve yourself, and go into the bushes. When you return, you find one friend to be missing. Except...he's not missing. He's never existed. No one remembers him...not his parents, siblings, friends...except you.
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[WP] You're a tired, underpaid intern working with SETI. One night, during a usual assignment, you're monitoring a pulsar, which starts flashing erratically. Recording the flashes, you compare it to various charts. What the flashes represent leaves you confused—because it's a Morse Code.
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[WP] You're a very successful Secret Service Agent. Posing as a patient, you're on a mission to capture a notorious villain, who's a doctor. You're about to apprehend the villain, when you come across your single greatest fear: NEEDLES.
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[WP] Being an average college student, you like to doodle during class. Little did you know that your doodlings are the language of an ancient alien civilization, deep in the universe. One day, while class is on, you see a bright light shining through the window.
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[WP] You often get strange dreams about space; about different planets, stars, galaxies from the farthest corners of the universe. One day, you get a vision of a humongous asteroid hurtling towards the Earth. You try to warn people about the inevitable calamity. Problem is, no one believes you.
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[WP] You go to bed with a migraine. In your sleep, you dream about a list of unusual words. "FIREON", "BRINGCAR", "NOCLIP" etc. Feeling foolish, you gesture towards one: "FLOATALL". Waking up the next day, you find all your furniture floating. On the ceiling are the words: "FLOATALL: Used".
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