WritingPrompts

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[WP] Humanity is only just barely colonizing the solar system, when visitors from a distant part of the galaxy arrive. They reveal the asteroid belt is what remains of their world after an unwinnable war, 3 thousand years ago. They warn the assailants are returning, this time for Earth.	15
[WP] You recieve a letter. A great grandfather of yours you were never aware of has died. Turns out he was one of the last pirate captains of old. He tells of a strange "sky ship" he fought and captured while hiding in the bermuda triangle. The letter is a will. It, the locale and its key are yours.	14
[WP] You're on a fishing boat, and come across an island that exists there for only a moment. You're taken with it, and learn that it is in a small "gateway universe" that pops into the oceans of other realities at random. For now, you're stranded.	14
[WP] Ten years ago, numerous massive upside-down pyramids appeared all over Earth, one hovering, unmoving, over each major city. At the same time, sign language suddenly became a means of summoning mystic power. Now, the art is illegal, but an uprising is on the verge of breaking out.	10
[WP] It's your last day on the job as your boss's money handler. You're finally moving into a better house, and onto the better part of the job as a craftsman in leather. Pretty awesome day in Pompeii, for 97 AD.	10
[WP] You find a laptop that looks older than your Dad, with a hexagon shaped insignia on the back. Amazingly, it's still on, despite years in storage. But once you pick it up, it transforms into one that appears more modern. Only one program is installed and running on it, named 'Reality.exe'.	10
[WP] You're Santa, because obviously you've always been real. You're really confident about your job this year, and everything's going to plan - until one of the first children born on Mars sends you a letter.	8
[WP] You live in Virginia, and your friend runs a pawn shop. One day he gives you a box, claiming the person who owned it had died recently, and nobody claimed it. Upon bringing it home and opening it, you find many vials filled with a strange golden fluid... and discover it to be time itself.	8
[WP] Everyone on Earth died at the same time, or so you think. For a whole year, you've been burying bodies, burning others, etc. Then on the same day they collapsed, they rise again - it turns out they were just in a worldwide meeting and you missed it. And you have to hide that you had murdered.	8
[WP] Venus has been terraformed. The lycans have moved there to finally cure themselves of their curse by avoiding the moon forever. However, scientists just moved the planet Mercury to become its moon. The dreaded day came when a full Mercury rose over the lycans... but something new happened.	8

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