/u/saddetective87's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You meet in the same park where you ended it all. Years ago, faced with no options you betrayed your mentor and sent them to jail for insider trading. But now it's different. Your mentor is out, your company is threatened, and now it's time to team up and bankrupt some Wall Street tycoons.
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[WP] Trent stood at the edge of the rip, stared into the illimitable gulf of the unknown, the stygian world yawning blackly beyond. Trent began to back away from the rip as the army of unspeakable figures twilit by the glow from the bottomless pit came pouring at him toward our world.
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[WP] During the beginning of the Viking Age, a monk in an English monastery finds a secret library of manuals and books on how to train a Roman Army. He translates them and begins to train the locals to fight like Legionaries.
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[WP] Even on All Hallows' Eve, ghoulies and ghosties stand no chance against intrepid heroes armed with the latest steam-driven technology... or do they?
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[WP] Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war, and led to the modern computer. But after years of work, you've found that something that has long been proven theoretically is true. Your cat Schrodinger now wants a new box...
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[WP] While listening to the Dark Lord's monologuing, you get bored and interrupt them. "Sorry, a couple of questions. First, can I get a chair and a cup of tea? Two sugars, please. Second, who are those robed people who brought me here? Third, where do they shop? Because those robes look comfy."
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[WP] You joined up with this group of mercenaries because they were heading to a city with magicians who might be able to help you, but now you've got a new client. Some village's children are being taken away at night. Account talk of campfires, music, a figure in robes, and snakes hissing...
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[WP] The Dark Lord grinned as their troops carried the dead out of the freshly conquered city. "Now this city, bursting to the seems, has been pruned and can grow again." Their advisor, the hooded little girl no one dare approach or question, chuckled. "Good. Good. Now my plan can go forward."
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[WP] Europe is in chaos, but suddenly the governments start to swiftly coordinate their actions. Troops wearing strange dark uniforms seize several capitals, and a PA declares that the Royal House of Garsenda has assumed active rule of Europe. Long live the Queens of House of the Garsenda!
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[WP] You had found the papers, notebooks, and drafts in your mother's office, the one she always kept locked, filled with amazing stories & poems. You've spent years organizing them for release. The day you are meeting with a publisher the phone rings, "Don't publish them, and we will let you live."
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