WritingPrompts

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[WP] Surveying asteroids is profitable but dangerous. While harvesting mineral deposits, you have to deal with meteor showers, stray comets, and asteroid collisions. But the greatest danger is the fabled Spaceship Graveyard, a moving gravity well that sucks in and traps ships just like yours...	20
[SP] "Listen, I don't care what law school you just graduated from. As I've told you before, never ever make a deal with a leprechaun!"	20
[WP] Back in 1972, a team of MIT scientists published research predicting the end of our current industrial civilization within the 21st century. While the study was lambasted at the time, your recent grad school thesis shows that its predictions have been eerily accurate so far...	19
[WP] As you are drinking in a tavern, boom! The wall explodes as a massive, insane bull begins goring customers with its horns. After slaying it, you discover a series of strange markings on the normally docile beast. They appear deliberate, arcane, and recent...	19
[WP] The "New Sea" was teeming with a secret life. In a great engineering feat, the Sahara Desert was flooded. But these new waters threaten to destroy an ancient, secret civilization beneath the Earth. When your plane crashed into the New Sea, you are taken prisoner by these secret people.	19
[SP] "Tomorrow, they take our badges. So today, we take them. Let's go out doing some good policing."	18
[WP] The voice of the Dark Lord rang out across the battlefield. "Go forth my Hooded Legions, and bring me the head of the Despicable One!" The Chosen One looked around at their band of plucky freedom fighters about to give a rousing speech they find the party is gone, leaving a note. "Good luck!"	18
[WP] A drug dealing demon with a drinking problem hires a private investigator to find the idiot that summoned them, but now needs to complete the spell to and collect a soul and send the demon back to hell.	17
[WP] You bump into random strangers on the train and leave notes in their pocket: "Whatever you do, don't get off this train until you arrive at the very last stop.” Usually, you sit in the back and watch their reaction. As you leave the station, you get dragged into an unmarked van and knocked out.	17
[WP] At a session with your therapist Dr. Fregoli, they mention something they couldn't possibly know. After an argument, you leave and talk to your roommate, priest, and bartender about it. They all know already - they are all a single person constantly switching disguises bent on persecuting you.	17

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