/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Traditional blacksmiths have been losing their business as legendary artifact equipment from dungeons and ruins flood the market. The recipe of a dangerous black powder from a distant land may change everything, but the pilgrimage to learn it is a difficult cost to afford.
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[WP] As a retired assassin, you took a promising youngster under your wing as your protege. But when they describe their next mark and ask you for advice, you begin to suspect they're targeting you.
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[WP] Your ghost partner cooks great meals, clean up your messes, and does your laundry. You couldn't ask for someone better, but your parents can't see them, don't believe they exist, and keep worry about you being single.
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[WP] You inherited a book of demon summoning. On the last page is a picture of your spouse, with instructions written in your parents’ handwriting.
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[WP] As humanity rise to the stars, galactic war and endless pursuit of technological efficiency has reduced much of culture into fading pages on history books. Barfing out the last tasteless nutrient jelly you will ever eat, you swear to restore the lost art of "cooking" or starve to death.
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[EU] Jack, after cutting down the beanstalk, now has two problems on his hand. 1) There's a dead body, extra large. 2) There's a lot of excess vegetation to make use of. 3) Turning golden eggs into usable money requires math skills.
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[WP] Your super power is being able to buy anything. Even happiness, even love. But the only accepted currency is not paper money.
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[WP] A merry band of planet sized cosmic horrors hold a welcoming party for their newest member: An indescribably giant metal coffin, in which millions of voices murmur from within fleshy monkey like bodies, like a hive mind without a single direction.
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[WP] A horror story becomes more censored as the scenes become increasingly more disturbing, but you're still trying to convey the story and visuals with creative metaphors.
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