/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[TT] You are a bartender famous for using cocktails as analogies to teach people life lessons, and people come to you to talk about their life problems. You only know how to mix a good Pina Colada.
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[WP] An alien visitor comes to earth as a scout. You have uncovered their ruse, but instead of exposing and killing the alien, you chose to engineer a situation where you can instead learn about their culture and their objectives.
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[WP] You've become a powerful wizard through the coaching of countless mentors in a chatroom talking about their grand arcane experiments and achievements. When you meet with them in the first offline meeting in 30 years, you find a bunch of old men talking about their good old days of LARPing.
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[WP] You were cursed that anything you say, no matter how innocent, can be interpreted as an insult due to past events or the current situation. Your friends and family knows and are supportive, but for some reason some idiot upstairs decided you're the perfect fit to infiltrate a mafia undercover.
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[WP] You are just a petty criminal, running with some no name gang. But just now, while running away from the scene of a crime on national television, you accidentally killed the world's most powerful superhero.
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[WP] As the dark lord falls, the world falls apart from the battle. The Gods and Goddesses speak. "Heroes! We need powerful souls to mend the rifts!" Weary, you replied: "That's great, so which one of you are gonna sacrifice themselves?"
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[WP] Suddenly, a select bunch of people is transported into a gladiatorial arena. The rules are simple: Last one standing wins. The only armaments allowed: The clothes on your back, and your last delivery from each of the online shops you ordered from.
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[WP] A young couple entered a happy arranged marriage, happy with each other's company. However, both were sheltered and socially awkward, and don't know how to make each other happy. So they turn to the only romance advise they know: Roleplaying characters from ambiguously saucy romance novels.
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[WP] As your lucid dreaming techniques get better, you begin to feel like you no longer belong to reality, as other worlds call for your godlike powers.
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