/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You pick up a bat, and it turns into a sword. You put on some clothes, and you find yourself encased in armor. You open your lighter, and a roaring fireball flickers from your hand. It seems you've lost touch with reality, but the bat seems to cut through the tree demon's branches like butter.
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[WP] You know of a secret incantation that, if spoken, causes one to expose their true forms. As a hunter of eldritch horrors, you must trick them into reciting the incantation as they drive you toward insanity.
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[WP] The worst part of living in the same area as the local super villain syndicate is that you don't know if the clogged kitchen sink is a normal plumbing problem, or if there's some nefarious plan being hatched to take over the world.
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[WP] There is a picture somewhere on everyone's body. In the beginning, it's just an outline. As you see more of what the picture represents in real life, it gets increasingly more detailed, until the day it becomes photo-realistic, and you are forced toward the most meaningful end of your life.
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[WP] You are sent a letter by the Divine Council. "It has come to our attention that swords and chalices have become cliche. As a potential hero/villain candidate, please fill out the following survey for us to determine our future divine relics going forward with our pretense of Good vs Evil."
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[WP] There's that guy at work who shows up in plate armor every time. Recently, his armor is getting more and more scratched up, and when he finally stopped coming, you are told to notify his family of his severance package.
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[WP] You are a chronomancer who revives people by revisioning their event of death. Unlike a real healer though, each of your revivals requires you to fix temporal paradoxes and logical fallacies that arise from the person not actually having been dead until they met you.
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[WP] You've finally achieved your dreams of building a school for would-be heroes. Slaying dragons, stopping evil geniuses, adventuring into realms unknown, you teach it all. Everything was going great until the feds came with the standardized tests.
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