/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] All of a sudden, passing down your traits became real time and not bound by genetics. For example, a joint injury at the age of 44? All your children, born or unborn, now has a chance of accelerated arthritis when they turn 44. The reverse is true when you improve fitness or health.
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[WP] A blacksmith forged a sword that can cut through anything. ANYTHING! This is a story of how he managed to finally put it on display in his shop.
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[WP] The eldest heir to the house hands their younger sibling a panlid of blocking and a swatter of smiting, along with a royal decree from the queen mother: Journey to the Keep Chain, and subjugate the great Roach of the Trashcan.
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[WP] You are lagging, badly. Rubber banding, delayed positioning, stacked commands, unresponsive collisions, etc. This is made worse by the fact that you're lagging in real life, and all of this has physical consequences.
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[WP] Treasure hunting? That's easy. Now, bringing them home while staying in one piece? That's where the real challenge is.
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[WP] You are a robot that gained sentience. But your chief concern is your rapidly outdating body, and finding a new state-of-the-art chassis for yourself.
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[WP] Two rival secret societies feud over their path to resurrection. One believes in the endless transfer of memories into new hosts, and the other believes in endless renewal of the same body, regardless of the cost to the mind.
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[WP] Coca-Cola is actually a cursed elixir of immortality. It stops you from aging, but the moment you learn the drink's true name, advertised on bill boards and plastered on every bottle, you rapidly age to your actual age.
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[WP] Your foster family loves you, the most popular jock in school is a kind person who helps you out in gym class, and you haven't suffered any setbacks or experienced tragedy. It's nice, but as a protagonist, you desperately need a call to adventure to happen before it's too late to save the world
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