/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As an adventurer, you have a crippling obsessive need to make use of EVERYTHING a monster leaves behind, lest you enter a period of deep self-reflection over the wasted value and what could have been.
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[WP] As long as you are not found in a game of hide and seek, and as long as at least one person is not giving up looking for you, you will not age, you will not die.
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[WP] As the protagonist of a long running young adult series, you live every day at magical school to the fullest. One day, you've finally filled up your 300 page journal. Then it hit you. You only write one page a week, and you're still "the most talented freshman the school has ever seen".
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[WP] The supervillain becomes ever more powerful the longer his writing block lasts, and he is one step away from world domination. The future rests on your shoulders, the last surviving subscriber to r/writingprompts.
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[WP] A youth went around town, asking the elderly about their greatest achievements. In piecing together their brilliant, heroic tales, a dark and hidden history of the town's founding became apparent.
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[WP] As a great prophet, and all your predictions have come to pass. Each night, you give thanks to your god for your role, your spouse for their love, and your secret team of assassins and saboteurs for making your predictions come true.
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[WP] The hero's hometown was prepared for the demonic invasion, so it survived countless waves of demonic attacks. Then the other humans joined in to burn down the town to fulfill the prophesy and failed. Now, the legendary fortress is holding off humans, gods, demons, and whatever else may come.
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[WP] Ghosts do exist, but because they are weightless and phase through objects, they are all concentrated at the center of Earth due to gravity. Trillions of years into the future, when the solar system collapsed into a massive void, near infinite human ghosts exploded into the the universe.
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[WP] "Look, assassins these days really don't make a lot of money. How about it, before you die, would you like to purchase one of our funeral plans? I recommend the $99,999 deluxe luxury package, after we kill you, we'll fake the scene to put you on the news and make you a national hero."
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[WP] You taught martial arts by having your apprentices do household chores and philosophizing it. Most grumble and do the bare minimum. This apprentice became a multibillion service industry giant before coming back and saying "Master, I've completed your assignment."
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