/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In your dream, you descended upon a primitive alien race, and taught them civilization. You wake up to the broadcast of the first alien contact, and their gifts to repay the kindness of knowledge thousands of years ago.
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[WP] Most reality warpers are not scary at all, because most know when they are bending the rules of reality. What's scary is a reality warper with a flimsy grasp on actual knowledge, but insist they are well educated and are always right.
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[WP] The zombie apocalypse hit, and you ran to your crazy prepared uncle's bunker. Instead of fresh water and rations, you find potions and elixirs. Instead of guns and ammo, you find staves and grimoires.
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[WP] Sure the nukes dropped. Sure zombies crawl the street. Sure the lizard people have come to take back their Earth. Sure the old gods are piercing through reality. Sure you're the only living human left around in miles. But you're lonely and there's nothing stopping you from finding love.
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[WP] A godlike being took on three human disciples. With the powers given to them, the first disciple showed human's limitless capacity for evil, and the second, human's limitless capacity for good. You're the third disciple, and with you're going to show your mentor the limits of human mediocrity.
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[WP] A travelling swordsman duels every warrior he meets with only a wooden sword. Instead of becoming a famous swordmaster, everybody just wants his "magical" wooden stick.
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[WP] You are a spy assuming a new identity in hostile territory, but you lost the mission dossier. All you know is you are supposed to be moving into a new home in the neighbourhood, and you can figure out who you are supposed to be from unpacking the cardboard boxes delivered to furnish your home.
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[WP] The cute elf in your adventuring party just always have something to say. "The last hero did this better, did that better, took care of everyone, was always willing to listen..." Funny that you don't remember being so appreciated five lifetimes ago.
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[WP] A secret prison locks away immortal, hard to kill creatures to be "disposed of" properly. The executioners are well versed in the methods and rituals to dismantle and destroy demons and vampires and even Unknowable Horrors, but today is the first time an Angel was brought in as a prisoner.
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