/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Ever since you could remember, you've been living on an abandoned island living off of the treasures of the sea: Fish, clams, seaweed, and fallen interstellar battleships from the planetary warfare above.
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[WP] You made a mistake, and made the elixir of immorality. Everybody thinks it grants immortality, but anyone who drinks it will be unable to follow their own code of ethics.
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[WP] The way your power works: You must carry a comically large sized prop item when you get into a fight. Then you get to use the prop to perform whatever supernatural feats the bystanders THINK you can perform with your prop.
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[WP] You make wooden weapons and sell them as art pieces onlinr. But when you unknowingly made a sword out of a twig of Yggdrasil, you released the equivalent of an undetectable, totally disguised nuke onto the internet marketplaces.
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[WP] You are a real estate agent specializing in extremely special properties: Warm, living bodies. You service only a special class of clients: Sentient parasites.
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[WP] On a trip to the beach, you took a nap in a hidden beach cave. When you woke up, a bunch of little creatures are chanting and screaming "THE OLD ONE AWAKENS!"
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[WP] You've been thrust into a terribly written tournament arc, and you've realized the most horrifying part: If you do the math and logically parse the rules, the tournament will last for TWENTY YEARS.
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[WP] The Chosen One trained their entire life, mastering the sword to defeat the evil dragon. When they go to inherit the legendary dragon slayer find out what it actually is, the guardian looks at them funny. “Why did you think a sword would work against a flying 50 foot tall lizard?”
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[WP] Placebos are highly effective methods of preventing death - If you don't believe you'll die, you simply won't. That's why between every shoot out, there's a negotiator like you on each side arguing why people on the other side should die, or why people on yours shouldn't.
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[WP] As an alchemist, you often sell misleadingly named potions to your customers, like the intelligent potion, the elixir of immorality, and the manna tincture. The disclosed effects prevent them from having a case against you, but doesn't stop them from trying.
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