/u/sdric's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a time cop drill instructor. This is the ultimate test of character for your students: For them it seemed like an accident, training gone wrong - a groundhog-day timeloop. What they don't know: You're still watching - and judging.
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[WP] You're in the superhero clean-up industry: You get paid to fix what they destroy. Slowly the officials are getting suspicious about just how much collateral damage a friend of yours "accidentally" seems to cause...
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[WP] It is the year 2021. Humankind receives its first interterestial message - by humans. "This is Atlantis calling Earth. We detected life forms. Did anybody down there survive the apocalypse?"
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[WP] You and your fiance got magical amulets. Whenever one thinks kindly of the other his/her amulets warms up. After a heated argument yours has been cold for three weeks. Suddenly burns a hole into your shirt.
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[WP] 2588 A.D - we created a "Worldeater", a spacecraft that can splitt whole planets into their basic resources and forge new ones. We have become the galaxy's #1 supplier to well-heeled aliens playing God on their own custom fabricated planets. Recycling has become an ethical dilemma, though...
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[WP] An alien species invades earth - and they're winning. They however made one mistake: For them it's so natural that they never thought that it might not affect humans as well: hibernation. It's not the most glorious way to win a war, but it's a chance we take.
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[WP] The intergalactic ethics committee has employed humanity to test new technologies for their potential to be weaponized. It has been 200 years now and no new technology has been deemed safe. Maybe humanity is too good at its job?
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[WP] Your best friends died. On your way back from the funeral you suddenly hear a voice "Eh, I kind of wished it was more pompous. A bit more of an event, you know? You really cried like a little girl though, buddy! I wished I could still hold a camera." - he had decided to haunt you.
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[WP] Year 2214. You're a young IT-technician who got just employed by the most popular VR-MMO company. As you get lost trying to fetch coffee you stumble across a massive hall filled with thousands of motionless people in VR-Gear. The door reads: "NPC".
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