/u/takaperoinen-miete's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: Your friend is a storyteller, always telling wild tall tales of ridiculous things to make people laugh. Once, you're at the bar, and you hear him tell a story you KNOW happened. Except it wasn't funny at the time. It wasn't funny at all.
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[WP]: "Oh, I'm no demon", the thief explained. "It's called 'parkour', won't be invented for a couple of centuries yet. Completely possible for a mortal to learn. You're nowhere closer to catching me, though", he said, climbing up the downsprout of a nearby building and onto the roof.
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[WP]: The adoption- and social services in your area have a last-measure placement location that the kids in custody call The Problem Kid Farm. The only thing any of you know about it is that nobody ever comes back from there. On your first day there, you realise it's because nobody wants to.
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[WP]: A coward is someone who is cowed too easily. A drunkard is someone who is drunk too much. A wizard is someone who's far too wise for their own good. You're about to learn a lot about that last one.
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[WP]: In a world where growing old has been conquered, one's age is determined by social status - acting immaturely in public will cost you a reduction in legal age. In a world where most people live to 120, and won't show signs of age before 100, age and maturity is arbitrary.
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[WP]: You've seen the darker side of life. You know what makes a good man to turn evil. You've seen what it takes for someone evil to turn good. But this? You have no explanation of what makes someone turn NEUTRAL.
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[WP]: The plan is set, everything is placed in order. The ruthless villain you must defeat only has one weakness that you can exploit: Being madly, hopelessly in love with your beautiful idiot brother.
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[WP]: You're a low-level boss. You know this, and you're PAINFULLY aware of it. You only exist to be defeated, by snotty kids half your age.
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[WP]: You just realised two things: This is a fairytale. You are not the hero of it. Now, you must choose the best path possible to survive.
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