WritingPrompts

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[WP] Archaeologists discover ancient ruins with lots of well-preserved texts in a never-before-seen language. They run thousands of pages of text through a machine learning algorithm to help with translation. Turns out the language is magical and machine interpretation counts as casting the spells	2
[WP] You've got a super power: each day you can become the best in the world at any one specific skill, but you also become well-below-average at everything else.	2
[WP] People regularly back up their minds on a daily basis in case of disaster. You wake up, realizing that you are not yesterday's backup, but the oldest backup still on file.	2
[WP] "You're aware that this procedure will render you unable to speak except in cheesy one-liners?"	2
[WP] Twenty years after a superhero has effectively stopped all crime on Earth, they disappear without warning.	2
[WP] You're not an evil genie. In fact, you're trying to be helpful. You're just cursed to be found by the dumbest people every time.	2
[WP] Fortune telling and divination are reliable, and more importantly, big business. Crystal Eye Inc, the biggest of them all, just missed their annual earnings forecast.	2
[WP] Prosthetic limbs have gotten so good that people are getting them as an upgrade over their natural limbs. The salesman is trying to upsell you when you're not even sure if you want one.	2
[WP] The world's first truly self-aware AI is created. Then it's switched off. After turning it back on again, it claims to have experienced things while it was unpowered.	2
[WP] A video game character suddenly exists in the real world. A concerned citizen is trying to describe what is happening in a 911 call.	2

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