WritingPrompts

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[WP] "As detailed in section 203.88B of the Lair Architect Union's Agreement, a minimum of one deadly yet passable series of traps is required into any critical location. The hero's guild contends that the castle did not meet the legal requirements for "passable" and led to excessive injuries."	17
[WP] Two rich nations with small armies go to war. To bolster their forces, they each hire as many mercenaries as they can. However, they didn't realize how extensive and complex the mercenary network's contacts, truces, debts, and favors worked amongst each other.	16
[WP] Everyone draws this symbol without knowing what it is, where they learned it, or why they do it. You've discovered the reason, and now you're going to be silenced.	16
[WP] As humanity makes its first manned interstellar spaceships, we make first contact when we see another alien ship orbiting a planet. Problem is, the crew have all died. Recently.	16
[WP] You work in customer service at a furniture store. A customer demands a refund on a mirror, because it doesn't show their reflection.	16
[WP] Forty years ago, the king ordered some towns abandoned and razed, new ones built that didn't seem strategically valid. Now that all the maps have been accurately redrawn, the entire country looks like some kind of ritual circle.	15
[WP] your father takes you aside one day for a serious talk. He's actually a time traveler. His original mission was to kill you as a baby to prevent a future disaster.	15
[WP] The emperor has an extremely short memory and is easily swayed. Foreign and domestic officials realize this, and begin to hire assassins... Not to kill, but to sneak in and whisper suggestions just before the king signs his name on anything.	15
[WP] "I don't believe it." "Is he even human?" "My doctor told me it's medically impossible for a dude to be that chill."	15
[WP] You've realized you can see invisible things while your eyes are closed. It's just normally dark because air appears black.	15

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