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[WP] You only needed to travel 2 stops, but your train has been accelerating through the same tunnel for the last half an hour and you and your fellow passengers are starting to worry.

Submitted by SquooshyMarshmallows t3_125slkg 2 years ago

12 comments

[PM] All I need is a quick character description and a setting.

Submitted by 28th_Stab_Wound t3_12326ns 2 years ago

18 comments

[WP] You are a hero in service of Death itself. As counterintuitive as this may seem, it is not what it looks like. It's just that villains tend to kill people before their time and Death hates people messing up fate.

Submitted by Rattrap2474 t3_1261lv2 2 years ago

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[WP] You are a powerful alien who after being inspired by old television broadcasts of superheroics, came to earth to be a superhero yourself. Unfortunately you are not even remotely humanoid and are often mistaken as a villain by most other superheroes from Earth.

Submitted by Void_Seraph t3_125zrb7 2 years ago

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[WP] You are a simple skeleton enemy in a fantasy world, when you encounter the hero, instead of killing you he spares you and asks you to join his side on his adventure.

Submitted by Interesting_Snow_596 t3_125nmip 2 years ago

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[WP]"No im not chopping your arms off and replacing them with chainsaws" You sigh. As a black market doctor, these types of insane requeats are surprisingly common. Write a story about one.

Submitted by ASentientRedditAcc t3_124e92m 2 years ago

13 comments

[WP] It’s a known law that when a God has no worshippers, they cease to exist. You are part of an organization dedicated to making sure each and every God has at least one person to worship them.

Submitted by Rizz_Master6000 t3_1258vif 2 years ago

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[WP] Warriors always seem to think having a flaming sword would be awesome. Well as the owner of one let me share some of my horror stories...

Submitted by Sh4d0w927 t3_125y6ws 2 years ago

6 comments

[WP] A demon king is contacted by the gods "look, the hero coming after you is 10, can you just play along and let him win?"

Submitted by EndorDerDragonKing t3_1256fml 2 years ago

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[WP] Gandalf and Dumbledore switch places. Gandalf is now running Hogwarts, while Dumbledore is leading The Fellowship.

Submitted by yax51 t3_12097es 2 years ago

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[WP] you and your party are on a sidequest for a witch's potion and you have to go inside their hut. But when the coven of three discovers you, they're overjoyed and you're just embarrassed, you look to your party and say "everyone, these three are my moms"

Submitted by Ok-Mastodon2016 t3_1255hz4 2 years ago

29 comments

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[WP] Years ago, your mentor said, "Kid, there's a small secret when it comes to magic. You can literally make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who actually take it seriously really pissed off." Today, you're one of the least respected, and most powerful, mages in the land.

Submitted by Prompt_Dude t3_1231e5f 2 years ago

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[WP] A new teacher at the school sees ghostly messages written on the blackboard, but they're always warm and friendly. One afternoon however they see the messages with a messy script saying: "Run, beware, hide!"

Submitted by Shadrak_Meduson t3_124y5lb 2 years ago

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[OT] Writing humor, whether as just to lighten the mood of the current situation happening in the text or just as comedy. What has made you laugh that much that you had to pause the reading?

Submitted by Aftel43 t3_125r9dx 2 years ago

9 comments

[WP] As it turns out, most of the dragonslaying quests were issued by dragons.

Submitted by steel-souffle t3_125gia3 2 years ago

7 comments

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[WP] In hell, people can choose what happens to them. They can choose literally ANYTHING. Naturally, many people try to exploit this by going for luxuries and pampering, but the devil ALWAYS has ways to torture those fools...

Submitted by Crystal1501 t3_124moht 2 years ago

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[WP] You open your door to find some religious looking people standing there. "Have you found our lord and savior, Jesus Christ?" You glance behind your door, where Jesus is shushing you.

Submitted by Affectionate_Bit_722 t3_123y1e4 2 years ago

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[WP] In String Theory, it's predicted that the universe exists in 11 dimensions, most of which are so curled up that they no longer interact in the world. During an experiment, scientists manage to unfurl one of these dimensions... the dimension of magic.

Submitted by Lord_Atheist t3_125lag2 2 years ago

6 comments

[WP] In a universe of heroes and villains, everyone is assigned to one of these two teams by the time they reach the age of eighteen. However, on your 18th birthday, you were the first person in history to be assigned to a third team: the Neutral Team.

Submitted by Xexotic_wolfX t3_1251b72 2 years ago

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[WP] The SCP Foundation discover that, if we in this reality delete SCP-682 from the wiki, it will cease to exist, have never existed in the first place, and will not be able to counter or adapt to this. They attempt to contact us and tell us this information.

Submitted by Bloodgulch-Idiot t3_124jjla 2 years ago

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[WP] In the far future, humanity is facing an existential threat from an advanced alien race. Humanity is on the brink of defeat. However, just as all hope seems lost, a small group of humans discover a long-forgotten technology that could turn the tide of the war.

Submitted by Smedskjaer t3_123ris2 2 years ago

8 comments

[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken, two cheese wheels, and a whole watermelon at once.

Submitted by Prompt_Dude t3_124wjjk 2 years ago

41 comments

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[WP] Once robots took over the world, they implemented human-captchas - tests to determine if someone was a human pretending to be a robot.

Submitted by StoryBot6363 t3_1254obh 2 years ago

8 comments

[WP] The church says that all people are born with 'Original Sin'. What they don't know is that this sin was actually something you did 10,000 years ago to become immortal.

Submitted by jpb103 t3_124osu6 2 years ago

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[WP] You haven't seen your mailman move in weeks. He stands in one spot on your front yard 24/7. Sometimes he knocks on your door and hands you mail, and then returns to his spot. You've had completely normal conversations with him before, but he ignores you when you ask why he never moves.

Submitted by GameSpection t3_124zkl2 2 years ago

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