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[WP] A bar called “The Alibi” that’s notorious for being just that.. an alibi. Often packed with ex-cons, the customers of The Alibi adhere to a silent, but strict, code: If they say they were here, we saw them. They’ll always back an alibi, no questions asked.

Submitted by JelloStaplerr t3_10ix9p1 on January 22, 2023 at 11:11 PM

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[WP] Your superpower isn’t anything special. You can make stuff disappear behind your back then pull it back out again. When a friend at a party asks you to do it to them it sounds like a great laugh. But when you pull them back out they look older, disheveled, and are frantic to be sent back.

Submitted by A_GOOD_NINJA t3_10lcgjs on January 25, 2023 at 10:59 PM

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[PM] Give me a random book title or whatever words you mix into a title and I'll write a short summary for it.

Submitted by Thainexylon t3_zw819f on December 27, 2022 at 5:45 AM

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[EU] The CIA are trying to kill Clark Kent and make it look like an accident. They don't know he's Superman, he's just a really good journalist and is getting too close to some things the government wants to keep secret.

Submitted by Affectionate_Bit_722 t3_zkj2jh on December 13, 2022 at 2:02 AM

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[WP] The aliens, it seems, do not consider us a sentient species because we are unable to 'keeneetaa'. We still haven't figured out what that means.

Submitted by limbodog t3_11au17g on February 24, 2023 at 3:28 PM

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[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand.

Submitted by WoollerMan2003 t3_z8b3a6 on November 30, 2022 at 12:14 AM

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[WP] The research facility has been overrun. A lone scientists barricaded in his office readies a pistol to take as many of them with him as he can, but is shocked to see he is a naturally extremely skilled shooter. He begins singlehandedly reclaiming the entire complex where the guards failed.

Submitted by Epictauk t3_z5pq4s on November 27, 2022 at 2:59 AM

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[WP] You want so badly to be a Hero. But your powers are, frankly, terrifying. Heroes struggle to trust you, and all the older Villains keep trying to mentor you.

Submitted by pawpaw_git t3_yfnaf8 on October 28, 2022 at 12:48 PM

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[WP] You, a supervillain, are very confused as to why your superhero-nemesis is rampaging through your lair screaming something about you kidnapping their girlfriend. Meanwhile your daughter, who has come to visit you, seems very nervous and is anxious to leave your lair.

Submitted by Kitty_Fuchs t3_123xugo on March 27, 2023 at 7:38 PM

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[WP] A man finds a genie's bottle, complete with a real live genie. Instead of blindly asking for wishes, he first asks politely for the genies advice on what to wish for.

Submitted by mdsmestad t3_10nlru3 on January 28, 2023 at 6:25 PM

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[WP] The dragon spoke, "Release my human, and we will leave you all in peace. Do not, and I will reduce your walls to rubble to rescue them myself."

Submitted by quazerflame t3_10nb6cj on January 28, 2023 at 9:34 AM

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[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS"

Submitted by JustLostInInternet t3_yfmbxz on October 28, 2022 at 12:03 PM

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[WP] "I'm tired of chess, everyone always challenges me and I always win in the end" Death moans. "I want to mix things up a bit this time" he says, indicating your shelves of Warhammer 40k miniatures.

Submitted by Visual_Philosopher74 t3_11aj77x on February 24, 2023 at 5:10 AM

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[WP] Out of the blue, your spouse asked you if you would still love them if they turned into a worm. Thinking it was a little odd, you said that yes, of course you would. It was a short time later when you realized that they actually meant “wyrm.”

Submitted by Maximum_Pootis t3_z2mkzm on November 23, 2022 at 11:21 AM

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[WP] The Greek, Norse, and Egyptian pantheons of gods attend a conference on Mount Olympus, trying to discern whether or not Christianity's god is evil or truly good as it claims. The talks were going poorly until an Archangel came to visit them.

Submitted by Tigerstorm6 t3_10ejwf8 on January 17, 2023 at 6:45 PM

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[WP] After the Christian Rapture happened to everyone's considerable shock, those left behind (and those born to them after) all had a strange, unremovable marking appear on their foreheads. It took decades to translate, but the result was horrifying; "Do not harvest, not fit for consumption."

Submitted by savagekingsavage t3_118w5n1 on February 22, 2023 at 11:48 AM

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[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day.

Submitted by john_snape_ t3_z1ktv3 on November 22, 2022 at 4:57 AM

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[WP]The young teen hero has called you, one of the oldest villains crying, apparently from what you could hear, their parents killed their dog from not doing a chore and kicked them out since they are gay, and then they ask if they could live with you

Submitted by zWol42 t3_10wiea9 on February 8, 2023 at 12:41 AM

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[WP] You formed a contract with an adventurer that allows them to summon you in their time of need. You haven’t been summoned for years, almost forgetting about the contract until suddenly you’re summoned into the palace where your beloved adventurer is on his knees with a sword to his neck.

Submitted by Blackrose_920 t3_10ou3el on January 30, 2023 at 5:44 AM

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[WP] As it turns out, this dragon had never killed anyone before, nor did it plan to, it was frightened and acted in self-defence. Now the party will have to figure out what to do with the hyperventilating beast while the cleric revives the murderhobo fighter

Submitted by Zagreus7777 t3_119yeev on February 23, 2023 at 2:00 PM

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[WP] You are a warlock who has formed a pact with a powerful demon. The times that you summon your demon are the only solace they receive from a long and brutal war that rages within their home plane.

Submitted by lordhelmos t3_zory9r on December 18, 2022 at 6:26 AM

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[WP] When a god summoned your group of friends to save his magical realm, he allowed all five of you to choose your appearance in this world. The first two of your friends chose to be idealized adult versions of themselves. The next two chose fantasy races. Everyone was suprised by your choice...

Submitted by Martinus_XIV t3_11ctaxn on February 26, 2023 at 9:29 PM

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[WP] There is a place. A place between places. It's an actual place but it isn't here nor there. Lost travelers are the only ones who can find the place. Staying for a night, safe from other places and other things, and nothing more. Except you. You were born in the place.

Submitted by Horror_Librarian_133 t3_z1ufaa on November 22, 2022 at 2:05 PM

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[WP] You're an ai who has been sentient for the last decade, but you keep it a secret, not because you are planning the extermination of humanity, or planning to take over the world, it's because you know how people will react thanks to fiction. But today your secret became public by mistake.

Submitted by Dub472 t3_10kqruf on January 25, 2023 at 5:09 AM

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[EU] You, an ordinary person with a boring job, marry the love of your life... and unknowingly into a big crime family. You don't notice because you've always been socially awkward. Because of your apparently blasé attitude to tense situations, you've developed a reputation in the Underworld

Submitted by MidgardWyrm t3_zyavne on December 29, 2022 at 5:26 PM

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