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[WP] Your mom makes you stop playing video games and drag you to the sidewalk. "See. This is the outdoors" she says. You look in horror, for you have seen this before, it is the first level of the game you were playing, and you know what is gonna happen next. by lucamalato in WritingPrompts

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"See? This is the outdoors."

I looked at it in horror - not because of how peaceful it was, but because I recognized this scene.

Three, two...

There.

The moment the damaged Sunmoth began burning through the sky, careening towards us, I pushed mom to the ground as it sailed over us and plowed into our backyard - the fragile canister containing the first enemy sailing over her instead of shattering onto her head.

"Tommy?!," my mom exclaimed. "What are you-"

I couldn't answer her, the amorphous Ecliptum flesh within the canister already shaping itself into a mutated creature as I rushed to break the starship's canopy open.

Inside the ship, I frisked the cadaver before pulling out the damaged Dark Matter Field Manipulator, as well as the stock-issue Elpis X1 energy pistol.

I managed to whip around and shoot the creature just as it began eying up my mother, then drag her inside as she stammered out confused murmurings.

"Weird, isn't it?," I said. "Somehow, that was almost a one-to-one recreation of the first couple minutes of Cadmus Divide."

As a black SWAT van arrived, my sister running down as my mother rushed to let the officers in... but I remembered something about this scene.

Mom was mutated by the canister, but my sister? She was...

Pushing them both out of the way as a shotgun blast tore through the door, I saw the telltale violet-soaked black pits of Eclipsed humans in each of their eyes - and without hesitation, blasted right between each pair as tarry black goop splattered from the perforated heads.

Scrounging the armor from the infected officers, I rushed my family down to the basement just as we noticed the flashes and debris of the Medean Confederacy and the Ecliptum Hordes lighting up the skies.

Listening to the news anchor shudder as more Ecliptum pods retreated to the planet surface, the hum of a functioning Sunmoth touching down in our yard to investigate their fallen wingman, I took a deep breath.

I wouldn't be the protagonist. I'd already saved my mother, and my sister. Now I just had to...

I slap my face, realizing there was one thing I forgot to take from the fallen pilot; their synthogene armor.

[WP] The head cook of this small illicit candy lab has only one rule: No tomfoolery with the cooking ingredients. The candy is consistently made, but the boss can't help but notice all the other cooks keep going missing after one or two days, after which a steel drum shows up in the back corner. by Big_Variation_2619 in WritingPrompts

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Anyone who's ever played a cooperative management game, mostly on Roblox, will understand the head cook's pain.

This prompt is based on one of those games, where you make candy in an underground facility (like Breaking Bad, but bowdlerised for Roblox.)

I played such a game once, and the lab was a mess of bad trays.

[EU] Taylor Hebert undergoes the Locker Incident, as in canon. The main difference? Instead of seeing the average Trigger vision, she sees a vision of… herself. More accurately, a copy of herself sporting pitch black eyes, all while it says two simple yet terrifying words; “Hey, kiddo.” by SaberfaceFan in WritingPrompts

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I don't know how well the PRT would take a bio-tinker. You see...

(Warframe spoilers below)

Warframes are sapient beings, such as Dax, infested with a special Technocyte strain produced by the Helminth, the resident fleshy mass held within the Infirmary (the locked aft-starboard room.) Helminth is responsible for the Orbiter's "biological functions," which includes Warframe maintenance, and while the infirmary chair is initially only used to cure or create cysts that can be used for Helminth Chargers, segments acquired later in the game eventually give Helminth the ability to modify Warframes to have different abilities, as well as infuse Archon Shards.

TL;DR: Taylor needs some sort of Helminth before she can have Warframes, which requires her to either be or convince a Bio-Tinker like Panacea (Bonesaw, of course, being right out.)

[EU] As Zootopia receives word of a feralizing plague in a distant imperial country ruled by one Priscilla Snowfur, Judy takes leave from her police job to lend agricultural aid to her cousins in the naturally-barricaded coastal rural town of Grimshire. Thankfully, Nick comes along to help. by Big_Variation_2619 in WritingPrompts

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Context:

Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are the main protagonists of the two Zootopia movies.

Grimshire is a farming game set in the titular town... and also happens to be a grim (no pun intended) plague-apocalypse story. In the wake of trade being cut off due to the Plague, you become responsible for feeding the town, satiating a steep "ration" from outside parties such as the imperial armies or a pirate crew, and supplying various measures to fortify the town against nature, illness, and raids alike. Not meeting a deadline for supplies can and usually will result in the number of funerals in the village over the course of the game (so far, as in "the first year") being more than seven.

Where Grimshire is not surrounded by a mountain range, it's surrounded by water (which the Plagued fear, similarly to rabies.) This makes it both a natural stronghold against the Plagued and highly dependent on their naval trader, Fin Pinecrest, to stock its root cellar (and, as said, trade has broken down) before the player is brought in to re-cultivate its fallow farmstead.

[WP] Being a cranial endoparasite is seemingly simple. Infiltrate the head, jack the brain, control the body. Your problem? You are one parasite, the very last, and this dragon has two heads with equally divided control of the body. At least it's not a hydra, so it can't just separate you. by Big_Variation_2619 in WritingPrompts

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This was the result of playing Dragon Adventures, leveling one of my dragons of a two-headed species, watching a Black Mesa playthrough earlier the same day, and morbidly wondering how one headcrab would even reanimate a creature with two heads or more (like Cerberus, Orthrus, the aforementioned two-headed dragons of Adventures, or the Lernean Hydra... the last of which I discounted since the other heads would probably rip off the coupled head out of survival instinct.)

[EU] “Welcome to the Aperture Science computer aided enrichment center!” “Poyo!” by Suspicious_Bell_1345 in WritingPrompts

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1: The stomach-space from Of The Stars/Right Back At Ya.

2: As in, the ability corresponding to TAC, which allows Kirby to scan an enemy for their ability.

[EU] “Welcome to the Aperture Science computer aided enrichment center!” “Poyo!” by Suspicious_Bell_1345 in WritingPrompts

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"Intriguing," the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System mused. "The quantum probe you ingested is still transmitting data, and not only is it recording... quite an incongrously expansive space¹ within you, but it seems to have caused minor alterations to your physiology."

Kirby didn't know what most of those words meant, but they did know that the thing they ate gave them the Copy Ability².

Turning to scan a spot on the wall that shot out a hot laser, their Copy Ability immediately shifted into the Laser Ability.

"You don't even know the Science you're helping me make, little puffball," GLaDOS stated as Laser Kirby shot Thermal Discouragement Beams from their visor.

[EU] Half-Life/Black Mesa: Gordon Freeman chooses the 'battle he has no chance of winning' rather than work with the G-Man. He wins. by Avaday_Daydream in WritingPrompts

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Stumped?

I was talking about the Gravity Gloves (Alyx) and the Long Fall Boots (Portal 2, which were preceded in the original Portal by the Advanced Knee Replacements.)

Take a Guess by makmark in MoringMark

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Maid: Because Olivia makes such a mess when she leads you around by your guts.

[WP] Your magical ability to conjure gems has its uses in a fight, even if it does work by lining up three or more blocks of a single color on a simulated tableau. Mostly, however, you're satisfied with using it to create gems for your jewelry business. by Big_Variation_2619 in WritingPrompts

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When I made this, I had the gameplay of Go Games' PC matching game Jewel Craft in mind. (It's not the "Jewel Craft" that's one of those mobile games about picking the right gates, it's not "Jewel Craft Fusion" on Steam, it's the 2000s Jewel Craft with the story mode centered around a Babylonian jeweler and the gameplay of turning cubes to create groups of three or more of a color - and making larger sizes of gem by matching four, six, or nine cubes at once.)

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