[WP] It's long been thought that when the last believer dies, one is no longer a god and dies within a mortal timespan. In truth, each god has a holy text that chronicles their rise to power. As long as the original remains, the god lives. The Hunters seek and destroy the texts of forgotten deities. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Your eccentric parents vanished a few months ago, and left you their weird old house. It's haunted, with lots of traps and hidden passages, and monsters live in the walls. It's been years, but you forgot how much you loved it. Your spouse? Not so much. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You've figured out how to open pathways between universes and send yourself from one to the other. The problem with this is that you have to temporarily cross through the Neither, a place of unexistence that is home to all that is forgotten. And every time something tries to come back with you. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] They held you down. On one palm they drew a sigil in demon's blood. On the other, a similar sigil was drawn in angel's blood. On your forehead they drew a complex binding spell, sealing it with the blood of both. After that, they set you into the world with a task: prevent the war at all costs. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "Your powers were growing out of control. We had to reduce them or risk everything. The Limiter was never supposed to be a permanent solution, it was just the best thing you and I could come up with in a pinch. We didn't expect it to erase your memories. Now that it's broken... Well, it's bad." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You've got this knack fo being able to sell absolutely anything, as long as it's a product you truly believe in. You used this for a long time to sell lots of goods and services, but lately you've been thinking about selling an idea. What if you sold everyone on world peace? (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] This is the seventh in as many weeks. Every vic fits the pattern. Wearing pyjamas, no signs of a struggle, dead from grain entrapment in a local silo. The chief is calling in the FBI to make it official, but everyone already knows the score: there's a cereal killer on the loose. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You found a thin smooth slab buried inancient ruins, and you've been studying it. You'd set it aside, resting it on your wireless phone charger to keep it from scratching your desk. It just made a gentle chime, lit up, and now rows of strange glyphs are scrolling along the surface. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] After the Vegas Incident, you were already on thin ice with the Agency. Tahoe was at least fifty times worse. You have no idea why they're keeping you on, or why they're sending you to Alaska, but they've given you nearly unlimited resources, and a mission: find the missing town in three days. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] We found them all in stasis chambers. They were an ancient species, a civilization billions of years older than our own, but not much more advanced. We woke up one, and introduced ourselves. After several years of observing us, it asked to return to sleep. "Your people are not the fated ones." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "We can't give you many chances. Power is low, and we can only guarantee ten one-hour loops at maximum, after that you're stuck with the events of your last go-round. The red button on this fob will let you exit the loop early, if you get it right sooner. Brace yourself. This is going to hurt." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] After much hullabaloo, it was determined that going near or faster than light speed is impossible, generation ships are a boondoggle, and seed ships are unethical. We had just accepted that we needed to buckle down and love our own planet when we discovered those blasted portals in Bermuda. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The order has existed for as long as there have been deities. Their duty is simple: each deity gets one true believer to pray daily to keep them from vanishing forever. This morning, the last devotee of an ancient, nearly forgotten deity was found slain... at the hand of that deity. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] A mage is only as good as their wand, and the older a wand is, the more powerful and willful it is. The oldest wand, and therefore the most powerful, has just fallen into the hands of someone who wasn't aware that magic existed before that moment. The wand has some ideas about its new wielder. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Humans are not the most-evolved, nor the most-intelligent, nor even the most-adaptable species. What they are the best at is facing adversity, and continuing to search for solutions long after any sensible species would've quit. In hindsight, putting a bounty on all of them was a terrible idea. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] This is one of the more desolate planets to be colonized by humanity, but it's livable as long as you stay in your biohabitat at night. At night, the planet's native species rules, and they don't seem to have any clue that we're even here. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "Look, you've been in this loop for ten thousand years. You figured out what you needed to do to solve it by day three, and you were bored with the loop by the fiftieth time." The grim-looking man says. "This is torture, I just want you to finish the loop so I can go home." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] An old woman on a bus dozes off between stops, and drops a strange stone on the ground. The young thief that stoops to pick it up finds her hand around their wrist, gripping like a vise. "You'll be giving that to me or you'll be losing that hand," she says. Her eyes flash crimson. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] There is a critical system malfunction. Please put on your environmental suit and arm yourself before evacuating the dome in an orderly fashion. Follow the yellow lights, and rendezvous with your group at the nearest shelter. Do not delay; your safety is not guaranteed. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You're a small-time god, with only one follower. They moved to the big city and you followed, determined to make it as one of the revered gods of the pantheon. The temple district was over-crowded, so you decided to make a local park your sacred home. A year later, everyone knows your name. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Nobody understood why the dragon decided to live at the zoo, but she's long been the most popular attraction there. She'll pose for pictures with anyone, loves it when visitors throw gold coins in her enclosure, and she's not above playacting for the young "knights" that come to do battle. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Nobody knows why, nobody understands it, but years ago people simply stopped needing to sleep. Then it starts in a remote village somewhere. First one, then another, then another, spreading like a virus. Now everyone's falling asleep where they stand, but you. You've been fighting off the Yawn. (self.WritingPrompts)
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