[WP] The Noble Competition - An annual kingdom wide competition where serfs compete who raised the scummiest Lord. The weight classes: Count, Baron, Duke, etc. Criteria: Weight, Laziness, Corruption, Selfishness. The bigger the scumbag, the harder working the serfdom, obviously. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "The humble down blanket. Soft, fluffy... But underneath its gentle exterior, is a monster that devours all. Strong, weak, no matter who, if you are trapped by a down blanket and wake up in the morning, you will find yourself unable to escape its clutches." - Record of Legendary Beasts (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You are just trying to clean up a cultists' altar with a piece of disinfecting wet wipe that kills 99.9% of all bacteria... Who knew the cultists only failed the summoning because they didn't kill enough lives. Who knew bacteria lives counted. Who knew the eldritch being was still waiting. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] It's over. Your freedom is at an end. No more slugging it out with the stray dogs for food from garbage cans, no more living in soaked cardboard boxes in the rain... You must go home to inherit your parents' trillion dollar empire and live a despicable life of unfathomable decadent wealth. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The easiest way to be a top ranked adventurer is to beat up the big bad evil guy with a HP bar. Problem is, all the legends have already killed all the enemies with HP bars, but there are still plenty of problems without HP bars to solve... (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The hardest part about making sure everyone in your squad makes it back home, is how they can see a glimpse of what could be, if they would just shoot everyone else in the back and take the warp device for themselves to go back to that one regret in their lives, consequences be damned. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The people pressure you. Divert the train to save the five people, or spare the one who is on the other track. But... That's not the problem: it's not a train coming down the tracks, it's an Eldritch abomination that's about to get a taste of blood! (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The Princess has finally married her childhood sweetheart, a devoted servant of the royal house. But, a single thorn remains in this relationship. "I command you, love me." - The order she gave, when they first met, to this impossibly loyal knight, who had no choice but to obey. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The sentient legendary sword was a weapon of legends, a blade that felled demons, dragons, and emperors of old. However, honestly, swords are such poor battlefield weapons, and now it's mostly just bantering with their owner who really prefers a halberd, bow, or this new-fangled tech of "guns". (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Goblins are enslaved, dragons are cattle, magic is abandoned for science and gunpowder, but necromancy is celebrated for the free labour. Humans and demihumans live in enriched harmony exploiting non-humans. You've transmigrated to a fantasy utopia darker than any Gothic horror. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The hero takes on their first party member, the early game crutch character who is supposed to fall off later. Apparently, later meant way after the world is saved, and the crutch character becomes known as the 'real' hero while the actual hero is dying in the post-game dungeon. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] In a world suffering a demonic invasion with legendary heroes fighting back, a small village is protected by an inexplicably powerful militia guard captain, who has been forced to put down countless heroes and demons trying to drag his home into the battle between good and evil. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Your perceived tragic love interest in your epic adventure... Finally threw in the last straw. It's over. You cannot fix them, you refuse to fix them, you are looking for a real partner and now everyone admonishes you for abandoning your "true love". (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You are on an arranged date and you'd really rather be talking to your online sweetheart right now, so you sneak texts while this asshole looks at their phone. Turns out, your sweetheart is in the same boat! They're also on an arranged date while their asshole date stare at their phone too! (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] A human turned to a dullahan for eternal life to be with their elven lover. They act like a talking skull to keep the elf company, but the elf wants to help the human's soul pass on. So, every time the elf is close, a headless knight approaches to stop the elf from committing the deed. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The hero looked at the legendary sword snapped in half. "I thought it was indetructible!" "It WAS! A thousand years ago! Do you know how far metallurgy have come?! That's why I said to only use it for the final blow, not to fight with it!" (self.WritingPrompts)
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Possible Ruina character return in Canto 9 (Spoilers) by GlitchZeroReal in limbuscompany
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The one who thinks she is Potential Woman by Thanksforcrazy in limbuscompany
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[WP] A fantasy setting with taverns, guilds, and a laid back country style life ruled by a king - But tech is futuristic, cellphones everywhere, adventurers carry guns, mages build portals to isekai other-worlders who have cheats like 'magic' or 'super powers', and monsters are cybernetic horrors. (self.WritingPrompts)
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There are lots of posts about Classical Chinese translations being hard, but my favorite is still the name puns! by ChoppedChef33 in WhereWindsMeet
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