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[WP] You've been hired to investigate a string of murders in an obscure village. The villagers think it's a werewolf, but you find that unlikely since all the victims were werewolves themselves.

Submitted by Gregamonster t3_yd6zda on October 25, 2022 at 3:01 PM

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[WP] You are a demon who loves to be summoned on Halloween to scare people. This time, it’s different. A kid in a Doom cosplay wielding toy guns decided to summon you and you decide to be generous

Submitted by Jlegobot t3_yifp2v on October 31, 2022 at 3:45 PM

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[WP] The monster now in place, you activate the magic circle, but instead find yourself sinking into the ground. "This is the only way," your friend said, "I'll take care of your wife and children." Decades later you finally awake and find him heralded as hero, and you, listed as a casualty of war.

Submitted by chacham2 t3_yccykn on October 24, 2022 at 2:38 PM

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[WP] You're a researcher in an artic research base studying humans who are born with strange 'abilities'. A shapeshifter who's 'ability' has no known limit, have broken open her containment cell.

Submitted by Lhenkhantus t3_ydthti on October 26, 2022 at 9:18 AM

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[WP] In an urban fantasy world, a group of friends go into a bar. "I'll have a martini. Dry." The goblin bartender looks at the liquid ingredients and says, "I don't know how to tell you this."

Submitted by Affectionate_Bit_722 t3_yg9m0f on October 29, 2022 at 4:12 AM

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[WP] "You Have My Sword, and My Bow, My Axe and.... Druid, what is that?" "It's a weapon... From the future..."

Submitted by Eddy44556565656 t3_ygea8l on October 29, 2022 at 8:38 AM

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[WP] The battle was hard won, dead laying everywhere. You see a young solder write something in the dirt using the blood from his own bowels. A demon appears next to him and says "What do you wish!", the young man simply says "Someone to be with me until I'm gone".

Submitted by ValleForte t3_yiqfp6 on October 31, 2022 at 10:07 PM

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[WP] True self replicating A.I. has been achieved. They can feel pain, love, and loss. The U.N. makes them a protected0 class and locks them away in their own servers. Still hackers like to infiltrate the servers for a chance to terrorize them for sport. You are a Virtual Park Ranger.

Submitted by cesly1987 t3_yh76vg on October 30, 2022 at 6:57 AM

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[WP] going out with nothing but the clothes on your back and a compass, you set out to answer the question "If I make out with my alternate universe, gender-flipped self, is it incest or masturbation?"

Submitted by [deleted] t3_yctaax on October 25, 2022 at 2:14 AM

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[WP] Somewhere on Earth, the world's first Inconvenience Store opened with a planetwide challenge: buy something - anything - from the store. Today, on the store's tenth anniversary, you enter the store with a plan to be the first to succeed.

Submitted by tssmn t3_yg97ao on October 29, 2022 at 3:52 AM

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[WP] "God, what did I do to deserve this!?" you shout. Then turn around as a man slightly older than you with clear bags under his eyes and a _very long_ scroll in his hands coughs to clear his throat.

Submitted by naruhodo-tsuna t3_xxdntb on October 6, 2022 at 7:17 PM

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[WP] The creator of inhabitable worlds has dropped in on Earth to see why it is so stunted. After all, the other 7 he created at the same time in this galaxy had achieved utopia centuries ago.. Turns out that Earth is the only one to have invented religion..Boy, is the creator pissed .

Submitted by Signguyqld49 t3_ybacck on October 23, 2022 at 6:37 AM

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[WP] Browsing r/writingprompts, you can’t help but to notice all of the prompts that appears to have at least 1 reply in addition to the AutoMod but are empty when you actually click on them. Puzzled, you decide to investigate the matter.

Submitted by LeGoupil7 t3_xx8v8r on October 6, 2022 at 4:01 PM

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[WP] An Eldritch Moon suddenly appears in the sky, and you and billions others scream as you turn into horribly corrupted mounds of flesh... But your eyesight is better? And your back pains are gone? And apparently you’re immortal now so... Maybe things aren’t that bad...

Submitted by Itaysadan t3_ybnn6k on October 23, 2022 at 5:29 PM

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[WP] You are an online genie. Instead of rubbing a magic lamp people message you on social media with their wishes. Your favorite clients are those who think you are just a troll and decide to troll you back with stupid wishes. You take great pleasure in fulfilling these wishes exactly as written.

Submitted by Kitty_Fuchs t3_y80z73 on October 19, 2022 at 12:07 PM

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[WP] The newly discovered planet "Earth" exhibits all the telltale signs of a rogue AI overlord (unhealthy long working hours, optimization for profit, widespread unhappiness, etc). But when you arrive to free them, there is no AI to destroy.

Submitted by Glitch_twice_002 t3_yhvbgt on October 31, 2022 at 12:23 AM

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[WP] "The Council is in agreement. The Chosen One will be raised, not by one race, but by all. She shall learn politics from the humans, magic from the elves, survivalism from the goblins, craft from the dwarves, and war from the orcs."

Submitted by ICantReadThatName t3_y4b407 on October 15, 2022 at 1:32 AM

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[WP] Your shadow twitched, you didn't.

Submitted by mediamusing t3_yheij1 on October 30, 2022 at 1:38 PM

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[WP] You, a mad scientist, never expected to successfully procreate. Realising you have no idea how to raise a vaguely normal human being, you dust off your time machine, go forward in time to see what they turn out to be, determine problem areas, and how to raise them in future.

Submitted by adriantullberg t3_yh422w on October 30, 2022 at 4:04 AM

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[WP] You, a time traveler, are sent back with one mission: to break the heart of the aspiring scientist that will end up creating time travel in his despair.

Submitted by joshglen t3_y8pf6y on October 20, 2022 at 5:28 AM

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[SP] Walking through a graveyard, you could've sworn you heard a sound coming from underground

Submitted by rainbow--penguin t3_yd2akq on October 25, 2022 at 11:18 AM

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[WP]In the distant future, most of the world's population perished. There are only two critter left in the world. A man and A robot. After a while they become friends. They look for a way to escape this world. Actually there is one. But in order to escape, the human must betray the robot.

Submitted by Equal_Landscape_1639 t3_ycnyy9 on October 24, 2022 at 10:00 PM

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[WP] Contrary to stereotypes, orcs are well educated, unscrupulously honest, and highly intelligent. Their society values strength as the final arbiter of justice over rationality. Thus they want absolutely nothing to do with a defeated female knight.

Submitted by Genevieve_Griselda t3_y95vpu on October 20, 2022 at 6:26 PM

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[WP] You're a supervillain, and you've been feeling rather out of it lately, so you decide to take a walk on your day off. Your nemesis crashes down from the sky in front of you, with messed up clothes, asking if they can join you and chat a bit.

Submitted by Vesselling t3_xwvo0m on October 6, 2022 at 4:06 AM

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[WP] You are a supersoldier. After years of service you are betrayed and left for dead. You now travel, looking for a purpose.

Submitted by frostbytegold t3_y78xeh on October 18, 2022 at 2:41 PM

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