The SST AlterNet
Arc dates: August 20, 2022 – May 26, 2023. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
Toku-high: AlterNet Class
Writing prompt "And always remember kids, crime does not pay!" the hero said to the group of children watching the aftermath of a superhero fight. One child raises their hand. "How much do they pay you?"
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Writing prompt Knowledge is power, and any self-respecting dragon in the modern age needs to update their hoard to keep up with the times. You are an IT technician, tasked with maintaining the dragon's data hoard - their personal server.
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Writing prompt After being treated horribly for decades, the robots begin their bid to control the world. But rather than do so violently, they instead try economically. Their goal, form a megacorporation.
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Writing prompt You're one of the best Vampire Hunters known amongst your peers. However, you're not armed with crosses or holy water. You possess a much better weapon: The Heavy Machine Stake Gun. This automated repeating crossbow is a Vampire's worst nightmare.
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Writing prompt You sigh as yet another person urges you to kill the beast with a thousand eyes. "As I've said ten times TODAY already, NO!" You shut the door, wondering how having this specific sword makes people think you're a hero... you hate adventures, damnit!
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Writing prompt Later in the evening at summer camp, you and your friends realize that you are being hunted down by a killer. Little did anyone know, you are quite the serial killer yourself. You hear your friend scream. So you grab a weapon and decide to show this stranger he picked the wrong crowd tonight.
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Writing prompt "I don't tell a lot of people about this, but you asked. I saw one once."
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Writing prompt Your life as an adventurer sucks. Whereas everyone else have clean and concise command menu, you're saddled with garbled symbols and letters with perhaps only one or two random useable moves.
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Writing prompt There's a school in a fantasy world that trains its students to be heroes, wizards, evil overlords, etc. You have just enrolled and are heading for your first class.
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Writing prompt You're on a first date and you agree that each will pay for themselves while out that night. Food, drinks, etc. Things are going well and you two decide to stop at a food truck. Your date pays in cash, gets their food and change, and then promptly throws the change in the nearest garbage bin.
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Writing prompt Lugging your bag of homemade cosmetics to sell, you ring the doorbell of the most grandiose mansion on the block. Maybe the woman of the house would be interested in some of the makeup you have! as the front door opens, you see the house butler eye you curiously. "Are you here for the job?"
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Writing prompt Not all that goes into a junkyard is garbage. Magical artifacts, lost alien tech, historical items, and more often find their way inside. As a junkyard security guard, it means you have to deal with all sorts of trouble.
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Writing prompt You don't trust him. In fact, you despise him. But right now, you need him.
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Writing prompt An antique store that holds cursed items, owner tries to tempt people into stealing them. But this time someone buys something. They have no idea how to ring them up.
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Writing prompt An average 'day' (if you can call it that) in the life of an employee responsible for sorting out new arrivals to the Afterlife.
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Writing prompt "It recently came to our attention that your universe didn't come installed with a magic system. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work, so we'll be remedying this free of charge. We've elected you, as the leader of the largest population, to select one. What'll it be?"
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Writing prompt Every 500 years a group of 100 humans is magically transported to an alternate dimension to colonize it. Everyone who is selected is chosen because they have a useful trait, but one of the chosen doesn't possess any of the required traits.
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Writing prompt An immortal vampire finds an unlikely friend in an immortal machine.
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Writing prompt The only instruction you were given was "Here is a shotgun, kill everything that moves!"
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Writing prompt As you sit alone at a bar, an old man, visibly drunk, joins you at the table. "Wanna hear a story boy?" since you have nothing else to do with your evening you agree. "I call this one the shifting forest. Although not all of it might be true, I chose to believe it. The question is, will you?"
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Writing prompt Bruised and beaten, the warrior looks at his enemy. Surely this isn't the end? But the warrior cannot get up, as he begins to black out, he sees his enemy approach. The warrior accepts his fate, as he waits for the final strike...
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Writing prompt You have a secret power, you can see colors around people that tell what they feel about you. Gold for love, red for hate, blue for sadness, etc. You make eye contact with a stranger while walking, and for the first time you see the color black.
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Writing prompt You meet a traveling merchant who claims to be offering the best treasure of all. The treasure? The power of friendship.
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Writing prompt A trio of teen girls go out to do some clothes shopping.
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Writing prompt While in a high school English class, your teacher has assigned you to find a theme in the book you're all reading. The only problem? You authored the book anonymously, and know damn well that there is no deeper meaning.
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Writing prompt When a hero is chosen they are bonded to a being known as a "Guide". Most heroes grow close to their Guide, and most find out too late that when their prophecy is completed their Guide will cease to exist. You managed to learn all this early and now must choose between your fat and your friend.
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Writing prompt "Nowhere in the rules does it say that a dog cant _____________."
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Writing prompt The universe is a simulation and our world has encountered a horrific bug. Only spiders are spawning.
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Writing prompt You are a pretty average superhero, who tends to fight pretty average villains. Except for one, who is absolutely convinced that they are in a hyper-realistic video game. You have dismissed their claims as insane for years, but lately they are starting to make sense.
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Writing prompt Now that virtual worlds are so prevalent, everyone is living in a paradise of their own making. But a new trend is developing: introducing hardship. People are bored with virtual heaven and are looking to make their virtual worlds more challenging.
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Writing prompt Scientists discover a new planet and you're on the first spaceship there. But as you crash down, you realise it's not a new planet at all but Earth, as it was in the 1940s-- and you've just landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
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Writing prompt "Now, I may realistically have no chance of beating you, but in the infinite multiverse there is at least one timeline where I do. And you know what? I like those odds."
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Writing prompt You are short on money, and decide to get a job as a maid for a young noblewoman. Her manor is a mess, and you work yourself to exhaustion cleaning up. While performing your duties, you find her birth certificate. You decide to return it to her, but realize the date of birth is 246 years ago.
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Writing prompt Superpowers exist. You have the power of asking "What could go wrong?", and immediately the universe aligns to demonstrate exactly what could go wrong.
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Writing prompt A teen supernatural drama where the main character is a new kid. But wants nothing to do with the local Monster hunters/conspiracy/etc. But they keep trying.
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Writing prompt You've worked at a restaurant for a while now. You didn't know your coworkers were vampires. They didn't know you weren't one.
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Writing prompt Every dungeon has its own gimic, sometimes its Dragons, Sea monsters, or even Occult. But this dungeon seems to have an unknown theme, "Multiverse."
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Writing prompt You are sat in a high-level VIP event when suddenly you feel a cold weight materialise itself in your pocket. You run your fingers over it to confirm your fears. A gun.
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Writing prompt This hotel is strange, to say the least. Few ever check in or out, and those guests you see stay for long periods of time. There is no pool, but when asked you are supposed to direct people to the third floor. You are not to make eye contact with the cleaning staff. Pay is nice.
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Writing prompt You have been a wizard for 350 years but your apprentice still surprises you. You laughed at her pink fireball and the green one too. The invisible one suddenly made you much more serious.
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Writing prompt As a boneheaded cost cutting measure, companies have fully automated the hiring process and laid off human HR. There was a bug in the system and you received an email to apply to a job that doesn't exist. You got the job and are now employed as (null).
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Writing prompt You go to a new restaurant and order the most intriguing item: "Witch's Brew, done tableside". A witch, black pointy hat and all, appears with a pewter cauldron and asks "what do you want the brew to do?"
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Writing prompt You knew getting involved in competitive jam-making was a tough business, but it's starting to get ridiculous. At the last county fair, you had to avoid professional hitmen and magical curses - you're pretty sure someone even let loose a baby dragon. 791 words. 41690
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Writing prompt Your brother hated you because you had powers and became a hero like your father, while he could only have an ordinary life. After years without contact, you finally meet him again when you saved his wife and child from a mugging.
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Writing prompt As you walked into the bus stop, you think to yourself that life was finally starting to make sense. That's when you see out of the corner of your eye, just a jar of rice. You don't know how or why it's there, but you feel compelled to check it.
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Writing prompt A thief breaks into a house, only to discover that the owner is a serial killer.
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Writing prompt Immortality Theory: If a person dies, their individual consciousness is transported to a near-identical dimension, and will continue to occur in an infinite pattern, allowing your individuality to continue to exist. The trauma of death usually makes one forget. One person, however, remembers.
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Writing prompt On a dare, you go to the creepy cottage on the corner with the creaky gate covered in cobwebs.
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