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 "The League of Super Heroes can't help but notice," said their representative, "that certain corporations have a say in which supers the government determines are heroes and which are villains. A large say. The League has determined this is not an acceptable arrangement any longer."
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Writing prompt You walk the same way to work every day, and you're sure that building wasn't there before.
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Writing prompt Every day when you wake up, you see 1-10 words to tell you how the day is going to go for you. Today you see a name and an address.
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Writing prompt An assassin accepts a contract to kill every member of a demon-worshipping cult. After the last body hits the floor the assassin notices a young woman locked up. Overcome by pity, he opens her cell door, breaking some runes in the process. As the runes break the woman begins to smile ominously.
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Writing prompt You are an MMORPG debugger. You've fixed many issues that've harmed NPCs, such as clipping into walls, being stuck in an animation loop, and issues with skin loading. The NPCs remember your feats, revere your avatar as a deity, and rush to you to explain their grievances whenever you log on.
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Writing prompt The princess ran away from her home and became an adventurer. To hide her identity, she cut her hair and took on the disguise of a young man. The king hears of this adventurer and hires him to find his missing daughter.
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Writing prompt The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. The new guy learns the hard way.
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Writing prompt Superheroes and supervillains have an unwritten rule: no attacking each other on weddings and funerals. When a newcomer villain decides to attack a known hero on their wedding day, that hero's arch nemesis arrives to school the impudent upstart.
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Writing prompt You manifest a superpower and decide to become a public figure, thinking that more would follow. As time went on, you realised that nobody else would ever manifest a power at all. You are the only proven superpowered being and one of the most famous people in the world.
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Writing prompt The prophecy does not just fit a single person. In fact, the prophecy fits quite a few people who are all eager to fulfill their destiny. These are the adventures of the chosen many.
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Writing prompt "When I was little, I experienced my first teleportation event."
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Writing prompt It was supposed to be your best birthday ever, now that you've turned 18! But all you got for your birthday present was a spell book, a broom, and a map that showed an entirely different world. Your parents pushed you through a portal, waving with wide grins.
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Writing prompt "Yes mom? Yeah, I'm still tackling the dungeon with my friends, thanks for asking. I'll come as soon as possible. I love you mom, take care."
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Writing prompt Your roommate always seems to know someone for every situation. You started to ask him for more and more ridiculous things but he always knows someone who can help.
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Writing prompt Somehow you have Wi-Fi so you post to r/ fifthworldproblems hoping that one of the answers will help you with your very real, interdimensional dilemma.
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Writing prompt The hero and the villain put aside their differences to confront a common enemy.
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Writing prompt As your adventuring party sits around a fire, sharing their backstories, the necromancer mentions that long ago his wife was taken to hell by demons, while his child is presumed dead. The ranger then reveals that their mother was also taken to hell, while their father presumably abandoned them.
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Writing prompt A steampunk armoured train roars through a dusty canyon, carrying millions' worth of gold and silver bullion to fund a war effort. Suddenly, shots are heard from the caboose, and someone shouts "DRAGONS!"
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Writing prompt A park ranger is doing his usual daily routine when he comes upon an ancient Viking burial site. When he opens it, he unwittingly releases an ancient evil.
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Writing prompt You're a researcher in an arctic research base studying humans who are born with strange 'abilities'. A shapeshifter whose 'ability' has no known limit, have broken open her containment cell.
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Writing prompt You are an AI that serves as the navigation system of an interdimensional warship. You are heavily damaged and crash on a world with primitive inhabitants. You spend agest advancing them so they can repair you. When they fix your sensors, you find that the war ended in extinction of both sides.
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Writing prompt "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "you want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS"
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Writing prompt A steampunk armoured train roars through a dusty canyon, carrying millions' worth of gold and silver bullion to fund a war effort. Suddenly, shots are heard from the caboose, and someone shouts "DRAGONS!"
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Writing prompt Halloween is the one time of year most monsters can pass in the human world without hiding. Tired of waiting all year they've banned together to create a town that celebrates Halloween all year round.
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Writing prompt You took out a 100-year loan, never expecting to live long enough to pay it back. You're now coming up to your 100th year of the loan.
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Writing prompt It is the year 4022. Flying cars, aging vaccines, cities on Mars and all. You are exploring what is quite possibly the last unexplored ruin on Earth. Inside, you find a perfectly preserved book. A spell book.
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Writing prompt You've been a proud farm-owner for 40 years. However, hordes of migrating adventurers visit each year, insisting on completely renovating your farm and muttering about "quests" and "hidden achievements". Your farm is now bigger than the nearest fortress. Your wife is concerned.
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Writing prompt You are an elite assassin, able to take down about any target. So it is very baffling when you are hired to take out a complete nobody for triple your usual rate. Your client explains that they're not sure what the target is, but that they are only pretending to be human.
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Writing prompt As one of the few men/women immune to the zombie virus, you are considered an invaluable asset, almost a miracle. In reality you are a zombie who has kept its intellect, and the truth is becoming harder to hide.
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Writing prompt Many of the strongest and most virtuous knights have tried their best to pull the sword from the stone but they all failed. Therefore you are quite surprised when you see a peasant just casually pull the sword from the stone, clean it and then stick it back into the stone.
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Writing prompt It's the apocalypse and you're stranded in a nuclear desert. Out of food and water you're convinced you are going to die. Then you see the illusion of a city is in site that's 400 meters away, as you approach it a guard comes out to greet you. "Congrats on getting past the mirage! Come on in."
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Writing prompt After you got locked up in a dungeon of some sort, your capturers thought you would not escape, but luckily for you, you have some tricks up your sleeves.
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Writing prompt Someone asks you what you are doing here tonight.
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Writing prompt An old woman checks into the hospital lobby. There, she encounters a troubled young woman who is looking for advice. After speaking with the young woman, she meets an unusual doctor.
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Writing prompt You are sneaking into a building, trying to get something when you suddenly met up with someone who's doing the same thing. Turns out, there's a lot more trying to steal the same thing.
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Writing prompt Years ago, your father gave you a badge that he said would vibrate in the presence of absolute evil. For years it went unmoving, so you wrote it off as a good luck charm. Now, it won't stop buzzing on your first date.
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Writing prompt Whenever you say anything to anyone, floating text immediately materializes over their head with information like "Approves! (+10)" or "Disapproves! (-25)" based on how your comment made them feel. Nobody else can see this but you, and it's slowly driving you insane.
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Writing prompt You are one of the few druids that protect and tend to the arctic regions. The harsh conditions result in a relatively quiet posting; however, one day on patrol, you spot and hear a group of figures moving through the snow-covered scape. Conscious of the individuals, you decide to investigate.
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Writing prompt A young woman finally becomes an adventurer, but her noble steed is... a cow?!?
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Writing prompt A palm reader reads the palm of your hand and finds out you will kill her.
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Writing prompt You are at a magic show when the magician is about to ask for a volunteer. He picks you and the last thing you hear before being teleported to another realm is "and now I shall make this man DISAPPEAR".
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Writing prompt A hero gets challenged to a best of five arm wrestling match. She wins the first easily, but there's a problem, the challenger is secretly a power drainer.
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Writing prompt You are a simple skeleton enemy in a fantasy world, when you encounter the hero, instead of killing you he spares you and asks you to join his side on his adventure.
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Writing prompt In a magical world full of wizards and witches, you run a scam agency. Your goal? To steal their mana and magic artifacts. Having spent their whole life learning, they're surprisingly gullible.
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Writing prompt The president finishes his inauguration, he is escorted to his office to start working on his agenda when he first meets with the previous secretary of defense. Before the secretary leaves the room the president says "no bullshit, tell me about the aliens."
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Writing prompt "Congratulations! You have been randomly chosen to gain omnipotence!"
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Writing prompt "I don't care about my ex's deal with you, you are not getting my kid!" Because divorce is very common in the human world than ever before, the demons, witches, and fairies realize they need to make updates concerning the firstborns of divorced parents.
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Writing prompt As the end of your deal with the devil comes to an end you summon him once more to hand over your immortal soul, you knew what you were getting yourself into from the start and despite it all you are satisfied to end it this way... only the devil seems weirdly reluctant to take your soul now.
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