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Dragon. Turkey.
Writing prompt You're a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but... it's been a month and no one's come to save them.
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Toku-high: AlterNet Class
Arc dates: August 20, 2022 – May 26, 2023. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
Toku-high: AlterNet Class
Absent Sun
Writing prompt "I wish aliens attacked!" "They already have, next wish?" "They what?"
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Sharp Testing
Writing prompt I was excited to get my new government job. I gladly signed the NDA. I wish I never did after all the horrible things I've seen now.
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Out of Thyme
Writing prompt You knock on your neighbor's door nervously. She hasn't been here long and you don't know her well. She opens the door. "Sorry to bother you, but can I borrow some thyme?" You ask. She nods and gestures for you to come in. "How much do you need? Hours? Days? Weeks?" She asks mysteriously.
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Solar Aid
Writing prompt Cleaning out your father's attic, you found an ancient AOL install CD. On a whim, you found a CD drive and installed it. Instead of AOL's typical welcome screen, you get a very strange display...
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Waking by Hand
Writing prompt You are loyal to a T to your dark overlord and would never question him. That being said you don't quite understand the tactical advantage of using a card game made for children to take over the world.
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Slimy Setup
Writing prompt The questing market is pretty damn saturated, with skilled warriors, rangers, rogues, barbarians, you name it. But still, someone's gotta do the C-Rate work, just clearing out slime infestations or deterring a minor raider band. Your rag-tag team is just that.
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Sharp Succession
Writing prompt You've trained all your life to kill Santa and Mrs. Clause, today you found them.
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Luke. Loaded.
Writing prompt Scientists recently discovered that when we close our eyes and they have adapted to the darkness, we see something. For reasons unknown, our brain erases any memory of what we see, replacing it with a black image of nothing. You are the first test subject in their trial to see what.
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Enthusiasm. Off.
Writing prompt A mysterious, seemingly superpowered killer is murdering the richest people in the world, working their way down the Forbes Rich List. You are part of the Interpol team tasked with stopping them.
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Reeling in Excitement
Writing prompt You live in a fantasy RPG world and decide to join a local adventurers guild, you get put in a group of 5 and at first, everything seems normal, until monsters and dungeons start to pop up, parts of the world start to disappear and your team member seems to know something no one else does.
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Stellar Inactivity
Writing prompt Instead of a superpower that sounds lame but is secretly overpowered, write about a superpower that seems OP but is actually practically useless.
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Friendly View
Writing prompt An allmighty deity text you by error an invitation to 'The End of the World Party'. After apologizing, they decide you're cool enough to be saved from annihilation and invites you to come hang out with them at the party.
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Mad Magic
Writing prompt In a world where one's eye color determines the type of magic you can use, what about someone with heterochromia?
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Sharp Nudge
Writing prompt You've seen it all. Vampires and werewolves, aliens and angels, even demons and a few deities. The weird part is that you aren't anyone special, you just work at the local coffee shop.
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Exposition: Cool
Writing prompt You receive a death threat. You think it's a joke someone is playing until someone breaks into your home, saying they'll protect you.
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Sharply Regular
Writing prompt You are not the god of death who needs to reap his dads soul, you are not able to talk to animals. You are a regular-ass Joe going to Target to get school supplies, work with it.
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Secrets by Sunlight
Writing prompt Meeting a stranger with a dark secret.
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Outbreak of Hope
Writing prompt There's a movie theatre, but each auditorium takes the audience to different realities/timelines. When the movies end, people from different realities converge in the theare, some fall for each other, others want to escape.
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Relaxing End
Writing prompt While relaxing alone by a river deep in the wilderness, you suddenly see someone in business clothes burst from the foliage, alert, but not necessarily afraid. "Where am I?" they ask, wide-eyed.
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Keys to Heroism
Writing prompt You're a villain who always has to save civilians' lives from the hero's recklessness. Sure you kidnap people, hold them hostage, even hurt them a bit, but you'd NEVER let someone die. The hero only seems to care about stopping you though, not actually protecting anyone.
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Heart for Murder
"And to finish up the tour, here's the request board," Dixie grinned. "Welcome to the Crimson Brotherhood." The portly, tan woman with short blonde spikes atop her head gestured at the wall-sized corkboard. She wore a re
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Fishy Joke
Writing prompt "Oh, I guess introductions are in order. His name's Frank and because he's a merman, his mobility on dry land's a little limited. Thankfully we have a spa on the same building where he can stretch his fins."
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Sharp Separation
Writing prompt You're a vampire that has to go dormant for a few hundred years between feedings. You awake one day to find humans have gone extinct, and you can feel the hunger setting in...
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Secret Meeting. Ruined.
Writing prompt As a Vampire]Werewolf/Fae/Demon hybrid, your family is... complicated. You move to the city to get away from the drama but with weaknesses to iron, silver, sunlight, stakes or holy anything-at-all, to say nothing of lead and asbestos, you're having *serious* trouble finding a place to live.
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Frost. Melted.
Writing prompt You are a prison guard. One day the level 15 Mafia member goes missing and the level 1 crook he was bullying has suddenly hit level 15. You now have two options, report him for +$10000 or join him for +10 levels.
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Dinner. Ruined?
Writing prompt "Common it's not that weird," you say, "Not that weird- YOURE MARRIED TO A WAR GODDESS" your sibling shouted at the Christmas dinner.
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Sharp Sword
Writing prompt There is a sword in the forest, a sword so old even the guardian spirits of the forest know not of a time before it.
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Delivered by Monday
Writing prompt A very diligent young lady went to Animal Control for a Unicorn License. They played along, and then magic happened.
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Sharp Answer
Writing prompt While studying at the magic academy to become a healer, you - and only you - realize, that the spells meant to cure various terrible diseases are in fact exorcisms for demonic possession. You confront the leaders of the academy in private, and they confess a horrifying truth to you...
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Flutter of Fear
Writing prompt You are enjoying a day at the beach, eyes closed at the moment. The sounds of all the other beachgoers suddenly go silent.
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Glorious Naivety
Writing prompt Try as you might, you want to escape the troubles in life. You run into the forest thinking you could be free at last. Then...
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Olympic-tier Advice
Writing prompt You are an ordinary person, except you have been chosen to participate in the multi universe Olympics on behalf of your entire universe. The problem is you don't know what you are going to be competing in.
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Sharp Laugh
Writing prompt You feel your powers flood back to you as the dampeners in your cell shut off. A man in a business suit steps into it and asks a simple question.
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Keys to Friendship
Writing prompt You're late to your mother's funeral... AGAIN! 3rd time this year. Your father threatens to cut you off financially if you miss any more.
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Sharp Win
Writing prompt Signs of life from a distant galaxy reached Earth. After years of preparations, interstellar travel is finally possible. You are part of the first mission to reach that galaxy, but what you find once you reach it is incredible. Other humans are there.
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Heart. Cool.
Writing prompt Young children are oddly perceptive. Because of this ninjas, secret agents, and other stealthy people carry teddy bears, handpuppets, candy etc. to distract any small kid who happens to notice them.
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New & Unexpected
Writing prompt You are at a glitzy New Years Eve party and when it hits midnight the year suddenly becomes 2053.
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Friendly World
Writing prompt You were lonely, so lonely. So, you started having conversations in your head with a made up bartender, who always eases your troubles. One day while looking to drown yourself in alcohol, you happen upon a bar, and the very same bartender. “Ah! I was wondering when you’d come in person.”
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Back up. Planned.
Writing prompt Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“
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Jane, Though
Writing prompt You are suddenly put in charge of managing the state of humanity. You are transported to a hidden facility and you are placed in front of the doomsday clock. A man looks at you and says: "The fate of humanity is in your hands."
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Stellar Inventiveness
Writing prompt A person has to create their own spell to attain the rank of an S-ranked mage in the Order of Mages. People are surprised when you cast a simple fireball.
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Stellar Recruiter
Writing prompt When the coming-of-age ritual reveals you have a forbidden magical power, instead of fleeing to become a tragic and/or heroic outlaw, you decide to turn yourself in and rationally talk things through with the authorities.
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Death of a Deer Friend
Writing prompt Humans claim the red forest got cursed a thousand years ago, in truth, it's the only place that didn't get cursed.
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Keys to Decency
Writing prompt You've always been a sleepwalker, but waking up in a balaclava and finding a duffle bag full of bloody cash takes the biscuit.
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Kindness Repaid. Eventually.
Writing prompt Today marks the one year anniversary of "The Call." When every man, woman, and child heard an otherworldly voice in their head say, "..."
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Bothering the Damned
Writing prompt "WHO HATH SUMMONED ME, THE GREAT BEE-" "Can I have a cookie?" The little girl looked at the hulking demon innocently. "...all right. You can have one."
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Fluttering Keys
Writing prompt You teach a mundane subject (eg math, English) at one of those overly specialized fantasy schools (eg magic, ninjas, spies)
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