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 You hire a construction crew to build your new home. You're pretty sure they're dwarves in disguise, what with the full beards, stout builds, mystic runes here and there... Can't complain though, since they're really good at their job.
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Writing prompt Scientists have found the shocking discovery that we live in a complex video game. Speed Runners immediately started looking for bugs & glitches.
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Writing prompt "I'm just the janitor. What makes you think I can stop this supervillain?"
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Writing prompt "Halt, foul beast! You shall threaten this town no longer!" Yelled the hero, drawing their blade, an ancient artifact that glowed and became razor sharp in the presence of evil... except it wasn't only not glowing but dulled as the hero pointed it at the 8' tall man-wolf huddled in the corner.
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Writing prompt It's been 3 years since the start of the Zombie Apocalypse. One day, you are cornered by a zombie while on a supply run. Accepting your fate, you bite the zombie as a last ditch effort. To your surprise, the zombie collapses, and after 5 minutes you hear from the once undead... "H-Hello?"
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Writing prompt You were so bad in life that when you die and go to Hell, Satan offers you a job.
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Writing prompt The Superhero Corps had already defeated all the Villains, and heroes beating up Villains is how they get their funding. So they've been staging fake Villain plots to fight against for monetary gain. A single, rogue hero, plans on exposing it.
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Writing prompt They say we are all made of stars. The Big Bang produced all of the building blocks for the Universe. You are an alchemist who has been working on capturing that very essence of the Big Bang that connects all things. Today, you have had a breakthrough!
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Writing prompt A battered old pickup truck pulls up to the front of the hardware store, the grizzled old man behind the wheel lowers his window and bangs on the side. "Alright, I need 5 to clear out a dungeon!"
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Writing prompt Write a story with a line like "Seriously? This is the millionth time this month."
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Writing prompt You wake up and time has stopped.
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Writing prompt You made a deal with a werewolf to help them win a dog competition. However, when they smell another werewolf.
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Writing prompt It's gonna be fun, they said; this job will be a piece of cake, they said. Nothing will go wrong, they said.
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Writing prompt I'm not mad! I'm totally not mad... I'm fine! I'm very much fine...
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Writing prompt an orphan in a non magic medieval land one night wishes on a star to be taken away from this awful place, and then they wake up in a Magitek science fantasy world.
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Writing prompt The eBay advert promises that the doll for sale is genuinely haunted.
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Writing prompt in an alternate timeline, the Area 51 raid is successful, and it changes everything.
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Writing prompt The longest setup for a joke.
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Writing prompt You find an object that can make you jump to a random universe. After countless jumps, you finally find the thing you've been looking for.
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Writing prompt You made a deal with a werewolf to help them win a dog competition. However, when they smell another werewolf.
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Writing prompt You are contracted with the golden god of greed. Every month you need to pay the god or you forfeit your soul. Your payment goes to both principal, which will free you, and interest. You can also spend money on powerful abilities. Your life is a delicate balance of income and spending.
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Writing prompt You are kidnapped by time travelers who explain that you were the key person affecting their history, and this is their one chance to fix things. As the doors open to their time, you see them all gasp. "Nothing has changed," they say. "Yeah," you say, "you probably wanted my twin brother."
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Writing prompt You watch as the sky turns red.
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Writing prompt The most loyal, trustworthy and kind person in the royal court is the royal advisor. Yes, he is the skinny man dressed in black, whose familiar is a snake, laugh out loud when alone and has a cursed dagger at his hips. Why do you ask?
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Writing prompt "What game would you choose to prolong your life if you win?" Death said. "Monopoly" I screamed.
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Writing prompt A full investigation into all of your arcane work is underway, the higherups having been tipped off that you were dabbling in "Forbidden Dark Magics". However, the magic you were looking into was manipulating LITERAL darkness for entirely benign reasons.
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Writing prompt After being cursed to relive the same month by someone, you instead took advantage and learned everything from writing to mystic arts, and after deciding to break out the curse, you now go in search for the one who cursed you with everything you have learned.
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Writing prompt With the advent of multiverse travel, telework takes on a whole new meaning. Your new boss is kinda an asshole and he's _you_.
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Writing prompt You are a physics professor at an exceptional school in the year 2163. You decide to mirror the actions of Steven Hawking a man you idolize from the 20th century and hold a small party for time Travelers the date only being released after the event. The strange thing? Someone Arrives.
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Writing prompt You are shipwrecked on a small island with a Lighthouse in the middle of nowhere.
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Writing prompt Make it go BOOM! Write a story in any setting & genre, but it must have at least 3 large explosions.
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Writing prompt "It was never entertainment. It was prophecy. That is why you must find Parker Lewis."
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Writing prompt You've always wondered why your coworkers always choose 10-15-year-old girls as their chosen warriors, unlike you who chose a trained marine.
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Writing prompt This was not how you expected to fight your enemy.
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Writing prompt "Danger, Village in trouble, Need adventurers!". As the group of adventurers walk up to the village, they notice that the village is unusually upkept, and one of the villagers is reading from a script.
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Writing prompt As a child, you dreamed of helping a wounded faerie. As an adult, they returned to repay the favour.
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Writing prompt You people never gave me a chance, a chance to explain myself, A chance to be redeemed, and now as I lay here and die. I'll never go back to this world ever again. I'll never be a student of that mage academy ever again.
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Writing prompt "You know, I was an atheist for my entire life." "I see." "Never believed in an afterlife." "Lucky to be wrong." "And I'm an American." "Good for you." "So, what the hell am I doing in an ancient Greek afterlife?"
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Writing prompt It's the third month of the apocalypse without rescue, and you believe you are the only person left alive after the infection was released. As you sit there on the damp, hard floor of your dimly lit bunker, you hear a muffled metallic knocking coming from the bunker hatch above your head.
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Writing prompt You are a shapeshifting immortal monstrosity, considered more dangerous than the several thousand nukes - there is only one thing that can contain you safely, a warm and welcoming adoptive family.
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Writing prompt You're a sinner who went to Hell centuries ago, and you've had it. The demons here are sloppy, never rotating their sinners, and so you've managed to befriend some others who are now plotting a revolution. Today is the big day you kill your first demon captain.
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Writing prompt You are privy to the world hidden behind the masquerade, and even though you see these fantastical beings on a daily basis where most people do not, you simply choose to ignore it.
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Writing prompt In a world where Magic has many ways to kill, you a great Healer, have found a way to bring people back to life. You are the first to discover necromancy.
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Writing prompt You jokingly dial a "call for a good time" number graffitied on the stall door at the gas station. Looking back in your mirror, you realize the same van has been following you for the last ten minutes through the middle of nowhere.
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Writing prompt The echo of the gunshot reverberates through the dark alley. You stare down at the hole in your chest. You will be fine of course, you are able to heal injuries rapidly. There is one problem though....... that was a brand new outfit.
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Writing prompt A world where the most powerful thing in existence is your favorite food.
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Writing prompt Now listen here kiddo. You might be the reincarnation of some ancient eldritch evil or a powerful wizard or god emperor whats-his-name. But *now* we are your parents, and you are our child.
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Writing prompt A little kindness goes a long way.
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