Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Stellar Movies
Writing prompt [WP] After searching the earth for a worthy opponent the Predator finds his next destination. Camp Crystal Lake.
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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Sharp Divinity
Writing prompt [WP] (any setting) Annoyed by overpopulation, God changed the rules: now pregnancies can only happen while there is less than X inhabitants, meaning someone has to die first. Humanity adjusts, in its own twisted way.
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Stone Wrong
Writing prompt [WP] You're pretty sure you got the better end of the bargain - your soul in exchange for immortality, no gimmicks, no undead lich, etc. It's been a decade now, and you're heading back to your private estate to review your diaries just in case you've somehow changed.
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Sharp Reaper
Writing prompt [WP] Death has to collect all the zombies that popped up because he was MIA for a month.
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Family Business
Writing prompt [WP] Your parents are very successful monster hunters and you were bitten by a vampire last week. You tell your parents and they reveal that all of your siblings have been victims of monster bites.
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AlterNet Opportunity
Writing prompt [WP] Your best friend died while playing a VR MMO. You still get to see them all the time, they just can't log out.
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Sharp Shapes
Writing prompt [WP] A man finds a leprechaun at the end of a rainbow, but instead of a pot of gold, he just has a cereal brand.
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Sharp Challenge
Writing prompt [WP] You challenged Death to a game for your life. You chose Dungeons & Dragons, reasoning that a campaign would take long enough that you'd get to enjoy a few more years regardless. Death has proven surprisingly enthusiastic.
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Global Shutdown
Writing prompt [WP] Telepathic villain enacts his plan to destroy all of civilization as his mind links with all the people of the world "You picked the correct religion. I am real, and this is the proof you've been asking for."
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Sharp Prevention
Writing prompt [WP] It's the year 2220 and the human population on Earth has been dropping dramatically and they are on a brink of extinction. You have been made to investigate and solve this.
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Sharp Philanthropy
Writing prompt [WP] "Welcome to Club neXus, the resort between realities!"
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Sharp Comfort
Writing prompt [WP] Prophets and prophecies do not predict the future, they change it to match a specification. Recently, this has lead to a new generation of prophets offering their services as fate-shapers for a fee. Now, any destiny you could possibly want can simply be purchased.
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Sharp Hunter
Writing prompt [WP] Wizards use ingredients for their potions: unicorn blood, griffin claw, vampire tooth. You are one of the hunters that risk his life to acquire these ingredients.
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Sharp Wind
Writing prompt [WP] You are stranded in the middle of the ocean. You decided to turn on your Bluetooth for fun revealing several Bluetooth devices...
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Sharp Mythology
Writing prompt [WP] A twisted tale of Midas, in which everything he touches clones itself.
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Sol Caliber
Writing prompt [WP] Spirit spells are known for their massive power and their massive cost. For using up a fragment of your soul a mage can massively boost the power of a spell. And here's a guy just loading the fragments into a gun and shooting them!
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AlterNet Income
Writing prompt [WP] Your kids try to explain it to you once again but you still can't understand how charging other kids for "protection" in video games for some gold coins can be profitable or even mafia business, although by the amount of money they made it seems to work.
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Magic Words
Writing prompt [WP] In a world where genies and wishes are commonplace, you are a wish lawyer; it is your job to write wishes that genies can't ruin.
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Patchy Communication
Writing prompt [WP] Twin siblings runaway from a broken homelife and stowaway on a boat heading for the new world. Halfway through they are caught by a deckhand who rather than turn them in gives them food instead.
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Loneliness. Acceptance.
Writing prompt [WP] The year is 2129, 8 years after the world ended. The day is October 6th, Henry Shelton celebrates his birthday as the last man in the world. And, like any good party, all of his friends come to celebrate too.
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Sharp Action
Writing prompt [WP] You discover that half of all humans are linked to an alien hive mind, whose single goal is to stall humanity's growth until the mothership arrives after several hundred light-years. You try to warn of the threat surrounding humanity, but the question soon becomes who can you actually trust?
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Sharp Sandbag
Writing prompt [WP] As you dig in one of the earliest known human archeological sites, a loud clang is heard as the shovel pierces the earth, hitting something large, metal, and hollow where the center of the village is... but humans weren't expected to have metal working yet? Everyone gathers around...
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Sharp Curse
Writing prompt [WP] A curse has befallen the planet. If you divorce your partner, the children you share together will disappear without a trace, fading out of reality before your very eyes. Divorce rates do fall, but they don't stop.
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Travel Advice
Writing prompt [WP] You're on the train, on your way to meet your friend, and sitting in front of you is a polar bear reading a newspaper. Nobody else on the train seems to notice it at all.
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God. Damn.
Writing prompt [WP] You have just met god. Contrary to what the churches say, he is not some ancient old man with a large flowing beard in white robes, but a 19 year old working in a corner store in a rural town.
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Recess. Riot.
Writing prompt [WP] as the world teters on the edge of total collapse amidst a giant monster outbreak nasa sends out a S.O.S. into space in attempt to reach out for help.
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Sharp Arrow
Writing prompt [WP] You didn't expect to find a hidden pyramid never explored before. You also didn't expect your phone to try to connect to the pyramids wi-fi and Bluetooth networks.
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Sharp Intake
Writing prompt [WP] Ever since you were a child you could see a number on your wrist indicating the amount of danger you're in on a 0-10 scale (0 - no danger, 10 - you're going to die). Today the number is negative.
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Sharp Ruby
Writing prompt [WP] You finally found it: the legendary El Dorado- the city of gold. What the legends didn't tell was of the dragon who guarded it as its hoard.
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Death & Experience
Writing prompt [WP] You wake after being hit by a bus to see that you are a ghost. The grim reaper appears next to you to usher you into the afterlife. It's at this point you realize he just asks, and can't actually force you to go with him, so you don't.
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Sharp Sleeper
Writing prompt [WP] Each time you awake from a nightmare, you remember dying in the dream. Your dreamscape is a deathgate from which you travel to inject your consciousness into another iteration of yourself in the multiverse.
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Heart & Sun
Writing prompt [SP] You can convince anyone of anything.
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Basic Soldier
Writing prompt [WP] You have the regenerative powers of Wolverine, but instead of becoming a mercenary, you choose to become a billionaire. Your secret to the wealth? You're an organ donor.
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Sharp Contract
Writing prompt [WP] Fed up with this horrible world you've finally decided to purify it. You've gathered enough bodies for the blood portal and it's too late for regrets. With chants of ancient languages a portal opens in front of you. Out walks a man wearing a suit. "You know what we need to do Lucifer."
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Vacation. Ruined.
Writing prompt [WP] A mysterious vampire hunter comes to your town on a hunt. You think they suspect you of being a vampire. You're not, but with nothing else to do you decide messing with them a little is worth the risk.
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Forever Red
Writing prompt [WP] You have always had the ability to see exactly how many seconds a person has been alive for. The oldest people can have around 3 million, but one day you see someone with many orders of magnitude more years. You approach them curiously.
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Starstruck. Star strike.
Writing prompt [WP] A Human skeleton is found on Mars, wearing the full armor of a Knight Templar.
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Sharp Empowerment
Writing prompt [WP] The Stellar Core is a brilliant invention able to break the light barrier, provide nearly limitless clean energy and even produce artificial gravity explained by a complex array of scientific jargon and equations. The truth is, the explanation is a lie, they are mostly scrap metal and magic.
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[Sharp Sacrifice] [poem]
Writing prompt [WP] You never expected to wake up the last human on earth. You definitely didn't expect to be chased by a demonic version of yourself either.
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Sharp Looking Chrome
Writing prompt [WP] The dragon stirs awake at the sounds of footsteps. "Who dares to enter my lair!" It roars with the expectation that another knight has arrived. Instead there is a man in strange clothes. "You've been asleep for thousands of years." He says. "I'm here to help you acclimate to modern society."
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Devil's Night In
Writing prompt [WP] Your child has been possessed, but the church offers no help. You turn to Satan worshippers for help, they've been extremely nice and helpful.
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A Question of Command
Writing prompt [WP] Earth is overpopulated and almost completely dry of resources. The world's space programs group together to build spacecraft capable of taking half the population in search of a new world. But this is just a ruse to cull the Earth so that those remaining can survive.
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Clouded Sun
Writing prompt [WP] On the train home from work, you see a woman accidentally leave papers behind as she exits. On the front it says: "read this & call me at this #". You realize that it's a verbatim script of your past few days and even goes into that evening.
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Quest Request
Writing prompt [WP] As it turns out, our entire universe is simply a cutting edge mmorpg for celestial beings. Everyone you have ever known has been an NPC, including yourself. Today, someone introduces themselves as a player and asks you for a quest.
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Sharp Merriment
Writing prompt [WP] Santa announced that the is sick and won't be able to deliver presents! As Christmas nears, the renowned CEO(Central Elf Officer) of Santa's workshop and other top elf minds are scrambling to figure out how to get the presents delivered. Today, they have a solution.
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Upward Growth
Writing prompt [WP] You have the superpower of being able to sense people's level of self-esteem. But one day - you encounter someone whose self-esteem you can't sense. It is, seemingly, non-existent.
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Dreadful Aura
Writing prompt [WP] One day everyone on Earth gets superpowers, you got the power to see things without interacting, enhanced sight, and not being affected by magic affecting vision. One day you look at someone that also has powers....What you see shocks you.
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P and Q
Writing prompt [WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to a wasteland centuries ago. You're a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond.
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