Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Sculpted Status
Writing prompt [WP] A wizard turns people into marble to pass as a genius sculptor.
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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Cover: Uncovered
Writing prompt [WP] You and your partner are spies who moved into a new neighborhood. As a young married couple, your nosy neighbors ask how you got together. Your partner, before you could say anything, claims that your love story is 'crazy and fairy tale' like. Your neighbors look at you expectantly.
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Surprising Prophecy
Writing prompt [WP] "Look, I know it is hard to understand, but you are the mighty hero promised to save the world from Moloch, who's coming after yo-" was the last thing the weird ol' man with a witch hat and long stick said before you gunned him down with yer ol' shotgun Daisy. NO ONE enters your lawn!
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Family: Planned
Writing prompt [WP] It's 'Bring Your Kid to Work' day. Not many people in the lab had kids, so the ones that were brought were left alone while the researchers got back to work. 2 mischievous young kids left alone in a room in a super top secret organization research lab with 0 supervision. What could go wrong?
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Nothing Doing
Writing prompt [WP] You go for a walk on the beach one night and notice a boat near the shore. You approach the boat to find two passengers tied down and blindfolded. There's another problem, they don't look human.
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Two nights: Misunderstood
Writing prompt [WP] A fortune-teller tells you that you will die tonight. But it's the 21st century, so you forever take flights west so that the night never comes.
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Sharp Targetting
Writing prompt [WP] It's a gate to Hell. Legions of demons prepare to invade the mortal realm. You're an atheist; seeing little purpose in being stubborn, you start to wonder which god you might want to start worshipping before the end. Little do you know that the answer will surprise pretty much everyone.
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Damned. Node.
Writing prompt [WP] You were a pretty decent person during your life but unable to go to heaven, your only destination is hell. There's just one problem with that; as you descend you start to notice the unfathomable depth of water you're starting to sink into with no end in sight.
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Stellar Wingspan
Writing prompt [WP] Surprise, your co-worker is an angel.
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Binding Decision
Writing prompt [WP] You keep summoning demons and trying to make a deal on your soul. For some reason, they all keep refusing.
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Stone Revelations
Writing prompt [WP] Omniscience REALLY isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
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Princess Plethora
Writing prompt [WP] You're a princess kidnapped and locked away in a tower, which turns to be an old wizard tower. From the scraps left behind you start to learn magic until you've become so strong that you free yourself and start looking for your kidnapper to take revenge and help other kidnap victims.
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Solar Grace
Writing prompt [WP] All of humanity has been destroyed by a hostile force. You are the last survivor, captured and taken before their leader.
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Obfuscating the Problem
Writing prompt [WP] You were born with the ability to speak with, and control spiders. Now you just have to get over your arachnophobia...
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Death's Favorite
Writing prompt [WP] Your childhood playmate was Death.
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Sharp Advertising
Writing prompt [WP] You've played and replayed your favorite RPG until you have the script and choices memorized. Until your latest playthrough, when the childhood friend NPC sighed and filled the screen. "Aren't you tired of saving the world yet?"
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Sharp Claim
Writing prompt [WP] You are one of the first humans to land on Mars. The journey was long and boring. But finally looking out over the red landscape is...wow. Your colleagues are just as amazed. "Hey, you can see Earth from here!" one says. You look up to where he points. And the Earth explodes.
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Sharp Class
Writing prompt [WP] You can know someone's job by just looking at them. Most people are normal, from time to time you see an assassin or spy, today you saw a wizard.
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Alternate. Standard.
Writing prompt [WP] You accidentally found a weird video on Reddit that showed an elevator ritual claiming to be able to transport you to a parallel universe. You decided to try it out of sheer boredom and curiosity. Of course, it didn't work or so it seemed at first.
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Background. Disagreeable.
Writing prompt [WP] Dave from Accounting has a vast array of animated backgrounds which he uses in remote meetings - fae villages, moon bases, deep jungles, the bottom of the ocean, deep space... Lately, you've begun to suspect that these might not exactly be false backgrounds.
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Ambassador of Truth
Writing prompt [WP] While an alien vessel orbits Earth, a message is broadcasted. "Hello fellow universe dwellers. We are humans from a planet we call Earth. We come in peace". The message is in plain English.
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Super Dad
Writing prompt [WP] Superpowers are common, and many supers have trouble finding a job. You work for JobFinder, an agency specialising in finding jobs for specific supers that make use of their power. Sometimes it gets a bit weird.
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Watermelon-y
Writing prompt [WP] You are an aspiring talent that is quickly climbing the ranks of the League of heroes. Things change when the "Herokiller" appears. Powerful heroes are targeted and assassinated. As you dive into the history of the Herokiller you discover a massive league cover up.
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Sharp Doubt
Writing prompt [WP] An NPC in a strangely realistic VRMMORPG suddenly pulls you aside to tell you that all of the other NPCs are actually real people.
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Unique Destiny
Writing prompt [WP] You wake up feeling refreshed. As you're getting ready you notice some odd things. Your toothbrush is in the wrong place and your shampoo is different. While getting dressed your ID falls on the floor. As you're picking it up, you notice that your middle name has changed.
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Lucky. Star.
Writing prompt [WP] Scientists have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence.
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Super Disappointment
Writing prompt [WP] In a world filled with super heroes and villains there are only so many secret bases, hideouts and caves to go around, your job is not only to find those locations but sell them as well, you are a real estate agent for supers.
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Witchcraft. Watered down.
Writing prompt [WP] Burn the witch, they shouted as they tied her to the stake. She just laughed as fire was her ally, not an enemy.
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New Body. Same Stunts.
Writing prompt [WP] The insurance company promised that if you were injured, they would rebuild your body to your specifications. Unfortunately, your brother, the MMORPG fan, thought it was a lark and "designed" your new body to be a dead ringer of his character. You find this out when you wake up...
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Waking to Whispers
Writing prompt [WP] It's been over an hour since you were bit, and you still haven't turned into a zombie. You've also been oddly nonchalant about the whole thing. Your group is starting to suspect you weren't human to begin with.
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Time for Change
Writing prompt [WP] Time thieves are individuals who travel through time to steal priceless artifacts. Time cops travel through time to stop such individuals. You're neither, you just like to create little discrepancies in history to mess with both.
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Love and Privacy
Writing prompt [WP] "I can explain!" your daughter says when you catch her in costume as the world's most wanted villain.
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Incredible Welcome
Writing prompt [WP] After months of trying, you've finally gotten a sit-down interview with Captain Incredible. He's the world's greatest superhero, and possibly the most self-absorbed asshole you've ever met.
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Lot of Destiny
Writing prompt [WP] You've lost your way and you park the car in an empty store parking lot to figure out the GPS. Suddenly, a black SUV pulls up in the parking lot next to you.
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Controlled. Burn.
Writing prompt [WP] Every citizen must enter the lottery when they turn 18. Those chosen each year are sacrificed to mother nature to preserve balance through population control.
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Reality Check
Writing prompt [WP] Your reward was a second of omniscience.
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Sally's Day
Writing prompt [WP] The one day when life finally decided to give you a break.
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OoC
Writing prompt [WP] "All the destruction I've wrout! The people i"ve killed! What could you possibly have that could stop me?" "her." "you'd send a child to face me?" He just smirked and gestured with his chin. "Yep. Suzy: Get him."
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Truth Seeking
Writing prompt [WP] A tense silence filled the room. The White House Science Advisor cleared his throat. "I can now confirm," he nodded, "that Alpha Centauri A and B and Proxima Centauri have all disappeared. We do not know how this is possible or what has happened, but the entire star system...has gone."
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7 Minutes of Heaven
Writing prompt [WP] You can "pull" people from the past, but only for a total of seven minutes. If they stay in the present any longer than that, someone nearby is thrown back in their place, and both are stuck in their new time periods.
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Present Choice
Writing prompt [WP] It's been a pretty typical day until you come home and see your parents waiting for you on the couch. They tell you hi as usual but this time they tell you this: "Son, we have something to tell you..." What do they have to tell you?
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Charlie's Problem
Writing prompt [WP] You're a talent agent/manager for up-and-coming Heroes, setting them up with relevantly-experienced mentors, sponsorship deals, location reassignments, etc. Your latest client may be your toughest assignment yet, given their rather unusual powerset.
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Stellar Reveal
Writing prompt You are part of an agency that tracks down unregistered magical girls/boys to train and register them in the system or to arrest them if they are uncooperative.
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Untitled story · 2021-06-20
Before Oz could pose a question, a flash of black covered his vision. His mind was confused as to whether he blinked or not; but, suddenly the park was slightly different. The trees were taller than moments ago; the port
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Sun & Games
Original prompt heading Smash ‘Em Up Sunday: Bound by System.
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Solar Celebration
Writing prompt You wake up a normal summer day. Everything feels normal until you check the date. 32.07.2021.
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Strolling through Paradise
Writing prompt A new park opened for the wealthy called zombie apocalypse. You need to fight zombies to stay alive and find the antidote. The winning team gets a huge sum of money. But if you die, you return to your real life unharmed. You can only participate once each year.
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Zero Waiting
Writing prompt A person finds a computer, and upon opening up one of its tabs, find that he can edit, remove, or add aspects to any object in the universe.
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