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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-14
Writing prompt[WP] You are a young boy of a tribe of humanoid creatures in a video game. The main characters, who are considered the "good guys," are known to slaughter your people indiscriminately. One day, you find your entire family killed.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-13
Writing prompt[WP] It started with Tupperware. Leftover food containers would just accumulate in your cupboard. Then you started seeing Tupperware you didn't recognize. Then buttons, socks, and receipts. Then larger things. There is a nexus of lost objects growing in your cupboard, and it's getting more powerful.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-12
Writing prompt[WP] A constant war between magic-bearers and firearm-wielders is raging all across the globe for years. You, a small bar owner, is thankful that restaurants and bars are a neutral zone. You never knew why it was so, until one guest decided to break the truce.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-11
Writing prompt[WP] You always were able to see numbers above people's heads. Most of the time they're 0, sometimes they're 1 or even 2 or 3. Your new girlfriend has a number of 7 billion.
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Source date: 2020-10-10
Writing prompt[WP] After running the best cafe in your small town, you've come to learn everyone's names, stories and faces. Then one night when all is quiet and you're cleaning up, the hooded figure of death comes in, and takes a seat..
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Source date: 2020-10-09
Writing prompt[WP] Someone is dying in an alleyway, you find them and scream for help, no one comes. You don't have a phone. You kneel down, and he pulls you closer to him, he whispers his death wish in your ear, terrified, you run away. Ten years later you have the opportunity to fulfill the wish.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-08
Writing prompt[WP] Over millennia of existence you have earned many titles, Hellspawn, Cursed Wanderer, Wretched Abomination, Scourge of the Holy but most importantly to you Good Husband and Number 1 dad.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-10-07
Writing prompt[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross paths with the same man again.
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Source date: 2020-10-06
Writing prompt[WP] You decide to try out a new cafe. You get your latte and sit outside. A few minutes later, a hooded stranger sits down across from you. Startled, you look up, only to find your own face staring back at you.
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Source date: 2020-10-05
Writing prompt[WP] You live in an advanced society that has a working 'fast travel' teleportation system After saving up, you finally get a used module installed in your home. When you boot it up to personalize the teleportation points, you find a curiously-named destination pre-loaded with no description.
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Source date: 2020-10-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are a superhero who is in love with the villain. You're willing to do whatever it takes to be together; even if it means switching sides.
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Source date: 2020-10-03
Writing prompt[WP] After your parents found an alien baby from ship, they decided to make them part of the family. You've always hated your extraterrestrial sibling, so you plan to expose him to the government so they can take him away.
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Source date: 2020-10-02
Writing prompt[WP] Your super power has been listed as 'Death Ward'. Anytime something would kill you, you temporarily develop a super power that allows you to survive. Each time you gain a power it only lasts a few minutes, making you highly unpredictable but unfortunately unable to master any of your abilities.
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Source date: 2020-10-01
Writing prompt[WP] You ran out of milk today so decided to grab some more, meanwhile your roommate is staring in horror as you casually tear open a hole in spacetime to grab a bottle of fresh milk.
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Source date: 2020-09-30
Writing prompt[WP] Between 1945 and 65, every Nation except the U.S. was destroyed. The government found a way to make people forget it happened and a way to simulate the existence of the outside world. You found all this out yesterday afternoon. Today you were told something more shocking.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-29
Writing prompt[WP] A giant meteorite is about to hit Earth. It suddenly disappears seconds before entering the atmosphere.
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Source date: 2020-09-27
Writing prompt[WP] You're not a good villain. Not because you don't have the ability to be a good villain, but because you put in so little effort into committing crime.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-26
Writing prompt[WP] You're attempting to summon a demon but have run out of salt for the summoning circle and decide to substitute it with sugar.
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Source date: 2020-09-25
Writing prompt[WP] Your super power is you may choose for people to forget you exist as soon as they're not looking directly at you. Due to the specifics of how you live your life, this makes your day to day much easier and you keep it "on" as a default. Today you realise someone *does* remember you.
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Source date: 2020-09-24
Writing prompt[WP] You live in an 80s television show, but you're not the main character. Every time an episode ends, it ends with a freezeframe to music. However, once the freeze frame ends, you wake up in your bed the next day - you're the only one who seems to notice this.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-23
Writing prompt[WP] You're being transferred to a new school, but the school is very different from other schools you've been transferred to.
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Source date: 2020-09-22
Writing prompt[WP] You are inexplicably swapped with yourself from a parallel world. Things are mostly similar but for a few differences. Mainly, the fact that you are well liked and have a loving significant other. You desperately try to act like your otherworld self to keep these unexpected gifts.
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Source date: 2020-09-21
Writing prompt[WP] The year is 2732 after waking up to your annoyingly loud alarm clock you turn on the TV and see the words "Universal Success: Scientist and Astronauts find a way to successfully enter black holes". You yawn, aware that they are about to be surprised as to what awaits them on the other side.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-20
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to tell when people die based on the amount of color surrounding them. People with a long time left to live appear in full color, while people who are dying slowly fade to black and white. One day, all the color around you disappears in an instant.
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Source date: 2020-09-19
Writing prompt[WP] You're from a family of time travelers. Your parents send you to school in the past. Because time is immutable, you know exactly how your classmates' lives will turn out.
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Source date: 2020-09-18
Writing prompt[WP] Some days even the devil sits back to admire my handiwork.
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Source date: 2020-09-17
Writing prompt[WP] Explain what, how, and who made the Devil cry.
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Source date: 2020-09-16
Writing prompt[WP] You are a bystander who lives in a world where groups of people sometimes break out into song with choreographed dances. You don't know how or why this happens.
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Source date: 2020-09-15
Writing prompt[WP] After the Earth suddenly exploded, the astronauts in the ISS have lived on the station for months. After all the food has run out, the group gets increasingly erratic.
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Source date: 2020-09-14
Writing prompt[WP] Humanity have been uploading themselves fora few years now as a means to escape death, however their immortality might be short lived as a particularly strong solar flare seems to have corrupted some people's data.
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Source date: 2020-09-13
Writing prompt[WP] It's 2045, and cybernetic augmentation is the new normal. Everyone has at least one augment, whether it be something small like an eye or something large like their spine. Everyone, except you. You're the only pure human in a world of cyborgs.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-12
Writing prompt[WP] We have no idea what it means, but we all noticed it. The sun flickered today.
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Source date: 2020-09-11
Writing prompt[WP] You knew you could see potential in that kid who bought that old beat up six string guitar. After all, it's not every day you see someone with stars in his eyes.
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Source date: 2020-09-10
Writing prompt[WP] You take a time machine forward in time...but the tech level seems to be medieval. You assume that it's a mistake, but then get proved wrong.
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Source date: 2020-09-09
Writing prompt[WP] A mistake happened and you died before you were supposed to. To make it up to you you are offered to be reincarnated. On top of that you are offered otherwise unavailable options.
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Source date: 2020-09-08
Writing prompt[WP] Your job at the grocery store I completely average. Absolutely nothing happens. Really! It's not interesting, nor is it painful. Nothing weird ever happens, no strange customers, nothing. It's all completely average.
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Source date: 2020-09-07
Writing prompt[WP] Can your phone give you superpowers? Ever wonder what it's like to have super strength? Lightning speed? How about the power of levitation? Or maybe you just want to open that stubborn jar? Lift the couch while the husband's at work? Look no further, cell phone users. There's an app for that.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-06
Writing prompt[WP] They sigh as the coffee cup bites them when they touched it. This mimic infestation is really getting out of hand.
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Source date: 2020-09-05
Writing prompt[WP] You wake to find yourself in hospital. As you start your recovery, you seem to have some strange abilities you didn't have before...
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Source date: 2020-09-04
Writing prompt[WP] You and your supervillain nemesis both know each other's secret identities. You've set a truce when the costumes are off, though, your mutual and unaware friends keep trying to set the two of you up.
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Source date: 2020-09-03
Writing prompt[WP] A supervillain and superhero fall in love... 10 years later, they're going through a divorce.
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Source date: 2020-09-02
Writing prompt[WP] You are stuck in a timeloop reliving one day. This time everything went off scenario and you heard a door knock. You see a strange man with a suitcase who claims he can help you. His help though wasn't something you expected.
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Source date: 2020-09-01
Writing prompt[WP] The aliens knew exactly where to hit us. Then we realize they look exactly like us and even speak English. These aren't aliens...they're humans from the future, and they're invading present-day Earth. We don't know how or why.
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Source date: 2020-08-31
Writing prompt[WP] You are a secret government agent. You travel to a small town to document their way of life with pictures. When you try to identify them using your software, you find out that none of them actually exist.
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Source date: 2020-08-30
Writing prompt[WP] You're a necromancer that has been run out of every town you've ever settled in for being who you are. You wipe tears out of your eyes as you did a deep hole, finding solace in your work. Your shovel bangs against bones and you stop, tears suddenly forgotten. Dinosaur bones. Now they'll pay.
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Source date: 2020-08-29
Writing prompt[WP] You are an immortal, but not the standard sort. Whenever you die you reawaken as your past self on the first day of high-school. This is your 999th repeated life and for the first time something is different.
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Source date: 2020-08-28
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to hop into Video Games, and hop out at will, and being able to bring stuff out from those worlds. You work with a group of heroes on a daily. One day, you gotta explain how and why you're stuck inside a Dating Sim.
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Source date: 2020-08-27
Writing prompt[WP] A loanshark becomes increasingly concerned with the extreme lengths his/er client is going to so they can pay up on time.
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