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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-23
Writing prompt[WP] You had been sick for weeks, then eventually you croaked. You thought you had just fallen asleep and woken up, but upon opening your eyes again you find yourself in some 80s looking office with a single desk, and on it sat a ringing rotary phone.
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Source date: 2019-09-22
Writing prompt[WP] Your best friend calls you up in the dead of night, asking you to meet them deep in the forest. You expect they'll ask you to help bury a body. But when you get there, what you find defies all expectations.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-21
Writing prompt[WP] You technically operate an illegal, underground bar/clinic/therapy center. However, no one bothers you because its for supers. Describe a day listening to the woes and achievements of heroes, villains, and supers just trying to get by as you serve them liquor or patch them up.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-20
Writing prompt[WP] The world we live in is a simulation used to rehabilitate prisoners. You have just been paroled.
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Source date: 2019-09-19
Writing prompt[WP] Billy brings his grandpa to show and tell. Grandpa is a retired government spook who knows the truth behind all the secrets and conspiracies. Grandpa decides to tell.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-18
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up one day in an almost perfect replica of your bedroom, almost. You opened the door to find an empty white corridor stretching for miles and miles either way.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-17
Writing prompt[WP] A young couple moves into an apartment block and meet an old man who tells a story about the residents of the building.
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Source date: 2019-09-16
Writing prompt[WP] There exists a Master of Spiders. Spiders are naturally attracted to them, won't ever harm the master, and will accept their commands. The last master has just died and you have been chosen to take their place. Only problem is you're arachnophobic.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-15
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-09-14
Writing prompt[WP] A dragon has kidnapped your grandmother. You grab your sword and track it down, only to find them seated around a fire eating freshly baked cookies.
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Source date: 2019-09-13
Writing prompt[WP] You've known since childhood that you could use magic. But a mishap with your powers has left you blind and terrified of your own abilities. Everything changes however, when you meet a wizard who tells you that not only can he train you. But with your powers you will be able to "see" again.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-12
Writing prompt[WP] The worst criminal ever, every time they open a legitimate front for their illegitimate business, the legitimate business does better than the illegal one.
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Source date: 2019-09-11
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to learn anyone's skills or experience just by touching them. You try it on a chef, a programmer, and a star athlete. Everything changes when a mob sends a Hitman after your power and you touch him.
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Source date: 2019-09-10
Writing prompt[WP] Because you're lazy, you made a wish that everything you need a day will be prepared in the morning in order to go to school/work on time. You got something weird today.
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Source date: 2019-09-09
Writing prompt[WP] Time loops are always interesting... until someone walks up to you and says that they're looping and they want your help. It's even worse when you take into account that they're an asshole who's made life miserable for you.
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Source date: 2019-09-08
Writing prompt[WP] *Something* just broke containment at the top secret research facility you work at. You've shut yourself in your dorm room as the entire compound goes into lock down. But as you pass your bedroom, you hear something move in your closet.
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Source date: 2019-09-07
Writing prompt[WP] The guild has posted its newest batch of quests. There are the normal monsters and the "Sue really needs this medication" but a new one catches your eye - there's no description just a time and place and the reward.
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Source date: 2019-09-06
Writing prompt[WP] The internet can now connect to millions of alternate realities! After finding out about this your phone buzzes, and when you check to see it, you've been invited into a group chat of other versions of yourself!
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Source date: 2019-09-05
Writing prompt[WP] As you watch the news, you see an image of protesters with signs that say "There is no Earth 2!" You smile to yourself and wonder what they would do if they knew they were already on Earth 19.
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Source date: 2019-09-04
Writing prompt[WP] The Earth has finally run out of fossil fuels to use as energy and, with the only other option being to turn to clean and renewable energy sources, the U.S. has decided to take drastic measures: trying to reach into alternate dimensions to find oil and other fossil fuels.
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Source date: 2019-09-03
Writing prompt[WP] "In this job, you get one a year. Once you hit 5, you get no more until you use them" said your new boss. "But what are they for?" you ask. He just winks and walks away.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-02
Writing prompt[SP] You've come to realize she's not entirely human. You've also come to realize you love her.
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Source date: 2019-09-01
Writing prompt[WP] You're out in public, idly playing through old childhood memories, and smile as a familiar old thought resurfaces, and you think to yourself if perhaps you're the only one who can't read minds? Everybody around you stops, and stares in your direction.
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Source date: 2019-08-31
Writing prompt[WP] At the end of everyone's life, their soul goes to the afterlife or next step of the cycle of the religion they followed. You never explicitly followed any religion, but always believed in life after death in some form. Your time finally comes.
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Source date: 2019-08-30
Writing prompt[WP] While you're looking for classes for this college semester, you come across one that you haven't heard of before in the College of Arts catalog: MGC 101 - Intro to Basic Arcanum.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-08-29
Writing prompt[WP] Breaking News: All life on Earth will be destroyed by a meteor to hit earth... in exactly one year.
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Source date: 2019-08-28
Writing prompt[WP] Since you were a child you've had the capability of freezing time. You've mostly used it to sleep and read as much as you want. one day on your time frozen bike ride home, you notice someone else riding their bike as well. You make eye contact and they quickly ride away.
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Source date: 2019-08-27
Writing prompt[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called "Will I go to hell and why dot com". Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe."
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-08-26
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday
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Source date: 2019-08-25
Writing prompt[WP] You are a powerful warlord, feared by all. You receive news that a 10-year-old girl is somehow tearing through all your armies like they're made of wet paper. Shortly after your messenger tells you this, the door collapses in a cloud of dust, and said girl steps out.
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Source date: 2019-08-24
Writing prompt[WP] Civilization has finally found the means to exit our universe and into another. You are apart of the first to enter into another universe and you find on the other side...
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Source date: 2019-08-23
Writing prompt[WP] As you sit idly in a park staring into nothing, you suddenly see a figure appear out of nowhere under the shade of a tree. They look around furtively for a moment then begin to walk off.
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Source date: 2019-08-22
Writing prompt[WP] In an endless city, you are an urban explorer. One day, you enter an abandoned warehouse, and what you find is unlike anything you have ever seen before.
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Source date: 2019-08-21
Writing prompt[WP] The most quiet kid in your class had gone missing for the past month. But when you were mugged in the street, you were saved by someone who resembled the quiet kid - even though they were clad in a cape and bodysuit.
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Source date: 2019-08-20
Writing prompt[WP] Every screen in the world broadcasts the same message: "This concludes Simulation No.01843. In accordance with federal guidelines on the humane treatment of simulation participants, you will now have 24 hours to say goodbye to your loved ones. Thank you for your participation."
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Source date: 2019-08-19
Writing prompt[WP] You're an average office worker, other than the fact you can see how dangerous someone is by a scale of 1-10 above their head. 1 being an infant, 6 being a skilled soldier with a firearm. One day a new coworker arrives and everyone seems to like him. Above his head, is the number 10.
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Source date: 2019-08-18
Writing prompt[WP] Your dad has always anxiously checked his watch in the evening since you can remember. As soon as it turns 6:59, he bolts downstairs to the basement. After his death, you head down to the basement to see what you've been missing. The next thing you know, a portal opens in front of you.
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Source date: 2019-08-17
Writing prompt[WP] An immortal girl traveling the world just exploring from place to place. She can't stay in the same place for too long because people get suspicious of her so she lives in a new place every 25 years or so. She looks like a teenager, even though she's hundreds of years old.
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Source date: 2019-08-16
Writing prompt[WP] Years ago, you were granted a wish to commit any crime without being caught. Now, tired of how easy it is to get away with anything, you entertain yourself by trying as hard as possible to get someone to notice you breaking the law.
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Source date: 2019-08-15
Writing prompt[WP] After several hours of fighting through the dungeon and into the final chamber. The heroes begin fighting the last minions and the Evil Wizard himself. "Hold on, one moment! Time-Out!" the Evil Wizard declared. "My staff isn't working, just... give me a moment to talk to tech support."
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Source date: 2019-08-14
Writing prompt[WP] Your S/O is a superhero, with a secret identity. Not to keep you safe from enemies, but to keep them safe from you. The latest arch-enemy just learned the secret identity. And they're coming.
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Source date: 2019-08-13
Writing prompt[WP] You start noticing something is off about your friends and family. You aren't quite sure what it is at first, but once you realise, the terror sinks in.
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Source date: 2019-08-12
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-08-11
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world where every person has a unique ability. The most famous of these in your town is the grave keeper who has the ability to see the future. One day, you visit the cemetery and see 50+ empty graves being set up.
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Source date: 2019-08-10
Writing prompt[WP] Interdimensional travel has become well established. For the most part you ignore it, but today interdimensional police have brought in you and several other versions of you to help them arrest another version of you that is a criminal mastermind.
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Source date: 2019-08-09
Writing prompt[WP] You fall asleep on a train. You wake up to an announcement: "Welcome to Hell. This is our last stop, thank you for using our services."
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Source date: 2019-08-08
Writing prompt[WP] It's the year 2121. Everyone is lean and dietary related health problems have been eliminated. Cooking in any form has been forbidden by the government. Your virtual assistant appears in a hologram, reminding you to eat as your pills drop in front of you. But all you really want is a burger.
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Source date: 2019-08-07
Writing prompt[WP] A drunk master poet and his friends try to court some ladies and impress them with their skills. They fail miserably.
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