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Sharp Updates
Writing prompt With a device to view and travel to an infinite number of alternate universes, you travel to the one and only universe with a different value for pi.
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Arc dates: September 6, 2021 – June 5, 2022. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
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Information Hazard
Writing prompt You're the leader of the first human colony established on Mars. At least that's what you set your sights on. You and five other crew members work hard each day to make sure that in 6 years time Mars will be ready for the next human visitors. It's only day one and you're already going insane.
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Sharp Patch
Writing prompt The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for working at a pawn shop that deals exclusively in cursed and enchanted items.
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Sharp Priority
Writing prompt Your character has been accused of witchcraft and has to defend their innocence or else get burnt at the stake.
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Erroneous Identity
Writing prompt Every day you are given a tally of events. Steps taken, words spoken, people seen, criminals passed... Last night as you review the list you see "World destroyers seen: 1" and now you are trying to retrace your steps and see when it comes up again.
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Sharp Design
Writing prompt After centuries in development, scientists finally created a sentient AI capable of answering life's biggest questions. A scientist came up to it and asked: "Is there a God?" The AI turned towards them, and after a brief pause, replied: "There is now."
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Sharp Origin
Writing prompt There are two types of people in this world, and I'm not one of them.
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Zero Invite
Writing prompt You overhear a conversation about a secret Halloween party and the password to get in, then decide to show up. After you arrive, you realize why it was a secret.
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Sun Seeking Fun
Writing prompt You've done it, you've pulled off the perfect kidnapping but when your victim wakes up from their drugged state, their first reaction is not the expected fear, nor the understandable confusion, no, the first words out of their mouth are " oh, dear, I have gotten rusty, haven't I"
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Killer. Spider.
Writing prompt In order to complete your final exam of Slasher School, you have to kill five people. You come across a group of teenagers partying in the woods and think that this will be the easiest exam you've ever taken. You were wrong.
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Sharp Effort
Writing prompt The Demon had fulfilled your contract, and now it was time for you to pay up. "Bring forth your first born, it is mine!" The demon hissed. You gestured to the grave at your feet, saying, " He is here. What remains is yours."
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Tama's... Song?
Writing prompt "I told you not to come back," said the Mob Boss as you sat tied to a chair surrounded by his thugs. "Now wes are going to have to choreographically explain in song why it was a bad idea. Hit it boys..."
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Sharp Revision
Writing prompt It's been 3 years since the internet went down. You're roaming around an abandoned city. You take a break, and decide to turn on your trusty smartphone to look at pictures of your past. Except this time, you have cell signal when you turn it on, and one notification... "System Update Available".
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Lunar Memory
Writing prompt An ancient dragon sleeps in its cave expecting to only be woken by thieves or would be heroes, what it doesn't expect is a child pleading for help.
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Scared? May be.
Writing prompt Your boss at the nightclub is a genuinely great guy. He sponsored your college tuition, let you chill in the VIP lounge, and got your dad to sober up with a heart-to-heart. You think you might have had the wrong impression of people with giant bat wings, crimson red skin, and fire breath.
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Personal Priority
Writing prompt You make a deal with the devil in order to save the only person you've ever truly loved.
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Ruinous Announcement
Writing prompt In the future, A.I. that have their own thoughts and feelings and emotions have been developed. You're the priest who's officiating the first marriage between a human being and an A.I.
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Vampiric Precedent
Writing prompt The President of the United States as been turned into a vampire you are secret service who swore an oath to protect him with your very life so you can't stake him luckily there are protocols for this type of thing.
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Widget Wanted
Writing prompt Demons, elves, orcs, and every other race knows to come to you for any kind of device. Turns out, a Master's in engineering is quite useful in a world of magic and middle ages' technology. One day, you meet the first human since you came here.
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Earthen Secrets
Writing prompt You woke up after a long nap and found yourself alone in the classroom. You remember that it's still the morning, yet the room had dimmed despite the windows don't have neither curtains nor blinds. You walked up to a nearby window, and there you finally knew why.
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Turbo Administrator
Writing prompt You say goodbye to your friends before you log off after playing a VRMMORPG for 5 hours. Taking off your VR headset, you are surprised to find out everyone on Earth is dead except you. You start to wonder who your VR friends really are if humanity is really gone.
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Treasured Pet
Writing prompt Describe your morning routine with your pet.
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Angry Princess
Writing prompt The vampire knew it had made a miscalculation when its prey placed it in a head lock, in a feat of supernatural speed the vampire himself could not match. It began to laugh at him.
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Loved Princess
Writing prompt We've all encountered targeted ads, with ads mentioning people in your city, your interests, etc. Recently, however, they've been getting unnervingly specific; your ads now feel like they're speaking directly to you.
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Fresh Message
Writing prompt A week after becoming president, you are approached by two secret service agents and told to follow. You arrive at a deserted warehouse, and after passing some hidden security measures, a door opens. An elevator. Down. At the bottom, a rusty sign: "Extraterrestrial Containment Program".
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T's Virus
Writing prompt A zombie apocalypse happens on Earth, though severe the virus always wears off after a few days despite no antidote existing. Now dare devils, streamers, and adrenaline junkies turn into zombies for the ultimate thrill.
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Faith. Ruined.
Writing prompt You are part of an organization that fights Vampires, werewolves, and other abominations that all vie for power in this city of light. Tonight however you come across one of these beings protecting an innocent child from a group of abominations and you choose to help.
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Turbo Friendship
Writing prompt A kid with a villainous-sounding name tries desperately to change it and avoid his destiny.
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Unique Resource
Writing prompt In an instant countless millions of lives were annihilated, cities reduced to ash and cinder, entire nations wiped off the face ofthe planet. All in all everything went as well as it possibly could have.
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Infectious Personality
Writing prompt Plot/setting details optional, just write about a character defeating their way through a horde of mooks/henchmen/etc...
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Fun In Games
Writing prompt The heroes finally make it to the final battle. The Dark Lord who has been sealed away for thousands of years is about to be reborn into the world. It gets awkward when a little boy crawls out of the coffin and asks, "Do you know where my mommy is?"
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Handy Friend
Writing prompt Your superpower is the ability to travel in time just by touching an historic building. You travel through time trying to find someone with the superpower to bring you back to your own time.
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Inviting Opportunity
Writing prompt You've just graduated from Wizard University. Now What?
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Sunny Introduction
Writing prompt You've finally completed your quest to become the worst-smelling person on Earth.
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Stellar Kindness
Writing prompt A group of astronauts walk close to their base on Mars investigating the activity seen on their radar. Eventually they approach the source of the activity. Although hard to make out in the distance they can see a solitary figure standing next to an unfamiliar flag.
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Sharp Interference
Writing prompt The local kook, your friend, has died. In his will he lists you as sole beneficiary of his ramshackle shack at the edge of town. While digging through it, you begin to realize that he wasn't half as crazy as people thought, that dimensional travel was in fact possible.
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Adrift on Land
Writing prompt The life suit's systems and AI will keep you alive indefinitely - which is great, unless you're endlessly adrift in space with no hope of rescue - so you need to somehow convince the overly-protective AI to stop saving your life.
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Extinction Event
Writing prompt The AI absorbed the information from millions of mechanical eyes staring out over the scorched, frozen earth, coated in a layer of ash from the third Great War. It had successfully located and destroyed the last human remnants. So what was it's purpose now?
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Turbo on the Trail
Writing prompt When everyone disappeared from the face of the earth, you were prepared. You had even made an excellent survival plan that was going splendidly. What you weren't prepared for was to find the shelves restocked, and electricity and wifi still working 1 month after the event.
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Solar Buddies
Writing prompt 12 years into being owner of the best dog you could ever ask for, you wake up one morning, walk downstairs and see him attentively looking out the window in an unusual demeanor for him. Owner; "What's up buddy, you ok?" Dog: "It's time."
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Bolt Gonna Bolt
Writing prompt The United States decides to shut down every branch of the military. $750 billion USD/year gets redistributed to other programs, but there's no longer an armed defense.
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Turbo's Timing
Writing prompt You got summoned as a hero, complete with the OP powers. As it turns out, the human king is a jerk. The demon king isn't any better either. You decide to kidnap both of them and lock them in the same room to talk it out.
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Mysterious Ways
Writing prompt Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney got married despite the protests of the townspeople. At the end of their wedding dance, Mrs. Sweeney looked over Mr. Sweeney's shoulder and screamed. Hell ensued.
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Stellar Upgrade
Writing prompt One day without warning, you are transported to a parallel universe where everything looks the same... except for the fact that your best friend never existed.
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Hell of a Trade
Writing prompt At the crossroads at midnight, you can meet the devil. He'll fulfill any wish... for a price. You figured out that the soul you sell doesn't have to be your own, you just have to "own" it.
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Turbo Surprise
Writing prompt After a lifetime of wondering, you make a post in ELI5: "Why do the giant creatures that move around in the fog never come out when it's clear?" All the commenters have no idea what you're talking about. Except one.
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12.9.21 [Slumbering at Work]
Writing prompt "So you're telling me I'm the chosen one destined to save your island from destruction?" Said the man in awe and excitement. "Yes, I've been waiting for you all this time." Said the native actress in charge of a tourist trap designed specifically for rich tourists with a white knight complex.
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Freewheelin' Sun
Writing prompt I've always been invisible, an outsider, a spectator. I function like any other human, except I'm not physically here. No one can hear, see or smell me. I'm like a gho- "Young Lady! What are you doing roaming the streets this late at night? It's not safe for you, ya know?"
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