The SST AlterNet
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Stellar Tour · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-26
Writing prompt[WP] You're a 42-year-old mom that has already seen some crap and is totally out of figs to give. Now you've just learned you are "the chosen one"...
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Source date: 2021-06-25
Writing prompt[WP] Of all the wishes you could've had; a coke and some hot chips were almost as dumb as your third wish. Now, having enjoyed your five-minute snack, you have to deal with the fallout of your third wish.
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Source date: 2021-06-24
Writing prompt[WP] You are the hero of the town, saving lives and beating up thugs to stop the villain's plan. However, you're also the villain of the city, creating the plans that you'll foil when you're pretending to be the hero so that the citizens would freely give you anything you ask for.
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Source date: 2021-06-23
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-06-22
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-06-21
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up a normal summer day. Everything feels normal until you check the date. 32.07.2021
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Source date: 2021-06-20
Original prompt heading[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Bound by System
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Source date: 2021-06-20
Original prompt heading[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Bound by System
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Source date: 2021-06-19
Writing prompt[WP] You are part of an agency that tracks down unregistered magical girls/boys tot rain and register them in the system or to arrest them if they are uncooperative.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-18
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-17
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?
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-16
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-15
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."
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-14
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."
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-13
Writing prompt[WP] The one day when life finally decided to give you a break.
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Source date: 2021-06-12
Writing prompt[WP] Your reward was a second of omniscience.
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Source date: 2021-06-11
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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Source date: 2021-06-10
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-09
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-08
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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Source date: 2021-06-07
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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Source date: 2021-06-06
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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Source date: 2021-06-05
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...
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-04
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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Source date: 2021-06-03
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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Source date: 2021-06-02
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-06-01
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-05-31
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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Source date: 2021-05-30
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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Source date: 2021-05-29
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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Source date: 2021-05-28
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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Source date: 2021-05-27
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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Source date: 2021-05-26
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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Source date: 2021-05-25
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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Source date: 2021-05-24
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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Source date: 2021-05-23
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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Source date: 2021-05-22
Writing prompt[WP] Your childhood playmate was Death.
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Source date: 2021-05-21
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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Source date: 2021-05-20
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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Source date: 2021-05-19
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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Source date: 2021-05-18
Writing prompt[WP] Omniscience REALLY isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
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Source date: 2021-05-17
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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Source date: 2021-05-16
Writing prompt[WP] Surprise, your co-worker is an angel.
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Source date: 2021-05-15
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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Source date: 2021-05-14
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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Source date: 2021-05-13
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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Source date: 2021-05-12
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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Source date: 2021-05-11
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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