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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-05-10
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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Source date: 2021-05-09
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.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-05-08
Writing prompt[WP] A wizard turns people into marble to pass as a genius sculptor.
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Source date: 2021-05-07
Writing prompt[WP] Your hacker friend has just developed a demon summoning app, and you're one of the beta testers.
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Source date: 2021-05-06
Writing prompt[WP] A female agent has been tasked with extracting information from a male target without force and assassinating him once she has the wanted intel. The agent knows that the target is extremely lonely however and she decides to gain the intel through befriending him.
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Source date: 2021-05-05
Writing prompt[WP] A sentient robot resides in a junkyard to hide from society, which is largely against robot sentience. One day, the robot spots two humans abandon their infant in a cradle, placed deep within the junkyard. The robot decides to adopt the infant, despite its current living conditions.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-05-04
Writing prompt[WP] You can hear what nearby people listen through their headphone or similar stuff.
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Source date: 2021-05-03
Writing prompt[WP] Your significant other has been acting rather suspicious lately. Today, you set out to find the truth. You weren't prepared to find out that they're a robot sent from another planet.
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Source date: 2021-05-02
Writing prompt[WP] You’re a maid who just helped your mistress escape the castle/manor/mansion to be swept away by her one true love. After you watch them ride off into the sunset, what happens to you?
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2021-05-01
Writing prompt[WP] Today, you witness the wrath of a living god.
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Source date: 2021-04-30
Writing prompt[WP] The day before being sent to war your character writes a letter to his future self. Many years later your character finds the letter and decides to read it.
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Source date: 2021-04-29
Writing prompt[WP] Humans are not at the top of the food chain. Vampires are real, but obviously, they are intelligent enough not to hunt humanity into extinction. Actually 'death by a vampire' is only the fourth leading cause of death in developed countries after heart attacks, cancer and accidents.
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Source date: 2021-04-28
Writing prompt[WP] You are diving in the ocean when you encounter a cuttlefish, which starts flashing at you in a strange pattern. After a few moments, you realize the cuttlefish is flashing morse code at you.
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Source date: 2021-04-27
Writing prompt[WP] You are part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time.
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Source date: 2021-04-26
Writing prompt[WP] You wish you were never born and in an "It's a Wonderful Life" fashion an angel comes and shows around how what would happen if you never existed however to your surprise you see that someone has taken over your life.
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Source date: 2021-04-25
Writing prompt[WP] One day everyone wakes up to a tarot card symbol tattooed on their wrist. Yours is "The Fool".
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Source date: 2021-04-24
Writing prompt[WP] The new admissions guy at the Evil School of Supervillains messed up the papers, mistakenly sending an invite to the school to the leading Super Hero's children.
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Source date: 2021-04-23
Writing prompt[WP] Ever since you were born you have been unable to hear lies, every time someone lies your ears buzz. This has made you one of the best detectives in your city. You just arrested a guy who claims to be 'The grand wizard of Atzurius'.
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Source date: 2021-04-22
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world with superheroes. You're 20 can make small flames. You're searching for a job when you find a post from an elderly couple that are looking for someone that can heat their boiler.
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Source date: 2021-04-22
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world with superheroes. You're 20 can make small flames. You're searching for a job when you find a post from an elderly couple that are looking for someone that can heat their boiler.
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Source date: 2021-04-21
Writing prompt[WP] You try to sell your soul to the devil but he doesn't seem interested in yours.
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Source date: 2021-04-20
Writing prompt[WP] You sit down to enjoy your coffee, and decide to write a story. You finish the last paragraph of your story about a girl who leads a normal life, until she meets a strange man in a bar. Then, you wait. After some time, someone taps your shoulder. "Excuse me, is this seat taken?" asks a girl.
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Source date: 2021-04-19
Writing prompt[WP] For 20 years, your spa resort in the middle of the city has remained untouched amidst the chaos of battle between superheroes and villains. This is because your ability, as the spa owner, levels the playing field. You nullify everyone else's powers, creating a neutral ground for both parties.
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Source date: 2021-04-18
Writing prompt[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. "If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you're any better than him?" Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump.
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Source date: 2021-04-17
Writing prompt[WP] From the night of one's 15th birthday, they will see a red string that leads to their soul mate. On your 15th birthday, you notice that the long awaited string is not red - and instead, black.
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Source date: 2021-04-16
Writing prompt[WP] You saved the princess. While traveling back to the kingdom, she starts to open up to you, and you start to realize you're taking her from one cage to another.
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Source date: 2021-04-15
Writing prompt[WP] Superheroes are real, but not fighting big cosmic threats or even criminals. Instead, they have a company where they rent themselves as bodyguards.
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Source date: 2021-04-14
Writing prompt[WP] When aliens arrive on Earth they abduct every single person on Earth except you, and you spend the rest of your life thinking of why you were rejected.
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Source date: 2021-04-13
Writing prompt[WP] Your family are doomsday preppers. When the apocalypse finally arrives, you're prepared for almost anything. However, the only thing you weren't prepared for was how short the apocalypse was.
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Source date: 2021-04-12
Writing prompt[WP] You and your returning spaceship crew was given a hero's welcome. To allow for some rest and relaxation, you were sent to a spa/retreat where your every wish is fulfilled. But you can't shake the feeling that there's something wrong.
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Source date: 2021-04-11
Writing prompt[SP] There is no way I can accept that as payment.
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Source date: 2021-04-10
Writing prompt[WP] You are the best thief, nobody understands how you do it but it is quite simple, you walk up to someone, tell them what you want and they give it to you. After 30 years of success you go to the police and tell them starting with "after I'm done, I will go free, okay?"
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Source date: 2021-04-09
Writing prompt[WP] Stories and Legends of a deadly for hire assassination group named "The Syndicate" are all over, from gossip to official news sources. You know for a fact there is no "Syndicate" as you made the whole thing up and it went completely out of hand.
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Source date: 2021-04-08
Writing prompt[WP] Its the zombie apocalypse. You've been bitten and turned, your body now slow rotting. But unlike all the other zombies you've maintained your human thoughts and memories and you still want to help other humans survive.
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Source date: 2021-04-07
Writing prompt[WP] You are going on a first date only to find that your date has a super power.
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Source date: 2021-04-06
Writing prompt[WP] God, Satan and a Human walk into a bar. "Hmm... So who gets me after my death?" Says the human. God and Satan simultaneously blurted out "Not Me!".
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Source date: 2021-04-05
Writing prompt[WP] You and the rest of your superhero friends are incognito at a wedding. Whilst posing for photos, a supervillain attacks! Before you and your friends react, the photographer rips off his clothes to reveal that they too are a superhero, and announces that this will be their debut fight.
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Source date: 2021-04-04
Writing prompt[WP] Negotiations are finally complete, and you are going to return the Princess back to her father. Upon hearing the news, she tries to convince you to let her stay.
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Source date: 2021-04-03
Writing prompt[WP] Desperate to prove to your friends that you can play a guitar, you summon a demon to teach you how to play one. Unexpectedly things go a different route than what you asked for.
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Source date: 2021-04-02
Writing prompt[WP] "You come to my lair and demand a favor from me? Offering nothing in return?" Desperate, I responded "Yes." After roaring laughter the creature said. "Very well. I like your guts. But in the future you will need to return the favor. "
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Source date: 2021-04-01
Writing prompt[WP] You are a con man who tricked an entire nation into thinking you are a god and worshipping you. Everything was going well until you actually became a god. Every other god has a word for you.
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Source date: 2021-03-31
Writing prompt[WP] "You can reincarnate into a time period of your choosing. A fully generated world shall greet you. Everything else will be the same... Except for you." "No thanks." "Sure, but why?" "I'm not a history buff, mate."
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Source date: 2021-03-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are being put on trial during the Salem witch trials after being accused of witchcraft. You plead innocent but nobody wants to believe you. Suddenly, a glowing figure enters the room and helps your case.
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Source date: 2021-03-29
Writing prompt[WP] The villain known as Stalker has the power of teleportation, intangibility, and invisibility. They’ve used these powers to discover various superhuman secret identities. They then regularly blackmail these people under threat of selling it to their enemies. Some have had enough.
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Source date: 2021-03-28
Writing prompt[WP] The afterlife can get boring fast, as you've discovered over the past few years. So when a job opening for a new grim reaper showed up, you took it without hesitation. Now your starting to realize why you didn't see anyone else applying...
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Source date: 2021-03-27
Writing prompt[WP] You sit down exhausted; tired with the amount of "heroes" that have come to face you. And then another one walks into your chambers. Annoyed, you draw your sword, start your monologue, and then freeze once you realize how cute the next challenger actually is.
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Source date: 2021-03-26
Writing prompt[WP] "Sir, there's someone who wants to see you." Satan set down his coffee mug and opened the security camera and saw a blond woman with aviator shades gesturing furiously in front of his secretary. Satan heaved a huge sigh and buzzed the intercom. "Let her in."
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Source date: 2021-03-25
Writing prompt[WP] On your way home from work you find a book lying on the side of the road. You soon discover that this is a magical book and whatever you write in it comes true. Now you have to decide if you should use it for good or bad.
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