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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-10-11
Writing prompt[WP] One day everything went dark and everyone froze in place. One second later everyone saw a message "universe 1.2 update patchnotes: XP system fixed, magic-system 2.0 added!"
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Source date: 2019-10-10
Writing prompt[SP] A man walks along a road at night.
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Source date: 2019-10-09
Writing prompt[WP] You've created a device that allows you to travel between parallel realities. As you jump from dimension to dimension, you notice that everything is incredibly different. Well, there's a strange exception: a version of "Take on me" is present in each dimension. It can't be a coincidence.
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Source date: 2019-10-08
Writing prompt[WP] You have successfully created fully functioning nano bots that aid in strength, speed, agility, recovery, healing, and regeneration. The science board won't allow you to do human trials so you inject yourself to see the results. Today is the first day you start feeling the changes kicking in.
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Source date: 2019-10-07
Writing prompt[WP] Time literally slows down whenever you are around your crush. One day, he/she gives you a strange look. "Hey, everything is moving so sluggishly around us, any idea why?"
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Source date: 2019-10-06
Writing prompt[WP] You've lived your whole life thinking you were the last person on Earth, as you were sitting in your home you hear the doorbell ring, you open it to discover someone asking "You ordered a pizza?"
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Source date: 2019-10-05
Writing prompt[WP] You are a former secret agent, now retired; today, you just found the beautiful and dangerous femmme fatale that always tried to kill you at a pizza parlor, dressed in a nerdy hoodie and eating an extra-large pizza.
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Source date: 2019-10-04
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone has different theories on the end of the world, a deadly virus, a giant meteor, zombies, nuclear war, solar flare, aliens, and even global warming. Apparently they were all right.
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Source date: 2019-10-03
Writing prompt[WP] She can bring candy to life, and manipulate its size. That's her power. You've seen her sentient Rolos rolling around campus before, so you're pretty sure you've got this sparring match in the bag already. As you face each other she pulls out a pack of gummy bears and you start to get worried.
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Source date: 2019-10-02
Writing prompt[WP] You were born with the power to learn the contents of books/documents by simply touching them. One day after breezing through your school exams, you bump into a man in black. You help pick up his fallen documents. What was inside the doc-wait, an inter-dimensional transporter? Forbidden arts?
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Source date: 2019-10-01
Writing prompt[WP] You have been living completely off the grid for ten years. The only outside contact you have is when your brother comes to visit every October 1st. He brings you news from the outside- however, the news seems so ridiculous you are starting to doubt him.
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Source date: 2019-09-30
Writing prompt[WP] While cleaning, you move a carpet in your basement and find a hidden manhole cover. Curious, you open it with a crowbar, and surprisingly the air coming from it doesn't smell nasty. Actually, it smells... fresh.
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Source date: 2019-09-29
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-09-28
Writing prompt[WP] You have a seemingly useless superpower. You can see a sort of... loading bar above peoples heads. Sometimes it's completely full. sometimes it's empty. Sometimes it's a different color. You've had this power for twenty-three years and you still have no idea what the loading bars mean.
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Source date: 2019-09-27
Writing prompt[WP] You are quietly sitting in the Fresh Start Clinic, holding the leaflet you found this morning on your commute: "Selective Memory Erasing and Character Rebuilding since 2018!" Today, maybe, it's finally your chance for a new life.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-09-26
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night to find a stranger eating from your refrigerator.
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Source date: 2019-09-25
Writing prompt[WP] A giant monster attacks a city. Doing the usual stuff, destroying buildings, flipping boats, eating people. There is only one problem, you are a simple civilian.
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Source date: 2019-09-24
Writing prompt[WP] You die, but because you cared so much about the environment when you lived, you were reborn with nature inside of you. You get the elemental power of your choice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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