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5 SciFi prompts

Rob Bignell shared these five sci-fi what-if style prompts.

The humans were not intimidated

To: Admiral Zazizch;By: Encrypted Proxy 92a-256;Re: Your plan failedThe humans were not intimidated at all. Send reinforcements. Encounter log attached. (first blogged here)

Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started when…

(first blogged here)

The sewer elves are causing trouble again

Your new house has a series pixie infestation

Something just escaped from your computer game

You work as a process server. You must deliver subpoenas to everyone in this photo.

You work as an investigator. Your job is to find ghosts that do not want to be found.

a cat

You work as a process server. You must deliver an injunction to one specific cat. You have until midnight.

A story told purely in radio transmissions

A cave filled with seawater

Can you tell us the story that ties these images together?

Everywherre you go, you see the same pair of eyes watching you

Your best friend just confessed that she’s not from Earth.

You work as a process server. You must deliver this summons to Death himself.

Next year you will invent time travel

So, it turns out your best friend is a shapeshifter.

They’re missing.

She fell in love with the man who had murdered her

The old man’s parrot

Ever the prankster, just before he died, the man trained his parrot to say phrases like, “help me, I’ve turned into a parrot” and “don’t tell anyone about…

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We wanted dragons so we genetically engineered them.

Well, there goes that entire planet. Best set a warning beacon as we evacuate.

The village vicar struggles to stop his parishioners worshipping the bunny god who lives in the forest

Here are some links to Easter-inspired writing prompts

You find an egg with a map inside

dragon festival during nighttime

The ancient dragon believed to guard your village has awoken thinking that the colorful eggs you hide every Easter are sacred artifacts stolen from its lair.

If the eggs are not returned, there will be fire and anger from the huge mythical beast. You have taken it upon yourself to try to help. What…

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