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[WP] It amazes you that the Elf waitress who works at your restaurant is the same one as when your grandparents first started the business. The Elf can't believe she's still stuck in the same dead-end job for nearly a 100 years and has to keep dealing with your family.
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[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons.
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[WP] Humanity meets an immortal being, who can answer any question, except for "Does God exist?". One day, the being is tricked into answering.
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[WP] A small shop opens up in your town that bottles and sells dreams. For a small price you can guarantee what you'll see when you close your eyes that night, or record and donate a dream of your own to be sold.
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[WP] You awake from your voluntary cryogenic sleep experiment. It was supposed to be a year, it's been over 1,000. They used their one chance to wake a great war hero to save them, instead they got you who happened to have the same name.
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[WP] A day in the life of Mulch Diggums, the notorious Dwarf theif, who's hidden amongst the human population as famous actor, Danny DeVito.
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[WP] You nervously stare at the ramp of your landing craft. Your men jostle nervously about, preparing to storm the beaches of Normandy. However, when the dreaded ramp finally drops, you see nothing but people sunbathing and relaxing. It is June 4, 2018, and World War Two has been over for 73 years.
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[WP] You live a town where everybody’s last words will involve where they go in the afterlife. Everyone on their deathbed makes sure their last word is ‘heaven’, but you fucked up when your last word was ‘cheese’.
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[WP] You were raised by a single father who never told you a thing about your mom. Even when you tried to look, you could find no trace of her. Your first clue comes when you lose a finger in an accident. The missing digit regenerates itself, a green scaly replacement growing before skin covers it.
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