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[WP] "God only takes those he needs." Well, over the last three days 90% of the world's nuclear physicists, rocket scientists, and army generals have died of natural causes. War has broken out in heaven, and it's not being fought with sticks and stones.
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[WP] It’s been 700 years since you last saw a fellow immortal, with the last one being your wife before she disappeared. Now, after centuries of searching, you found out why you haven’t seen any more immortals.
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[WP] Spies are suave, cool under pressure and have an answer to every question. This is often what gives them away. You, however are s nervous wreck, terrible improvisation skills and almost always on the verge of a panic attack. You are the best spy in the world.
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[WP] Everyone has something referred to as “Narrative Potential Energy” the higher this value is, the more involved in a story you are. Protagonists have a high amount as they drive the story forward, and background characters have little. Somehow you have negative narrative potential.
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[WP] Eel-punk. Eels generate 98% of the power required by the world. Megacorps manage breeding programs and sell sterile eels. Today, Joe the Fisher caught a fish that could change everything.
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[WP] You’re a mind reader, but your whole life everything has sounded like gibberish because of how random people’s misconstrued thoughts are, until one day all the voices shut off and you hear one very clearly say “run”
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[WP] For as long as you can remember, you have been able to see spirit animals. Ghostly animals that follow people around and tell you something about this person. No one else seems to be able to see them. One day you see an old man walk by and his animal has been mauled by something.
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[WP] Space enthusiasts finally find a signal from space which is likely from an intelligent species. Upon reviewing the signal, which is about 62 light-years away, they realize it is a space probe sent out from Earth, over 400,000 years ago... still recording/communicating back home.
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