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[WP] Everyone in the world can choose when they get super powers. The longer you wait to claim your powers the stronger they are. Today is your one hundredth birthday, and you are finally ready to claim your powers.
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[WP] This version of Earth is a wash. The angels have held a lottery and you have been chosen to end the world. You are given any resource you need; magic, technology, rEality alteration. Whether it’s wholesale destruction of the planet or just the death of all sentient life is up to you. “Have fun”
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[WP] The end of the world is being set into motion, and it's starting in the American South. Keeping up with the times and attempting to blend in with their environment, the Four Truckers of the Apocalypse ride forth.
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[WP] Your late grandfather left you an old record player and several nameless records and nothing else. One day, years after his death you pop in the first one and start it up. Instead of music though, you hear his voice echoing out. "I'm sorry, but this was the only way I could speak freely."
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[WP] Every 10,000 years, dragons return to drive the most advanced race to extinction. First the dwarves, then the elves, most recently the fairies, and now they’ve come for us. It turns out we’re the first race since the dwarves to even discover gunpowder, and the first that has a fighting chance.
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[WP] Theres a new teleporting...superhero? This teleporter blatently steals equipment they use to crimefight from police armories, military contractors etc. They also steal food from warehouses to feed the hungry, and steal overpriced medicine to heal the sick. You run a news outlet covering this.
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[WP] When a teacher required teams of three in a class with only four-member friend groups, the leftover homies of each group join forces to form the greatest trio of all time.
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[WP] At every household in the world, at the very same time, penguins appeared. Mostly harmless. But everyone who talked about it disappeared. We learned after the newscasters disappeared, and then the friend who mentioned it first, then everyone who posted it on FB. It's beside me as I wri-
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[WP] It turns out that by galactic standards humans sleep and stay awake for days at a time which leads to some very interesting scheduling issues.
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