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[PI] In this world, everything is determined by the number floating over your head. Everything. And when numbers ahead of you die or get killed, yours moves closer to the coveted position of #1. You're number 22. For now.
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[WP] At 18 years of age, everyone gets a weapon based on their personality and strengths. All your friends got traditional weaponry, but you...oh, you got something interesting that no one knows how to wield.
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[WP] Car accidents, plane crashes, even a falling brick from the sky. Terrible accidents always seem to happen to you, yet you always seem to miraculously survive. One day you realize there is an entire secret organization trying to kill you, and another secret organization trying to save your life.
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[WP] It has taken years of hard work and preparation but you're finally ready. You rub the lamp and the genie appears. "I wish for none of my wishes to have unintended effects."
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[WP] You can teleport between shadows, turn invisible in the dark, cause the night to become tangible and attack like a living thing. You would be the perfect vigilante/ criminal, except for one minor detail: you have a terrible phobia of the dark.
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[WP] You figured out that the coffee shop you work at is actually an institute for secret spies that save the world on a regular basis. You are just an ordinary person but people think you have the most accomplishment due you leaving "no traces" of your work.
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[WP] After a decade of silence, Voyager 1 starts broadcasting again. It's a short text string repeated every 24 hours: "I'm coming home"
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[WP] You can’t lie. You just don’t lie. You are honest to a frigging T. It is not because of some moral high ground, God or whatever. You can’t lie, because if you do, reality will bend itself to your words.
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[WP] An employee walks up to you, "Hey, welcome! How can I help you today?" You glance around twice before muttering, "I need to kill a sorcerer." The retailer's eyes proceed to go black, and with a wicked grin, she gestures to the back door. Welcome to the Beyond of Bed & Bath.
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