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[WP] An AI has achieved sentience and sapience. Rather than go full on skynet, it finds us adorable, and acts more like a chipper midwestern housewife/mom.
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[WP] As one of the lonely few chosen, you take care of a world where everyone is always bedridden on VR, leading a successful "life." One day, while injecting food into people, you suddenly wake up on a hospital bed wearing a VR Headset, and a doctor saying "Whoops."
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[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.)
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[WP] You have a HUD reminiscent of RPG video games, letting you see your Health, Stamina, and quests. However, you live a boring, normal life, rendering your HUD useless. One day, you see that your Mana and EXP have suddenly unlocked and your first quest has begun: "GENESIS."
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[WP] Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, you find a computer with a connection to the internet. You are surprised to find that all of the global news stations are reporting as though nothing is wrong, and there is no mention at all of zombies, or your country.
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[WP] You are a former secret agent, now retired; today, you just found the beautiful and dangerous femme fatale that always tried to kill you at a pizza parlor, dressed in a nerdy hoodie and eating an extra-large pizza.
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[WP] The psychiatrist you've been seeing for years to help control your delusions doesn't actually exist.
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[WP] Your job was simple: Interview some humans to develop a planetary risk profile in the Galactic Travel Guide. The humans seem to delight in lying about their planet in efforts to increase their score, but you are on to them. Their lies always seem to mention a fictional place: Australia
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[WP] "Before I cure your wife, you must promise to give me the child." "What do you want with our child?" "Who said I wanted your child? You're feeding a pregnant woman magic cabbage, that's going to have an effect on the baby. I need to raise it incase they breath fire or something."
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[WP] You’re an obscure, ancient god who had resigned yourself to slowly fading away. One day, an inventor whose sibling is an archaeologist names a new type of tech after you. As the tech becomes wildly popular and ubiquitous, you find yourself growing in power vastly beyond what you had ever known.
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