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[WP]No one know how the zombie virus began, but humanity is on the ropes. A powerful stranger cuts through the horde one night and reaches your compound's wall with a deal. Vampires are starving. Help feed them in exchange for protection from the other undead menace.
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[WP] Angels don't like you. Demons hate you. You're a smuggler of souls and you transport the desperate dead from hell to heaven discretely. For a price. But this latest cargo is problematic. Both sides are trying their damned best to stop you from delivering.
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[WP] For many years, Canadians have maintained their inhuman friendliness by channeling all of their animosity into their geese. Now though, something is wrong.
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[WP] A person's attributes are assigned at birth by their parents. Most parents put points towards things like intellect, strength, charisma, etc. But, your deadbeat gambling addict of a dad thought it would be funny to put all your points into luck.
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[WP] Grandpa has talked gibberish since an accident in '79. One day, while converting grandma's VHS tapes to digital, you find yourself rewinding some footage. Grandpa comes into frame. You realize you can understand what he's saying and the words terrify you.
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[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!"
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[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10.
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[WP] Time freezes when you are seconds from mortal danger, you can’t move but you have as much time to plan as you need and you can unfreeze time at will. You are in bed for another sleepless night and you just realized the alarm clock you have been staring at has been stuck on 2:45 am for an hour.
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[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?"
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