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[WP] After 357 years running from death the Grim Reaper finally tracks down your mountain cave. When he arrives he asks if he can hide with you.
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[PI] Humanity has colonized other worlds, and have long forgot their origin. While exploring the galaxy thousands of years later, they discover a potentially habitable planet. H-1056, or "Earth"
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[WP] You share a unique relationship with one of your parallel selves: when they receive a tattoo it also appears on you, and vice versa. You happen to have very different tastes, and so begins a passive aggressive cross-reality war fought entirely in tattoos and cover-ups.
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[WP] Humans and aliens have had contact for several years now and peace between species has flourished. The first Earth-trained alien artist reveals their portrait of a human on international television, to show the world how they see humans. However, the portrait looks nothing like a human...
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[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him.
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[WP] You have been cursed to always tell the truth. Not because you're unable to say something you know is false, but because once you say it, the universe will rearrange itself to make what you said true.
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[WP] The Hero's son is the villain's protégé, and the villain's daughter is the Hero's sidekick. Both sides are fully aware of this. Things get tense on pizza night.
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[WP] You are a mugger in NYC. You end up mugging a man who only had a USB stick in his pockets. After taking it and making your escape, you later find there's only one thing on the USB. A picture, of you, tied up in an unfamiliar room.
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[WP] Turns out being an adventurer wasn't such a good idea. In fact there may be some survivorship bias here. You only really hear about the tiny fraction of adventurers that achieve glory. In reality most of them die violent deaths, become slaves, or worse. Now you run a scared straight program.
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