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[WP] It's the year 4000, along side archaeology, we now have e-archaeology, and Reddit is the biggest dig-site
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[WP] There is an average of 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers in the sky at any given time. As these flights touch down at their airports they find them empty. In fact everywhere seems too be empty. The only people left were those in the air from commercial jetliner to single engine prop.
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[WP] The dwarves find the idea that human technology could've ever equaled - let alone surpassed - theirs patently ridiculous. But just to humour the them, they've decided to accept their proposal for an "engineering student exchange program".
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[WP]A team of rookie scientists is searching for a new theoretical element, Cenanium, that has properties of invisibility. Their search brings them to an abandoned wrestling ring. Upon entering, they hear from the darkness "You can't see me."
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[WP] The girl is crying as you, a veterinarian, put her dog down. It's sad, but you know it's for the best, and you speak comforting words to the child. Abruptly, she stops crying, and regards you smugly. "I knew you'd be perfect." Suddenly you find yourself atop a horse, wielding a long scythe.
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[WP] Your family is wealthy and powerful. The reasoning? Your grandma made a deal with the devil. Not your typical first born type of deal but that she’d be his wife in the underworld after she died. It’s been 10 years and you received an invite to grandmas “house” to meet her new husband.
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[WP] You are the mayor of a city surrounded by seemingly terrifying monsters. The dragon helps with the smithing, the vampires help with the overnight work, the lich runs the local apothecary. Everyone does their part and the city works. It's always problematic when heroes come to visit.
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[WP] Vampires could be majestic and handsome. The problem is that they constantly mix all the slang from the past five centuries together into unholy abominations that they call sentences and they don't even try to hide it anymore.
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[WP] Being a faceless goon is a cushy job. Evil lairs, hostages, death rays, but the heroes always escape and save the day, so no harm, no foul, right? But today, the heroes aren’t escaping, and they still aren’t escaping, and… it’s beginning to dawn on you that your boss might actually succeed.
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