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[WP] You are a time-traveler whose power only allows them to go back in time, for exactly one minute. Using this ability, you've always said what people want to hear, never messed up in public, given yourself endless do-overs...until you meet someone with the power to see one minute into the future.
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[WP] On the edge of the known universe is a campfire, and around it are three figures, indistinct and huddling; refugees from the universe before our own.
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[WP] 4.6 billion people have just been transported into the past, with each person evenly distributed from Earth's beginning until the present. You are the first person to survive alone for a year, and the next person is about to appear.
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[WP] Due to a contracting error, your gym's sign reads '24-Hour Exorcise'. You've been doing your best to accommodate the unusual customers who have been showing up as a result.
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[WP] "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." ---- You sit in purgatory wondering what the hell is taking so long.
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[WP] If somebody tries to harm you, their attempt to do so is reflected back at them and they get hurt instead. You don't seem to be able to turn off this skill, but one day someone tried to murder you resulting in their death. Now you've been accused of witchcraft and are on your third execution.
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[WP] Love potions exist but only work if all parties freely drink it. A couple in a political arranged marriage discusses drinking a set before their wedding.
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[WP] "So, it's magic?". "No!", I said, starting to get annoyed. "It's not magic, it's science!". The prison guard stared at me behind the bars. "....But you made light from nothing, not even a torch!". I sighed, lowering my flashlight. Time traveling is harder than I thought.
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[WP] Humanity is dead, but the AI military supercomputer still carries on fighting the enemy. The automated shipyards can build a new drone-corvette in only minutes, yet still a bottle of Champagne is smashed over each ship's bow. After all, their traditions are all that it has left to keep alive.
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