/u/LockedOutOfElfland's posts
[WP] An oracle has named you, a young person with magic powers, the chosen one. However, there is a twist: you are a young member of a crime syndicate in 1980s Miami and the evil overlord you must defeat is a bigger, badder kingpin than your boss.
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[WP] You got in a fight with a stranger during a freshman welcome week party at Wizarding College that ended with you turning your rival into a toad. Flash forward a week later: It's your first day in class, and the person you turned into a toad is your TA.
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How were worship practices and religious services handled in the (pre-Christian/polytheistic) classical world? What were the similarities and differences from services at Abrahamic centers of worship as we would know them today?
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[WP] You wake up one day and realize you have a pale face and a shiny red nose. There is a frilled collar around your neck, and a polka-dot nightgown over your body. You look in the mirror and try to rub the makeup off. You can't. You are cursed. You have become a clown for life.
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Recently, it seems that John Quincy Adams has been replacing Woodrow Wilson as the standard-bearer of American foreign policy. Has anyone else noticed this?
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[WP] As a popular athlete at your school, you try to be a nice person, but everyone thinks you are a bully because of your large size and hobbies. This works against you when you save someone from being bullied by one of the bespectacled geeks in the Computer Science club.
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During Nazi Germany, there were likely some non-members of the Nazi party who had awards or recognition letters signed by Hitler (municipal civil servants, student award winners, etc.). How did the recipients of these documents treat these documents after Hitler's defeat?
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During the Cold War, why was there not as much suspicion of hard-left or social-democratic politics in the UK (where Harold Wilson became PM on a social-democratic platform) as in the US, where (in the McCarthy era and beyond) there existed mass suspicion of hard-left politics?
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[WP] You are a screenwriter from the present day who has been body-switched with a screenwriter from the early 1980s. You are trying to pitch a script that would be a good sell in 2017, but no one in the 1980s is buying it.
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