/u/PalaceOfficial's posts
[WP] You’re a mercenary, wreaking destruction across the lands for years, sacking cities and looting castles. Finally, the remaining kingdoms pool their resources and hire you to do nothing for several decades. Those years have passed and you’re a 65 year old man. Time to get back out there.
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[WP] While teaching, you hear one of your exchange students swear in a different language. “What language was that, John?” you ask. “North Picene,” he says casually and goes back to coloring. Later that day, you stub your toe and repeat what he said. The offending chair leg crumbles to dust
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[WP] You are a collector of mechanical clocks, despite society phasing them out over the years. Today a man appeared in your house out of thin air. “Sorry, it's the only anchor in this decade. The government got the rest” He touches the face of your prize grandfather clock lovingly and sprints out
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[WP] You are completely immortal so long as you are remembered. You've shown up in the backgrounds of painting and in the footnotes of books but never anywhere too public. But you’ve become an enemy of the state and they will burn book, canvas, and mind to end your earthly stay
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[WP] Twenty years ago you found a beautiful doll in a wooden box while spelunking. You're fascinated by it, studying it until you know it better than your wife's face. Today, while at work, you're suddenly are gripped by the knowledge that someone is stealing it...And it is not happy.
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[WP] You’re the greatest realtor in the bay area, able to sell the smallest, most uncomfortable houses to any of your clientele. Your secret? Pocket dimensions that make the inside a little bigger than the outside. But people are starting to measure.
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[WP] “This here is a real tank of a car,” The salesman said, slapping the hood, “A real 3004 Chevy” You looked at him in confusion “3004?” He turned pale, “2004. I meant 2004, of course” You laughed it off and bought it. On the way home it started behaving….strangely.
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[WP] As a joke, you put wording in your terms and conditions that people would sign over their immortal soul. You died shortly after, doomed to wander purgatory for all time. Then a soul arrived, and you find you can control parts of the space, each one giving you more autonomy
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[WP] As an oceanographer, Atlantis was always just a fever dream. Until you found an abandoned ancient city on the ocean floor not 20 miles from the Mariana Trench. At first, you walk with wonder then with growing horror. This place wasn’t a city, it was a guard post. It should have stayed lost
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