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[WP] The D&D sessions are getting darker, as this one NPC keeps wanting to confess his sins to the party's cleric. Soon, the players start to realize that the DM is confessing his real life occurrences.

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[WP] Human immortality having been achieved, Death himself shows up at the Unemployment Office.

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[WP] A burglar breaks into a nice house, only to find a surprise party for his birthday. All of the city's other burglars are there.

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[WP] A young "detective" who usually investigates things like missing pets, stolen homework, and mysteries of what the school custodian does at night is called in by police to help with a series of gruesome murders.

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[WP] You are Death, on your way to collect the soul of one recently departed. You arrive there and find no one. Just before you leave, Death arrives, apologizes for being late, and says "I guess we better figure out which one of us it is."

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[EU] A private eye has been called in to find a missing child. The parents are frantic. Using witnesses and camera recordings they've been traced to a specific platform at a train station, but none of the cameras in the station were pointing at platform 9 and 3/4.

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[WP] While checking audio quality of a voice-controlled home-assistant device, the techs have heard a father giving great advice to his kids. The techs realize they need this kind of help, and pretty soon it goals viral inside a giant corporation, with everyone listening and becoming better people.

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[WP] After decades of research into genetic manipulation, it's finally done. All spiderwebs now form a mesh network across the world. Welcome to the new World Wide Web.

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[WP] As tech advances and bad copyright laws get stronger and more ridiculous, even the text in books blurs worse and worse the more often it's read. You, among the poor who receive barely-readable books after the rich are done with them, have figured out a way to unblur. Now they're after you.

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[WP] A heroic mage travels to battle another wage accused of evil deeds. Upon arrival, the hero sees the deplorable state of his home and magical laboratory, and instead decides to help. Together they turn the "evil" mage around and start helping people across the region.

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP] The D&D sessions are getting darker, as this one NPC keeps wanting to confess his sins to the party's cleric. Soon, the players start to realize that the DM is confessing his real life occurrences.	1578
[WP] Human immortality having been achieved, Death himself shows up at the Unemployment Office.	177
[WP] A burglar breaks into a nice house, only to find a surprise party for his birthday. All of the city's other burglars are there.	155
[WP] A young "detective" who usually investigates things like missing pets, stolen homework, and mysteries of what the school custodian does at night is called in by police to help with a series of gruesome murders.	77
[WP] You are Death, on your way to collect the soul of one recently departed. You arrive there and find no one. Just before you leave, Death arrives, apologizes for being late, and says "I guess we better figure out which one of us it is."	61
[EU] A private eye has been called in to find a missing child. The parents are frantic. Using witnesses and camera recordings they've been traced to a specific platform at a train station, but none of the cameras in the station were pointing at platform 9 and 3/4.	57
[WP] While checking audio quality of a voice-controlled home-assistant device, the techs have heard a father giving great advice to his kids. The techs realize they need this kind of help, and pretty soon it goals viral inside a giant corporation, with everyone listening and becoming better people.	43
[WP] After decades of research into genetic manipulation, it's finally done. All spiderwebs now form a mesh network across the world. Welcome to the new World Wide Web.	37
[WP] As tech advances and bad copyright laws get stronger and more ridiculous, even the text in books blurs worse and worse the more often it's read. You, among the poor who receive barely-readable books after the rich are done with them, have figured out a way to unblur. Now they're after you.	28
[WP] A heroic mage travels to battle another wage accused of evil deeds. Upon arrival, the hero sees the deplorable state of his home and magical laboratory, and instead decides to help. Together they turn the "evil" mage around and start helping people across the region.	16