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[TT] Humans and artificially intelligent, synthetic humans both peacefully occupy the planet. Recently, aliens have conquered, and it's believed that they hate "thinking machines". You're in one of their death camps, awaiting their version of a "Turing" test.
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[WP] You live in a society where the government use sophisticated surveillance to determine everyone's contribution, but no one knows their yearly salary until the last day. It's December 31st and you received a paycheck of $10 million dollars but all your friends got $50k, not what you expected.
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[WP] You are widely considered a supervillain of such fearsome powers, that no hero dares enter your city. To the city dwellers, however, you are the superhero who prevents the destruction of their city from other heroes fighting supervillains.
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[WP] A danger with FTL travel is that gravity fields from certain celestial bodies can disintegrate a ship passing through its field. That is where the idea of FTLightHouse keepers came in. You just accepeted the assignment for Sec.24-Br7. It's a thankless, lonley job but someones gotta do it.
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[WP] You were stranded in an island due to a plane crash. All died except you and four other people. These people are: a blind Navy Seal, an engineer who just lost his right arm, a deaf doctor, and a mute biologist. You need to make them communicate properly, however you're an introverted villain.
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[WP] You are alone. Unable to die, you have lived until the very end of existence, then, using a time machine, travelled back to the beginning and lived to the end. You have done this multiple times, your age lost to you. So, in a selfish impulse, you make another immortal.
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[WP] A string of murders in your city have all the hallmarks of a fae creature. You know this not only because you're the lead detective on the case, but because you're secretly a fae yourself.
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[WP] In order to save the world, you have to obtain half an ounce of US Supreme Court Justice fingernails within the next 2 years. No one but you can know the reason for your mission.
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