/u/aescolanus's posts
[WP] Your entire family is made up of superheroes and world-conquering villains. They look down on you for having no powers and working retail. You don't care. Your secret superpower is apathy.
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[WP] By Tradition, the Prince is exiled from the Kingdom until he completes his Quest. The Prince hates living in the Kingdom and enjoys exile. The King has to trick the Prince into completing the Quest so he can drag him back home
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[WP] Your world is infinite and procedurally generated. This was fine as long as humans lived in one small tribe in one place. But a few years ago, you decided to travel east as far as you could. Now you're starting to encounter memory leaks.
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[WP] The prophecy says that the Dark Lord will not fall until he faces the Destined Hero alone. As the Dark Lord, you have a clever plan to avoid this fate: become a harem protagonist and surround yourself with obsessed stalkers
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[WP] "You humans are so careless of your lives. You travel in fragile metal boxes at incredible speeds. You routinely use tools that could slice your flesh and crush your limbs. You bring *fire* and *electricity* into your *homes*. Are you all insane?"
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[WP] You're seen as one of the "practical" superheroes - you'll kill villains, but only those too evil or dangerous to let live. But that reputation's a lie. The only villains you kill are the ones who, deep in their hearts, are beginning to repent
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[WP] In a cynical, fleece-the-masses, let's-fake-religion-for-tax benefits cult, one person in the inner circle is an honest, true believer. That person was just accidentally elected Supreme Cult Master
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When and why did the convention come about of translating Native American names into English common nouns?
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If I understand correctly, Mussolini excavated and reconstructed Ostia Antica (the ancient port and current tourist destination). How accurate was this reconstruction? What changes did he make? How has the site changed in the decades since Italy was fascist?
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