/u/takaperoinen-miete's posts
[WP]: Immortality can get boring, so over time the network has started arranging an ”exchange student” -program to alleviate the ennui. You have just signed up as a host, and your first exchange guest is a 16th-century korean warlord
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[WP]: Your uncle spent 25 years in prison, for "being too much of a good friend." You've always wondered how that happened but you've never asked for the story. But he's telling it now.
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[WP]: ”Microscopic” doesn’t mean invisible, it means too small to be seen. There used to be a thing called ”the microscope” that let you see them. Your grandmother saw one once, as a little girl. The elders born before ”the blast” knew many things.
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[WP]: You wake up in the middle of a field with no memory of how you got there, covered in scratches and bruises, with a big bow around your neck. There's a note on it, saying "HARMLESS"
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[WP]: Stepping into the Forbidden Passage is punishable by death. No-one ever goes there, and nobody who goes there is ever found alive. You, for your own reasons, step in. There's 12 people in there having a dinner party.
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[WP]: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, was buried with an army of terracotta soldiers so that they may serve him in the afterlife. You were not planning on similar results when you jokingly requested to be buried with your exensive collection of action figures
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[WP]: Humans and human spaceships are very bright and obvious as a form of aposematism: to advertise to predators that eating one is a very bad idea
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[WP]: The worst thing about your patient is that his delusions of grandeur seem to be contagious. You are the only one who can spend any time around him without being overwhelmed by what a marvellous and spectacular person he (and everyone else) thinks he is.
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[WP]: To the surprise and amusement of his peers and the rest of the coffee shop, a drama class kid seizes a tea pot, and holding it like a skull, recites "Alas, poor Yorick" with fluency and passion. A confused crowd cheers, and you realise you've seen this kid before. Back in 1689.
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