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You're on a boat that should have reached undiscovered land days ago. Your compass tell you you're on the right path but there is no land in sight.

Fantasy

You're immortal and married to someone who is mortal. You've decided today is the day to come clean.

Fantasy

You're browsing at a pet store when a store employee asks if you'd be interested in seeing some of the new animals they just received. They lead you down a dark hallway and take you into a padlocked room that houses mythological creatures.

Fantasy

You're a photographer who specializes in snapping pictures of the supernatural.

Fantasy

You'd had your head down at a library all day until you suddenly felt a big gust of wind blow past you. You looked up, but no one else seemed to have noticed and you couldn't spot any open windows. Another gust blew by you, but the only thing that moved were your papers.

Fantasy

You were on your regular morning walk in the forest beside your house, when you thought you heard someone whispering your name. You put it out of your mind until you heard it again. It seemed to be coming from... the trees?

Fantasy

You watched in shock as the everlasting flame went out. How were you going to tell everyone?

Fantasy

You wake up in the forest by a bonfire.

Fantasy

You wake up and have totally forgotten everything other than the past 24 hours. So has everyone else.

Fantasy

You wake up and discover you have the ability to walk through walls.

Fantasy

You wake up and at some point in the day realize you have become invisible.

Fantasy

You sit down to family dinner and notice that one of your parents has been replaced by a robot. Nobody seems to notice except for you.

Fantasy

You sat down on a Sunday afternoon to re-read your favorite book. Only when you opened it up, the book had totally changed.

Fantasy

You head to work on Monday morning, only to realize it's Saturday again and you're stuck in a loop of the weekend.

Fantasy

You have the ability to freeze time. One day, when you've frozen everything, you spot a person walking around.

Fantasy

You got on the wrong bus and ended up in a remote town where things seemed a little odd.

Fantasy

You brought a bag of salt with you on your wanderings, because salt was said to protect from what comes out at night.

Fantasy

You are the protagonist of a novel-in-progress. Your author is experiencing intense writer's block. You decide to have a word with the author to shake them out of it.

Fantasy

Wearing dirty jeans and a flannel shirt, a lone traveller shows up at a village on a day they happen to be hosting their annual fall festival. The year is 1800.

Fantasy

They were muttering gibberish to themselves while working, not knowing they were actually about to cast a spell.

Fantasy

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