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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?

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

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You wake up in the forest by a bonfire.

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

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

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

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You sit down to family dinner and notice that one of your parents has been replaced by a robot.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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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People are limited to just three lies in their lifetime.

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One day you begin to realize that you're living one of your recurring dreams.

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On their 16th birthday, people are told what their magical power is.

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Myth tells of a river that erases a person's memory if they drink from it. Grieving people have been searching for it forever.

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Memory Lane is a real place.

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