SET 0012 / FIVE TO CONSIDER

Two ways to go.

Five choices. The crowd waits until the end.

  1. 1. Your shadow detaches and becomes a loyal companion who can run errands for you, but it insists on being called by your full legal name and gets offended whenever you sit in a chair it considers 'its' chair. or You can hear the thoughts of anyone who has ever owned your birthday, but every thought arrives as an interpretive dance performed inside your left kneecap.
  2. 2. Every bridge you cross becomes permanently one foot shorter, so you will never again need to worry about bridge tolls, but you must personally apologize to each bridge on its anniversary. or Your sneezes can grant one wish per sneeze to a stranger within earshot, but each granted wish permanently transfers one of your memories of your mother's cooking to the wisher.
  3. 3. Your handwriting becomes so beautiful that calligraphers weep, and every letter you write is guaranteed to be read by the intended recipient within a day, but you can only write in a language that no one has spoken since the Bronze Age. or You gain the ability to fly at will, but only at the altitude of whatever pet you last looked at with affection, and you must bring that pet along on every flight as a passenger who critiques your form.
  4. 4. Your favorite meal will taste exactly as good as you imagine it, forever, at any restaurant in the world, but whenever you eat it, a stranger on the other side of the planet will feel a sudden and inexplicable craving for your least favorite food. or Doors open for you whenever you approach them with a genuine smile, including the doors of banks, prisons, and the Vatican, but any door you have opened this way will refuse to close again until you whistle its national anthem.
  5. 5. Your reflection agrees to take over your job, relationships, and public reputation for one full year while you live freely in the mirror world, but it will also inherit your debts, your enemies, and your tendency to lose car keys. or You can instantly learn any skill by eating the sweat of a master practitioner, but you must consume it straight from their forehead while they are sitting in the same chair they used when they first learned that skill.

Choose your five to see how the room chose.