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"Daniel. DAN! Listen to me, you lazy fucking piece of shit." The old man's voice pierced the quiet of the vast savanna of Greenland. "Your beans ain't going fucking pick themselves, you know? We need the biodiesel. Get moving."
"...Yes, grandpa. I was just taking a moment to study a bit. I'm kinda tired." you mutter, as you try to discreetly hide the book that you had been carefully reading.
"Oh, 'studying'? Not just flipping through pages and taking it easy? Right." he chuckled skeptically from afar. "You lazy piece of shit, I sometimes wish you'd have to fight one of those fucking AI demons like I had to back in the day, that'll really teach you that we got *no* time for fucking around."
"AI? Doesn't the Monolith Field-" you stammer.
"Wetware cyborg freaks, kid!" he yells. "Giant brain-spider things! Whaddya think, that the AIs were stupid enough to just let the Monolith Field fry their circuits? Think, kid, think!"
"...Anyways, I'll... start working now."
"Good. And don't you dare cause me more trouble, you useless twit. You already do plenty of that by just existing." he spat.
"Yes, grandpa..."
Choose your unique condition:
> Wizard
You have epilepsy and random epileptic attacks, which you can also trigger deliberately. Epileptic attacks, for some reason, generally causes the Monolith Field to extremely strengthen in a torus (typically in a 32ft/10m radius) around the epileptic, killing or bioelectrically maiming people within. While you can practice these abilities and temper the drawbacks with (expensive) drugs, the risk of a random, uncontrollable epileptic attack always remains.
> Rogue
You somehow have an unusually high tolerance to the more extreme and close-range effects of the Monolith Field, which typically cause sleepiness, brain damage, heart attacks and death to normal people. This allows you to go near the Monoliths and endure certain attacks, which others cannot, and you can improve this tolerance with training. However, you and constantly twitch and move erratically like if you have advanced Parkinsons.
> Warrior
Your body is unusually well-suited to the current hyper-polluted Earth, and your body can break down and extract vast nutrients from the pollutants which others cannot. You also have incredible growth and no upper limit to your athletic and muscular development, provided that you can mantain it with proper nutrition. You're huge and built like a superhero by default, and have to at least eat like a bodybuilder or rapidly starve.
