Writing Prompt You gain psychic powers invisibility, super strength, telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, and x-ray vision. What do you do? Why? How is your life?

Vaxel00

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I would definitely become a despot. Take some territory for my personal use (eliminating all the residents) and force the world to pay me tribute (in forced labor).

I would decide which people deserve to live and die based on completely arbitrary reasons. The problem would be to find purpose and entertainment once I get bored with it ( absolute power leads to absolute boredom).
 

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Regardless of superpowers you need money to live.

Step 1 is securing funds.

I think a more above-board route would be to rob casinos. You could play the long con of stealing chips, play some games, cash out some extra now and then, or go straight for the cash. Teleporting into banks and stealing is probably the most obvious but that probably has repercussions.

Since you've got a suite of super powers you could also go to a high crime area and take money from bad people. They're more likely to have large amounts of cash you could nab unlike a rich person who has it in holding/assets.

Depending on how you secured funds you might need to go off the grid or to another country to avoid arousing suspicion on how you can afford to live. I'm not an outgoing person that needs to be social or feels like they need to make an impact on the world, so after funds are secured I buy a property, ideally in an area with access to high speed internet; and live leisurely.

I suppose you could help people with your powers if the opportunity arises, but only in happenstance and never in a way that could expose your powers to others.
 

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Petty crimes like theft and robbery. And maybe world peace when I'm bored of being the village gangsta boss
 

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Hmm.. Psychic power, can’t be seen, can see everything, know everything, and unlimited power to redecorate? Sounds like a god? Or godling, anyway. Probably set up in some city, start redecorating. I’d know who was wicked, either move then outside the city or a few hundred feet straight up? It’d be this whole god trip. Stay anonymous, stay safe.
 

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Become a super troll.
Like ‘Jump off a building with a bunch people below you, float before hitting ground while turning invisible confusing everyone’
Just stuff like that.
 

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tbh those kind of power you mentioned are mostly only good for personal benefit. if anyone found out it would incite suspicion and uneasiness among people.

I would hide it and won't use the power at all.
 

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Ok,
Marty Stew time. You left a large door open here on somethings.
Invisibility: I am presuming this is invisibility from everything. Recording devices, mirrors, infrared ultraviolet and so on. Not just sight.
Super Strength: I am presuming that this comes with the no tearing muscles, breaking bones and skin when I lift things clause. Which means I am tougher than most anyone else is, but of course not bullet proof. Bench press average for an elite weight lifter in the 198lb category is about 360lbs (Some can do much higher). So let us go with Super Strength is 1000 times that, or I can bench press 360,000lbs.
Telepathy: Is this I can sort through everyone’s mind at once or just one mind at a time? I will go with one mind at a time concentrating on them to sort, but overview of a group’s attitude.
Telekinesis: How much is the limit here, shall we go with it equals our strength? 360,000 lbs. lift.
Teleportation: Line of sight only, or a range limitation? Meh lets go with line of sight or must have been there before. No real range limit. Once I get a space suit I am planting, my Marty Stew was here flag, on the Moon sooner or later.
X-Ray Vision: Is there a depth restriction? Does something stop it like lead? Ok, no stoppage from anything and depth is as far as you want, but you can focus it to specific depths.
A. None of the above costs fatigue except strength, which is probably a super power in its own right. But eh.
B. None of the above can be detected in use by any detector and there is no anti-psionic agency or knowledge of any sort.
C. All power can work in concert.

1. Buy Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets for every day they are available for an entire year in several different states that you can hide your name or hide behind a trust. You can buy future tickets in most places not just tickets for the next event. So do this as part of a “vacation” trip. You want to have many losses compared to your winnings so you can show you are someone who just got “lucky” because you bought so many tickets. At two games per week 104 games possible for Mega Millions and at three games per week 156 for Powerball. At $1-2 a ticket, you spend $780, for a years worth of tickets from various outlets in those states.
2. Visit the area where the lottery drawing is held for both Mega and Power. Better if you can get into the room and memorize for teleportation later. Do this while flying and invisible.
3. On the day you choose to win the lottery. Go shopping, go out to dinner, and pay with a card for all those transactions. This is to make an electronic and paper trail. Visit places where you will be automatically videoed, so you can prove you are nowhere near the lottery and do not have the travel time to get there. Go home, go invisible, teleport to inside of the lottery while invisible. Be in the room when the lottery happens.
4. Your X-Ray vision picks out the ball you want, your telekinesis blocks any but the ball you want to go into a slot. You do not have to succeed with all the balls just enough to get some serious practice for the big winnings over time. 10-500 million in a year in profit easily if you are careful.
5. If the lottery services get suspicious, who cares let them do their investigations. You did “nothing” wrong. You will eventually get your money just be patient. At worst, you will become known as that lucky person who wins more than most. Your telepathy should alert you to anyone who decides to follow you around or comes at you.
There no trying to sell stuff you stole, no smelting issues, and no epic bank robberies. All that is just going to make the Feds and States go berserk and ruin people’s lives involved.
After getting enough of a nest egg, I would continue to buy lottery tickets. Just they would follow the normal pattern of losses to wins, unless I needed money for a particular project. Then “luck” would strike. My winnings would be invested and I am pretty sure I could live well of dividends and interest earned.
As far as helping people out, I might try it out as a hobby, fly into a disaster area invisible, and help as I can when I can. Sometimes a flying invisible telekinetic push here and there would be a benefit to someone somewhere.
 

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Black jack and hookers. But mostly roulette so the casino won't jump me. Make the ball go exactly where I want it to go and loose every 3 or 5 games to not arouse suspicion.
 
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invisibility: good in conjunction with other abilities to not attract too much attention.
super strength: it would be shit if i were to accidentally break my phone while i'm fapping with my other hand. otherwise, pretty nice so i can defend myself.
telepathy: i'm going to hide my identity while broadcasting never gonna give you up all night to my neighbors
telekinesis: might come in handy if im too lazy to move out of my bed and turn off my phone alarm, and sleep again. or if i'm too lazy to move and just want to pick something far away.
teleportation: it's handy especially since i'm too lazy to travel. will probably be good in conjunction with invisibility and only reveal myself in convenient places.
x-ray vision: not sure, the girls in my place aren't hot enough for me to peek their naked bodies

as for my life, i'm not sure but i really want shapeshifting abilities instead
 

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On to a less greedy, more boring maybe, but a steady one:

Move family to a better place to live and "Commute" from home to work, invisibly. Maybe get a higher paying job eventually once I am tired of where I am working now and have got my retirement fully vested. No mucking with driving in rain/snow/hail too and from work, eating lunches at home. Is less paid out in car insurance, gas and food, means more money in the bank account for other stuff. Go grocery shopping where it is cheaper, either from lower taxes or just the items cost. Buying eggs in Springfield Illinois for $0.42 a Dozen, or pay $2.00 in California for a dozen. Milk $0.93 per gallon verses $2.69. That adds up over a month worth of groceries. Now mind you I am sure Springfield is a nice place to live but I would rather live somewhere else and for my type of Job I would lose money working there. So work somewhere else, live in a different area and grocery shop there.

Then I start paying for international phone services for "emergencies". Need that international service just in case of that call from the school saying your kid has just done X for Y reason. Why? After the kids are off at school, on a day off I can take the wife out for morning coffee and pastries in Paris, spend time with her shopping in Morocco, with a stop for lunch in Capri, back to pick up kids from school in the afternoon.
Scoring lots of good Husband points. The next day take her to whatever beach strikes her fancy and set her up for the day to relax and just let her read a book in the surf and sand. During weekends I can take her and the kids anywhere they fancy, then off to go do something else on my own, cashing in those good Husband points.

Speaking of retirement vesting, most places you are vested after 5 years if they have a retirement program. I could keep moving from job to job if I get too bored of one, moving my way around every 5 years. Work in California for 5 years, go on to New York another 5 years, hey how about taking that job in New Zealand for 5 years. No moving expenses except the trip to familiarize myself with each place at first, no commute expenses.
 
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Rule the world? Who has time for that shit? There is nowhere I'd rather be right now than shredding fresh pow down this 20,000 foot peak. Yeah, that's right, 20,000 ft. And yes, I hiked, and skinned, and mountaineered my way up here, cause guess what? Helicopters don't fly this high. Which makes all you heli-skiers weak ass posers. And I can say that because, guess what, heart defect. Yeah, I know, each and every one of you couch potatos and u-spuds are like, "If I was one of you superhuman mo-fo's, I'd be gettin' the sponsorships living the badass life too," but truly, your left ventriculated sloth is a luxury I don't have. If I'm not out exercising my superman ass almost every day, then I'm just waiting to die. Not that what's bad for me won't kill you too, I'll just die a lot faster. So, this is how I spend my ill-gotten gains from gambling. Because life is a gamble, and I'm damn lucky. Eleven other kiddos were born about the same time and just like me. Six of us made it, and of those six, I'm doing the best.
 
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