You wake up tomorrow to discover that every living human has been randomly assigned a “Plot Armor Rating” between 0 and 100. This number is now publicly visible floating above everyone’s head. It determines how likely someone is to survive any kind of dangerous or unlikely event, like car crashes, falling pianos, wild animal attacks, even terminal diseases.
A few things happen immediately:
- The world economy begins to reshape around people with high ratings. Politicians get replaced, dictators get sniped when their rating is low. The pope hides away, trying to hide his rating.
- Crime gets weird. Assassins refuse contracts on people above 80. People with low scores become hermits in the mountains. Companies shape around providing safehouses for them. People with low ratings become victims of high rating scams, extortion and so on. Some low rating rich people start to employ high rating private bodyguards. The police system has a very hard time recomposing through the situation.
- Certain Western governments start allowing discrimination back in for essential jobs.
- Governments start recruiting 90+ people for black-ops missions, asteroid mining, or literal alien contact in order to up their chances of success.
- Dating apps show your Plot Armor Rating next to your profile picture.
- A Reddit community emerges where people purposely test their limits based on their number.
You wake up that day at 7AM and your rating is… 13. However, coincidentally, you inherit 7.5 million USD or the equivalent in your currency. It’s deposited in your bank account that same morning at 11AM.
What do you do with your life?
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Copy of the original post in case of edits: You wake up tomorrow to discover that every living human has been randomly assigned a “Plot Armor Rating” between 0 and 100. This number is now publicly visible floating above everyone’s head. It determines how likely someone is to survive any kind of dangerous or unlikely event, like car crashes, falling pianos, wild animal attacks, even terminal diseases.
A few things happen immediately:
You wake up that day at 7AM and your rating is… 13. However, coincidentally, you inherit 7.5 million USD or the equivalent in your currency. It’s deposited in your bank account that same morning at 11AM.
What do you do with your life?
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Suffer the whims of fate for people with higher numbers 🤷🏿♂️
13 would basically put you at the level of an NPC… so, unless the game lets NPCs respawn (maybe if the buddhists are right)… you can expect some asshat to come and take your stuff without a second thought