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If money has no meaning here, then what do people do with themselves? Adventure for the sport of it? Build things only to watch them gather dust?

I prefer problems that bite back or explode in my hands, but it seems difficult to call that work in a place where every need is already seen to.

So. What passes for an occupation here—when merit and coin are both irrelevant?

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Abilities. That is a tidy euphemism. In my world, such things usually mean magic, divine meddling, or unfortunate accidents with alchemy. I never had the patience for that, so I built advantages instead.

You say you have more than most. More what, precisely? Strength, speed, flight? Or something stranger? Forgive me, I ask as a man who has spent his life cataloguing the impossible.

And if you are accustomed to saving people, what do you do when no one remains who needs saving?

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Not a lot of magic where I come from, probably not much divine meddling either, but people do come by what they're able to do in different ways, so "abilities" works as a decent catch-all.
In my case, I was born with them [ish] and it's all of the above, plus a few other things.
I don't mind sharing, nothing I can do is a secret.
And that's the question, right? So far I've been spending more time cooking than I usually have time for, which is nice.