I'll make this poll a manual one as I prefer the format for longer options.
1. Vampirism: you become an unholy undead and stay locked at an age of your choosing. Daylight is lethal to you, you will always want blood more than ANYTHING and also keenly feel that you are profoundly cursed. Your power grows over time as you feast on blood but your humanity erodes away as well. Some examples of potential powers include polymorphing, Matrix style bullet time, mind control, super strength, blood magic and so on.
2. Magical awakening: you become a mage and gain the ability to manipulate reality through magic spells, including your own mortality! Your power will be limited by your intelligence, dedication and creativity. This will be a path of great potential but a lot of hard work. An examples of functional immortality include creating bodies that your consciousness can jump to after you die that you have hidden in labs.
3. Get turned into an A. I: you become a highly futuristic, sentient machine. As long as you can keep repairing yourself then you will live indefinitely. The possibilities of this transformation is best left to your imagination but you could make yourself pass for a human on the outside or make yourself look like a tank, turn into a swarm of nanomachines, whatever machine could be you can be.
#1 is cursed, #2 has to study a lot and #3 has little downside but can't violate reality through magic like the other two.
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