Looking at my character sheet, all the unusual abilities are justified in this narrative way. However, I wrote the narrative that way to wring as many abilities as I could from my 100 words ;-)
I'd give all the following abilities for those three lines:
Tenacious
Resourceful
Knowledge of Kero Fin's Hall
Unpredictable
Cheat Death
Giving 18/5 = 3.6 words/ability.
Writing 'He can cheat death.' is 4 words/ability.
The storytelling method can be compatible with power gaming!
However, bear in mind that the list method is an option for character generation. As that merely provides a list of abilities, without justification, I would not require much justification even in 100 word narratives.
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