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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
3, 2
Total: 5 (2-20)
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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:13 pm
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Noir Songbird rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 3
Total: 11 (2-20)
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:13 pm
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
2, 3
Total: 5 (2-20)
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:14 pm
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 5
Total: 6 (2-20)
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:14 pm
emotion_ghost emotion_ghost emotion_ghost
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 10
Total: 16 (2-20)
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:49 pm
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 9
Total: 10 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:16 am
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LittleLilyKitty rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 1
Total: 8 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 9:28 am
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Noir Songbird rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 9
Total: 17 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:14 pm
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Noir Songbird rolled 2 10-sided dice:
3, 4
Total: 7 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:01 pm
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Noir Songbird rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 10
Total: 11 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:11 pm
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 10
Total: 16 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:47 pm
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Noir Songbird rolled 1 10-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:44 pm
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 4
Total: 5 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 7:00 pm
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Noir Songbird rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 8
Total: 16 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:12 pm
Elsa had gotten used to every place he ducked into in this weird little town being empty and bare of most signs of life. But as he ducked into a house to check it for anything that might be useful, supplies-wise, he found himself given pause.
There, on the table, was a deck of cards. Seemingly innocuous and almost uninteresting, but present nonetheless. Elsa made a soft "hm" sound, approaching it with cautious interest, and turned it over. Maybe it would be something useful to bring back to the group--not exactly survival supplies, but some games of poker or blackjack or even BS would be great to lift everyone's spirits and break the heavy chill that seemed to hang over this place. A little fun might make the whole thing just that much more bearable.
He began to flip through it, and that was when he frowned. These cards were...strange. It shouldn't have surprised him, he guessed; everything here was a little creepy and weird, and there was no way that a deck of cards would be anything but. There didn't seem to be any numbers or letters to indicate what the cards were, and yet the illustrations were evocative all the same--it reminded Elsa, if anything, of the tarot decks he'd seen once or twice at bookstores. Not his thing, per se, but sometimes the illustrations were particularly pretty or the theme eye-catching and he'd stop to linger a moment and look.
Of course, these weren't tarot--they were proper playing cards, as best Elsa could tell, and he really was getting ready to just take them back with him when a card slipped from the deck. He reached for it, and turned to look--
And froze.
It was, he suspected, the Joker, because it had no suit distinguishing it, and the image that it used made his blood turn to ice in his veins. Elsa shivered, a little, and drew his cloak around him like that would somehow drive out the cold, but of course it didn't, since the chill came from within.
He hadn't yet seem the monster face to face, but he remembered it form his terrible fog-induced hallucinations, and he knew what he'd seen through the windows at night. The stalking, hulking monster that had him reciting Psalm 23--"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death"--every time it got too close. And there it was, looking up at him from the Joker in this strange, out of place deck of cards. It was mesmerizing, holding his gaze for a long, terrible moment, and when he was finally able to tear his eyes away--
Elsa screamed, and dropped the deck on the table, jolting away.
There, in front of him, outside the window, was the monster.
It wasn't supposed to be here. It wasn't supposed to come out in the daylight. And yet, there it was, and it turned to look at him--
And Elsa blinked, and it was gone.
Elsa swallowed, feeling a sense of unease settle around him. No, he decided, he would not be taking these cards back with him.
[525 words]
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MiddyGlow rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 2
Total: 12 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:18 pm
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