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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 12:41 pm
Quote: Destiny City is a large place, with a large population. It’s not uncommon to find a lost item here or there. Maybe a keychain, an earring, a book. But, a six sided die? That’s different. While traveling through Destiny City, you find a strange little object. It looks like old, stained wood, but something shiny in it catches your eye. How could you resist picking it up? But then, maybe you've found one of these dice before. Maybe you remember the Gameboard, already.
That's okay.
Even if you know better than to pick it up, all you have to do is look at it, and it's ensnared you. Again.It looks like a normal die in terms of shape, and each side has a gilded number, one through six, carved into it. The most interesting part of it all is that the dice seems to be made of old, stained wood with fossilized opal throughout the whole piece. Something about it called to you, and now that it has your attention, a harsh wind slams into you. Darkness falls all around you–and then, slowly, a path illuminates. It’s black all around you; there’s no light, but you can see clearly marked spaces. A line of squares unwind in front of you, each clearly marked. You can’t see anything around you, can’t feel anything else–just the gameboard. And the die. Whether its in your hand or on the ground where you left it, it's there with you. Even if you don’t recognize the game, you don’t really need instructions to know how to play–you have a die, and you have a path. In the distance, you can barely make out a dark wooden platform at the end of the path, but it seems to have the same fossilized opal inlay as the die–and pretty golden symbols along the rim. You can’t step out of your square. Trying to leave the gameboard results in you walking to an invisible barrier and it feels like slamming into a glass wall. You cannot leave your space–unless the die says you can. If you want to get out of here, you’re going to have to roll your way there–but it isn’t so easy. Strange gold markings differ from one square to the next. There’s no telling what they mean–you’re going to have to land on them to find out. Though, judging by the tension in the air, it’s probably not going to be anything good.
As the Dark Mirror Senshi picked up the die and turned it over in his hands to inspect it, admiring the stained wood and fossilized opal with gilded numbers, he felt a sudden wind slam into him, knocking the air from his lungs, and immediately thought he was under attack. Which, he realized later, in a way, he was.
Everything went dark and at first he thought he had gotten knocked out, but then, slowly, a path began to light up before him. Everywhere else around him remained pitch black except for the illuminated path. Furthermore, the path was broken up into squares - squares like on a game board.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 12:50 pm
Quote: Space 0:You have arrived here; nothing happens until you roll your die.
As he squinted into the darkness ahead, the senshi thought he saw the pathway end at a dark, wooden platform with fossilized opal inlay - the same material that the die he had found was made of. Just like the gold numbers on the die, there were gold symbols on the edge of the platform too, it looked like. Perhaps he was supposed to get there in order to escape this strange place - which meant he had to travel the entire path.
This scenario reminded him of the story called Jumanji with a cursed game board and he didn't like the ominous feeling it was giving him; nor the tension in the air. The path looked innocent enough, but Sinope knew looks could be deceiving and he had no doubt something would happen when he landed on the marked squares. They shone with their own strange, gold markings too, after all. Still, with no other obvious options, Sinope knelt down and attempted to roll the six-sided die, careful to see what number it landed on.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-6)
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 12:55 pm
Quote: Space 1:You feel eyes upon you, and hear a faint chuckling, like you’re the butt of someone’s joke. It sets a bad mood for the rest of this game; you’re already being judged–and, it looks like a long road ahead.
Games, though, generally had rules and were not unfair, so Sinope wasn't discouraged. He didn't mind being judged; not when he was determined to play the game well and beat whoever was chuckling at him at their own game. It reminded him of tricksters that liked to play games with others. All he had to do to win this game, though, it seemed, was to survive long enough to get to the wooden platform at the end of the path. He still had a long way to go, but some progress was better than none.
Trying to remain an optimist, Sinope counted the number of squares ahead of him that made up the path to the platform at the end. 20 squares, including the one he was standing on just then. That wasn't so bad. He could make it. In fact, if anything, this felt like a chance to prove himself.
"Bring it on," he muttered with a grin and rolled the die again.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:03 pm
Quote: Space 5:A dog barks, fierce and frightening. You can hear its growl and the hackles stand up on the back of your neck. You can practically feel spittle on you. It’s close. And it’s big. And it’s angry. If this beastly dog could reach you, no doubt it would try to tear you to shreds.
Krav maga might have been useless on the beast if it simply decided to bite whatever limb he tried to strike out at it with. There wouldn't have been any space or way to run from it, either, since the square seemed to prevent him from moving unless he rolled his die.
Shuddering at the thought of what the dog probably could have been capable of doing to him, Sinope quickly rolled the die again in the hopes of moving on before the canine could reach him.
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Kitomyx rolled ` 6-sided dice:
Total: 0 (`-0)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:05 am
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:10 am
Quote: Space 9:The smell of saltwater fills the air, and you can hear the water lapping against the shore. You hear boards creaking, and bells in the distance. And then, a song. Haunting. Ghostly, and calling you. For a second, you fall in love. And then, water fills your lungs. You’re choking, you can’t breathe. The song is loud and seems to caress you, even as a wet chill gathers in your square. Scaly hands reach for you, you gently caressing, and try to lure you into an endless sleep.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-6)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:13 am
Quote: Space 14:The ground is sticky. You land on this and immediately dip, as though you’ve stepped on a trampoline. Close inspection reveals that you are standing on an intricately woven web–and your shoes are stuck. And something is skittering just on the horizon.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-6)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:15 am
Quote: Space 17:Something howls in the distance. It’s loud and echoes with such ferocity it seems to shake you. On the other side of you–another howl. Closer. This one is loud enough to hurt your ears. The ground trembles with the force of something charging at you. A growl, a snarl. Yellow eyes staring you down. There’s not just one monster out there–there’s several, and they’re all coming for you.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-6)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:17 am
Quote: Space 18:You smell something poison, something noxious. You pass through a haze of strange, green gas as you enter the square, but it fades after a few seconds. You feel cold. You feel empty. You start to decay. Maybe a part of you knows it’s an illusion, but in that split second when your body feels like it might go limp and when you look at your hand and see skin melting. You see bone. You’d best roll the dice so you don’t wind up a skeleton prop for the next player.
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Kitomyx rolled 1 6-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-6)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 6:19 am
Quote: Space 20:The end; once you have arrived here you are free to leave. You will see be basked in the glow of a beautiful, opalescent aura that will take you back home. If you arrived with a guest, you can leave without them or choose to stay until they make it to the end as well. When you arrive back in Destiny City, you may choose to keep the six sided die–if nothing else, it’s pretty! Though, it doesn’t seem to have any magical qualities, that might be for the best.
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