CxB
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"Why am I blindfolded?" I asked. "This feels like some kind of hazing ritual, where I'm going to fall into a pond. Or an open grave. Or something.""I'm hoping that without being able to navigate based on what's unfamiliar or frightening, you'll just randomly wander in the right direction." Headcrow replied. "Or at least a useful one.""And is it working?" I took a few more short steps, then stopped when my outstretched hands brushed against something hard. "Because I think I've just been going in circles.…-
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Headcrow stepped down from the statue."Does the Morlock like those word puzzle things?""Not a clue." I shrugged. "But I know one of the software types was an absolute fiend for them, and she was about three seats away."Everyone looked at me."What!? You made it seem like it was a big deal that I was opposite James when the light happened, so I figured that was relevant.""Oh, it's relevant." The ghostly ringmaster agreed. "But ..."She paused and cocked her head, then looked at Headcrow and grinned."What?"…
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“So we’re just kind of winging it?” I asked as we walked back towards the bonfire. “You don’t get sent a map or anything?”“No such luck.” Replied Yorick. “People get a vague sense of where to look, like Headcrow & I did with you, and Jeff did with The Morlock, but not a lot more.”Around us, a hoard of figures of a wide variety of shapes were going grave to grave through the boneyard, inspecting gravestones & knocking on crypts. How they were then hearing any response I had no…
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"And it's by no means clear." Said a voice from beside me. "That Yorick is correct."We all jumped, I let out a yelp, and the bickering trio up ahead turned in time to see the Ghostly Ringmaster coalesce from whisps of mist. She gave a bow, then continued."It's just a theory; It's not necessarily true.""It does explain things?" Headcrow suggested. "The different eras, the ..."Anj cut him off."What's the thing Yorick maybe isn't correct about?" She asked. "And hello Ghost Lady, I'm Anj; Apparently not a…
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“Soooo, ” I slowly began, looking around. “What happens now?” Yorick looked out at the collapsed crypt and scratched at his skull. Anj glanced back and forth between the suddenly-aged structures. Archie prodded thoughtfully at the tunnel, and Jeff picked up some of the dirt, cautiously sniffing at it. Headcrow sat up, hugging his legs to his chest & peering out from under his knees. “Can anyone think of anything we can do to find this new arrival?” He asked. “Seems like whoever…
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I don't know how skeletons or a giant spider or a zombie sigh in relief, but that's what we all did."Are you OK under there?" Jeff asked. "'Cause it'll take some time to get all that stuff moved, so ... Might want to make yourself comfortable?""I don't understand how it came down so fast." Said Yorick, approaching the pile of wreckage. "The damage didn't look that bad, but some of this debris is ... ""Ancient." Headcrow completed the thought. "The wood I can see above me is almost crumbling to dust in…
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I'd like to say that things started out well, but in all honesty, 'well' was off the table as soon as we found the crypt, with a faint red trail leading up to it.I was fixated on the trail by that point, scuttling along beside a crypt "like Frankenstein's pet crab" as Jeff put it, so the first I knew of the problem was when there was a shout of "No!" and hands grabbed my collar and ankles, dragging me backwards."What the ... !" I went silent when I saw the structure I'd been about to follow the trail…
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The Archie/Headcrow/Jeff pile sorted itself out with only a small amount of bickering about who'd won; The general consensus was that I'd in some way cheated, and that said cheating was somehow worse because I wasn't involved in the slap fight. I pointed out that I was quite literally the focus of the fight, or that at least a part of me had been, so I'd clearly been involved before any of they were, but this was rejected by Headcrow as being unhelpful."Soooo." Anj said, slowly. "How does this next bit…
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"How was I to know it wouldnae work?" Anj complained as she walked towards the Yorick/Jeff/Headcrow pile. "It should have worked. It worked in the movie."Yorick rolled gracelessly off the pile and staggered to his feet, still clutching my leg."We all got down, at least." He said. "If not all in one piece."Jeff reached out, grabbed the stump end of my my detached leg, and pulled himself upright using Yorick as an anchor. I shuddered and grabbed at the stump."Gah! Don't do that!"I levered myself to my foot…
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"Did you seriously base this whole thing on a video you didn't even understand?" Anj shouted. "That wasn't a zombie, it was a skinny guy in facepaint.""Voodoo People?!" Demanded Archie. "We just solved this using fucking Voodoo People?""No!" I protested. "Voodoo People is the one with the blindfolded people running in a city, with their hands tied behind their backs, and there's other people gambling on them. And the winner gets a bag of money.""That was a remix." Said Archie. "The jungle one is the…
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