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Gloom: WILD CITY

[The old-fashioned writing desk in the center of the room carries several blank pieces of paper, a fine wooden pen, and a piece of parchment covered in writing. When you take a look, you find the following epigraph in a vibrant scrawl:]

Congratulations, future wordsmiths, and welcome to your first exercise in the creation of a true masterwork of tale-telling. This evening you'll be penning a terrific tragedy, starring the family of unsympathetic ne'er-do-wells provided to you.

Your goal? Why, to construct the best story your mind can conceive, of course - and make their lives as entertainingly miserable as possible before writing one of them directly into an early grave.

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...... it's just a card game, isn't it? [ though man she is not in any mood to be doing mean things even to fictional people right now ]

[Leans against her]

It's a story telling game. We basically are writing a sad story.

[ awh silver ... sighs ]

I guess if we don't then we'll be punished again won't we?

Tough to say, but that's the vibe I'm getting.

... it's probably best to assume the worst. [ catching on REAL quick. ]

...pretty much. It'll work out though. We're all together at least, right? We're not doing this alone.

... mn. [ nods. ]

I'll do my best to help us win.

Let's do our best to keep Wild City safe.

I... think so. But I wouldn't count on it.

This might be like capitalism.

[she does not like this, and actually looks a little pale.]

[ ... Does Not Compute ]

What is capitalism?

Another storytelling game... don't worry about it.

[ .... just giving her a look like

She Is Very Worrying About It Now ]

We'll do better this time, and protect you.

[ ... :T

But I Don't Want To Be Protected I Want To Do The Protecting ]

[don't :T]

Protecting you... it really means protecting all of us.

[ :TTTT ]

..... alright. [ this is a little more acceptable ]

[she thinks she understands-- a little better now]

A game about bad things happening to people, yes. We should play the cards with the biggest numbers if we want to win.

If we don't win something bad will happen to us. [ catching on quick ]

...It is possible.

... this time I'll do my best to protect all of you.

We will protect you as well.

[ . . . . . . .. ... ......

just reaches out and paffs little baby bird on the head. soft. paff paff paff. ]

[ ... ]

You do realize I am a highly skilled combatant, right?

[ shhhhhh this is soothing. places her cheek on his head pet pet pet pet pet ]

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