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Gloom: avante en garde

[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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[ Patting again. ]

Let's bully some pseudo-family.

Question is, if we can only play two cards, do we spread'em out or pile'em on one unlucky sap...

Personally I'd prefer spreading them out? I like a 'spreading the load' approach to things in general though.

So we should play the other -20 on the nerd, then.

Mm, I'm fine with that. Which card for which person?

I can spin a wild tale with ghosts on the demon lord.

Write what you know, right?

So fungus for the nerd? Maybe that's why he won't cook with food anymore. Because of the chance of touching mold.

Oh, that's good.

Don't old books also get kinda moldy?

No idea, I know they get dusty and wrinkly, never seen one get moldy. Maybe he just doesn't know that yet.

I bet Shrike knows...

Mm, we could ask.

She says they definitely can!

Shrike coolly pulling through as always.

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