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BARGHEST

A knot of wild shrubbery closes off a plain stone alcove big enough for your team and...surprisingly tall. In fact, several feet above all your heads, a small stormcloud hovers, grumbling with faint thunder.

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[ Wilder the Trickster's voice sounds from somewhere outside. ]

I don't care how noble and heroic you're feeling; what I've got for you is far more interesting. You're going to be thinking up curses. To start with, every team has to come up with three curses. Something like, "You shall wake up with eight hangnails every day for the rest of your life," or, "May your undergarments itch into infinity." Nothing too violent or damaging, mind you. Today I don't feel like healing up you sorry lot if you wind up maiming each other.

Oh, and don't try to make them blessings instead. If anyone tries that, I'll change them into curses myself. Now, do be as creative and entertaining as possible, hmm? I'm looking forward to it.

. . I still can't hear. Did he say somethin'?

Huh? Yeah. You didn't get that?

[ tapping at his ear. ]

I can't hear anythin'.

Uhmmm. . . . .

[ wild hand gestures ]

D'ya really expect anyone to understand that? [ because he doesn't. ]

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[...do i have to try and act it out for you.]

Curses, Mira.

[ HE CAN READ LIPS FINE he just

can't see wilder. ]

. . are there punishments if we don't play?

No, we have to place curses on the other teams. Not violent ones, though.

So we gotta make 'em as light as possible.

Got any ideas?

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Hey. You're like, the team I'm working with today, right?

I... think so? Hi.

Hey.

[ lifts up a hand ]

I'm Clover.

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Hey mister. What're we doing with these curses?

Aren't you a spoilsport? Back in my day, kids would be happy just to play a game without asking for tips on the future rounds.

I can give you a hint: you want to have as few curses laid on you as possible by the end of the game.

Oh, sorry. I wasn't asking for a tip, I just wanted to know if we were supposed to hurt people with these.

You're supposed to annoy people with these. Irritate them! Make them wish to tear their hair out! And amuse me, of course.

I'll be bored if you just try to rig the game with them, mind you.

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Wait, that changes things.

Maybe we could make a curse that all their curses rebound?

's not a curse. He'd probably fuck it over.

Oh, right...

We should do something that makes it harder for them to lay curses back on us, though.

Unless he said somethin' 'bout it, I doubt it's somethin' we can do.

- your teeth constantly chatter, even when it's not cold
- you can't walk without a foot of space between your legs so you waddle
- your hands get glued together every time they touch?

The curses float up into the air as you speak them and whirl lazily around beneath the cloud above.

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