Betrayal at House on the Hill

[angelcage]

[ You sleep, the ground cold beneath your cheek. The ground is hard as stone, cold marble beneath a fine layer of dust that doesn't come anywhere near acting as a cushion. The dust stirs with your breathing.


>> Wake up ]

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[runawaystory]

Ohhhh no, don't pin this one on me. I got out of the whole...haunted houses...thing. This is not my fault.

[dishonestliving]

The proof is in the pudding. Do you know how long it's been since I've had to be in some dusty place full of horrors that aren't just some stodgy old socialites? And now that I'm back, who's the absolute first person I see?

...Cute blouse, by the way.

[runawaystory]

Thanks.

And also, this? Still not my fault. For all I know, it could be your fault.

[dishonestliving]

Really. And you figure that how?

[runawaystory]

You walked away with a fortune. Who knows what you've been buying with it? Could be anything.

[dishonestliving]

I've only got so much luck to press, I know when to walk away from the table! You people were the ones into all that weird mystic mumbo-jumbo, not me. I've had enough for more than a lifetime!

[runawaystory]

I walked away from all of that too. It's not my fault it didn't walk away from me.

[dishonestliving]

It'd be pretty tough to, wouldn't it? You were pretty attached, last I remember.

[runawaystory]

I got it exorcised, remember? Same deal that got you your cash?

[dishonestliving]

And that cash didn't stick around long, so forgive me for having my doubts about what happened with the rest of that deal.

[runawaystory]

I think you can blame that on yourself.

[dishonestliving]

There are so many people more deserving of blame for that than me! I am a helpless victim of the vagaries of fate, nevertheless doing her best to wipe the slate clean and move forward to a new and unsullied future~

[runawaystory]

[eyebrows are raised rn]

Uh huh. Sure. And you diving head first into the high life had aaabsolutely nothing to do with anything.

[dishonestliving]

Envy is a terrible look for you. Just because you were left a penniless old maid due to your...affliction...doesn't mean you should take it out on me.

[runawaystory]

Mmhmm. Sure.

[dishonestliving]

Exactly.

Now, I'm going to find someone to get me out of this place. Try not to let your bad luck mess it up, please.