Black on both sides, this Card depicts a nymphish reever wielding a cutlass & wearing a heavy cloak. It says, "The Beautiful Reever is as fierce as she is skilled." Read aloud to use the power of this Card.

[19:50:47] Dionysus: The beggarman says, "Smells like the start of something, don't you think, mister?"

[19:50:50] Dionysus: The beggar coughs.

[19:51:02] Arlie: I hold a towel over it and rush out.

[19:51:06] * Jack Crane starts to say something cynical, but thinks perhaps this isn't the time.

[19:51:11] Jack Crane: "What do you think?"

[19:51:32] Arlie: "I've got it! I've got the poker!"

[19:51:32] Dionysus: "I think it could go two ways. It all depends on the answer to a single question: Wanna hear a story?"

[19:51:39] Arlie: "Coming through!"

[19:51:42] Jack Crane: "Sure, mate."

[19:51:44] * Avery makes way.

[19:52:07] Dionysus: He smiles, a toothless grin. His breath smells worse than whatever is in the air. "Pick a card."

[19:52:08] * Arsul lights another cigarette, listeing and leaning against the building

[19:52:22] Dionysus: He holds out a grubby deck of cards.

[19:52:30] * Arlie hands the poker to Aurelia and holds the towel over the boy's wound.

[[19:53:05] * Aurelia takes the poker and applies it carefully to the wound.

[19:53:15] Dionysus: The card you pull is black on both sides. The beggar snatches it out of you rhand & looks at it. "Ahh, the Beautiful Reever. Once upon a time..." Everyone stop.

[19:53:44] Dionysus: Jack, you are pulled in to the story, rapt attention to this smelly, coughing beggar's tale.

[19:54:07] Dionysus: About a nymphish reever taken slave in ancient Vesturia on First Shem.

[19:54:43] Dionysus: She's saved by a group of strangers, one of which is looking for his sister. Another is a thief, who ends up becoming the First Doppleganger.

[19:54:57] Dionysus: The reever is a fierce, prideful warrior woman, beautiful & dangerous.

[19:55:23] Dionysus: After escaping the Vesturian slave markets, she ended up becoming one of the most feared reevers of her time.

[19:57:07] Dionysus: The people she was involved with in that city ended up in their own stories, but hers ended with her getting pregnant by a violent rapist, & having a child she dubbed Jannith. Jannith ended up entering the famine church & becoming one of the church's most powerful servants. She gained immortality & eventually, when the Age of Terror fell, she became the Second Champion of Famine, until she was tricked by the Champion of Despair into attack

[19:57:07] Dionysus: ing the World Tree, & the future Champion of War struck her dead.

[19:57:34] Dionysus: "...Here, this is yours." he hands you the card. Everything continues.

[19:58:04] Dionysus: "If you're ever in a tight spot, maybe that Card can help."

[19:58:15] Dionysus: "Just take it out & read it."

[19:58:40] Dionysus: "if you're ever in a tight spot..." And then he's coughing.

[19:58:42] * Jack Crane looks confused meshed with slightly alarmed.

[19:58:56] Dionysus: He gets up & staggers away.

[19:59:07] Dionysus: Meanwhile, Aurelia, the child wakes, screaming in pain as you cauterize the wound.

[19:59:15] * Jack Crane flinches.

[19:59:20] * Avery winces