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<h1 class="title">No One Ever Leaves</h1>
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<p class="subtitle">Actual Play</p>
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<nav id="TOC" role="doc-toc">
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<h2 id="toc-title">CONTENTS</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#turn-1" id="toc-turn-1">TURN 1</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#phase-1-arrival" id="toc-phase-1-arrival">PHASE 1:
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ARRIVAL</a></li>
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<li><a href="#phase-2-haunting" id="toc-phase-2-haunting">PHASE 2:
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HAUNTING</a></li>
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<li><a href="#phase-3-trapped" id="toc-phase-3-trapped">PHASE 3:
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TRAPPED</a></li>
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<li><a href="#phase-4-finale" id="toc-phase-4-finale">PHASE 4:
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FINALE</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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</nav>
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<h2 id="turn-1">TURN 1</h2>
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<!--
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Player: dozens
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Started: 2025-03-08
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Finished: ???
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//-->
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<ul>
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<li><p>ERA: Proximate Past. 1950s Mississippi.</p></li>
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<li><p>HOUSE DESCRIPTION: The house sits alone at the top of a small
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hill at the end of a lane off the main highway through town by a small
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pond.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<p>FAMILY</p>
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<ul>
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<li><p>FLEEING: Mya sacrificed for her job. Spent too much time there.
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When she got sacked it was like she didn’t know who she was any
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more.</p></li>
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<li><p>SEARCHING: Time to rekindle her relationship with her
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son.</p></li>
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<li><p>MYA GOMEZ, AGE 40</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Reactions
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<ul>
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<li>1 - 6 Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>7 Patient -2</li>
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<li>8 - 9 Professional +2</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Memories
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<ol type="1">
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<li>Summary: Something is wrong with this house
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<ul>
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<li>We moved into the house and it was so dark</li>
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<li>The tub is leaking and now the ceiling is damaged. This place is a
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disaster. It’s falling apart. What have I done?</li>
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<li>First the plumbing and now the electrical. Was this a terrible
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idea?</li>
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<li>Why do these repairs not stick?</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary: Guillermo is acting out and is uncontrollable
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<ul>
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<li>Guillermo won’t stop peeling the wallpaper</li>
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<li>Or the paint</li>
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<li>Guillermo was skating in the house and broke his wrist. he got hurt
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because he won’t mind me. he is reckless</li>
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<li>I haven’t seen Guillermo around much lately, but it’s for the
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better. We’ve been fighting so much. But I feel guilty avoiding him. I
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moved here to spend time with him.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary: I think I’m going crazy
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<ul>
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<li>I can’t sleep. The lights, and the noise.</li>
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<li>I think I’m hearing voices of people who aren’t there</li>
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<li>I feel like somebody’s watching me.</li>
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<li>This has all happened before.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary:
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<ul>
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<li>This house is dangerous because it is destroying my mind</li>
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<li>Unusually aggressive coyotes attacked me in my house.</li>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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</ul></li>
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</ol></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>GUILLERMO GOMEZ, AGE 8</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Reactions
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<ul>
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<li>1 - 2 Honest +2</li>
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<li>3 - 4 Brutal -1</li>
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<li>5 - 6 Remorseful +1</li>
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<li>7 - 9 Emotional +2</li>
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<li>10 Honest +3</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Memories
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<ol type="1">
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<li>Summary:
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<ul>
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<li>Mom won’t listen to me and won’t believe me</li>
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<li>Mom is depressed and mopey</li>
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<li>Mom is accusing me of lying to her</li>
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<li></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary: I’m all alone and I don’t need anybody
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<ul>
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<li>Gomez is my only friend</li>
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<li>Mom doesn’t want anything to do with me</li>
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<li>The kids don’t play with me</li>
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<li>The parents keep kids away from me.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary:
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<ul>
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<li>I fell and hurt myself skating</li>
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<li>Gomez got hurt protecting us from coyotes</li>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Summary:
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<ul>
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<li>I discovered a wallpapered door, a secret stairway down to the
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basement</li>
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<li>The basement saved us from the coyotes</li>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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</ul></li>
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</ol></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>GOMEZ GOMEZ (DOG)</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="phase-1-arrival">PHASE 1: ARRIVAL</h3>
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<p>OVERTONE: Dark</p>
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<h4 id="hand-1">Hand 1</h4>
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<p>Undertone: Dark</p>
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<p>Hand:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>9C: Inexplicable shadows</li>
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<li>2C: Doors won’t stay <del>closed</del> open</li>
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<li>QC: Wallpaper won’t stay on</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Description:</p>
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<p>Mya and Guillermo move into the house on the hill. It’s gloomy. Just
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like their moods after the move and the long drive. Mya throws open the
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windows and the doors to brighten the place up but the shadows continue
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to pool and deepen. The doors close of their own volition no matter what
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she does. The wallpaper in the foyer peels off in ribbons. Mya blames
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Guillermo. Guillermo blames Gomez. Everybody is resentful.</p>
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<p>Reactions:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 6 = Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 9 = Emotional +2</li>
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<li>Total: 4</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Outcome:</p>
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<p>Tensions run high. Mya’s remorse and the gloom of the house leaves
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her obviously struggling with depression. Guillermo avoids her and
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hides, playing with Gomez outside. Mya wonders if this was a
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mistake.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-2">Hand 2</h4>
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<p>Undertone: Bright</p>
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<p>Hand:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>JC: Paint peeling off in layers</li>
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<li>8C: Uneven floors</li>
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<li>AC: Creaky floors</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Description:</p>
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<p>Guillermo is playing with a ball and watches it roll from one end of
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the great hall all the way to the other. Soon he is skateboarding
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through the house, Gomez nipping at his heels. Mya warns him to stop but
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he doesn’t listen. He keeps at it until he hits a bump in the uneven
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floors that wasn’t there before and falls and breaks his wrist. Mya
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confiscates his skateboard and is convinced that Guillermo has been
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peeling the paint as retribution for his punishment.</p>
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<p>Reactions:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 1 = Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 2 = Honest +2</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Outcome:</p>
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<p>Guillermo blows up and insists that he’s telling the truth. He’s
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tired of being blamed for the wallpaper and the paint. Mya’s mood
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continues to darken.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-3">Hand 3</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Dark</p>
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<p>HAND:</p>
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<li>3C: Mysterious drafts</li>
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<li>10C: Old secret spaces or hidden rooms</li>
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<li>KC: Outdated plumbing</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION:</p>
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<p>Water is leaking from somewhere near the upstairs guest bathub. There
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is a water spot on the ceiling in the foyer and it is starting to split
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the ceiling and drip. Mya is busy trying to get a hold of a plumber who
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can come out and fix the leak and also a handyman who can repaint the
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ceiling and repair the damage to the house. Guillermo noticed a weird
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draft and a slight whistling coming from behind a wallpapered door in
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the kitchen and discovers the stairs down to the basement.</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 3 Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 10 Honest +3</li>
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<li>Total: 5</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME:</p>
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<p>Mya and Guillermo avoid each other. She’s busy working on the house,
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and he has disappeared into the basement.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-4">Hand 4</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Bright</p>
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<p>HAND:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>5C: Lights flickering and turning on by themselves</li>
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<li>4C: Unexplained thumps and thuds and creaks</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION:</p>
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<p>Mya makes dinner and tries to spend some quality time with Guillermo
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who continues to be withdrawn. The lights keep coming on during the
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night when she’s trying to sleep waking her up. And when the lights
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aren’t flickering there are strange thumps and thuds that keep her up.
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She is sleep deprived and on edge during the day.</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 8 Professional +2</li>
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<li>Total: 2</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME:</p>
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<p>Mya has three different electricians out to the house. There is
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nothing wrong with the wiring. The plumber has fixed the pipes and the
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handyman has repaired the ceiling. She has painted over the spot herself
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3 times, but it keeps coming out. She has a carpenter come out to level
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the floor where Guillermo fell, but the board keeps popping back up.</p>
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<h3 id="phase-2-haunting">PHASE 2: HAUNTING</h3>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Dark</p>
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<h4 id="hand-1-1">Hand 1</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Dark</p>
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<p>HAND: 3 / 2 = 1</p>
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<ul>
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<li>8D: Voices coming from the attic</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION: Mya hears voices coming from the attic and thinks that
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Guillermo is up there playing by himself. But she hears a voice she
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doesn’t recognize. Later asks him who was up there with him and he says
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he wasn’t up there at all.</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 9 / 2 = 4 = Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 6 / 2 = 3 = Brutal -1</li>
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<li>Total: 1</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME: The tension continues to build. Mya accuses Guillermo of
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lying to her about stuff. But also starts to believe that something else
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is going on. Guillermo resents that his mom seems to keep blaming him
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for stuff and won’t listen to him or believe him.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-2-1">Hand 2</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Bright</p>
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<p>HAND: 8 = 4</p>
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<ul>
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<li>QD: Being ostracized by the neighbors</li>
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<li>4D: Insomnia</li>
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<li>10D: Feeling like you’re being watched</li>
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<li>KD: The feeling that this has all happened before</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION: Mya still can’t sleep and decides to embrace it, staying
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up all night cooking and cleaning and trying to paint and patch stuff.
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She’s a little manic and a little frantic and keeps having late night
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experiences where she swears somebody is watching her. She can’t shake a
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creeping sense of deja vu, like this has all happened before.</p>
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<p>Guillermo has been acting weird and keeping to himself and talking to
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himself, and the neighborhood kids have started calling him names and
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staying away from him. Those who don’t, their parents keep them away
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anyway.</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 7 / 2 = 3 = Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 4 / 2 = 2 = Honest +2</li>
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<li>Total: 4</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME: The family continues to fracture and isolate. Mya’s insomnia
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is leading her to question things. Guillermo is growing weirder and more
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peculiar and more angry.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-3-1">Hand 3</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Dark</p>
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<p>HAND: 5 / 2 = 2</p>
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<ul>
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<li>3D: Old secret spaces or hidden rooms</li>
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<li>7D: Sleepwalking</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION: Guillermo is starting to venture more down into the
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basement. Mya starts sleepwalking, will suddenly come to in the middle
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of the night out on the lawn in her nihgtgown</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: K / 2 = 6 = Professional +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 2 / 2 = 1 = Honest +2</li>
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<li>Total: 4</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME: Mya tries to get help by seeing a doctor. Is this carbon
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monoxide poisoning or something? She gets some professionals to come out
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to test the house for a gas leak.</p>
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<h4 id="hand-4-1">Hand 4</h4>
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<p>UNDERTONE: Dark</p>
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<p>HAND: K / 2 = 6</p>
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<ul>
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<li>6D: Creepy neighbors</li>
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<li>9D: Electronics stop working</li>
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<li>5D: Things going missing</li>
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<li>AD: Animal infestation</li>
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<li>2D: Things moving around on their own, not being where you left
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them</li>
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<li>JD: Pets/animals acting strange</li>
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</ul>
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<p>DESCRIPTION: (whew this is a lot to tie together. let’s see..) Gomez
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Gomez has taken to acting weird: standing in the hallway growling at
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nothing, barking randomly during the night, suddenly getting up and
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running out of the room. Refuses to go into the basement with Guillermo.
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One night, a pair of friggin wild, aggressive coyotes break into the
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house. It is terrible and terrifying! They attack and injure Gomez while
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he was trying to protect them. Mya grabs a large knife to protect
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herself. Her cell phone is dead so she runs into the other room to use
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the phone. She puts down the knife to dial 911 but the landline is dead.
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And the knife isn’t there any more where she put it down when she hangs
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up. From the upstairs window they see some neighbors standing out on the
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sidewalk just watching, possibly alerted by the shouting. They bang on
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the windows and call for help but they just stand impassively and watch
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and don’t move. They get chased through the house and eventually realize
|
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they won’t go near the basement. Mya hasn’t known about it up to now,
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but Guillermo leads her to the papered over hidden door and they go down
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there and spend the night. In the morning the coyotes are gone and the
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house, and the kitchen especially, looks like it has been ransacked.</p>
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<p>REACTIONS:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Mya: 2 / 2 = 1 = Remorseful +2</li>
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<li>Guillermo: 10 / 2 = 5 = Remorseful +1</li>
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<li>Total: 3 (Oops! All remorse!)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>OUTCOME: In the aftermath of the attack, survivors trauma does more
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to mend Mya’s and Guillermo’s relationship than moving across the
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country into this house, or anything else they’ve done. Not that it does
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that much. There’s still plenty of distrust and resentment there. But
|
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it’s a start. They seem recommitted to each others safety and well
|
||
being. Guillermo has brought Mya into his increasingly private world by
|
||
showing her the basement. She is thankful that his quick thinking was
|
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able to save them. Mya buys a gun. Gomez Gomez has some superficial
|
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wounds treated and is physically fine. But he grows very anxious now if
|
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Mya and Guillermo aren’t together in a room, and always at their side,
|
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even refusing to sleep anywhere but in bed with one of them.</p>
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<h3 id="phase-3-trapped">PHASE 3: TRAPPED</h3>
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<h3 id="phase-4-finale">PHASE 4: FINALE</h3>
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## NOTES ##
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I.
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Mya has two full memories
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by the end of phase 1
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II.
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HINT:
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deal hands from the current suit pile,
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and use another suit pile
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to draw stuff like tone,
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hand size,
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reactions,
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etc.
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III.
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CONVICTION:
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if you just happen to have all strong convictions,
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then things will just always escalate
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