Ryan moved next. He rolled the dice, and waited. His token moved forwards 2 spaces. A message appeared on the display. "CURSE! You cannot escape being cursed right now. Which curse do you want: 1) - or 2) -?"
Mary looked at him. "Ryan, I don't think it's telling you what the curses are because you have to guess."
Ryan looked at the board, chose randomly, and gently tapped the number 2.
A card surfaced out of the display. Ryan turned it around, and saw that it was labeled "CURSE: Zeroness". The picture on it showed the face of a screaming person. He looked at the explanation.
"This curse lowers the cursed person's strength, agility, speed, and special abilities to nearly zero. It does, however, make the person less harder to hit and less likely to be attacked by large creatures. The curse lasts until the dice have been rolled 8 times."
"All right, but what does it do to me?" said Ryan. He got his answer soon. A sudden pain in his foot made him look down at his shoe. Nothing seemed out of the normal, but his foot still hurt, so he removed his shoe to look better. He could instantly see what had happened. "My foot - it's turning to ash!"
Dina and Toby, who were next to Ryan, looked down. A pile of fine black powder was settling on the floor, and
Ryan's foot seemed to be crumbling away.
"Well," said Ryan, "I can see how this is supposed to make me slower. But how does this make me any weaker?"
A loud thud echoed around the room as the shoe Ryan hadn't taken off landed on the floor. Ryan was surprised to see that his other foot was also crumbling to ash. He musn't have noticed amidst the pain from his other foot.
However, the deterioration did not stop there. Ryan's legs started to break apart, and his knees dissolved, leaving him with short stumps for legs. His shorts and underwear fell off with nothing to support them, making his member rather obvious to see.
Lissi, Bob, and Mary had moved around to see what was happening. "I see you aren't going to be running marathons any time soon," remarked Mary as Ryan's hips gave way, along with his genitalia. Ryan reached up to the table for support, as he was having trouble balancing on what was left of his torso. The ash continued to pour from Ryan's body, eating away at his stomach and chest.
Ryan was little more than a pair of arms and a head now. His body hadn't stopped coming apart, but it was going more slowly now. Bob further humiliated Ryan by picking him up by the shoulders, and gently throwing him up and catching him. This continued until Mary gave Bob a deep scratch in the leg, making him stop and put Ryan back down on the table.
"What the hell do you think you're doing to him, Bob? Are you crazy?" said Mary rather angrily. Bob looked down guiltily, but his eyes flickered up again as Ryan spoke.
"Ah! My hands - they're crumbling as well!" And indeed they were. The curse slowly destroyed both Ryan's hands and arms, and with a loud crash, his neck started to give way too. Ryan screamed, but the others could not do anything to help him. Just as Ryan prepared himself for the pain to spread to his head, it stopped.
Ryan looked quite unusual as it was. A head lying sideways on a table, with a empty patch of skin where a neck should have been, quite unable to move by itself. Dina, slightly amused by Ryan's predicament, walked over to
Ryan and sat on his nose.
"Dina, GET OFF!" shouted Ryan, but unable to move anything but his jaw, he wasn't able to shake Dina off, and the others didn't seem to see the point in trying.
"Relax, Ryan. At least you're still bigger than me," said Dina.
"What if my head - I mean, I roll off the table?"
"They can pick you up. Me, I don't think I'll be so lucky."
"Dina, are you stupid? We're stuck on this table, unable to get off! Those idiots could leave us here and we'd never be able to do anything to stop them!" said Ryan.
"Excuse me, who are you calling an idiot?" said Toby, who took Dina off Ryan, and picked Ryan up. "You aren't in a position to insult anyone here, are you?" Toby continued, casually, throwing Ryan towards Mary, who didn't like Ryan that much either, and played along, tossing Ryan back.
"Hey! Cut that out!" protested Ryan, who was getting disorientated by being moved around. Mary and Toby continued.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" yelled Lissi. Everyone turned to look, including Mary, who dropped Ryan to the ground, and knelt down to pick him up. Lissi said, "If we don't co-operate with each other, we'll never finish the game, and we'll be stuck like this forever! We have to finish this game. Ryan, as soon as those 8 turns are up, you'll be back to normal again; please wait that long."
Ryan, Dina, and Mary all decided that they had best not argue, and instead set Ryan as best as they could so that he was facing the board. Everyone turned to face Toby, who groaned, realising it was his turn.