So Jennifer picked up the three dice and tossed them.She was wondering about why a game
would have three dice ,but alas wasn't into the concepts of Numerology or the mystical(magical ) significance of the number 3
However she had got a nine from those three dice and so glanced along
to see what was what along that spiral path on the game board.
Space number nine,where her destination lay,was in the shape of a medievel castle on a cliff overlooking
a dark angry ocean.
There was no indication of what lay in that castle.
As per the Game Manual,Jennifer picked up a card first.
The Card said < Faire Friends Though Thou Art Foule> which certainly puzzled everyone as to its
meaning and relationship to the Game.
However Jennifer placed her fingers on the Token Jennifer
and there was a massive sucking feeling and she would have screamed as it seemed her
insides,bones and sinew was being pulled out through her eyesockets .
Then the sensation died away and Jennifer gasped as she found herself standing beside the Game Tockens of the other
on that Start square.
She was very much herself,except she was one inch tall.And there was a black scaled girdle tiewd around her waist. off into the misty distance of a Game Board where all the flat 2D pictures she'd seen previously
were now real as life and towering all around her.
In front lay the Long Woods,with its forbidding stand of walking oak trees,and 9 miles
hence Jennifer could see the Castle.
And Jennifer was wearing nine league boots,of knee lenghth,the kind that take you
9 leagues for every step taken.
And so Jennifer took a few tentative steps with the magical boots,and after a week of exploration all
over the world of the Game,realized she wasn't going to just be release from this world,and that her friends
weren't going to show up to rescue her anytime soon,she decided
she'd have to enter the Castle and meet her Fate.
And so Jennifer appeared at the Castle door in the morning,pushed in the creaking stubborn door
and before the Sun set that nightJennifer had been transformed into a black scaled foule dragon.
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Now back in our reality the other five had seen Jennifer push her Jennifer token
onto the image of the Castle,and had watched somewhat horrified as the one inch tall
human appearing piece of plastic,accurate in every detail down to the pearly whites of Jennifers
teeth,had crackled changed and expanded till it was now a black scaled dragon six inches tall,standing
on its hind legs,facing back toward the Start square,wings spread out and little puffs of smoke and
flame streaming out from its jaws.
Robert thought it was just a electronic set of LEDs ,just light,but when he
put a fingertip to that tiny maw of flame,he soon found out the smoke and fire were real enough.
Since they'd all been looking at the tranforming Token,none of the other five had taken a
glance at Jennifer,who looked like she'd suddenly shaken violently as if waking up from a week long and a day trip to somewhere else.
She felt ill.
She excused herself to go to the bathroom and the other five continued
without her.
Jennifer didn't remeber her stay in the world of the Game,not even the part about entering the Castle and becoming the foule dragon.
As she stood in the closed bathroom however,some inner intuition let her know what had
happened to her Jennifer Token was now seeping into her real body.
As she hunched over the sink,the blood started dribbling into the clean white porcelain
bowl as her lips became bloody.
Jennifer felt two of her front human teeth loosen and fall out of her top gums.
She stared in mute horror as two new sharper longer stronger dragon fangs slide
down into position.
As they did so the bigger canines pushed her jaw ever so slightly longer,perhaps a
millimeter or two,further out,to accomadate her eventually longer draconic jaws.
Jennifers slow transformation into the Foule Wurm of Long Woods Castle had started.
And her Prize Wish,if she ever got her Dragon Token to the cener of the Game Spiral,would be to
wish she'd never started the Game,and hope nothing further along the Path would further
the Foule Dragon curse on either her Token or her real human body