>>6066992He draws his fingers over your chest, running your skin with blood! Your blood!
He jabs and scratches you one-handed where you stand, squiggling on you like he did on the cabin floor, and it's all smarty, quite painful, and there's weirdness in it, his type of magic. Be blows at you in the midst of it; somehow he's conjured odorous incense out of his sleeve. It stinks weirdly, and it goes in you without you breathing.
Then you feel cold. Or, you're still warm inside, but the air chilled over and around you, settling and sticking to you somehow. It's all weird and gets weirder: you know somehow there's no shaking it off.
You are now conscious of a noise deep in your ears, almost in your head, a rising whine getting higher and louder by the second.
Suddenly it's here, its hands are on your shoulders, the freezing sharp claws digging your flesh, and a moaning scream like nothing you've ever heard goes right through you.
>aaa aa a a a A A A A A A A A A A A A"Tudi! Behold your pure white bride! A perpetual Virgin, eternally Young! Your beautiful Ghost Wife, -!"
[TWO CHOICES AND A ROLL TO MAKE]
[CHOOSE YOUR CONSEQUENCE]
>"Ai1 Le4!" (Tragic Merriment) [She jinxes you whenever she can, so long as it doesn't involve a third party (i.e. the idea of adultery) trying to kill you. A general -1d3 penalty to all non-Combat rolls; applies to Crisis (QuickTime event) rolls as well]>"Gui2 Li3!" (Ghostly Propriety) [You need to make time for her, without fail: every 36 waking hours you will need to devote a total of 6 waking hours to a Conjugal Performance (i.e. sex) ceremony, inclusive of building a small altar and making some symbolic sacrifices. You are definitely going to lose sleep over this. Your training progress slows by -1 per advancement, to a minimum of 1.]>"Zui4 Lie4 (lee-yeh)!" (Guilt Hunt) [You suffer a -2 to all social interactions with Living sentient beings; somehow they will keep thinking of their moral failures when they speak to you. Interactions with any pronouncedly Evil sentient suffers an additional -2 (= -4). True Neutrals (usually beasts, plants, elementals and constructs) and Highly Lawful Good beings are not affected by this.]>"Hui1 La4!" (Ashen Sundering) [Your mundane weapons and armor spoil quickly no matter if you keep them well or make special protectives for them. This will affect all combat equipment not good enough to be Named. Your Sky Pokey Dagger, now that it is Ruined, is susceptible.]***
"And now, Tudi, you and your darling Bride are going out shopping. Get some supper! I want blood to go with wine! Find some!"
[CHOOSE AND ROLL FOR YOUR SUPPER]
[ALL ROLLS ARE 1D100, BEST OF 3]
>Go and scrounge something from the skirts of the village [-10 to your roll; both blood and wine, likely not a lot]>SMASH AND GRAB RIGHT THROUGH THE STREETS FUGG THIS IM HUNGRY [-20 to your roll; BIG MEATS, BIG WINES! But, nerhhh, little more risk tho.]>OPTIONS CONTINUE 