Portents

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Challenge #04880-M131: Bad Omens Rise

King Krivcol III had a brush with death at a young age. Now he relies upon astrologers to gauge his future, planning out every detail of his and his family's lives. But his growing paranoia with what's to come may be blinding him to problems around him in the here and now... -- Deathshead419

Many heads of state had advisors. Some had viseers, some had chancellors, come had cabinets of experts. King Krivkol Florentus Montgomerie Oralendo Montecroix, third of his name, had astrologers, soothsayers, fortune-tellers, and seers. Every morning, they took in omens, threw the bones, read the sky, and ran complicated calculations. Not to organise the King's day, but to warn and prevent impending disaster.

By the time today came about, it was already too late. At least, that's what the King said. And in many such cases, what the King said, went.

The cabinet of potential tomorrows only warned the King about what could happen to him or his family. Thus, they regulated what the royal family ate, where they slept, which members of staff they could trust, and a policy or law here and there. They warned against certain judgements, set appearances, and rare matters of state.

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Challenge #04593-L209: One Hell of a Portent

Deep in the woodlands is a small town in the shadow of an obelisk. Upon this monument is a clock which has been counting down for centuries. No one remembers where it came from, what it means, but it is about to strike midnight and toll the centuries silent bell. -- Anon Guest

The clock has always been there. Attempts to find when it was built have resulted in nothing but frustration. Even the first images of Lumberhill, back when it was

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Challenge #03501-I213: Blessed With the Ability to Curse

They were born with heterochromia and when their canines grew in, they grew in long and pointed. Yes they were human, it was a genetic anomaly. But hey, they loved how it scared pirates when they smiled fully and showed THOSE teeth!

[While I don't have heterochromia - a condition where the person is born with one eye being one color and the other eye being a completely different color, when I lost my eye-teeth, aka the canines, as a kid, the

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