Behold the cat

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From: Pass the Cat: an Unwrapping!


You catch your breath. The last layer of paper lies within. What's in the box?


Challenge information

A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)

Success

Black as a spirifer's heart

A velvety black cat struggles free of the wrappings. It blinks at you. 'About time. Well, we move as the game wills. Here -'

It whispers something to you, and the room spins about you. When you steady yourself, it's quite gone.

Rare Success

An exile!

She frees herself from the wrappings with a single graceful twist of her aristocratic back. "Thank you," she murmurs. "The Duchess' judgements can be harsh. I see you've prepared a place for me. Delightful. I may deign to remain here a little while."


Failure

AARGH!

There is a chittering shriek of rage, and a sorrow-spider launches itself from the remnants of the box! You stagger about the room, trying desperately to tug it free from your hair, while its mandibles snap and its legs dig into your scalp. […]

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Rare Failure

The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat!

They put it in a box! And it hated that! The Starveling Cat bursts out of the box in an avalanche of shredded brown paper. It leaps at your face, fangs bared. You fight it off frantically, sustaining a series of savage cuts. […]

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