In and +1!
First choice - Party of Sin
Backup choice - Scourge: Outbreak - Ambrosia Bundle
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A guy walks into a strange antique shop. While looking around at the shop's wares, he notices a small bronze statue of a rat. The statue is priced at $10.
He brings it to the counter and asks the owner "This is bronze, isn't it? This looks like more than $10 worth of bronze. What's with this?" and the owner replies "Ah, it's $10 for the bronze rat, but it'll be $1,000 for the story behind it." The guy replies "Nah, forget the story, I'll just take the rat." The man purchases the rat and begins heading home, feeling he got a good deal, even though he thought it seemed like a strange choice of subject for making a statue.
As he walks down the street, he hears a chittering noise behind him. Looking back, he notices a few rats following him. He shrugs, and continues walking until the noise starts to gradually get louder. Looking back again, there are a few more rats following him, with more joining from gutters and alleyways.
The guy starts feeling unnerved. He begins to pick up the pace, but it's pretty clear to him that he can't outrun them for long. More and more rats keep coming; the sounds get louder and more frantic. "It must be the statue!" the man thinks to himself.
His route home goes by the nearby waterfront, which he notices he has now reached. Thinking quickly, the man runs down one of the piers; there are now many hundreds of rats screeching and scampering after him. As he nears the end of the pier, he grips the bronze rat, reaches behind him, and flings it out into the water.
The hundreds and hundreds of screeching rats who were following him now run past him, leaping from the pier into the water. The man stands there agape, watching all the rats jump in the water after the statue, following it to the point of drowning themselves.
The guy frantically rushes back to the antique shop. The owner has a delighted expression on his face when the man bursts back in the door, and tells him "Ah! So, NOW do you want to hear the story behind the bronze rat?"
The man, panting from his run, replies "Well, no... but actually... I was wondering... do you have any... bronze lawyers?"
Post edited June 13, 2014 by LaithArkham