Deal with the Devil

in these cases are very inconvenient proceeded nick but between gentlemen our bonds will be sufficiently binding so i signed and he bowed and wished me joy and went up the chimney but a funny coincidence is that this morning my shoulder has a round red mark upon it like a burn a flea dearest one possibly in fact that is how i explained it to myself as you know a dream often occupies the briefest flash of time and it may be that some chance insect biting my shoulder produced a moment's irritation and was responsible for the entire vision but i still think it may have been that tapioca pudding nine you are more careful with my food in the future

End of chapter 1 Read by Angelique G. Campbell January 2019 Chapter 2 of A Deal with the Devil.

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Recording by Angelique G. Campbell.

January 2019.

A Deal with the Devil by Eden Philpotts.

In the Cupboard.

We laughed the matter off, and should probably have forgotten all about it, but that Grandpapa suffered a great deal of inconvenience with his shoulder.

Oops, sorry.

I'm torn between the Faustian Pact and the Psychic Prodigy.

I think mechanically the Faustian Pact would be great.

I don't even have any strategic mastery because I spent it last session.

I

I can't recommend.

It's the one that's I've... it's definitely the one that's overpowered but it also really just fuck you all it's like it's like reaping and sowing one

yeah yeah like it just feels like selfishly you know favoring the now and uh yeah just fucking up everything possibly so that makes it interesting and psychic prodigy i think is a just cool but also kind of fits with my character but i think Given that I have no bond with myself, I'm just going to take the Faustian Pact because I've got to be selfish now.

And we talk about that sometimes.

We were just discussing in one of our live streams on YouTube about the Faustian Bargain.

He has a really good painting in Secret Teachings of the Magician Conjuring Mephistopheles.

So The ancients assigned to each country the star groups which were above that country's particular area of land.

And then of course, we really do, do get the reveal there that, that Zoe is indeed the Manhunter.

And, and then it really gets into the whole issue of, "Okay, I will save you, but, and I'll help you out, but you gotta do something for me in return." So it gets into this Faustian bargain that she establishes with, with Carrie, and, a- in order to protect both, both Zoe as, as well as the town.

And I guess it was early on in the process, so we, whatever her ma- relationship with Macon, it, it is unclear at that point.

I assume that they're married, and, you know, I guess she's treated him for cancer and all that as well.

Governor Daniel G. Fowle ordered the construction of an oversized bed, but a later inhabitant of the governor's mansion found the bed that gave Fowle such comfort to be the source of a strange series of encounters.

But first, five stories of real people who supposedly made deals with the devil himself.

Now bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights and come with me into the Weird Darkness.

the devil, and Pope Sylvester II.

But it's, yeah, it's a good lesson in the long-term consequences of making, depending on a certain base of support that you know is not really ethical, and then not being able to kind of think your way out of it later.

Yeah, it's a Faustian bargain for sure.

You know, or the expression you lay down with dogs, you get fleas, right? Now those games are over.

And now the U.S. has turned firmly towards us because they've lost the war in Iran and they're looking for a distraction and they're looking for a win.