tazrick nall
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Vera was an average girl visiting a bar after attending her favorite art gallery in a densely populated part of Minneapolis. She had chose a seat by the bar with a view out the window so she could watch cars pass by. A tall bald gentleman named Jeremy took the seat next to her and hailed the bartender. “Bacardi 151, for me and the lady” he requested. He turned to Vera and said “Please, don’t run” as he sat a briefcase on the table in front of her. This took Vera a minute to process, as she considered why she might have a reason to run from this scenario.“My name is Jeremy. I was recently rewarded for a job I performed where I was to assassinate a target in this city. The nature of my job was particularly unusual, because the man who hired me introduced himself as a member of the Order of the Dervishes, and the task was to assassinate a man renown as a racist and murderer, and was referred to as an acolyte of purgatory”. “The acolytes” Jeremy explained, “were equal in number to the amount of dervishes in the order and each one had a reputation as a racist, killer, rapist, or otherwise a detriment to society. Them and the dervishes were separated by laws of nature, but the dervishes knew about the existence of the acolytes until they started dying by natural causes”. Vera nodded slowly, looking at the closed briefcase on the table. “The Order of the Dervishes” Jeremy continued “were also separated by the laws of nature, but they communicated through their reflections by communing around purgatory, which was observed as a dimension of purple static reflected in their eyes”. Jeremy opened the briefcase revealing six bands of 20 dollar bills, totalling 20,000 dollars each. “This was my reward” he explained. “Each band of bills is represented by a different colored serial number consisting of 11 numbers, each number one, two, three, four, five, or six. When the money is stacked on top of each other, the 6th number of the serial code turns into a six, and the head on the bill has a telepathic pull connecting it to the other bills with this unique serial color index. If the bills are separated, the number 6 indicates which direction the other bills are until the 6 is aligned in the center of the serial number. So if the 6 is on the far right left of the serial number, the bill has to be turned sharply right in order to center the six and lead the bills to each other. When an acolyte of purgatory acquires of these bills, the rest of the bills eyes turn black and transparent, and when looked through, a red orb can be observed, indicating the direction of the acolyte possessing the money.” “The catch is the dervishes are the only ones who know how to utilize the serial numbers to track the rest of the bills”. Vera acknowledged this and asked “What does the money have to do with me?” and Jeremy replied “My task after I was paid by the dervish was to find and protect a breed of women called the Oni, who are targeted by the dervishes in purgatory in order to avoid the attention of the acolytes. I want you to take the money, and this little black book and associate each band of 20 dollar bills with a talent. Leave this talent and the stack of money at locations of your discretion and document the coordinates in this black book. Hide the talent for the innocent to acquire in the real world”. Jeremy took his drink and walked to the elevator, taking it to the roof. He poured his drink out onto the sidewalk below, and stepped off the roof of the building, following the liquid to the impact below. He landed in front of the window Vera was at and she started to panic. She clutched the briefcase of money and and the book and left the bar, working up to a run as she made her way home.
By tazrick nall3 years ago in Horror