The thick stench of shit and blood enveloped the room. I walked slowly to the kitchen, fists at the ready, eyes wider than the largest saucers you’d... ever find. And that’s where I found Caleb. Sitting on the ground, naked, his stomach sliced open, from his balls to his chest, skin flaps pulled back across his chest, his ribs showing under the fatty meat. His intestines pulled out and resting partially on his lap, the pinky purpleish red of them standing out starkly on his bare white legs. also. Still nobody comes. You have been eyeing the table for some moments, unsuccessfully trying to remove the peg from your tongue when the DM enters the room.You stop trying to remove the peg and watch him with growing excite ment as he crossed the room towards you."Oh my! Aren't you a pretty picture!?" he remarks approvingly. "How do you like the pegs?" he asks as he gently removes the peg from your tongue.You take a moment to answer as the pain hits as blood returns."They are... Interesting,. She kind of skirted that it might not happen and they were upset because Paige promised them. So we were kind of afraid they would get mad. I told Paige she should do it since she's the one who promised them. She wouldn't do it. She asked Alexis but she didn't want to do it. Then she asked me and I said there was no way. Somebody needed to take the bullet so to speak. Then Alexis made a suggestion that we should draw straws. I got the short straw. I figured I would suck it up and then never. One is hope, and that is what I am here to offer you tonight. But before you can have that one, before you can have hope, there is something else you will need. It is a simple thing, so simple that you probably don't even realize that I've already offered it to you. Just by standing here, like this, I have offered it you, but I can't make you take it, no one can. It is a thing that will be hard for some of you to accept. For some, accepting it will seem the hardest thing you have ever done, but.