The Tall Package
The Black Void - Episode 1027
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I'm not so sure at first that it's a good idea to pick either one. After all, it was just offered to me
by a bunch of talking fake palm trees. For all I know, this could be some kind of drunken
hallucination and I'll just end up looking like an idiot. Still, if I accept the existance of weird
swirly dimension warps, which I guess I do, talking fake palm trees aren't that much of a stretch.
And something in my gut tells me that I'm in the kind of situation where completely random
items I pick up might turn out to be useful in unexpected ways. Besides, how could I possibly
look more like an idiot than I already do? So I decide to pick up one of the gifts.
The tall blue foil package, I notice, is ticking rather ominously. The envelope is about the shape of a book and isn't ticking. I like books. Well, better than bombs, anyway. So I decide to accept the envelope. But when I pick it up I hear the fake palm trees snickering behind me. My gut also tells me that I'm in the kind of situation where the obvious choice is nearly always wrong, so knowing I'll probably regret it, I open the tall blue package. I do regret it, but not for the reasons I expected. It's a clock. A goddamn clock. It's made of fancy-looking mahogany wood and polished brass hands and pendulum. And it's way, way, too big for me to carry. What the hell am I supposed to do in a casino with a clock that's too big for me to carry?
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