

The Dagger of Inconvenience Without warning, the Dagger of Xian started moving. Lara stepped backwards, reaching to her waist for the pistols which weren't there. Of course not. I'm in my bloody pyjamas. The Dagger's blade was expanding and its surface had begun to bubble. To Lara, it looked like a live reptile shedding its hide. Why is this happening? Things like this never happen in my trophy room!The Dagger of Inconvenience by ~thebradrant
Then, its glass case cracked, the fire in the fireplace started to flicker wildly, and the Dagger began to vibrate. Lara tried to move again but felt a force pinning her down, as if this was just a very frustrating dream. Oh, well, fantastic... Her thoughts began to slow.


The Bath Something about the room unsettled me before I had even dropped into it. Perhaps, I thought as I tied my rope around a pillar stump, it was how I'd become accustomed to things: the lower a place goes, the more dangerous it gets, and stepping in wolf muck because you can't see the ground isn't what I do this for. I finished tying, took a breath, and hopped backwards down the hole.The Bath by ~thebradrant
The air in the room was so dry that the first breath I took of it stung my throat. The atmosphere, I decided as I made myself swallow a glob of saliva, almost seemed incomplete; as if it didn't simply lack moisture but was deprived of it. I let go of the rope, and a