#mag 031 first hunt

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Round One Part Two - Match 11

Bone apple teeth -- eat up, and don't forget to breathe! I feel like Anatomy Class is an honorary Flesh statement, tbh. Do you think Lawrence Mortimer got to see Mothman?

MAG 034 - Anatomy Class | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Dr. Lionel Elliott, regarding a series of events that took place during his class, Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology, at Kings College, London.

MAG 031 - First Hunt | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia.

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magnus archives sentence starters.    from MAG 031-035. feel free to change gender specific words, pronouns, whatever you like to make it fit your muse better!

❝ I always wanted to go hunting. ❞

❝ It was always something of a ‘someday’ project. You know what I mean: those ideas you have, holidays you plan to do ‘sometime in the future’, but they’re never time-dependent and usually you just keep putting them off. ❞

❝ It isn’t just the young that can be impetuous and daft. ❞

❝ It sounded like somebody whistling, a slow version of A-Hunting We Shall Go. ❞

❝ I didn’t like that smile one bit. Far too many teeth to it, I’d say. ❞

❝ I could have sworn that I heard someone laugh, slow and softly, outside my tent. ❞

❝ I thought we were both having a splendid time. ❞

❝ I called out his name, but there was no reply. ❞

❝ It seems silly to say now, but my first thought was to check his pulse. ❞

❝ You can’t understand just how frightening it is to have something like that, a true predator, running at you full pelt. You can’t understand what it is to be prey. ❞

❝ By all rights I should have broken my neck, charging off into the darkness like that. ❞

❝ The wretched thing had just sent me in a circle. For fun. For the chase. ❞

❝ I am, in some ways, very proud of how I acted during that encounter. ❞

❝ Even after all of that, he still wasn’t dead. ❞

❝ I can’t forget what it’s like to be the hunted. ❞

❝ You can’t help me. ❞

❝ It hates what you are and what you do. ❞

❝ To be seen in the cold light of knowledge is anathema to the things that crawl and slither and swarm in the corners and the cracks. ❞

❝ It isn’t real. Not like you or I are real. ❞

❝ I can’t sleep. My dreams are crawling and many-legged. ❞

❝ I hope you will forgive me for a great many things, as it may be I do worse. ❞

❝ Can you truly know the danger you are in? ❞

❝ It is not the patterns that enthral me; no, it’s what sings behind them. Sings that I am beautiful. Sings that I am a home. That I can be fully consumed by what loves me. ❞

❝ It’s not even my house, I just live there. ❞

❝ I sold crystals. They were clean, and sharp and bright and they did not sing to me, though I sometimes said they did. ❞

❝ It is not a god. Or if it is then it is a dead god, decayed and clammy corpse-flesh brimming with writhing graveworms. ❞

❝ The face of the one who sang to me dwelling within the hidden darkness above me. ❞

❝ I need to think. To clear my head. ❞

❝ A need as much as a feeling. Love that consumes you in all ways. ❞

❝ What possible recourse could there be for me in your books and files and libraries except more useless ink and dying letters? ❞

❝ You rob it of its fear even though your weak words have no right to do so. ❞

❝ This is… uh… ❞

❝ Excuse me, reading that was, um… hmm. ❞

❝ Well, I’m sorry if I found it hard to read a 200-year old letter, written in cursive by a native German speaker. ❞

❝ I didn’t even want the job, really, but I didn’t have a lot of choice. ❞

❝ His eyes only moved a fraction of an inch to focus on me, but it felt as though the movement had the weight of a heavy stone door. Like a tomb. ❞

❝ Hell, not being too comfortable around people is a damn fine reason to go to sea. ❞

❝ I decided I had to look inside. Stupid, maybe. ❞

❝ I was just about sick of nasty surprises. ❞

❝ I didn’t know what was going on and no-one seemed to want to tell me. ❞

❝ [Name] gets very twitchy when we look into anything that might conceivably have funding repercussions. ❞

❝ Where, where do you want me to start? The bones? The blood? The… uh… the fruit? ❞

❝ Not to put too fine a point on it, I get tired of… squeamish students. ❞

❝ I have a lot of research due shortly and, well, you know academia - never enough hours in the day. ❞

❝ Believe me, I did everything I could to try and find a replacement. ❞

❝ I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, but I came to terms with the fact that I didn’t care if they passed any exams.❞

❝ Whenever I wasn’t looking, I heard the crunch and the crack of bone. ❞

❝ I’m not an idiot. I was well aware of the sort of sinister nonsense that was likely to happen if I went. ❞

❝ I’d long since decided with this class, that if I couldn’t see or hear it, I didn’t care. ❞

❝ I don’t think your… tooth apple has a place in our artefact storage. ❞

❝ Yes, my services are expensive, but me and my team are worth every penny. ❞

❝ I’ve found plenty of interesting things in this job. ❞

❝ It was about two in the morning when the kid showed up. ❞

❝ I could smell something. Damp old stone and musty paper, just a faint whiff. ❞

❝ Tying him up did feel like a step too far, so we settled for keeping a close eye on him. ❞

❝ I have the vaguest memories: flashes of a pile of paper, completely covered in cobweb; a figure stood in the darkness, a stranger I didn’t know but was sure meant me harm; my skin burning, hot, choking on smoke down there in the dark. ❞

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MAG 031: First Hunt

Ah, love to see a European get involved with American gun culture. If I were going on a hunt, I would simply turn back when a stranger sniffed me and told me tomorrow would be good for running. RIP to him, I guess, but I’m different.

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Redemption Round One - Match Two

In Round One, these episodes lost against Anatomy Class and The Gardener, two strong Stranger and Flesh competitors. First Hunt got only 46 votes, while Boatswain's Call had a healthy 120. It's the battle of the 30's!

MAG 031 - First Hunt | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia.

MAG 033 - Boatswain's Call | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship travelling from Porto do Itaqui to Southampton.

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Redemption Round One Masterpost

Round One had wrapped, and it's time for our next set of polls!

Before continuing onto Round Two, we will first visit some less-than-favorite friends -- up next is Redemption Round One! This will only include 8 matches, which are as follows:

MAG 134 Time of Revelation vs. MAG 191 What We Lose

MAG 031 First Hunt vs. MAG 033 Boatswain's Call

MAG 198 Precipice vs. MAG 020 Desecrated Host

MAG 076 The Smell of Blood vs. MAG 194 Parting

MAG 195 Adrift vs. MAG 139 The Architecture of Fear

MAG 030 Killing Floor vs. MAG 189 Peers

MAG 025 Growing Dark vs. MAG 037 Burnt Offering

MAG 027 A Sturdy Lock vs. MAG 190 Scavengers

In addition, you may have noticed that we have had one tie! Match 68, MAG 129 Submerged vs. MAG 063 The End of the Tunnel tied perfectly with 148 votes each. The rematch will be posted along with Redemption Round One!

Barring any hiccups in my availability (I'm traveling today from the holiday weekend), all nine polls will be posted starting at 12:00 PM, EST, on Monday, April 10! Polls will be linked here once they are posted and I have time to edit this post.

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The Magnus Tournament: Round One Part Two Masterpost

So as to not create horrifically long masterposts, there will be a Round One Masterpost (pinned) which links to the subgroup Masterposts.

Round One Part Two is open for voting March 25-31

Find the full Round One Masterpost here!

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The Matches:

MAG 054 Still Life vs. MAG 174 The Great Beast

MAG 034 Anatomy Class vs. MAG 031 First Hunt

MAG 171 The Gardener vs. MAG 033 Boatswain's Call

MAG 044 Tightrope vs. MAG 173 Night Night

MAG 127 Remains to be Seen vs. MAG 178 The Processing Line

MAG 142 Scrutiny vs. MAG 176 Blood Ties

MAG 003 Across the Street vs. MAG 18 The Man Upstairs

MAG 008 Burned Out vs. MAG 014 Piecemeal

MAG 123 Web Development vs. MAG 71 Underground

Polls will be linked once they are posted and when I have time to edit this post (within 24 hours maximum, I have a day job). Each poll will have links to the episodes, wiki pages, and transcripts.