The Book of Knots - Jags

Most of the games take place on Chessboard One—not Chessboard
Zero—however, once someone is cast, the game can take them up and
down rapidly. Essentially, the character may have burst episodes where
strange things happen (seemingly in reality) but the results are hard to
prove.
In the Killer Mannequin game, there is, indeed, a mannequin somewhere
on the premises—on Chessboard Zero, it’s inert. On Chessboard One,
it’s walking around with a butcher’s knife. It’ll move on Chessboard
Zero when no one is watching it.
Dramas
The Major Studio is in the Great Gray City—but there are other studios
all over the place. There are many on Chessboard Four in the Naught
lands. People come from far and wide to be on the shows in an attempt
to better themselves. Some of these people need help. Some need to be
rescued.
The Beastly Baby
Side: Caretaker
Overview
In the grimy countryside out past the Great Gray City, near the Basalt
Peaks, and near the slate-rock lake, there are villages, cottages, ranches
and farms. Many of these have connections with the politics of the city
and the machinations therein—but there are other stories as well. One is
particularly dark.
The Beastly Baby travels amongst them and other places as well. Its
form is vile but helpless—those caught in its thrall are subjected to the
torments worse than outright slavery. Keeping it is a horror visited on
the unfortunates—one that usually, if the Beastly Baby has its way, ends
with the life of its caretaker.
Its ambitions are far less visible than many of the Caretakers, but in a
sense far more vile. It has no realm, but rather travels where its guardianvictims
take it. No one attached to it will be welcome in one place long,
and so it moves.
The Baby’s desire is to play – and all the world is its plaything. Its games
range from the elementally simple (breaking things) to the monstrously
intricate and complex. It has a razor-honed appreciation of chaos; both
the confusion and misery it wrecks and the ability for a small change (or
small creature) to affect the world at large.
There are those who suspect the Baby may be one of the most masterful
strategists in Wonderland.
Description
The Beastly Baby is first recognized as being worse than other babies.
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