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Summoning 2

You never know what you are going to get when you summon things from other dimensions. This time round we got a light show, some weird smells and a headache that lasted about three days.

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Summoning 1

If you’ve got a crack in reality behind your bookcase, you might as well make the most of it and see what you can summon. This was the first apparition. It appeared, shouted it’s shopping list (mostly the ingredients for a carbonara) and then disappeared in a puff of imagination.

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Smoke Flower 9

The ninth smoke flower to drift into our reality. This one pulsates with a strange energy. The lights flicker when it comes too close and the cats will not be in the same room.

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Smoke Fish

This came swimming out from the crack in reality, bringing with it strange dreams and the smell of electricity and flowers. The cats tried to chase it but they soon gave up when it slipped beneath the floorboards. We see it’s glow swimming under the floor most nights.

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Smoke Creature 9

This fabulous creature came through the crack in reality with quite the explosive display. It’s now living in the glue cupboard, slowly eating it’s way through my collection of glue sticks, it’s very fond of the glitter ones.

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Smoke Creature 5

After accidentally leaving a book of esoteric symbols too close to the crack in reality this creature slipped through. It proved a bit more bitey than the previous ones, but fortunately was easily tamed by way of a cup of earl grey and a rich tea biscuit or too. Clearly just had low blood sugar.

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Smoke Creature 1

There’s a crack in reality behind the bookcase in the studio. Sometimes things slip through. This creature was the first to make it’s way into our reality, we call it Derek. It seems harmless enough and lives in the rafters, feeding off unfinished ideas. The cats are not keen, but it keeps it’s distance.

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