Lovecraftian Ten-Word Game

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   You have ten words to add to a harrowing tale of blasphemous, noisome, rugose terror, such as Ol' H.P. would produce...
   
   The Case of Honore Deschaiux started plainly enough, with a

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   phonecall.  It was one Miss Adeline Bordeaux, heir to the

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   Deschaiux Estates and Wineries. Mademoiselle Bordeaux was afraid. She claimed

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   that her beloved fiancee, Dr. Joseph Bordeaux, had disappeared while

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   shopping for antiques among the rustic hamlets of the French

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   Countryside. The police questioned the manservant who accompanied Bordeuax but

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   all he did was to mutter incomprehensible gibberish and nonesense.

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   I caught the next train for the vineyards.  Oddly, on

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   the station I was greeted by a peculiar man, he

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    stared familiarly at me, his jaundiced complexion and yellowed eyes

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    betraying his magnanimous nature. I recognized him then! It was

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    Doctor Magnus MacRouth, an ancient history professor I had met

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    whilst going to Cambridge four years ago. He was known

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    to be slightly unhinged, but otherwise quite alright. So I

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    gave him a friendly greeting, waiting to see if he

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    recognized me in turn. Nothing prepared me for his reaction.

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    His eyes suddenly widened and his hand dove into his

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    pocket.  "You!" he gasped, "I knew you!"  He fumbled with

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    with an item, then withdrew it from his pocket. It

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    was an old, worn piece of parchment. He looked at

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    me then and said, "I cannot myself believe what I--

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    ... have done, what I have read in this blasphemous tome.

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    And it's all related to Honore Deschaiux' disappearence I'm afraid.

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    As I shake in horror, I pulled out a knife ---

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    ... and drew its edge across my palm.  Then, I placed...

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    my palm to the foot of the parchment, so as

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    to allow the blood to flow across the yellowed page.

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    Thus, I affixed my signature to the blasphemous document. I

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    felt a shudder run through me, though I was unsure

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    what I was promising to do. After this had transpired

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    I peered out the window overlooking the ocean.  The wind

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    moaned dismally over the cliffs, and the cloudy gray sky

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    spat occassional droplets upon the railway carriage's window.  My old

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    professor used to say that the rain was like a

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    mother, crying for her child, and the child was found,

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    Dead, floating on the river of blood, shocked as she

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    Heard the news, all tears stopped for the mother, nothing

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    gained at all.  The train stopped suddenly, with a lurch

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    and I wondered whether this was caused by the parchment.

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    That cursed piece of hide, and the woman who gave

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