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Once upon a time in a land far away, in a castle designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, lived a King and Queen with their loyal subjects, an Ace and a Jack. Life was happy for all but the King who had a fear of the unkown and across the valley below the castle, upon a mountain peak, stood another castle. No one knew who lived in the castle, friend or foe for no one had ever visited and returned. The King decided to send the Jack as an emissary to ascertain the intentions of the unknown kingdom. As the Jack left and progressed along the way, the King watched through a powerful sey of binoculars, the Jack made his way across the valley and up the peak to the door. Knocking on the door and getting no response he entered, a few minutes later the King heard a faint scream echoing across the valley, terror struck he decided immediatley to send the Ace. Watching the Ace as he did the Jack the King was treated to a replay of the earlier event, he worried for days and decided he must send the Queen, his beloved wife. Watching her progress while biteing his nails and hopeing for her safety, he seen again the same fateful events that had now decimated his kingdom. For months the King worried, he became sick from worry and malnutrition (he no longer had a Queen to cook for him), he decided he must go himself to face the enemy rather than wait for the fateful day when his enemy would attack him. Preparing for the journey he took with him a majic box, a magic so potent he would not have entrusted it with any of his previous emissaries. Across the fog shrouded valley he went making his way to the foot of the peak he rechecked to assure he had not lost his majic box. Reassured and with a measure of confidence he climbed to the peak and came at last to the castle doors, knocking and waiting for what seemed an eternity he finally ventured in only to find what seemed to be an uninhabited castle. But, where were his subjects, his wife the Queen, he searched the castle and no one was there to be found. Coming at last to the castle tower, he climed the spiraling stairs to the top, at the top of the stairs stood a door, the King crept quietly to the door and slowely opened it. Lying on the floor was a plain wooden coffin which rose as the King watched, the coffin then came toward the King who turned an ran in terror. Fleeing down the spiraling staircase the King could hear the loud rumbling coffin comeing ever closer, knowing that he could not possibly outrun this vicious coffin the King managed to get his majic box from his pocket. Reaching into the majic box he pulled out two Vicks 12 hour time release capsules and threw them over his shoulder saying, "here this should stop that horrible coffin."
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