Despite the visible locks, the board opened without much of a fuss. The inside of the front cover was a bit thicker, and the reason why became obvious the moment it was opened: on the inside of the cover, inside little indents, was a set of eight playing pieces, four on the top, four on the bottom, placed in near the middle. There was also two sets of six-sided dice, one golden set with black dots for numbers, and one red, translucent set with white numbers.<br/><br/>The first page appeared to be instructions, and there was an opening cut on the bottom-right corner of the page for a circular, ruby-red gemstone. It read as follows:<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'menlo'"><span style="font-size: 26px">Twisted Tales</span><br/>
A game for those <br/>
who seek to find<br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">a way to indulge <br/>
the <span style="font-size: 22px">FANTASIES</span><br/>
in their <span style="font-size: 22px">MIND</span></span><br/>
You roll the dice to<br/>
move your token then<br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">complete the<br/>
<span style="font-size: 22px">CHALLENGE</span></span><br/>
that will be<br/>
<span style="font-size: 22px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">SPOKEN</span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:red"></span><br/>
The first player to<br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">reach the end wins</span></span>​</div><br/><b>"No, no way, no Twister!"</b>Katie let out in objection, shaking her head vehemently. The memory of the last time she played that game, a couple of years ago, drew a slight red tint to her cheeks. Which was only made a bit worse as Penny indicated mentioned remembering her, causing her to wince, even as she took the tray over to set it down on the table behind the couch. From there, as others else gathered over the game and had a chance to read it, Katie went to take care of the music--turning it down.<br/><br/>Afterwards, she hurried back over to the couch, and sat herself down in the middle. Dressed simply in a pair of jeans, and white button-up blouse, she wasn't exactly dressed sexy,. She did toss in a splash of colour though with a blue twistie for her brown hair, done up in a ponytail, and blue socks. She quickly skimmed the first page, rolling her eyes at Baldur's attempt to be flirty with her guests, and snorting out a little laugh at the response it received.<br/><br/>Granted, a moment later she felt a little bad for that, when her green eyes flicked up and saw Baldur's face. She had been about to say something when Penny--thank god she introduced herself--said something first, allowing her to focus on just how much of mess this was starting to be. Hopefully things would settle as the game got started. At Ryan's question, she looked up at him and blinked, then took a second to look at the remaining seven pieces out of the book.<b>"Uh, um... the blue one,"</b>she said, pointing to it,<b>"Can you take all the things out of there, and turn the page? And get the pink one for Penny."</b><br/><br/>Once Ryan had finished with that, and turned the page, the group would discover on the back of the page where the text had been written was... even more writing. On the right side, at the top-left of the page, a round, big as the gemstone, area with the word 'Start' written in it. From it, a winding path made its way from right to left, and then down, across the page, looking like it was leading to the gemstone before it actually curved around it to the edge of the page where an arrow pointed, indicating once someone reached that point it was time to turn the page.<br/><br/>Although the instructions' page was thin, the other pages were much thicker, roughly the same as 50-bound together pages, making the rest of the 'book' for show. Based on the seams, there were two or three more pages of 'board game.' Between the board game's path was scribbled writing in what would be Greek to most, and look like little more than scribbles and symbols, leaving the most interesting thing being what was written on the back of the main instruction page:<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'menlo'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">READER BEWARE</span></span><br/>
Do not begin<br/>
unless you intend<br/>
<span style="font-size: 22px">TO FINISH</span><br/>
Each page that<br/>
is turned and<br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">what <span style="font-size: 22px">CONSEQUENCES</span><br/>
brought <span style="font-size: 22px">CANNOT</span></span><br/>
be undone, at<br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:red">least until one<br/>
amongst you has</span><br/>
gone through this<br/>
grimoire and won.</span>​</div><br/><br/>A bit hesitant to take the lead, Katie did at least set her piece down in the start area once Ryan had handed it to her. She found the writing on the board a bit... odd, and ominous-sounding, but there were a lot of games like that out there which she'd played, so she didn't think too much of it.<b>"It said spoken... I didn't see any kind of companion DVD and when I was googling, there wasn't any, like, app for it, so... hooopefully we don't need that?"</b>she said before glancing around.<br/><br/><b>"Jumanji style is right, it looks almost like a big ripoff. So, uh... who wants to go first?"</b>