Bones of Old (Chronology of the Box, 1)

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12/16/21 • 20 min

I've already written about this guy a couple of times. Why is it here? What is it doing? How is it doing anything in the first place? Those are all very rude questions. What if I asked you those same questions about you?

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I apologize once again for tardiness. But the length. Again, these are quite a bit more difficult, but more fun to do on my part. And if it isn't obvious by the imperious tone I gave him, I do not like my narrator character and think his views are quite rancid. It feels kind of irresponsible to have bad narrator characters like this, but hey, I thought about what kind of person this guy would be, and I inevitably came to the conclusion that he would be, well, this.
And if it isn't obvious by the title and the story therein, this is a continuation of https://www.buzzsprout.com/811181/episodes/8874713 , "Jerrimal," narrated by the titular guy who isn't a demon. Just a jerk.

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And I am here again. And again. And again.
I like this one, more than most. But I am not unbiased in my opinions, as you well know.

The Pantheon - Bones of Old (Chronology of the Box, 1)

Transcript

Crisp winds. The vague smell of rain in the air. And a new, unwanted visitor.
I stared at the box with a vague sense of unease. I’d heard tales of boxes like this, and they all ended with the same theme: insanity. You opened the metal casket at your own risk; indulge in the idea too deeply and the metal husk would soon encompass you. Least, that’s what everyone said.
But those boxes weren’t supposed to be able to be opened, least not in the tales. No matter what tools you took to t