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Ella looked around calmly, as usual, but her brows furrowed
in curiosity. Ella wondered out loud, “What is this place?”. Eric
turned to Ella and said, “I don’t know. I can’t remember anything
that happened before this. The last thing I remember is that
I was studying, and then it was just a complete blank”. Ella tried to
recall what happened, but couldn’t either. “Me too”, she said.
In silent agreement, they stood up and started to walk around the
bar, until they saw the bartender. Ella quickly walked up to him and
asked, “Excuse me, can you tell us where we are?”. The bartender
answered calmly, “I can’t, but now that you’re awake, you will have
to play a game. It is the only way for you to get out of here.”
Eric and Ella looked at each other and the fear on their faces

mirrored each other. Ella, being the logical one, asked, “What kind
of game?”. The bartender took out a board game. It was very similar
to the snake and ladder game that they used to play when they
were little, except there were no snakes. Instead, some of the
boxes were colored differently, and has a little card symbol on
them. Before Eric could ask what it is, the bartender answered,
“Each of you will roll the dice and move according to the number
you get. If you land on one of the colored boxes, you will get to
pick up a card, which will have an instruction on it.” Eric looked at

the bartender incredulously, and said, “Are you serious? Do you
really expect us to play games right now? We don’t have any idea
where we are, and we can’t even remember what happened.”
Ella nodded and told Eric, “Let’s just go. We’ll find a way out
ourselves”.