Editing Brahnamins Characters - Nicholas Scratch (section)

==''I'm the guy the devil sold his soul to . . .''==

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''D is for Devils''

''And Details and Deals''

''For Dreams and Desires'' 

''And all that reveals''


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'''MY NAME IS . . .''' Nicholas Scratch

'''AND I AM . . .''' The Devil at the Crossroads
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'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' ''Something is missing. I don't know what it is, but I can't sleep, because that missing piece nags at me. I'd beg borrow or Deal to get that piece back. But it eludes me. It eludes me, and I can't sleep.''

'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' ''That door - the crooked blue one in the middle of the street that no one else can see? It was there again.'' 

''That door is what just happened to me.'' 

''I been through it before.'' 

''The depraved Deals the people and things beyond that door are willing to make, you wouldn't believe, and I couldn't resist. I went through it again. Only this time there was no door on the other side.'' 

''No way to step back out of this Mad City.''

'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' ''Look close. You won't see much. Just a rough-around-the-edges regular guy. Average looks. Average build. Average suit. I'm not a man of far exotic destinations. I'm the guy from halfway there.''

''I don't go where roads end. I wait where they cross as they hurry on their separate ways.''

'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' ''I know I don't look like much, but for well or ill I am always at the center of things. Always ready to meet the next person passing through, not as a casual stranger, but intently, purposefully waiting. I'm not a man looking for a destination. I am the destination.''

'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' ''Leverage. You can never have too much leverage. I don't Deal for souls. That's yesterday's Devil. If I made a Deal with you today, it's because I have need of you tomorrow.'' 
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'''WHAT GIFT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF GETTING?''' ''When I was a kid, Da brought a stray pup home for Christmas. He didn't know it had the rabies, but one day when he was out, it came at us, and Ma had to put it down with an old butcher knife right there in our living room. I'm terrified of ever getting another animal as a present."

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'''TOTAL DISCIPLINE''' 3

'''PERMANENT MADNESS''' 0

'''CURRENT EXHAUSTION''' 0
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'''TOTAL FLIGHT RESPONSES''' 1

'''TOTAL FIGHT RESPONSES''' 2
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'''EXHAUSTION TALENT'''

* '''Little Favors . . .''' ''I got a knack for convincing folk to do things for me.'' 

'''MADNESS TALENT'''

* '''Needful Things . . .''' ''Somehow, whenever I have need of a thing, it's always just right there.''