🔪 Body Count: It's the Sensation, Not a Number

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• It’s the Sensation, Not a Number

• Other Tales From the Odds ‘n’ Endings Boutique

• Postscript

• What did you think?

Introduction

Friday the 13th is upon us! And to celebrate, in full calamitous style, we here at the Calamity are proud to offer a sneak peak of the next tale to come out of the Odds ‘n’ Endings Boutique: Body Count. Currently in its second-draft, Body Count has been in progress for a few months and is undergoing some major rework, along with ideation for a short series that will be released for Volume III of the Carnival of Calamity Backstage Pass.

Body Count follows the swift evolution of a woman who becomes a serial murderer almost overnight, digging into both the means of her transformation and her motivations for it. Once a regular working girl fighting to survive from one day to the next, her life changes after a rather interesting visit to the most curious shoppe. Body Count is a bloody romp through the city with the help of a few vignettes and a whole lot of commentary. Much like our protagonist, after reading this, you may never be the same.

Unfamiliar with the Odds ‘n’ Endings Boutique? It is a curio shoppe of mystique and wonder, from which flow a slew of tragic tales centered around the human condition and the poor decisions patrons make when granted power beyond their reckoning. What follows is the prologue to such a tale, taking place well beyond the character’s initial visit to the boutique, and already having mastered the magic they walked out with. But at what cost?

It’s the Sensation, Not a Number