Lambeau in Lockdown Limbo - Read all about it!

A thematic Marie deck for Quarantinecon using the quarantine ultimatums.

Marie is self isolating: she is using her 5 stage hand washing technique, or sign Magick as she like to call it, to try and stop herself from spreading the virus any further but in her heart she knows it is futile as she has already scryed the future and knows she is infected.

As she starts to show symptoms of shrivelling and withering away Marie asks her friend, a research librarian, to help her consult the occult lexicon, also known as Dr Google, for advice. Despite her initial belief that knowledge is power and she can escape her dreaded situation with logical reasoning her searching only confirms her worst fears. Turning once more to her grand-mere's wisdom for eldritch inspiration Marie calls upon her arcane initiate sisters to conduct a moonlight ritual. This ward of protection must surely keep her safe. But even as she conducts the ritual Marie can read the signs, she ignores them finding it easier to deny their existence but deep down Marie knows she is doomed, just like her arcane sisters who she realises now she has infected. Looking into the hallowed mirror above the mantlepiece in her study Marie sees her virus ridden bloodshot eyes looking back at her, held in their hypnotic gaze Marie decides to flout the travel ban and flee by uncaring her soul and traveling on the astral plane. Marie turns to make for the hallway to grab her trench coat before departing, but what's this!? -the door from her study has vanished completely...

The Gathering: 3vp + 2 bonus vp. R1 Having escaped her study a panic stricken Marie was obsessively rummaging through her toilet roll and pasta stocks in the cellar when the ghoul priest and a ravenous Ghoul ganged up on her leaving her no choice but to sneeze on the ghoul priest until he shrivelled up like a used tissue, destined for the bin. Obviously the house was so unsanitary after this Lita Chandler from the CDC appeared and insisted we burn the house to the ground to slow the Contagion.

Marie and Lita are left to roam the streets of Arkham in search of the surgical mask wearing viral cultists who are hell bent on spreading the ungodly disease through their paranoid actions.

Midnight masks: R2 5Vp

cultists sanitised: Ruth Turner The Mask hoarder Herman Collins

Marie steels her nerves and decides to do what any other mystic would do in her situation - hang around in the graveyard for a bit!

In the fog of the night Marie is easily able to stay 2 meters apart from the byakee that hunt the infected in the streets of Arkham. When confronted by a selfish AF mask hoarder Marie harnesses the power of her newly acquired mystic viral sneezing to easily defeat the panic strikes marauder. Symptoms worsening Marie fails to heed the medical advice and presents at her local A&E. Dr Ruth Turner is furious and only after showing the good Doctor that she is cable of evading human contact dose she relent and allow Marie her freedom once again. Ego bruised Marie returns to the graveyard, her safe space, just in time to teach the old grave digger her Magick hand washing technique. The bells strike midnight denoting that the enforced period of lockdown has begun. Having aggressively decontaminated her home Marie has no choice but to flee into the woods and hope to escape detection.

The Devourer below: R2 14vp

Once in the woods Marie begins looking around for clues that might help her escape her current situation and maybe even rid her of the virus. As Marie returns to the main path she is confronted by the remaining overly anxious, home tutering, viral cultists. Perhaps they had not realised Maries growing viral load imbued her mystic blood with ever more power, perhaps they had not seen Baron Samedi guiding Marie to her fate with a mischievous smile - A pity for them really, such a shame how they died. Soon Marie has her very sanity put to the test but as she had divined a catastrophic event with her Tarot she was prepared and despite her rising hypochondria. Marie rebuffs the psychic assault as umordoth19 gains corporal form at the site of the cultists rituals. Marie spends time now, making her blood pacts and gathering the doom about her finally she steps into the clearing and releases the full power of her shrivelling sneeze. it's good but its not enough, umordoth19 lunges for Marie but the now pyrexial Marie uses her hypnotising eye infections to turn the corona gods attack against its self, pulling in a nearby cultist as a token of power Marie uses her eldritch inspiration to force umordoth19 to attack itself again! Ancient evils swirl all about her but as Marie delivers the final withering blow to the emergent evil repelling it from her ward -for now.

Exhausted and traumatised Marie collapses and falls into a feverish dream, as she dreams she dreams of ventilators and of Dr Turner's warning to her to stay away from the over 70's, has she infected Herman - was this all for nothing? Marie will have to wake up before she can find out, maybe it will all turn out to a dream...maybe?