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[FEBRUARY] [As winter wears on, the situation on the Deck slowly worsens. Nothing seems to be stopping it, though there are some whispers that no one is actually bothering to do anything about it. Cards, including the Queen of Clubs and one of the Jokers, disappear. Earthquakes continue to shake the Deck.] Week One
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Week Two
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[As winter wears on, the situation on the Deck slowly worsens. Nothing seems to be stopping it, though there are some whispers that no one is actually bothering to do anything about it. Cards, including the Queen of Clubs and one of the Jokers, disappear. Earthquakes continue to shake the Deck.]
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Week One</b></font></div>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/569328.html">MANO</a> - Newsflash, darlings: Little Orphan Annie is alive and well in the Deck, spreading joy and rainbows here there and everywhere. But can Little Mano Jack of Hearts find missing parents? The world may never know.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/569467.html">JULIEN</a> - Aww, look. Someone's having a little temper tantrum. Poor, poor Julien. No one understands his pain. Hey, babe, maybe you should think about cornering a Two for stress relief.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570069.html">CALEB</a> - Well, that's not a familiar face in Diamond Castle, is it? Is the elder Caustello actually <em>worried</em> about his estranged daughter? No, that couldn't be it. He forgot the fatted calf.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570356.html">PETER</a> - Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater. Don't you know that snooping in Spade Castle is just asking for trouble? Don't look now, but you're on candid camera, darling.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570506.html">EVANGELINE</a> - Some educators write lesson plans for the new semester. Some, apparently, get inspirational tattoos and eviscerate their ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. We're sure that's really comforting for the students while they're taking their entrance exams, Edie.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570764.html">LASSE</a> - A healthy degree of skepticism never hurt anyone, but sorry, Lasse. The Queen of Clubs did actually disappear into thin air.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570924.html">ELISHA</a> - Aww, someone's got a little headache. I'm sure those cigarettes will just solve all your problems, sugar.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571362.html">SADE</a> - You know what always fixes every problem? Bureaucracy. Or maybe not, but the Queen of Diamonds will never give up on the red tape.
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571586.html">BLYTHE</a> - Baking: what you do when on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Honey, that's what we have bakeries for, you know.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571673.html">JOHNNY</a> - Oh, look, here's a shocker: Johnny No Last Name Known doesn't want to stick around. No one's making you, babe.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572210.html">ZOE</a> - Ah, young love. Flowers. Music. Throwing away your prized possessions so you can fit your dresses in between his knives. You know, princess, if you didn't <em>marry</em> the man, you wouldn't have to give up all the shoes.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572468.html">ALASDAIR</a> - Another day, another magnum opus. Keep going this way, sugarpie, and someone's going to figure out your secret.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572712.html">CLIVE</a> - Little known fact, gentle reader: the primary requirement for being King of Spades is grunting and sweating in the training room. Dream big, baby Spades. All it takes is bench pressing your weight.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572945.html">THEO</a> - Someone's moving on up, and in kickboxing. Tell me, darlings, is this a Heart challenge or a Spade? I'm getting all mixed up.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573239.html">SOPHIE</a> - Sophie. Sophie, <em>cherie</em>, we have terrible news for you. You're not six; get out of the tree. Miss Henshaw can find you, anyway.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573513.html">JACK</a> - Brilliant plan, Jack. Going into the disappearing buildings is totally A+. Good show. Let us do a slow clap.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573852.html">AMY</a> - Amy Sinclair is a dedicated diarist, didn't you know? Just always scribbling notes whereever she may be. Except how she doesn't, so she must be up to something else.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574071.html">KARISA</a> - Karisa's just a baby. If she wasn't, she would have figured out by now that studying in a bar is just a recipe for not studying at all. But maybe that's the point, in the end.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574281.html">PIERRE</a> - No one in their right mind would ask Pierre to be their best man, but hey. No one said sanity was a prerequisite for marriage, did they?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574568.html">LEONA</a> - Stop the presses, it seems Miss Leona Matthews has discovered something highly disturbing: Hadyn Novak is not entirely useless.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574765.html">EVAN</a> - Hitting random numbers is usually something you do for shits and giggles when you're drunk, but if you're Evan McCartney, it's all part of keeping in touch.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574978.html">OCTOBER</a> - No, Tobi, don't be ridiculous. Learning to play a song from a music box in an old, decrepit, magical house isn't creepy at all.</td>
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<td align="justify"><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Two</b></div>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/575618.html">AVERY</a> - Breaking up is hard to do. Aww, poor baby Diamond Ace. She dumped her boyfriend and now she's all mopey about it. Here's a clue, darling: you could have not dumped him.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/575960.html">MARCHE</a> - Spring brings more idiots to the Deck, it seems. What's the matter, honey, didn't anyone ever teach you not to eat things you pick off random bushes?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576122.html">CLAUDIA</a> - All Claudia wants is some quiet time alone with her work in the library. Too, too bad that everyone objects to her ringing phone and music interrupting their quiet time, isn't it?</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♦</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576299.html">SADE</a> - The Queen of Diamonds just keeps losing these battles. First, the King gets his choice of Ace - and isn't it fun to watch those sparkling blondes claw each other's eyes out? - and now she has to name <em>that man</em> Jack. Really. She suffers so.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577050.html">TESS</a> - Poor widdle Tessie. She's lost her kitty! Whatever will she do? Oh, well, looks like the ex-Spade's going to convince her to break into one of the buildings. Brilliant plan, ladies.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576977.html">MICHAEL</a> - Tradition dictates that all Faces should live in the Castle. You know. With the red tape and the obsessive-compulsive staff. But some people just have to be different.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577547.html">RILEY</a> - There's a rumor that the Hearts are supposed to be the nice Suit. That if you have family who are going to tell you what to do with your life and how to do it, you just might be a Diamond or a Spade. But those Jameses, they just like defying stereotypes. Happy birthday, Miss Riley James, and welcome to the rest of your life as planned by Granny James.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577863.html">RACHEL</a> - Shake, rattle and roll. Shake, rattle and...oh. Oops, Rachel, you forgot the last bit.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577447.html">CADOGAN</a> - It's time for another game of Jack of Diamonds, the job no one actually wants. Yes, your Jackness, drinking is a good idea. Drown your sorrows in whiskey.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578243.html">LASSE</a> - Aww, isn't this cute, a little Valentine's Day installation on the Green. It's the sweetest thing. But just who are you sweet on, Lasse? Could it be a certain atypical Jack of Spades?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578312.html">ETHAN</a> - It looks like the Deck has their very own chocolate fairy flitting his way from Castle to Castle with presents for those near and dear. Is there something you want to tell us about you and the Ace of Diamonds, darling?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578312.html">ELANI</a> - Once upon a time, the Disney Princess of Clubs was chained to a desk and forbidden to sing, and dance, and talk to woodland creatures. Such tragedy was felt throughout the kingdom until she was ~*rescued*~ by the nutty professor. Isn't it all so adorable.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578967.html>JULIETTE</a> - And lo and behold, the Joker doesn't care about what's going on in the Deck and just wants to ride her horse. I think I, personally, might die from the shock.</td>
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<td align=" justify"="justify""><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Three</b></div>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♣</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579099.html">ELISHA</a> - Hey everyone, don't forget: the King of Clubs is an <em>artiste</em>. Did you forget the King of Clubs was an <em>artiste</em>? Good. Carry on.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♠</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579493.html">ARCHIE</a> - Apparently there comes a time when even mad scientists actually notice what's going on around them. What's the world coming to, guys? What's next, trees appearing out of nowhere? ...Oh.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579657.html">DECLAN</a> - Dear God. Someone call a doctor. Strike up a funeral dirge. <em>The china is broken</em>.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579979.html">ZOE</a> - It looks like the little princess just can't possibly abide laziness. Still, issuing a challenge in a temper? Don't be so surprised if you live to regret that one, baby.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580512.html">JULIEN</a> - Aww. Superrobot's got the flu. Maybe someone better take a look at his gears? Might have gotten all gunked up.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580157.html">IGGY</a> - Kids these days. Just can't keep their filthy hands off other people's things. But this doesn't look like just any kind of notebook, does it? Or maybe it does, and everyone's getting paranoid.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580806.html">JORDAN</a> - It's true what they say, my loves: you can take a Heart out of the Suit, but you can't take a love of suits - er, hats - out of the Heart. Spade. Whatever.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580994.html">ROWAN</a> - Another day, another person getting a job no one wants. Good luck with this one, Queen Rowan. It's going to be <em>fun</em>, especially with those pesky Novaks around.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581290.html">HADYN</a> - Isn't that cute, the drunk little Heart is at Heart Castle. Hadyn, darling, didn't you learn your sister's lesson? Drunken baby Hearts belong in the bedrooms on men in black Suits.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581541.html">ALASDAIR</a> - It looks like major catastrophes for the Deck as a whole aren't enough for <em>one</em> Heart family. Nope, it's not fun until you add in dementia, and then you really know how to party.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581817.html">THEO</a> - It's just not a good week to be a Heart. The latest tragedy to strike the Suit: the King's assistant is going to <em>school</em>. Brace yourselves, darlings, the world's crashing down. Again.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581935.html">WRAIDD</a> - We know exactly what they say about curiosity and cats, Miss Nine. Alas, that's not <em>exactly</em> what happens when you mess with those buildings.</td>
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<td align="justify"><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Four</b></div>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♠</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582310.html">ZOE</a> - Now, what did we say about rash challenges, princess? And now look what you've gotten yourself stuck with. But hey, maybe if you bat your eyes really pretty at your fiance, he'll get rid of your little problem for you. If not, it looks like you still have your magic touch with Jacks.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582602.html">WRAIDD</a> - You know what they say about a girl who can go all night, don't you? That's right. She's not much good the next morning.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582685.html">JULIEN</a> - Hey guys! Great news! The Ace of Spades is back on the job, proving that he's still a machine.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582985.html">BEN</a> - Some men ride like centaurs. I've heard, at least; unfortunately the Diamond Who Wears Plaid rides more like he's drunk and on the bucking bronco at Studio 54</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583395.html">ANNIE/a> - Love is in the air at Spade Castle, apparently. Or maybe the butler's been up to his nose in white lace and flowers and wedding vows for so long that he can't have conversations about anything else and just has to get married himself.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583591.html">JUSTIN</a> - Well, look what the cat dragged in. It's just who we've all been missing all these months, isn't it? Pro tip: try to avoid Spades.
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583828.html">Piper</a> - It's true: most Jokers are mentally five, and true to form <em>poor</em> Piper is throwing a tantrum. Why? Because her brother's getting married and didn't ask her first. Last we checked, she wasn't the bride.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583954.html">MEERA</a> - Sure, this seems like a good idea. Count steps around the Green. This <em>totally</em> seems useful.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584254.html">HADYN</a> - One of them has been in too many Shakespearean tragedies. One of them, apparently, has <em>watched</em> too many Shakespearean tragedies. Together, they spill blood on the steps of Spade Castle. This one probably won't conclude with All's Well That Ends Well.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584568.html">DIANE</a> - The Sixes in the Spades have apparently been drinking something today. First, a Nine of Hearts. Now, a Two of Spades. What's next? Should the Diamonds look out?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584720.html">AVERY</a> - Lest you be overly concerned about it, fear not: The Ace of Diamonds is still incredibly weird.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584999.html">RAPHAEL</a> - Don't break his heart, darlings. Tell the little not-Chives how well he's done..</td>
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[As winter wears on, the situation on the Deck slowly worsens. Nothing seems to be stopping it, though there are some whispers that no one is actually bothering to do anything about it. Cards, including the Queen of Clubs and one of the Jokers, disappear. Earthquakes continue to shake the Deck.]
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Week One</b></font></div>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/569328.html">MANO</a> - Newsflash, darlings: Little Orphan Annie is alive and well in the Deck, spreading joy and rainbows here there and everywhere. But can Little Mano Jack of Hearts find missing parents? The world may never know.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♠</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/569467.html">JULIEN</a> - Aww, look. Someone's having a little temper tantrum. Poor, poor Julien. No one understands his pain. Hey, babe, maybe you should think about cornering a Two for stress relief.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♣</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570069.html">CALEB</a> - Well, that's not a familiar face in Diamond Castle, is it? Is the elder Caustello actually <em>worried</em> about his estranged daughter? No, that couldn't be it. He forgot the fatted calf.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570356.html">PETER</a> - Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater. Don't you know that snooping in Spade Castle is just asking for trouble? Don't look now, but you're on candid camera, darling.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570506.html">EVANGELINE</a> - Some educators write lesson plans for the new semester. Some, apparently, get inspirational tattoos and eviscerate their ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. We're sure that's really comforting for the students while they're taking their entrance exams, Edie.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570764.html">LASSE</a> - A healthy degree of skepticism never hurt anyone, but sorry, Lasse. The Queen of Clubs did actually disappear into thin air.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♣</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/570924.html">ELISHA</a> - Aww, someone's got a little headache. I'm sure those cigarettes will just solve all your problems, sugar.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571362.html">SADE</a> - You know what always fixes every problem? Bureaucracy. Or maybe not, but the Queen of Diamonds will never give up on the red tape.
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571586.html">BLYTHE</a> - Baking: what you do when on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Honey, that's what we have bakeries for, you know.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/571673.html">JOHNNY</a> - Oh, look, here's a shocker: Johnny No Last Name Known doesn't want to stick around. No one's making you, babe.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572210.html">ZOE</a> - Ah, young love. Flowers. Music. Throwing away your prized possessions so you can fit your dresses in between his knives. You know, princess, if you didn't <em>marry</em> the man, you wouldn't have to give up all the shoes.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572468.html">ALASDAIR</a> - Another day, another magnum opus. Keep going this way, sugarpie, and someone's going to figure out your secret.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572712.html">CLIVE</a> - Little known fact, gentle reader: the primary requirement for being King of Spades is grunting and sweating in the training room. Dream big, baby Spades. All it takes is bench pressing your weight.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/572945.html">THEO</a> - Someone's moving on up, and in kickboxing. Tell me, darlings, is this a Heart challenge or a Spade? I'm getting all mixed up.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573239.html">SOPHIE</a> - Sophie. Sophie, <em>cherie</em>, we have terrible news for you. You're not six; get out of the tree. Miss Henshaw can find you, anyway.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573513.html">JACK</a> - Brilliant plan, Jack. Going into the disappearing buildings is totally A+. Good show. Let us do a slow clap.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♠</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/573852.html">AMY</a> - Amy Sinclair is a dedicated diarist, didn't you know? Just always scribbling notes whereever she may be. Except how she doesn't, so she must be up to something else.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574071.html">KARISA</a> - Karisa's just a baby. If she wasn't, she would have figured out by now that studying in a bar is just a recipe for not studying at all. But maybe that's the point, in the end.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574281.html">PIERRE</a> - No one in their right mind would ask Pierre to be their best man, but hey. No one said sanity was a prerequisite for marriage, did they?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574568.html">LEONA</a> - Stop the presses, it seems Miss Leona Matthews has discovered something highly disturbing: Hadyn Novak is not entirely useless.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574765.html">EVAN</a> - Hitting random numbers is usually something you do for shits and giggles when you're drunk, but if you're Evan McCartney, it's all part of keeping in touch.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/574978.html">OCTOBER</a> - No, Tobi, don't be ridiculous. Learning to play a song from a music box in an old, decrepit, magical house isn't creepy at all.</td>
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<td align="justify"><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Two</b></div>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/575618.html">AVERY</a> - Breaking up is hard to do. Aww, poor baby Diamond Ace. She dumped her boyfriend and now she's all mopey about it. Here's a clue, darling: you could have not dumped him.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/575960.html">MARCHE</a> - Spring brings more idiots to the Deck, it seems. What's the matter, honey, didn't anyone ever teach you not to eat things you pick off random bushes?</td>
<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♦</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576122.html">CLAUDIA</a> - All Claudia wants is some quiet time alone with her work in the library. Too, too bad that everyone objects to her ringing phone and music interrupting their quiet time, isn't it?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576299.html">SADE</a> - The Queen of Diamonds just keeps losing these battles. First, the King gets his choice of Ace - and isn't it fun to watch those sparkling blondes claw each other's eyes out? - and now she has to name <em>that man</em> Jack. Really. She suffers so.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577050.html">TESS</a> - Poor widdle Tessie. She's lost her kitty! Whatever will she do? Oh, well, looks like the ex-Spade's going to convince her to break into one of the buildings. Brilliant plan, ladies.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/576977.html">MICHAEL</a> - Tradition dictates that all Faces should live in the Castle. You know. With the red tape and the obsessive-compulsive staff. But some people just have to be different.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577547.html">RILEY</a> - There's a rumor that the Hearts are supposed to be the nice Suit. That if you have family who are going to tell you what to do with your life and how to do it, you just might be a Diamond or a Spade. But those Jameses, they just like defying stereotypes. Happy birthday, Miss Riley James, and welcome to the rest of your life as planned by Granny James.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577863.html">RACHEL</a> - Shake, rattle and roll. Shake, rattle and...oh. Oops, Rachel, you forgot the last bit.</td>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♦</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/577447.html">CADOGAN</a> - It's time for another game of Jack of Diamonds, the job no one actually wants. Yes, your Jackness, drinking is a good idea. Drown your sorrows in whiskey.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578243.html">LASSE</a> - Aww, isn't this cute, a little Valentine's Day installation on the Green. It's the sweetest thing. But just who are you sweet on, Lasse? Could it be a certain atypical Jack of Spades?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578312.html">ETHAN</a> - It looks like the Deck has their very own chocolate fairy flitting his way from Castle to Castle with presents for those near and dear. Is there something you want to tell us about you and the Ace of Diamonds, darling?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578312.html">ELANI</a> - Once upon a time, the Disney Princess of Clubs was chained to a desk and forbidden to sing, and dance, and talk to woodland creatures. Such tragedy was felt throughout the kingdom until she was ~*rescued*~ by the nutty professor. Isn't it all so adorable.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/578967.html>JULIETTE</a> - And lo and behold, the Joker doesn't care about what's going on in the Deck and just wants to ride her horse. I think I, personally, might die from the shock.</td>
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<td align=" justify"="justify""><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Three</b></div>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♣</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579099.html">ELISHA</a> - Hey everyone, don't forget: the King of Clubs is an <em>artiste</em>. Did you forget the King of Clubs was an <em>artiste</em>? Good. Carry on.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579493.html">ARCHIE</a> - Apparently there comes a time when even mad scientists actually notice what's going on around them. What's the world coming to, guys? What's next, trees appearing out of nowhere? ...Oh.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579657.html">DECLAN</a> - Dear God. Someone call a doctor. Strike up a funeral dirge. <em>The china is broken</em>.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/579979.html">ZOE</a> - It looks like the little princess just can't possibly abide laziness. Still, issuing a challenge in a temper? Don't be so surprised if you live to regret that one, baby.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580512.html">JULIEN</a> - Aww. Superrobot's got the flu. Maybe someone better take a look at his gears? Might have gotten all gunked up.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580157.html">IGGY</a> - Kids these days. Just can't keep their filthy hands off other people's things. But this doesn't look like just any kind of notebook, does it? Or maybe it does, and everyone's getting paranoid.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580806.html">JORDAN</a> - It's true what they say, my loves: you can take a Heart out of the Suit, but you can't take a love of suits - er, hats - out of the Heart. Spade. Whatever.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/580994.html">ROWAN</a> - Another day, another person getting a job no one wants. Good luck with this one, Queen Rowan. It's going to be <em>fun</em>, especially with those pesky Novaks around.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581290.html">HADYN</a> - Isn't that cute, the drunk little Heart is at Heart Castle. Hadyn, darling, didn't you learn your sister's lesson? Drunken baby Hearts belong in the bedrooms on men in black Suits.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581541.html">ALASDAIR</a> - It looks like major catastrophes for the Deck as a whole aren't enough for <em>one</em> Heart family. Nope, it's not fun until you add in dementia, and then you really know how to party.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581817.html">THEO</a> - It's just not a good week to be a Heart. The latest tragedy to strike the Suit: the King's assistant is going to <em>school</em>. Brace yourselves, darlings, the world's crashing down. Again.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/581935.html">WRAIDD</a> - We know exactly what they say about curiosity and cats, Miss Nine. Alas, that's not <em>exactly</em> what happens when you mess with those buildings.</td>
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<td align="justify"><font face="georgia" size="4"><div align="right"><b>Week Four</b></div>
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<td align="center" width="10" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>♠</td>
<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582310.html">ZOE</a> - Now, what did we say about rash challenges, princess? And now look what you've gotten yourself stuck with. But hey, maybe if you bat your eyes really pretty at your fiance, he'll get rid of your little problem for you. If not, it looks like you still have your magic touch with Jacks.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582602.html">WRAIDD</a> - You know what they say about a girl who can go all night, don't you? That's right. She's not much good the next morning.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582685.html">JULIEN</a> - Hey guys! Great news! The Ace of Spades is back on the job, proving that he's still a machine.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/582985.html">BEN</a> - Some men ride like centaurs. I've heard, at least; unfortunately the Diamond Who Wears Plaid rides more like he's drunk and on the bucking bronco at Studio 54</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583395.html">ANNIE/a> - Love is in the air at Spade Castle, apparently. Or maybe the butler's been up to his nose in white lace and flowers and wedding vows for so long that he can't have conversations about anything else and just has to get married himself.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583591.html">JUSTIN</a> - Well, look what the cat dragged in. It's just who we've all been missing all these months, isn't it? Pro tip: try to avoid Spades.
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583828.html">Piper</a> - It's true: most Jokers are mentally five, and true to form <em>poor</em> Piper is throwing a tantrum. Why? Because her brother's getting married and didn't ask her first. Last we checked, she wasn't the bride.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/583954.html">MEERA</a> - Sure, this seems like a good idea. Count steps around the Green. This <em>totally</em> seems useful.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584254.html">HADYN</a> - One of them has been in too many Shakespearean tragedies. One of them, apparently, has <em>watched</em> too many Shakespearean tragedies. Together, they spill blood on the steps of Spade Castle. This one probably won't conclude with All's Well That Ends Well.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584568.html">DIANE</a> - The Sixes in the Spades have apparently been drinking something today. First, a Nine of Hearts. Now, a Two of Spades. What's next? Should the Diamonds look out?</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584720.html">AVERY</a> - Lest you be overly concerned about it, fear not: The Ace of Diamonds is still incredibly weird.</td>
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<td align="justify" valign="top"><font face="verdana" size="1"><a href="http://houseofcards-rp.dreamwidth.org/584999.html">RAPHAEL</a> - Don't break his heart, darlings. Tell the little not-Chives how well he's done..</td>
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