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2.INTRODUCTION

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IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF DESTINY, STRANGE TWISTS OF FATE CAN BRING ABOUT THE MOST INTERESTING CHAIN OF EVENTS. EVIL ALWAYS SEEM TO FIND EVIL, BUT GOOD DOESN'T ALWAYS NECESSARILY FIND GOOD.

AND THUS, THE PRIMAL EVIL OF THE TALISMAN FINDS A NEW HAND TO WIELD IT, TO CARRY IT A LITTLE FURTHER ON ITS ETERNAL JOURNEY. THE TALISMAN ITSELF DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE MUCH ... AN ODDLY SHAPED PIECE OF ONYX WITH 2 INSET PURPLE GEMS, WHICH ALMOST LOOK LIKE EYES. BUT THE POWER THAT IT HOLDS IS VERY GREAT.

THERE IS A PLACE IN HELL WHERE ALL OF HUMANITY'S BAD DREAMS AND NEGATIVE THOUGHTS GO. ALL OF THE HATE AND CRUELTY IN OUR HEARTS. ALL OF OUR LIES AND DECEIT. FROM THIS PLACE, THE GARGOYLE WAS CREATED. BEING BORN OF HATE AND CRUELTY, THE GARGOYLE KNOWS NO COMPASSION. WITH SKIN LIKE STONE AND GLOWING PURPLE, ALMOST BLACK EYES, IT IS AN INDESTRUCTIBLE KILLING MACHINE.

THE POSSESSOR OF THE TALISMAN CAN SUMMON THE GARGOYLE TO DO THEIR BIDDING ... AND THE GARGOYLE IS BOUND BY IT'S CREATION TO THE WIELDER OF THE STONE.

THE GARGOYLE HATES AND DESPISES HUMANITY FOR CREATING IT. IT KNOWS ONLY PAIN AND SUFFERING AND HATES HAVING TO SERVE ANY HUMAN. IT WANTS TO CLAIM POSSESSION OF THE TALISMAN, WHICH WOULD FREE IT FROM ITS SERVITUDE. THEN, IT WOULD SHOW ITS WRATH TO ALL OF HUMANITY. BUT, THE TALISMAN MUST BE GIVEN FREELY BY ITS POSSESSOR. SO, THE GARGOYLE WAITS .... AND WATCHES ....

FOR MARSHALL BRADLEY, LIFE WAS PRETTY GOOD. FROM HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS OF TERRORIZING SMALL ANIMALS, TO HIS CUTTHROAT AND SOMETIMES THREATENING BUSINESS DEALINGS, BRADLEY ALWAYS GOT WHAT HE WANTED. WHEN HIS SISTER AND HER HUSBAND DIED IN AN ACCIDENT, HE TOOK IN THEIR SON, LEWIS. LEWIS WAS AN APT PUPIL FOR BRADLEY, AND AS HE GOT OLDER, HE BECAME BRADLEY'S STRONG ARM MAN. ALTHOUGH LEWIS DIDN'T HAVE THAT INBORN EVIL STREAK, BRADLEY WAS AN EXCELLENT TEACHER.

WHEN WILLIAM DE MONT, MARSHALL BRADLEY'S BUSINESS PARTNER, WOULDN'T SELL OUT TO HIM, BRADLEY FIRST TORTURED, THEN KILLED HIM. HE AND LEWIS THEN BROUGHT HIS BODY OUT TO THE OLD QUARRY TO BURY IT. AS THEY ARE BURYING DE MONT'S BATTERED BODY, SOME OF THE BLOOD MAKES CONTACT WITH THE TALISMAN, WHICH WAS UNEARTHED AS THEY DUG THE GRAVE. THIS CAUSES IT TO GLOW WITH AN EERIE PURPLE, ALMOST BLACK LIGHT. BRADLEY, INTRIGUED BY THIS, PICKS UP THE STONE AND CAN INSTANTLY FEEL THE POWER IN IT. ALMOST TELEPATHICALLY, THE TALISMAN IMPARTS ITS SECRET TO HIM. EVIL DOES KNOW EVIL.

IN THE ABSENCE OF HIS BUSINESS PARTNER, BRADLEY TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE BUSINESS. HOWEVER, A GROUP OF CHILDREN PLAYING AT THE OLD QUARRY FIND DE MONT'S BODY, AND WITNESSES HAD HEARD BRADLEY AND DE MONT ARGUING BEFORE HIS DISAPPEARANCE.

SO, MARSHALL BRADLEY IS ON TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF HIS BUSINESS PARTNER, WILLIAM DE MONT. SUSAN BARROW AND ALAN JEFFRIES ARE JURORS AT THE TRIAL. THEY FEEL A SPARK WHEN THEIR EYES FIRST MEET, BUT A MURDER TRIAL IS NOT A VERY ROMANTIC VENUE.

AND SO, THIS IS WHERE WE PICK UP THIS SORDID TALE OF GREED, REVENGE, RETRIBUTION.... AND HORROR.