An old witch who lived deep inside the forest used to weave special dolls for all the children of the nearby village.
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The ungrateful children, unimpressed by their crudeness, took it out on the dolls, tormenting them for fun; picking buttons off their faces, slicing their sown limbs, and burning the enchanted gifts with matches.
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The dolls suffered in silence, until…
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On the morning after the second blood moon of the year, as the village folk began to rise and start their day, to their horror they discovered that all the village children had disappeared, along with the dolls they used to play with, both never to be seen again.
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No one knows for sure, but legend has it that the witch captured the souls of the children and transfixed them into the puppets to get revenge. Every night she gathers them in a sick, twisted game, tormenting their souls by making them pick each other apart just as they had once done to her dolls.
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Their only hope is to fight each other to the death, in the witch’s sadistic contest, with the promise of one day possibly returning to their mortal form.…