Lucien Enjolras

“No, no, I’m liking this turn. Your first move was to assess your opponent’s abilities, correct? We know the mansion’s abilities rather well. It can endlessly generate objects — whether that’s ex nihilo or out of other worlds is unclear. Sometimes, in a mischievous mood, it leaves out items with enchantments on them: books that foretell possible futures, precious trinkets from childhood that transform you to a child once more. Or the house itself bears the enchantment, as it did the day when passing through any given doorway could compel you to tell the truth. It can conjure beings from fictional worlds, of course, either one by one or en masse, like that horde of movie monsters. More mysteriously, it can recreate fictional situations. The body swapping from the film Freaky Friday, for example. At the same time, it makes fictional characters forget that we’re fictional, gives us memories outside of our canon that feel entirely real. It tries to hide that from us by keeping out the books we came from.” Smiling and spreading a hand, he says, “When it’s all laid out, it’s the ideal challenge for you, don’t you think? How would you take it on?”