Thursday, April 28, 2016

Storytelling for Week 14: The Fatal Dice


Duryodhan came back from the Imperial Sacrifice with hatred towards Yuhishthir. He wants to strike back Yudhisthir with the help of Sakuni. The plan was to get Yudhisthir to start gambling his riches. What we know about Yudhisthir is he loves gambling.

The plan that Duryodhan and Sakuni set up was to get Yudhisthir to start gambling and get him to lose all of his gold and jewels. The game Yudhisthir loved to play was dice and he really could not get enough of it. He always wanted to play but he knew that it was not good for him. The only thing was it was dice night and Yudhisthir knew he could not pass this up.

The bad thing for Yudhisthir is that Duryodhan and Sakuni have a plan to get the dice to always be against Yudhishtir so he would lose all of his money. The overall plan was to pay off a man to throw rigged dice that would also land on the wrong numbers in order for Yudhishthir to lose everything. While the gambling will be going on Duryodhan and Sakuni will be hiding so they will not be seen. They will be there watching the dice dealer to make sure he does everything he gets paid to do.

The two men have been making up this plan for along time and will not risk it failing. They have been very angry and filled with jealousy and have made up this genius plan in order to shoot down Yudhishthir. The plan is about to be a go and Yudhishthir is walking up to the dice area with all of his riches. He starts being cocky and gets everyone off just for him to play. He begins to start playing and he starts to lose a few hands and is getting frustrated that he keeps losing. He then starts to bet more and more and Duryodhan and Sakuni start to grin with happiness that their plan is working.

He then starts to wonder why he is losing so much so fast and notices something wrong with the dealer, like he is nervous. He starts to look around and notices Yudhishthir and Sakuni hiding. He is furious and orders his guards to kill them immediately. The guards begin running to kill them and the two men start to run for their lives and before Yudhishthir can look back at the dice dealer he has vanished.


Author’s Note: The story is a twist to the story called Fatal Dice. I just use the same characters but switch up the story line a little bit.





Ramayana and Mahabharata
Bibliography: The Fatal Dice from The Ramayana and Mahabharata by Romesh Dutt. (1899)

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