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Casting carved stones for truth

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Etching lines into pebbles instantly makes them objective sources of truth. Runic casting assigns deep cosmic weight to specific angular symbols. When you toss them, whichever symbol lands face-up supposedly holds the absolute answer to your current existential dread.

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