Kerstin Gunnarsdotter lay dying in the summer heat. She was sweating and shivering, somehow feeling very cold despite her high fever. In her groin, the presence of large boils made her condition clear – the bubonic plague.
Kerstin was one of many victims of a plague epidemic that swept through Sweden in 1710-1713. Many towns and villages lost half of their population or more – in Skänninge, 500 out of the 700 inhabitants died. The royal family fled the capital, as 40 percent of the population perished. The country was gripped by fear and a sense of impending doom. Lawlessness spread through desolate streets and silent villages.
Kerstin Gunnarsdotter must have recalled the recent events of her life with some regret. A few weeks ago, an old woman called Elin who lived at the same farm (Tuna Bengtsgården) had started displaying the tell-tale signs of the plague. Fearful, as much of the dreaded disease as being shunned and feared by the community, Kerstin and her husband Nils kept the old woman’s illness a secret, and when she died, they recruited a man called Åke Andersson to secretly bury her at night.
The story could have ended there, with an unlawful burial in the middle of the night on the graveyard of Ryssby parish. It was not long however, before both Nils and Kerstin developed the symptoms of plague.
Her husband Nils had died two days earlier and had been buried in the plague cemetery that had been opened when the outbreak could no longer be hidden, and now Kerstin seemed very near to joining him.
In her weakened state, she heard the door open, and dimly saw someone enter the room. It was Åke Andersson, followed by his wife. Before Kerstin quite realised what had happened, Åke and his wife had grabbed her roughly by the arms and legs and lifted her out of her bed. Fighting back as much as she could, Kerstin was carried into an adjoining room, where a coffin stood waiting for her. Åke and his wife forced her into the coffin, face down with her hands on her back. Her cheek scraped against the rough wood of the hastily made coffin, and blood started seeping out as the lid was lowered, muffling her screams. Soon followed the bone chilling sound of nails being drive
... keep reading on reddit ➡While Burial would be a ridiculously OP card that helps most decks, the only deck right now I can think of that can truly abuse it Infernoble knights. Every other deck either requires you hard open it or requires quite some set up (Hidden armory prevents NS). Which also makes me think would Burial alone push Infernobles from rogue to at least tier 2 if not better?
My little brother who had played Yu-Gi-Oh! several years ago made that comment recently. Obviously, PB is the better card nowadays. My question is: What are other cards that seem better than similar cards to a less experienced player even though they actually are not?
Not a major discussion point, but every time I see [[Premature Burial]] wheel in draft, I can't help but think it's one of the absolute worst cards in Eternal. It's surprising to me that that it's that far off-- it's bad at half the price, so at 6 it's just insanely bad. They've really avoided printing cards this heinously awful in the last few sets, so it's kind of a shock.
Anyone found any sort of use for it that I'm missing, or is it as truly awful as it seems?
So I have LotD on Switch, and I've been playing it for a little while now. I'm watching the show as I go through it, so I just finished Battle City stuff and stopped before the whole Darts shenanigans.
I have almost every card in the original series's boosters, with every card (942 cards each, 3 copies of 314 different ones) from Gramps, Mai, Bakura, and Jounouchi, with almost all the cards from Kaiba and Yugi.
So I was planning on adding Premature Burial to a deck I was making, and it just isn't in my trunk or any of the other recipes I have. I know I had the card, since I've seen it earlier and everyone says it's in Gramps's booster. It just vanished.
I'd like to add that the other banned/forbidden cards are still there, like Pot of Greed, Raigeki, etc.
Does anyone have any idea what happened?
TL;DR: Went to add Premature Burial, and it isn't in my card list anymore, even though I had it and other forbidden cards are still there.
A grave mistake.
