| You put on your smoking jacket and grip the smoking talon tightly. Then you shout, "Ow, Ampersand Exclamation Point Hash At Symbol!" and settle for tossing the white-hot talon from hand to hand. You concentrate to overcome the pain and send your consciousness on a journey through the astral realms.
After a brief burst of psychedelic color, your third eye perceives that your astral body is standing in a vast dark cave full of rustling and squeaking.
"Um, is anybody there? Er, is there any other mind here?" you ask. The rustling noises get louder, and turn into flapping noises, and the swirling dark around you is alive with squeaking.
"I was just wondering if any mind here would be interested in being vested into a new corporeal form," you say, but you still hear only squeaking and flapping. "Please," you say, "if you want to be reincarnated, give me a sign!"
Something huge and dark flaps above your head, its leathery wings creaking. There's a distasteful grunting noise, and then a splatter of something entirely disgusting landing all over your noncorporeal form.
"Ugh. I'll take that guano as a yes? You'll need a name. Let's call you..." You glance around, hoping for some inspiration. "How about... <name>
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