You wake up – very hungover – in a vast room filled with sleeping people – all of them strangers. The room is just one of many in a staggeringly huge house. You have no real memory of last night. Nevertheless, you now own this mansion, an original Picasso, a stable of thoroughbred racehorses, two yachts, nine-hundred acres of land, and a controlling share in several fortune 500 companies. At least, that’s what your new army of waiting staff tell you. Something seems off about them but you are not sure what. In your pocket is a sealed envelope. On the envelope in your handwriting are the words, “on no account open this.”

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