Reforge

Hey, I think you forgot something else already! Namely, the part where you totally promised me all of your money.

Hey man, you're the one with the memory problems. Trust me, it was so totally a thing.








Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Congratulations, you have just taken advantage of an innocent stranger's memory problems to scam them out of all their money. A+ hero job, sport. Look at that, you only even got eight verdants!

Your pointless cruelty causes you to accrue one Deviousness Gem for your Machination Cache!

Hey? where are you going?

But I could help you figure out your mysterious past and we could explore and-


Now you feel just awful...

A dark seed sprouts in your Garden of Self-Doubt as your Machination Cache empties.

Rob the next person you see.

You wander deeper into darkening alleyways, twisting and turning. The stone of the walls is rougher here, doorways and windows less frequent in number and more frequently boarded up by the hick metal plates bolted into the walls.


You aren't really paying much attention to your path, which in hindsight will reveal itself to be a misstep on your part. For now, however, you remain absorbed with pondering your own being. Introspection has never come naturally to you, so you suppose that in a certain, slightly cynical way you are already living out your dreams of exploring new territory. Yay.

WHY did you have to do that? It doesn't even make sense from a utilitarian perspective because it - ugh why are you thinking like that? If only you could just ask for a do-over...


Your lamentation of past choice is brought to an abrupt halt as you realize that you are fuck deep into the abandoned back tunnels of the city. And you are completely lost.

Shimmy up to the rooftops.

oof
These walls are too difficult to scale unaided for someone of your low climbing acumen.



Yes, good, having a plan should help stave off the panic. In fact, the way you've been keeping a plan in mind and staying in motion and action has helped open your Terror Reservoir, preventing the turbid Fright Brine from overflowing and drowning out rational thought. Wait seriously Terror Reservoir? This is getting ridiculous.

You think that with a little effort you could likely send up up some sort of flare, but your low Fire Affinity would make it difficult to send any projectile flame that high without it being quite dim and short-lived. Which, now that you think about it, are adjectives that may describe you if you can't get out of here.. Besides-