The ferryman without a face
THE BELL BELOW / I / THE DROWNED ROAD
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~ ~ ~.-------------------------------------------. | BELL THIEF RANK 1 | | BLOOD [###### ] 6/6 MIGHT 2 | | FLAME [**. ] 2/3 BURN 3 | '-------------------------------------------'
The boat is stitched from burial shrouds. Its oarsman has worn a hollow in the mist where a face ought to be.
Around his neck hangs a tooth of black glass: the first key. Beside it, an empty lamp. A name has been scratched into the lamp's base, beneath a century of soot.
A little warmth might make it legible. Blood will buy a crossing just as well.
"I can carry you. I cannot remember why I should."
Choose your way
Light his lamp / spend 1 flame; remember a name
Pay with your blood / lose 2 blood; take his tooth
Steal a crossing / Bell Thief; take his tooth
Leave the shore / enter the gallows wood
What you carry
No keys yet. A lantern, a weapon, and a road into the dark.
Mercies kept: 0 of 3. Weapon: burial knife.
@ I --- . II --- . III --- . IV road abbey choir bell + travelled @ here . beyond
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