As you read this, something very real and old is passing behind our Sun. We call it 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected. Each story that follows explores a different possible future that this ancient visitor might reveal to humanity as it comes around the Sun. These are meditations on what we might learn from something that has traveled far further than we know how to… (yet).
Not all of the stories from the Families War are big and glorious. Sometimes they involve heartache and loss, and a desperate desire to make things right. As well as cold-blooded calculation. Liz Elia found her missing sib, but was a few minutes too late, and the guilt, the feeling of failure has lived with her ever since. And then Captain Macquarrie shows up with a chance, a faint one, to redeem herself.
It is hard to make living as an adventurer in a backwater town. It does not take long for all the bandits to be driven away, all goblins to be killed and looted, and all rat infestations to be eradicated but expenses just keep on going and going 'cause your healer simply does not compromise on her wine or on her comforts... Dedicated to all the kids that played D&D in my living room.