Test your blade and pray for luck
From Create Your Own Story
You dress, breakfast on bread and goat's milk, and collect the pack and sword from beside your bed. You pause to test the blade against your thumb. The blacksmith has done well: the edge is keen and draws a narrow line of blood. Outside the hut, you hear the Outpost Settlement stirring into life, voices and sounds of activity carried on the morning air.
Taking a moment more, you close your eyes and raise a prayer to your Spirit Guide. This morning, it has the form of a Panther – but what will it become once your journey truly begins? A great calm descends upon you.
Time, then, to depart. You lift back the flap of the hut and step into the early morning sunshine. Eyes follow you as you leave the hut and walk towards the Smutititty Wall. The frontiers-people of this tiny settlement are well aware of your mission and a small crowd of well-wishers follows some distance behind you.
Do you:
