Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-36855838-20181010050236

It's your thirtieth birthday, and you've spent it the same as the last twelve, utterly alone in the world which took your family from you.

The monsters had blamed the Order, who had in turn blamed the monsters, but the end result was all the same to you, they had died in a skirmish in your home town after the fall of some nearby major Order city.

You had come home to their charred corpses, the house a burning wreck, and taken a single splintered board lit with the fire that killed them.

This fire now burned, still tended, in a basin in the center of your new home.

You had carried this burden, ever warmed by the licking, curling flames.

As the years had passed, an ignis had come to reside in the basin, sharing tales of the wide open world, and had departed.

Others came, sharing yet more words of encouragement, wisdom, and sympathy, for the flame burned bright with your grief and sorrow, calling out to those spirits sympathetic to your plight.

Now, here you sit, roasting several fish in the heat of the flames, tears again washing lines in the soot which cakes your face.

These fish were a special gift, a merrow and her husband who lived nearby had often joined you on rainy saturdays for cards and chess, and they had hoped to cheer you up by giving you a chance to stop overworking yourself.

The local Orcs had given you wood, the boards expertly hewn and easily stacked, it would likely last you months.

A Jorougumo whom you had met in Zipangu, and who had let you share her home one evening while monsoons threatened your flame, now sat beside you, your hand in hers.

You were aware of the "Night face" but it had never been a problem, she'd just gotten almost adorably possessive of random objects, and tied you to her back in a mating position.

Other than that, things had gone smoothly between you.

The sun is setting, and you feel another pang in your gut, your throat tightens, and your tears run down your face once again.

How will you spend this evening? 