Check food levels in cupboard. You be meaning to do it for a while.
Look around the house for one of your mother's sculptures
Find a newspaper or the equivalent. Important to keep in the know.
While the skillet heats you check through the cupboards. They're more or less stocked. Various baking goods and condiments fill the shelves up fairly snugly, there's not nearly as much as when the house is full, but enough to where you won't have to go out and buy more of anything for a couple of days. Satisfied that the cupboards are good, you head to the larder. The last time the thing was stocked up there were three people in the house, and two of them left shortly after so it's still very well stocked. A little too well stocked maybe...
You grab a small slab of bacon to cook before you head out. Stuff needs to be eaten, and that's the
only reason that you're fixing an entire slab, certainly not because you lack the self control to resist its deliciousness.
The skillet still has a bit to go when you get back from the larder, so you head to the door and grab the paper from the doorstep. The headline is predictably sensationalist:
SIR DAVID HUMPHREY DISCOVERS STRANGE ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE!!!
SWEARS THAT HIS "FUMES OF HUMOROUS DISPOSITION" HAVE NOTHING DO WITH THIS
The article itself has very little to do with Humphrey's discovery, and more to do with Sir Michael Fairday's mocking of him over the "
STRANGE OCEANIC DISTURBANCE" incident. Page two is filled with gossip about the Royal Family, and the rest of the paper mainly concerns itself with the local goings on, fresh fruits on sale, cow found eaten by wolves, yadda, yadda yadda...
You sigh and put the bacon in the skillet. As usual, any news relating to the outside world is nothing but a couple of boffins with a rivalry and the usual gossip that crops up when your leader has more than half a dozen children. Only a slight mention made about the war against the Nonijan. Apparently you've been at war with this country for years now, but you never hear anything about it this far north. Almost all the fighting is done in the
░░░░░░░ Mountains and the recruits come from the villages surrounding them. It might as well be happening in another country if it weren't for the slight increase in taxes; you're not even sure what the war started over, or who was responsible. The entire affair is rather strange.
...
You finish cooking the bacon and fix yourself a couple of sandwiches. You'll give some of them to Sera and Ankh when they get out of work. In the meantime, you quickly chomp down on one and munch on the other as you wander around the house idly.
Eventually, you decide to check on your mother's workshop. The room is the same as she left it: Covered in half-finished statues and stone dust, with tools laying scattered about. She does just about everything that someone can do with stone, but specializes in neo-classical Remean depictions, i.e. naked people missing their arms. You suppose she gets so many royal customers because they want to look like they own some sort of ancient artifact or some such.
You sigh. You just don't understand some people, royalty especially.
You glance around the workshop to check and make sure that nothing is missing. Satisfied that everything in the workshop proper is still there, you check the door at the back. The door is made of solid metal and always locked, you've never been past it, and you don't think anyone other than your mother has been either. She calls it her personal project room and apparently doesn't want anyone messing it up. Your guess is that whatever it is she makes back there more embarrassing than her usual orders and she doesn't want the public eye to see. It's hard to imagine what would be worse than neo-classical Remean depiction and you frankly don't want to.
Trying to keep thoughts of what could be worse from your head, you check that the key is still hidden in the small slit above the door and give the handle a few tries to make sure that it's still locked; it barely budges at all. Satisfied, you turn around and begin to walk away. Before you go to far though, you hear the crash of breaking stone. From inside the locked room you can hear what seems to be the
sound of multiple statues being smashed into pieces. You quickly back away from the door. There's only one way into that room, and unless whatever is in there busted the wall down or somehow locked it from the inside, you don't know how anything could have gotten in.
There's a police station a few minutes walk, maybe a little less than a minute if you run from here. There are plenty of sculptors tools laying around that you could use to defend yourself if you needed to.
What should you do?
HP: 10
Experience: 0/?
Inventory:Work Clothes15 copper coinsGear NecklaceA few bites of bacon sandwich (Held in hand) 
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Topic: (TSG) A Sky and ░░░░░ Torn Ajar: Chapter 0-10 (Read 23086 times)