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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Hotfire90]

A

[Blood_Librarian]

bay beee

[mightymushroom]

A

[Rockeater]

Are we sure we even want to use it.

[Haspen]

Soon, but not now! You're a busy man after all.

1172 AD, Winter

Gems, as well as parts of gold and silver arrive in your Treasury.

4

The glasswares sold for some coin, but its quality has been praises by noblemen and merchants alike.

A cold winter night like any other, you hold your little Rinilda up, playing with her as she squeals and laughs with you. It is bedtime, and no moon is outside. It would be scary and dark night, but in your arms, Rinilda feels perfectly safe from monsters living under her bed. Still, you're sure Ruberta will be angry at you two for staying up this long, but ain't Rinilda your most precious thing?

You hold her up and then put her down, and then up again, before you realize.

Tails

"You're the most precious, yes."

"Daddy?"

"Shush, dearest. I will show you something outside the palace. Come now!"

You pick Rinilda up and quietly leave the chambers, your daughter clutching her beloved doll in her hands. The place you're heading for is ready, prepared by you weeks ago; an old altar, nowadays unused by Pantheonists, and conveniently localized in the royal forest north of the palace.

Yes, that will be the place... this will be the night...

*KZZZZZZTTTT*

You're Empress-Consort Ruberta. It is time to sleep. The matron is dismissed after you two knit another pair of socks for little Rinilda. You can finish your needlework tomorrow.

You check the royal bedroom, but of course Bjern isn't here. You shake your head. Lately he spends whole evenings in the library like some bookworm. That, or maybe he is playing with Rinilda. Again! Does he not understand the little girl needs to sleep, or the giants will come and make her short forever?

But then you enter her bedroom, and notice that the bed is prepared but empty. The straw doll, Rinilda's favorite, is missing. You walk out of the bedroom and grab Ruadh, the bedservant of your husband, by the arm.

"Ruadh? Where's my husband? And Rinilda?"

"I think I saw him take lil' princess somewhere. Uh, towards the kitchens I think?"

A) "A meal this late at night and right before bed? This is strange. Come, help me find these two, Ruadh."
B) "A snack before bed? Hmph. Ruadh, when they come back, tell them to see me at once."

[Criptfeind]

A

[Rockeater]

A

[Chevaleresse]

A

What is wrong with you people?

[Hotfire90]

A

[crazyabe]

A.

[Imic]

A, A, A! What is wrong with you?

[Haspen]

You take Ruadh with you.

Few minutes later, some guards follow you out of the kitchen - neither Bjern nor Rinilda were there.

And few minutes after that, almost entire castle is on its feet.

As the darkness goes deeper in the night, you find yourself in the royal forest. The entire castle has been checked, even after one of gate guards reported that the Emperor demanded to be let out along with Rinilda.

You make your way between the trees, tripping over the roots several times. Is it motherly instinct that guides you into the woods? Or mayhaps something stranger is at the work here?

Just then, you see a flicker of light. Between the trees, amongst some tall and flat rocks. You remember this place; this is an old Pantheonist altar that Bjern once talked about.

And indeed, soon the candlelight passes close enough to the man's face to assure you it is your husband. And the kid sitting on the stone, no doubt it is little Rinilda. What is he doing here? Since when does he perform rituals? Why all this secrecy, too?

You have a bad feeling about this.

You sneak closer, almost wanting to shout out to your husband, on other hand, you dare not to. You're just behind the last tree before the glade with the altar, when you see a white glint of metal in Bjern's hand! Is that a knife!?

A) I must stop him!!
B) What is he doing??

[Chevaleresse]

A

[Hotfire90]

A

[Imic]

A