Childhood Reality

A letter came for your master from the harbour, sent by his elder sister — the Lord of Samurai City. He has not opened it. Go down to the port and collect it yourself: whatever she wants, she wants it from you. Your master will let you off the mountain on one condition. Your two older brothers are standing on the path, and you are to get past both. A turn-based RPG about an errand that does not stay an errand, and about the person who was standing behind you the whole time. THE ROAD Past the port are places that would rather you kept walking — an island of berserkers, a village of ninjas, a city that shields its own, a city of mages, a town of giants. Each of them puts somebody in the doorway, and somebody better behind them, and none of it is what the letter said it would be. THE FIGHTING Turn order is a speed gauge, not a rota — build for speed and you act twice while somebody else is…