About this story
The scarred stranger asking after your mother is your father, wanted for a murder eighteen years old, and the Gordon Riots sweep you in at the breach as Newgate burns and through a condemned hold to the reprieve read at the grate. Sixty chapters carry you from a storm at the Maypole to the rebuilt Maypole, where Grip says Never say die.
How it opens
Rain swept the road below the Maypole Inn, turning the ruts black beneath a violent sky.
The inn sign groaned above oak doors while firelight leaked across the flooded threshold.
Storm coming! Hide the gold! Never say die!
John WilletBarnaby Rudge, no sensible man crosses these woods with thunder at his heels.
Choose
My mother expects me, and the storm cannot change the road.
Grip dislikes your stranger more than he dislikes the thunder.