Per reader decision from Ch 11, this post will have Clarke Baysong as the focus point once again. Clarke is a Beast-Kin Wolf Bard and prominent member of the Naysayers, a fairly well-known adventuring group based out of St Almar. If you haven't read Ch 10, Clarke is afflicted by some kind of curse that causes everyone who knows him to forget all about him every 10 years on an anniversary of some event that takes place on the 2nd of Dawnstar.

This story is known as The Guilded Cage (yes, Guilded and not Gilded) and it differs from the prior ones I've presented here because it will be played as a D&D (3.5 edition) campaign at the same time by a group of players.

Interested in helping to guide the campaign? Just keep watch here for more details about The Guilded Cage and opportunities to vote.

Interested in playing as a player? Send me a message and I'll provide you a group invite, as it's not too late! (warning: chat is nsfw). The campaign will feature a variety of characters, both PC and NPC, and will feature a drop-in-drop-out style of participation with games being held on Sundays, 12-4pm (Pacific Time, UTC-7).

Warning: This story may contain adult elements including but not limited to violence, drug use, sex, sexual situations, and profanity.

Updates to the story line here will be infrequent, with more posts if there's more interest in the form of comments and favorites. Post will often be accompanied by a vote, which all readers (but not players involved in the game) may use to help guide events!

So, with that out of the way, let's discuss what the next vote entails:

Relationship within St Almar are often based on individuals integrating into large groups for mutual benefit but the most powerful of relationships are usually reserved for just two people. On which character will we focus the next chapter?

a) It would been enlightening to see the relationship between brother and sister, Aust and Talia Nilo, the High Priest and High Priestess of Norr.
b) The twin Coyote Beast-Kin brothers, Jak and 'Preacher' can get into some pretty crazy hijinx, but they often don't see eye-to-eye.
c) Vincent Bidwell, son of a murdered Tradesman's League leader is almost all alone in the world, all except for his loyal bodyguard, a Beast-Kin Golden Retriever named Kormac.
d) Half-Elves in St. Almar can have a very hard time, but, every now and again, one prospers. Aerlia, a herbalist in the slums is one such half-elf, but that's largely in part to a dear friend of hers.
e) The brotherly love between Jace and his brother Dylan seems to transcend death... perhaps learning a little more about that might be worthwhile.

Voting is now open, but it closes soon.