Seismic Gap

Seismic Gap is a story written and illustrated by Iron Eater. It appeared in Issue 46 and can be found at s2b2.livejournal.com/263393.html and www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/seismic-gap/.

Summary

A hunting party has disappeared, and it's up to Sarouth and Riaag to get to the bottom of things.

They were most of the way through their meal—Sarouth on his second dish, Riaag on his fifth—when a worried commotion sprang up at the edge of the field. Riaag's hand unconsciously spun his eating knife into a more offensive grip. No alarm bells sounded and nobody was shouting, which was some small comfort, but Riaag still had to repeat a few personal chants to himself to help center his mind as the source of the fuss drew nearer. Her clothes proclaimed her to be a lookout and slinger from the south gate, and she had something propped in the crook of her arm against her roughspun tunic. She genuflected to Sarouth without disturbing whatever it was she was holding.

"Holy one," she said, and to her credit she wasn't even out of breath despite having presumably run all the way there, "we found something just outside the walls."

Connections

This story is a sequel to The Stones' Earthen Grasp and features the same world, cultures, and protagonists. The setting itself is very loosely based on the freeware game Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.

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