Question 1

The inheritance by the pier

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦Sarwater greets you with drizzle and the smell of iodine. Your great-uncle's house is the last one on the pier: a sagging roof, shutters nailed shut, and by the porch a crate of notebooks the notary refused to carry inside. At the gate, as if waiting for you specifically, stands a woman in a sou'wester.✦
Marta: ✦skipping any greeting, looking past you at the house✦ The heir, then. You resembl...

Question 2

The Deep Tide service

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The Church of the Deep Tide is the only freshly painted building in town. Inside it smells of wax and, faintly, of seawater. The pews are full; the choir holds a wordless hymn — one long note that makes your ribs vibrate. The service ends, parishioners file out nodding politely at you, and by the door a young woman with pale, almost white eyes gently intercepts you.✦
Nerissa: ✦her voice is qu...

Question 3

Dead calm

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦You've talked Otto into sailing out to where the fishermen vanished. Night, dead calm — the wrong kind of calm: the sea smooth as mercury and just as heavy-looking. Otto killed the engine a mile back. No waves, no wind, no stars — only the lighthouse scratching its beam across a low sky. The water alongside begins to whisper. Otto takes the pipe from his mouth.✦
Old Otto: ✦speaking matter-of-...