The last time we left our anti-hero and SCVM was when he had just found the bones of his employer’s son. At least he took revenge on the wyvern by wrecking it but still, there was the little unfortunate bit of having to tell the boss his son was dead.
Well it didn’t go over very well. Despondent and nearly catatonic the lord ordered him back to Grift to find the family gravemound and bring him the bones of the child’s mother, so that he may kick off this armageddon early by mass exodus of him and his people… but with the remains of his family. Usk initially was inclined to just… fuck off and not do it, but something enticed him after a lifetime of being a terrible human being that this may be his… redemption?
Well at least a drop in the bucket.
Without too much trouble he arrived in Grift, but then Usk realized the gravemound’s location was little fuzzy to say the least. Instructions were: past the library, past the church, bypass the Lord Goodall’s mansion then just past the market. Seemed straightforward enough. Well it got pretty weird from there. In Rorschach’s journal style: