In your possesion you hold a thing long wooden cylinder that you had assumed to be some kind of scroll case for coded messages but as you try to find out how to open it, you discover it to be strange dagger. It was designed to slip into it's sheath without leaving a seam but in doing so left it without a guard to speak of nor did it have anything that could offer grip in the hilt. Clearly it was something dangerous in the hands of the untrained. You've never seen anything like this in China before but you can surmise that the size and design of the blade was made for it to be hidden on one's person. You quietly slide it into your pocket. You could decide what to do with it later. That aside, you dig a bit more to see if you can find anything else of use. Renshu's clothes don't fit you but you do manage to find a cloak you think that would work. You try it on, attempting to ignore the feelings that arose when you found out it still slightly smelled like him. For Renshu, the cloak would have probably worked perfectly, but for someone of your height and width it only fell to waist length. It would still suffice to conceal your identity and keep you warm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juORAXpgb_MPulling the hood over your head, you step out into the night. The moonlight gave the ruins a haunting atmosphere as you traveled among the bodies of the dead. The scene reminds you of the first ruins you found and you wonder if the dead will rise to attack you. Just one last foolish notion in hopes of bringing the city back to life somehow. You walk past the markets, the homes, and the gates before you come to the entrance of the cave. You light a torch and hold it aloft as it banishes the darkness if only in a small radius before you enter the caves and onwards to your next journey.
>Where do you go?>Home. Back to the Jade Palace. There is nothing for you here anymore and you no longer wish to travel. Your quest has ended in failure and your friends are gone. Perhaps you simply want a place where you can sit and think. >Taishi. You promised you'd go back there for new years. The promise no longer holds real meaning to you anymore. Not without the others. Still, you could hold hope that they made their way there.>Go to some other mountain range. You did promise you would build a home there. Maybe you should keep that promise and stop adventuring. There will always be other heroes and you think that maybe you should rest for a while, if only to honor their memories.>There was a town nearby. Perhaps they could hold the answers you seek. If anyone escaped here, it would be the first place to go to.>Write in. 