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Your name is Shu, and you cannot remember who you were. When you awoke, you were lying in a crater surrounded by bits of metal and slightly aching, with no recollection of your past or how you got there. Your only clue to your past lies in the stars, and the familiar Zodiac of the Rat.

When nearby villagers came to investigate the crash, you learned a little bit about where you were. You are in Still Lake Village, and the locals had originally anticipated a rare material from the "falling star" they saw, called Starmetal. Finding only you, the blacksmith Liu Jin invited you into his house, where he and his granddaughter Ming fed you and told you of the village's plight. A gang of bandits called the Honglang Gang, led by an ex-martial artist named Wong Li, terrorize the countryside and demand weapons and armor as tribute from the village blacksmith.

At that moment, the blacksmith's grandson Shen returned home, boasting of martial training in the city and declaring that he would destroy the Honglang and avenge his slain parents. Recognizing his inexperience, you challenged him and offered alternative solutions to dealing with the Honglang. However, before you could agree on a course of action, the Honglang thugs appeared and took Ming captive, seeking the rumored Starmetal they thought had fallen nearby. Intervening in the conflict, you killed the men with some assistance by Shen, and in the processes managed to remember flickers of prior training.

It seems you were once a man familiar with the martial world, yet there are still many questions about your past that remain unanswered…