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Barkept

Name: Barkept
Rating: 4.66 (176 reviews)
Author: TurkeyBlock

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Synopsis

Sellas’s first memories are of a bar. Empty tables, dusty cupboards, a few days alone, and a knight that cuts off her head.

Sufficed to say, there are some issues.

Still, life’s not all bad. The knight soon leaves, and every night, the bar restocks its shelves— there’s bread, and alcohol, and…

Well, no, that’s about it. She’d leave if she could, but that doesn’t seem to be an option.

Trapped in a single, open-floorplan room and tethered to a few dozen meters out the door — Sellas waits, lives, and levels.

She is…

The [Barkeeper]

A stand-alone sister story to Tethered.

Cover’s door is a free-use image by Cullybarbosa on Pixabay

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