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Lug dragged his gaze back to the edge of the wood. \u2018What\u2014 who are you?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018A traveller. A friend. I want you to get behind me. Move slowly. Don\u2019t stop looking at it. Then move as I move.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018What if it attacks?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018Do as I say!\u2019 and Lug did, unable to refuse the command. The speaker was half a foot taller than him, the side and back of his head hidden by the hood of his studded leather cloak. He carried a heavy pack on his back. One hand rested inside the cloak, probably on a weapon. The rest of the details were lost in the twilight.<\/em><\/p>\n The Pilgrim Stranger appears in the short story ‘Alms and the Beast’ by James Wallis, published in The New Hero: Vol 2.<\/em><\/p>\n James Wallis<\/strong> is a games designer and author with fourteen books under his belt. He’s best known as the founder\/director of Hogshead Publishing Ltd, the largest publisher of role-playing games in the UK in the 1990s, but he’s also been a TV presenter, magazine editor and Sunday Times journalist, a university lecturer and an award-winning graphic designer. Previous fiction includes titles for the Black Library, Puffin Books and Virgin Publishing, and his game designs include the storytelling games Once Upon a Time and The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. These days he runs the games consultancy Spaaace and lives in London with his wife and 1d4-1 children. You can read about James’ New Hero here<\/a>.<\/p>\n All New Hero artwork by Gene Ha<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Stone Skin Press Kickstarter and more information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lug dragged his gaze back to the edge of the wood. \u2018What\u2014 who are you?\u2019 \u2018A traveller. A friend. I want you to get behind me. Move slowly. Don\u2019t stop looking at it. Then move as I move.\u2019 \u2018What if…<\/span><\/p>\n