The Story
as told at The Dirty BongSteel-toe coat, keys on the hip, name on the post. Misaki holds down The Dirty Bong — the inn at the center of the whole kingdom — while the wild ones roam. Bruno says “come raid,” and she says “baby, don’t joke.” Somebody has to run the place the raiders crawl back to, and somebody has to patch them when they do. That’s her digging: the moat that matters is the one around home.
By midnight she’s several rounds deep, the guild is crunk, bass is in the floorboards and the bottles go clunk. Healers in the back; the front has funk. The Inn stays jumping even when the raid team’s punked.
And once in a blue moon, two shadows roll through the door: Ferver, the warrior with the AI code true — programmer of legend, Bruno’s old crew — and Beaver, the security boss rare as a ghost, who keeps every system clean just by guarding the post. On those nights the tavern goes quiet for exactly one drink. Then the funk resumes.


