Bored Ghost

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."     -Mary Oliver In a quiet pond deep in the woods the spirits of drowned women await mortal petitioners who will accept their gifts. Rusalka is still in progress and we were honored that the designer, Nick Wedig, allowed us to share a game with our listeners. The Map:  To the South is the Village. To the North deeper woods. On the south side of the pond is a path, and cutting across it, a barrier between the village and the pond, is a line of crude stone spears set in the ground. Also on the south side, on a finger that juts in, sits a black stump that has been used as a sacrificial altar. On the Eastern bank a massive frog has made a burrow in the mud. In the West the pond has been diverted towards a reflecting pool, once ringed with stones and spanned by a stone bridge supporting a plinth for wedding ceremonies, the pool has fallen to ruins and the water has begun to form a marsh. The Characters