Frozen Frontier Prequel: A Grimy Heart

Recap
Year: 1495 Season: Summer

Marri (around age 15) is now known as Grimes in the underworld. It is a hot summer day in the small settlement of Rockslide to the to the south-west of Wikkthronrarenta, the Capital City of Drekis. Grimes is still pretending to be a chimney sweep like his father Dichard, but secretly works for the crime syndicate "The Family" as a "2nd Storey Man". Dichard is much healthier now that he had a good supply of medicine, now imported from Akuba.

Grimes and Dichard head into Wikkthronrarenta in the heat. They spit up once inside the city and do their routes. Grimes meets with an equal in the crime family, "Cousin" Allen, who tells him that 'Grandpa' wants to see him, a elder in the crime syndicate.

Allen takes Grimes to the nice part of town and into a wine cellar. Allen waits outside as Grimes goes down. The is a muscular foreign man at the bottom of the stairs. He escorts Grimes though the wine cellar. Grimes arrives at a card table. At the table are 2 people, an gentleman, "Grandpa", in his 70s and a lady, "Auntie Esmeralda", in her 40s. Esmeralda motions Grimes to takes the empty seat. The two people seem only slightly foreign, Esmeralda appears to have some elven ancestry and the man has a slightly foreign complexion.

Auntie Esmeralda explains the assignment. A tour guide who shows tourists the mountain Wikk Lamdo has made a fatal error of some kind, and Grimes is asked to make sure the error is indeed fatal.

''21min into Part 1. To be continued - McTacky''