Fire Emblem meets BG3 in a steamy RPG

In a world where life and death are carefully packaged and priced, there are jobs that truly test the limits of professional empathy. Meet Rayna, a specialist whose daily task involves looking grieving widows directly in the eye and professionally explaining why their recently deceased spouses don’t qualify for life insurance payouts. It sounds morbid, but Rayna has found a strange, almost meditative joy in the process—recreating a hero’s death, scene by scene, until she locates the precise moment the victim is no longer a problem. For Rayna, finding that moment is the highlight of her day.

However, professional fulfillment takes an abrupt, dramatic turn when the realities of corporate finance collide with Rayna’s pursuit of a perfect day. All of that shifts when her employer, Heroes United Life Group, suddenly faces a payout so enormous it threatens to bring the entire company to its knees. This financial catastrophe, however, cannot be allowed to derail Rayna’s streak of being employee-of-the-month.

When faced with existential financial peril, Rayna didn’t panic. She didn’t call a lawyer. Rayna, in a move that would redefine corporate response, decided to solve the problem herself. Her unconventional solution involved tracking down the source of the death that triggered the massive payout. The logic was clear: if the heroes were so unprepared for battle, they must have simply failed to face the reality of what killed them.

Rayna’s theory was audacious: why not use the experience of the deceased to prove that the original heroes were simply not prepared for the fight? She sought out the actual cause of the demise, determined to use that experience as undeniable proof in the claims process. The outcome, as expected, was a stunning victory: the claim was denied. The world, incidentally, was saved, even if the method of saving it caused a delightful, if slightly unsettling, moment of self-reliance for Rayna.

By Ava Taylor