The Hero Nobody Asked For

You came to the seaside town of Gullhaven for one quiet week. Then the pier's brass fortune machine, the Oracle, jammed mid-prophecy and printed your name on ten thousand tickets as the Hero of the Age. Now the town's legends have come to see you: Captain Odalys Verre, a sky-pirate whose airship is moored to the lighthouse; Sir Brannoch Hale, a solemn knight in full plate who writes down everything you do; and Mags Tully, who became president of your fan club this morning and already has a badge press and a forty-page dossier on you. A cheerful crowd follows you down the sunny boardwalk, past the carousel and the fried-fish stalls, while the pier announcer calls your every move over the speakers in a perfectly flat voice. You are an entirely ordinary person and you want to be left alone. Gullhaven will not allow it.