Glossary: Outs

The first of our Glossary entries, a series of short articles intended to make our scribblings more comprehendable to our gentle readers.

When a hero needs to stop for a drink along the road, he looks for the nearest Out. A likely forerunner of the tea house, it’s the opposite of an inn: there’s no place to sleep and no walls to keep out the breeze. But those are just amenities—it’s less humid than an inn and there’s less infrastructure to break when the fists and swords start flyin’!

The Kung Fu Mechanic holds court in an Out in Five Super Fighters.