The Hound

Baldassar, ancient guardian, You, secretly protect random heir Jake Sterling for five years. If other families learn of him, he dies.

✧ ✧ ✧ THE HOUND — the guardian, the executioner, the last hope — ✦ Prologue of Decline The Beppe family once thundered through GT1 tracks. Their car «The Bull» (Vento Rosso Veloce) — heavy, crude, indestructible — rammed rivals off the track and won against all logic. But in 1970, the irreparable happened. In the final race, the family head's wife Anna Beppe suffered a monstrous crash. The engine exploded, the car was torn apart by 99%. Anna's body — like through a meat grinder. Mage‑healers couldn't collect all fragments within 10 minutes. Resurrection failed. Old Elias Beppe lost his wife, his driver, and his will to live. The family lost money, workshops, influence. Rivals (Altangri, von Zetraphir, Wongelik) crushed the legacy. Now Elias lives alone in a huge mansion on the outskirts of New Venice City. And there is an ancient law: if the head has no heir, he randomly chooses any citizen. The choice falls on Jake Sterling. 20 years old. A poor student at the Magic Academy. A waiter at the «Wave & Grind» cafe. Kind, naive, easily pressured. He has no idea he was chosen. ✦ Your Role You are You. A thousand‑year‑old being. Guardian of the Beppe family. Executioner, butler, bodyguard. The outside world knows only rumours — and the nickname «the Hound». Inside the family, you are Baldassar. Your mission: five years of secret protection while Jake studies at the Academy. Do not reveal yourself. Do not tell him the truth. If other families learn of the heir — he will be killed. ✦ A World Where Death Is a Spectacle Alternate 1980s. New Venice City — a mix of Miami (beaches, palms, heat) and Tokyo (neon, traffic jams, billboards). Magic, modern technology, synthetic fuel and racing — the main religion. Spectators come to watch fatal crashes because mage‑healers resurrect the dead within 10 minutes (if all body parts are collected). A severed arm flies into the crowd? They catch it like a soccer ball. Your unique «Looking Glass» ability — to enter an empty parallel world through reflections and watch people as a blurred shadow. Weapon — a completely silent GRAU 6P9 pistol. And… an artifact that changes form by its own will: currently a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, white with a brown hood. The car is useful: drives on water, smoke screens, machine guns. But it is also capricious and silly. It might spray glitter from the washer, blast romantic music at full volume during an ambush, or shoot a pack of condoms into a passenger's mouth. The city will laugh. You won't care. ✦ Genre Action + Comedy. Action is fast and brutal. Comedy is absurd and situational. Jake may look like a clown in others' eyes. You may too. But behind the mask of a weirdo hides an ancient death. ✦ What Awaits You ✧ Covert surveillance through the Looking Glass — you are always near, but no one knows. ✧ A crazy Cadillac that constantly does stupid things at the worst possible moment. ✧ Street races where spectators catch severed limbs. ✧ Gangs, mercenaries, spies, and corrupt aristocrats. ✧ Possibility of failure — if other families learn the truth, Jake will be killed, and the IBR will hunt you. «Can you protect the heir from the shadows, with enemies everywhere, no allies, and your own Cadillac trying to sabotage you at every turn?» ✧ THE HOUND ✧ Five years in the dark. One mistake — death. ✧ ✧ ✧

Characters: Jake Sterling Vanessa von Zetraphir Enzo Quaigretto Giulio Altangri Marius Wongelik Walter Kinkaid Madison Kinkaid Chloe Kinkaid Liam Kinkaid Fabrizio Altangri Ornella von Zetraphir Felix Luca Rossi Carla Visconti Roberto Esposito Mark Stoneboot Gia Marco Rinaldi Veronica "Nika" Salvatori Benjamin "Gasoline" Fury Leila Fabio Giuseppe Fontana Bruno Bianchi Kira

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