”“Wow Gramps, things are really looking up for our family.”Mary Ellen and I enrolled in Mason City High a week before school started. We each do...bled up on our classes, since we both lacked only a few credits to graduate by semester’s end in December.We received our diploma’s, without the fanfare of graduation ceremonies, but our family was there and that was enough for us.We were married at Gramps new house on New Years Eve, 1955. Gramps told us he would pay for our honeymoon at any place we. .."Why couldn't they just want to kill me?" you sigh, wiping the blood off your sword as you walk away from one such encounter. That would indeed be a much easier fate, thanks to recent developments amongst the world's deities.About two-hundred human years ago, a new generation of Gods appeared on the scene, quickly pushing the Old Ones out of the way in terms of popularity. They did this by offering the mortals of the land tangible assistance: none of this "working in mysterious ways" nonsense. . I have a vocabulary. I have multiple career options, one of which I’m working now. So if I formally request to date Sandy...”She smirked. “Dazzling credentials, Matt. And since you already dated Sandy, you’re a bit late.”“Just sorta grew,” he retorted. “And since she’s eighteen...”“Approval of the parents, in many circles, is a death knell for a relationship.”“Sandy’s not one of those,” he said.“Are you serious?” Nina questioned.“Serious enough to hang around a nice girl and find out if SHE’S. One in particular which still makes you cringe but then smile was when you were enjoying a lucrative night after sneaking into a hotel room which ended up belonging to a visiting dignitary from a wealthy world, and relieved her of some exquisite jewelry which fetched a fine price. Later on that night you were celebrating in a fairly upmarket bar and laid eyes of a delicate Elven, who took one look and you and smiled.Long story short you ended up sleeping with them and initially you mistook as a.