DUNGEON - BELLMARE ENCLAVE (BELLMARE MOUNTAINS, PT 2)

[phantasmods]

The shadows are starting to grow very long as you crest his particular ridge - it's not night yet, but it will be soon. In the shadows of the afternoon, with a tall mountain already blocking the sun, lies a snow-covered valley that is different from the ones you've come across thus far in your investigation.

This valley is home to a town, and unlike all the settlements you've seen so far - Incendia, the Telovia mining town, and the manor - it's very much active. There are actual people in the streets, visible from above, going through their days on snow-free streets, bundled up against the cold.

Those of you who asked were told of the handful of people who didn't go into the slumber of stasis as the Fissure conditions of the world grew worse and worse, instead isolating themselves and trying to continue living their lives as they could. Now, it seems, you've found exactly such a group.

Welcome to the Bellmare Enclave, and enjoy your stay.

[[OOC: Welcome to part 2 of the dungeon! For the most part, interaction with the town's NPCs can be handwaved as described on the main information post. Worth noting are the following major things: The Bellmare Enclave isn't expecting visitors, though the people are generally friendly to the new arrivals. They don't know about the time dilation effect of their Fissure - to them, it's only been about eighteen years since the Slumber Plan was put in place and they withdrew from the world. And finally, by a similar token, they have no idea how far the Fissures outside of their own have grown - while it's not uncommon for them to find odd objects from time to time, they'll assume that the characters are just arrivals from other places within their own world, rather than outsiders, until told otherwise.]]

Comments

[splendidandhonest]

A town in the sort of place that doesn't tend to have towns. All traces of civilization prior to now have been abandoned. No, there has to be a unique reason for this place, I'm sure of it! ... But. Burgers. I suppose that's useful...

[ponyup]

I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of towns in places like this, if my experience in previous dimensions is anything to go by.

Now the existence of great burgers in a town like this? That's a mystery.

[splendidandhonest]

I suppose I simply got used to believing this world was abandoned, save for our presence. ... You're really hung up on the food here, aren't you?

[ponyup]

Dude, do you know how long it's been since I've had a proper burger?

There might be a little bias though, considering the appetite I've worked up on the way up here. I should've packed more food.

[splendidandhonest]

I couldn't even be able to guess, honestly. [Hrm.] I suppose I could try it at least. I don't have to eat, but I can appreciate things that are well made.

[ponyup]

You don't... have to eat?

[splendidandhonest]

... Yes? I'm a robot, miss. My internal power source produces exponential amounts of energy. I'd get only an infinitesimal fraction of power from the act of digestion... nowhere near enough to power a robotic body.

[ponyup]

You're a what now?

[splendidandhonest]

... [Sigh.] [It'd be better to just show her. Brain drops his camouflage and appears in front of Summer in his true form: the golden, large-headed robot now sitting before her.]

[ponyup]

[ See icon ]

[splendidandhonest]

[And just like that, he changes back.] Do you see what I mean NOW?

[ponyup]

What the HECK!?

[splendidandhonest]

... You're in a mountain village in another dimension eating hamburgers, and this is what you choose to have such an over the top reaction towards?

[ponyup]

I've dealt with other dimensions before, and hamburgers. The only robots I've seen are the androids here or much less advanced stuff, and none of them have some sort of.... shape-shifting or illusionary technology built in!

This is a lot!

[splendidandhonest]

... Yes, well. I suppose I can understand that. But at the same time, I am quite real. As real as you are, in fact.