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

[burninglight]

Insomnian technology certainly is a thing all its own. Suppose that's what happens when a whole city's the only real flourishing part of the kingdom.

[Ardyn leaned over to frown thoughtfully at the control panel, evaluating it.]

Not that Niflheim was much better. At least people could live outside the capital in Lucis.

[photoshooter]

W-was it really that bad everywhere? I didn't see much of the country...

[burninglight]

It was never the most habitable of countries. Mostly desert, more extreme than what you'd find in Leide. After the little incident some decades ago, they traded desert sand for ice and snow. I imagine some people may have made a living in places like this town, but the vast majority of the population lived in Gralea.

[photoshooter]

...Guess I can see why they wanted all those other countries. They were all so beautiful.

[...]

You've been to Tenebrae, right? What's it like there?

[burninglight]

Briefly, a time or two.

[...]

It was nice. Bit warmer, it's close to the small part of Niflheim that's not frozen over. Fair climate for plantlife, too.

[photoshooter]

Oh, we... we don't have to talk about it. Sorry.

[burninglight]

No, it's...it's okay. Sorry.

[photoshooter]

...

[Prompto just looks at him a while, then snorts, shakes his head, and changes the subject anyway.]

If you find any usable fuses, we gotta replace the one in the chairlift, like, yesterday. Riding up here was like the--I dunno, maybe the seventeeth-scariest thing I've done in a while.

[burninglight]

...Seventeenth, huh? That does sound dire. Should be easy enough to put something together, though.