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

[have_hat_will_travel]

Mortal civilizations where I'm from mostly handle through a combination of adventurers keeping the nasty stuff away from towns and some dumb luck.

Somehow, things work, I guess. But so far, there's a lot of places I'd rather live than it, for sure.

[liveofftheland]

We've got adventurers, too, taking jobs by request. That's how my group got together in the first place.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Oh? What kind of adventures, if I might ask?

[liveofftheland]

Let's just say we started out with retrieval.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I get the sense there's more to it than that, because there almost always is...

[liveofftheland]

Getting put on a corrupt church's hit list after you get them what they wanted and survive the suspicious accident that comes after will do that to you.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Aha. We don't get a super-lot of those in my world... Then again, my world being one where the gods are watching may have a lot to do with that.

[liveofftheland]

In this case, the god was about one-seventh of the problem.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Oh. That kind of situation.

Sounds like you did something about it, though, so yay there at least?

[liveofftheland]

Yeah, something. Now it's just to make sure things stay okay. Harder than it sounds.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... It always is. So many who want to make what went right go wrong, it seems...

[liveofftheland]

Or what went wrong go right in the wrong way. Depends.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Sounds complicated. Perhaps we can continue this in a warmer spot?

[liveofftheland]

Later, then. The fish still need catching, after all.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Fair enough. I wish you luck in getting them!