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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-12-19 11:39 pm

DUNGEON - BELLMARE ENCLAVE (BELLMARE MOUNTAINS, PT 2)

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.]]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2019-01-04 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Heart moves quickly, as Ardyn drops. No time to contemplate what he just saw and no real desire to, right now. Not when the present reality is right in front of him. So Heart crouches down next to Ardyn, carefully, gently, reaching over and putting a hand on his shoulder.]

Ardyn...

[First, he needs to know... not if Ardyn is okay, because honestly, of course he isn't. But just, exactly, where he's at right now.]
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[personal profile] burninglight 2019-01-04 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Ardyn flinched under Heart's hand, curling in on himself further.]

...not going back. I'm not, I'm not--
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[personal profile] myocordial 2019-01-04 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
You're not.

[Heart goes further now, bringing Ardyn into a full embrace, because otherwise it just doesn't feel like enough.]

You're not there and you never will be again. We would never allow that. I'd burn anyone who tried into nothing.

You're right here, Ardyn.
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[personal profile] burninglight 2019-01-04 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Ardyn took a shaking breath and slowly pried his hands way from his head, trying to bring himself back to the present and not acknowledge they were in another relatively confined area.]

S-...sorry. I didn't-...want anyone to see that, I-I--