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

[hardbargain]

Yeah, I know. How d'you think I got this fucked up?

I guess he did kinda take most of it back though. [He's really not sure how much power or whose is in him right now. Is it still the ring? Izunia? Regis? Well... probably not Regis because he'd been dead when Nyx was dying so that power had been cut.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

He kept telling me not to put the damn thing on. Ardyn, I mean. I keep telling him, there's no way that kinda power reaches to a whole 'nother universe to burn me up, but he won't hear it.

[hardbargain]

If there's any other choice why the hell would you? I mean... this leg's shattered and I had, have I guess, two hollow points in my gut. There was literally nothing for me to lose.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, I mean, if the magic were actually alive and active, yeah, that'd be a last resort, but I genuinely don't think if I put it on here it'd do anything but be a nice way to make some asshole lose a few teeth.

[hardbargain]

I feel like testing that theory on someone perfectly alive and well is a bad idea.

[Now someone that's half dead already...]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Which is why I promised him I'd never put it on. At least, not to prove him wrong. I get it, fire, pain, death, prices, but I apparently don't have any healthy fear of any of those things.

[hardbargain]

Prices that are death. and yet...

[Here he is. Alive. Sort of.]

If Izunia isn't in the ring though I wonder who they'd defer to for judgement.

[And Regis isn't either so no one to vouch for him this time. Oh but he's so curious now. Shit.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Doesn't really matter, does it? They were all duped by their big nasty dumbass vindictive gods, so I mean, one would hope maybe that would sway 'em to be kinder.

[hardbargain]

The astrals are powerful beings sure but not everyone considers them gods, y'know.

Some of us are smarter than that.

Depends on what they know? Last I talked to them none of them really thought poorly of Bahamut. Fucker.

[motherfucking_ghost]

But they were also stuck in a ring for a couple thousand years. Whatever, I don't put it on because he'd have a conniption if I ever tried, and you sure as fuck aren't ever putting it on again.

[hardbargain]

I mean it would test your theory and I'm half dead already.

[Curiosity killed the Coeurl]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah. Exactly the point.

[hardbargain]

[Yeah exactly, they're not losing anything if it kills him.

Are they going to get into a stubborn staring contest now? Is that what's happening here?

That might be what's happening here.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[???? what is with the staring they obviously agree nobody's putting the damn thing on!!!]

[hardbargain]

Fine.

[Grump grump grump

So about that whole reckless idiot thing.]