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

[founderinglight]

Yes - it's a pity Junpei isn't here, I fear you would have gotten along far too well. He's Ardyn's adopted son and the original owner of the name.

[Ardyn just kind of collects children it's fine.]

[hardbargain]

This is a thing with you two isn't it?

[Lucis Caelum Adpotions, Inc. Regis is going to do it too, isn't he? Serpent curse his luck.]

[founderinglight]

I only adopted one grandchild!

[And Prompto, if you want to count him.]

Just one!

[hardbargain]

uh-huh.... sure

[Look he was out of it but not so out of it that he missed that accusation from Jet.]

[founderinglight]

...And a younger brother but that's hardly the same thing.

[Everything else he just ran with after someone else adopted them. Or smooched them.]

It's not like I had a small family before that, and Ardyn is intent on spreading his branches as far outward as I have downward. I am supposed to not consider his children family?

[hardbargain]

Look I'm just sayin if you've gotta defend it this much then it's a thing, okay.

I've got no room to talk me'n Libertus were 15 when we took Crowe in and just decided she was our sister.