MAY MINGLE

[stellafortunamods]

May Mingle: Entombed City
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Everyone's hard work resulted in the gate to upper Dragonspine opening. These ruins have not been traversed in years, if not centuries - everything within has been lost to time and living memory. An entire city has been buried in the snow.

People once lived there. The broken buildings host damaged furniture and weathered streets. There are various cloth-covered mounds in a house here and there, accompanied by a sprig of blue flowers. Someone has laid these people to rest after they passed away.

Traces of technology can be found in the city - golden boxes that contain crystals capable of recording and playing back holograms. One of the boxes introduces this place as Vindagnyr; a land once full of greenery and life. Just what happened to these people? What caused the eternal winter?

The highest point in the city is occupied by a temple built into a Domain. Within the Domain is a pale white tree, split in half by a strange object that has fallen through the Domain's ceiling. This temple was once a site for worship for Vindagnyr's people, and even in death they continue to pray for salvation. The priests have been frozen in ice, and the sheer cold emanating from the Skyfrost Nail makes it obvious that it is the cause of winter.

The city's inhabitants worshipped Celestia. Why then were they left to die?

State of the World

On October 1st, the entombed city of Vindagnyr becomes open for exploration. Travelers can choose to look for clues or try to scavenge the city for ancient materials or tools. Recording boxes all around the city tell stories of Vindagnyr's greener past, and of the days when winter suddenly arrived. This is the cruelty of Celestia that Forneus wished you to see.

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Comments

[poisontippedcure]

["A few minutes, at least" sounds like code for "I will forget how long I am out here and risk bodily injury." Rose is not going to let that happen as long as she can help it. Sorry, Rean, but you're stuck with company.]

[Even if you are asking her the hard questions. The more she thinks about it, the more this scene reminds her of returning to the Waking Sands. The day she found all of her friends murdered. How did she get past it then?]

I have. Enough so that this scene feels almost familiar.

[It's clear that some care has been taken in treating the bodies with respect. That much is good, at least.]

But to tell you the truth, I'm not sure. The first time it happened, I was to stunned to register anything. I was too afraid.

[sufferean]

[Rean is in no state to make her go away, so for now, he's accepted this fate. ...It's better than some of the other ones he's had to accept. Aside from the whole reason he's here in the first place, naturally, but.]

...heh. [There is, of course, zero mirth to that.] I guess it's to be expected.

I've seen things sort of like this, too, but... never with the bodies just still here. It was either completely empty, or there were still people alive to pick up the pieces.

But even then... I've never known how to react, either. I just keep stumbling forward until I'm given a goal to grasp.

[...]

I guess he's given us one. Forneus, I mean. Overthrowing them. And... it's not that I don't want to. I can't condone what we've just seen. But...

They're so much bigger than us. I don't even know where to begin.