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Plunge into Darkness
The city known as Kakao can be seen near the slopes of the icy Narew mountains. Seen at a distance, it seems to take the appearance of a fairly rigid pyramid constructed out of giant rectangular blocks. Constructed from stone and iron, Kakao's larger buildings are factories for mass-producing the city's specialty; chocolate delicacies. A market is set up here to exchange money or chocolate for other goods.
Yet things haven't been too sweet in the city as of late. After a young woman came into town to sell her ball-jointed dolls to the young female community, the children had become vacant. Despite being the cheerful sort of children who are impossible to contain once they've had their fill of sweets, all of the young girls slowly became distanced from everyone else, only giving attention to their little dolls, designed to look exactly like their owners.
The doll maker soon left the city, headed towards the Narew chain. A week later, the girls began disappearing, one by one. Despite efforts to increase the patrols and keep the children within the city limits, they still manage to slip through the security in some way or another. Each one seemed to follow the doll maker in her trail towards the mountains for some unspoken reason. Bewitched, the parents assumed as they formed search parties to recover their children. Alas, the frozen mountains were nigh impassable to common housewives and factory workers.
In the city hall, the parents of the missing girls gathered to decide how to recover their children. The vote was unanimous; send out fliers and attempt to draw adventurers and others more suitable to extreme conditions to rescue their girls. The profit from the chocolate sales would be more than enough to offer as reward money.
The fliers attracted one adventurer in general.
His yellowish attire beneath his light blue coat and his long, red hair tied near the bottom made the young man stand out among the crowd. After all, who in the right mind would live in these parts and wear such short pants and have short sleeves in this chilled weather? As this outsider walked across the new snow that had fallen naught an hour ago, he was staring at a creased sheet of paper, hoping that this was the right town. If he found the town, then the last known location of his lost sister was close by.
"Don't worry, Kyria," he whispered under his breath, a faint white cloud escaping his lips, "I'll find you soon."
The city known as Kakao can be seen near the slopes of the icy Narew mountains. Seen at a distance, it seems to take the appearance of a fairly rigid pyramid constructed out of giant rectangular blocks. Constructed from stone and iron, Kakao's larger buildings are factories for mass-producing the city's specialty; chocolate delicacies. A market is set up here to exchange money or chocolate for other goods.
Yet things haven't been too sweet in the city as of late. After a young woman came into town to sell her ball-jointed dolls to the young female community, the children had become vacant. Despite being the cheerful sort of children who are impossible to contain once they've had their fill of sweets, all of the young girls slowly became distanced from everyone else, only giving attention to their little dolls, designed to look exactly like their owners.
The doll maker soon left the city, headed towards the Narew chain. A week later, the girls began disappearing, one by one. Despite efforts to increase the patrols and keep the children within the city limits, they still manage to slip through the security in some way or another. Each one seemed to follow the doll maker in her trail towards the mountains for some unspoken reason. Bewitched, the parents assumed as they formed search parties to recover their children. Alas, the frozen mountains were nigh impassable to common housewives and factory workers.
In the city hall, the parents of the missing girls gathered to decide how to recover their children. The vote was unanimous; send out fliers and attempt to draw adventurers and others more suitable to extreme conditions to rescue their girls. The profit from the chocolate sales would be more than enough to offer as reward money.
The fliers attracted one adventurer in general.
His yellowish attire beneath his light blue coat and his long, red hair tied near the bottom made the young man stand out among the crowd. After all, who in the right mind would live in these parts and wear such short pants and have short sleeves in this chilled weather? As this outsider walked across the new snow that had fallen naught an hour ago, he was staring at a creased sheet of paper, hoping that this was the right town. If he found the town, then the last known location of his lost sister was close by.
"Don't worry, Kyria," he whispered under his breath, a faint white cloud escaping his lips, "I'll find you soon."
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I thought it was Maximillian who was here?)