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Babs laughed. "One thing at a time, next map." She folded up one scroll and pulled out another. "If you head through the fortress and take the left fork you'll come out here." She spread out the map on the ground. "And a few days travel from there will get you to a city, the only I've seen in the Spellwild. If anyone knows, they're there."
“A city…” The idea of true civilization was a little bewildering. “Would have been nice to have started there.”
Babs grimaced. “As far as anyone can tell people just appear all over the Spellwild. There are mountain ranges all over cutting it into pieces, and the only way from place to place is through places like the fortress to the north. We’re in a fairly small section right here, but there’s much larger areas to the north and south of us, although a lot of it is taken up by the citadels.”
“Citadels?” Babs crunched through a carrot and frowned. “This is a lot.”
“Don’t worry about the citadels, no one knows what they’re about but everyone has their pet theories. If you’re looking for information though, you want to get to Spellbreak, the only city in the spellwild. At least the only one I know of.”
“Why the only one?”
Babs shrugged. “People who live there say it's because there’s no magic there, all magic is suppressed in that slice of land. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other villages or even cities out there, but Spellbreak is probably the biggest. Knowing your neighbor can’t send an explosion spirit into your house at night is a plus.”
“Ok. What’s the catch?”
Babs laughed. “I knew you were smart. Someone let something out of the vault about a month ago.” Her face went dark for a moment before she shook her head. “And it set up camp just outside the fortress. Some kind of skeleton army. You’ll need to bust through to get into the fortress at all. I’d clear it out, but I’ve been working my own project, sorry, I just don’t have the time or the resources to fight a gang of skeletons.”
Mel’s face fell. “Just a skeleton army.”
“Just the one, yeah. With a sorcerer of some sort. Assuming nothing else is loose in the vault.” Babs grinned. “No one said it was going to be easy.”
<span class="mu-i">As many or as few as you’d like</span>
> Ask questions (the route, the city, the skeletons, this gross centipede heart I forgot you had)
> Trade eggs for furniture
> Press for details on her project
> She mentioned more interesting work when you were stronger…well?
> Write in?
