>>5178996"Why is human complaining? Gunpowder is the one pushing weight!"
"Heh, can't argue with that." You reply to your stallion one night as you hear his thoughts, seeing it as a way to exercise your social muscles for the day.
"Where to?"
"What do you mean, 'Where to?' there's only one path to follow-" You peek your head out the caravan to see what your horse is up to, only to see the road cutting off at two ends. This wasn't even on the map!
At your left, you have a forest with a lot more green to it, the lower altitude makes it very misty to the point where the fog obscures much of the path beyond 10 meters ahead, but you imagine that dense vegetation would accompany you if you were to go on that path. Usually, a wild valley would mean a few more animals like wolves, rabbits or what have you if you were in the world of the past, but nowadays, it could be anything between thieves, occultists, monsters and apostles.
Guts is the Black Swordsman, being hunted day and night by the tidal wave of darkness, so if you do start seeing more bodies and ghouls at night, you can probably guess you're not far behind him. But with so much of this damn fog in the way, how the hell are you supposed to see anything when even your Od sense doesn't know what to make of it?
On your right, you have a tall mountain with several rock formations building upwards into a chain. It's been a while since you've done some rock climbing, but moving vertically with a horse on your back would probably not get you to Albion any faster. The white spots on the summits indicate that snow is already starting to fall on that side, but the fact that you can actually see the path that way is already more inviting.
You've heard a few horror stories from merchants being stuck during a rockslide, but at least you'll have a chance to see it coming if you go that way. They look interconnected enough to the point where you can go up and descend at any point unless you want to stick to the steeper areas. The good thing about mountains is that they can serve as horizontal shortcuts as long as you're willing to waste some time going up and down.
It would give you a better vision the horizon, and knowing where you are at would
do wonders in knowing if the tower is in sight, but the chances of people living there are very low, and you can't afford to get lost on places you can't climb down from. A signpost would be highly appreciated, you know!
Gunpowder does propose you an important question. Where to?
>Left to the windy valley.>Right to the rocky mountains.