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Ah, there you are a travel.

There you are, traveler.

Come inside, hang up your coat, put your feet by the fire, and I shall

bring you what you so desperately see.

Rood Tales of Magic.

Previously on Rood of magic, our heroes encountered and then fled the horrific demon Kevin.

Before he was absorbed by the shambling terror, Alby's brother gave them one clue as to the whereabouts of Alby's parents,

something about an inn in the nearby soaking valley, a true rat hole of a dive called The Delighted Wife.

After two days of recuperating without leaving your rooms, you awake to find yourselves refreshed

and maybe even a little eager to get a move on.

All of you that is, except you, Albie.

You've spent your time in the delighted wife mourning and meditating, barely speaking to anyone.

But you awake now to find yourself alone in a vast field that stretches as far as the horizon.

Hello? that stretches as far as the horizon.

Hello?

Hello? Nothing answers.

Oh, um, I'm, uh, I'm nervously trotting along, I'm running and I'll run pretty far in one direction and then just sort of wait and listen and I don't hear anything.

Cool, do you do like a perception check?

Yeah, 10.

All right, you look directly in front of you and you don't know how you missed it, but there is a vast and for some reason familiar looking mountain staring right back at you. You can't tell why but you can tell it's looking at you.

Hello?

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