Episode: Something Stirring
Posted by Story on 12/16/18
It's a peaceful evening around Arx. The sun is setting, snow is falling, and the entire city is draped in a blanket of white. Guards are patrolling the city, citizens are settling in for their evening meals, and everything is perfectly normal.
And yet many people find themselves feeling unusually absent-minded this evening.
Crafters find it hard to focus on their commissions, as though it's hard to remember precisely what the design they were working on was. Guards on patrol find themselves retracing their steps, trying to remember if they've already walked this part of their beat. People out trying to buy goods before the market closes find themselves struggling to remember just what it was they came for.
And then a rumor begins to spread through the city: the snow falling near the Great Archive is /different/. For rather than a pure, pristine white, the flakes that are falling there have a greenish-black look to them, like something diseased.
Or perhaps... something Poisoned.
Whatever the cause, the strangely tainted snow soon begins to spread across the rest of the city.
And yet many people find themselves feeling unusually absent-minded this evening.
Crafters find it hard to focus on their commissions, as though it's hard to remember precisely what the design they were working on was. Guards on patrol find themselves retracing their steps, trying to remember if they've already walked this part of their beat. People out trying to buy goods before the market closes find themselves struggling to remember just what it was they came for.
And then a rumor begins to spread through the city: the snow falling near the Great Archive is /different/. For rather than a pure, pristine white, the flakes that are falling there have a greenish-black look to them, like something diseased.
Or perhaps... something Poisoned.
Whatever the cause, the strangely tainted snow soon begins to spread across the rest of the city.