Weather / Adventure Zone

[theextras]

It's hard to believe that only a few weeks ago the city was deep in bone-chilling snow. The city is in the grips of a pleasant spring: warm days, cool nights, crisp winds and all the flowers blooming. The trees boast tender green leaves and the sky is bright blue with puffy, fast-moving clouds.

Since the collapse of the Matterhorn Ice Queen's Lair, the northern section of the city has been shrouded in the same gray, impenetrable fog that had originally obscured the zone.

Today it is blown away by the stiff spring wind. The land to the north of the bridge is hills rising to mountains, forested, filled with clear lakes and rushing streams.

Near the bridge, there is a cabin that serves as a trading post, and is the only immediately visible structure or sign of human habitation.

The leather-faced Extra inside the crammed store is happy to sell you gold-panning equipment, backpacks, tents, fishing or trapping gear... he might even, maybe, have a huntin' rifle available. If you ask nice.

He also warns of bear in the high country, of caves he calls 'Indian burial grounds!' with spooky paintings on the walls, and says that sure enough, there's one of them wendy-gos around somewhere, yessir. You know. One of them Bigfoot things. Still, it's the best time of year to see the high country, wildflowers bloomin' an' all.

Y'all be careful goin' in now.

Comments

[video]

[kings_fool]

"Aw man. There go my polar bear fantasies. Let a guy down gently, won't you?"

His amusement fades at the mention of Logan. "....uh. Yeah. I ... know who he is. Um. I guess I get what you mean."

[video]

[genequeen]

Madelyne notes the reaction and gives a gentle smile, "We're not all like Logan. He can be hard to take."

[video]

[kings_fool]

Jeremy puffs up his cheeks with air, lets out a breath.

"I, uh... Yeah. Guess so. He wake on the wrong side of Canada, or something?"

[video]

[genequeen]

"Canada and everywhere else. I don't know many people who have had as hard of a life as he has," she offers. Jeremy doesn't understand what that says coming from Madelyne but the comment is obviously genuine.

[video]

[kings_fool]

"I guess," Jeremy says with a little shrug. He's not going to argue.

"So you spent most of your life in Alaska, or...?"