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[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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Angeal is fine, I promise. [He laughs.] To explore, isn't that right?

[Carolina pauses before nodding. Angeal it'd be, then.]

And to see what the Castle might have planned for us. We found another castle almost exactly like ours a little less than a year ago, but it had been destroyed and abandoned long before we discovered it.

I wasn't aware of that. Any sign of what happened in there?

We've got some hints but nothing definitive. There was a cave-in and an attack before we could get much.

[Carolina reaches into her pack to grab her old journal, different from the ones most people got now, and flips open to the page of a rubbing she'd taken of the letters L I B E T, next to a sketched out map of what they'd seen there.]

Quite troubled for a place suppose to be paradise, huh?

[Not that he hadn't expected it. There was no place perfect, and certainly not one that came for free.]

A lot more troubled for a place that's supposed to be paradise.

[Carolina nods, tucking her journal back away neatly.] And as we were coming back, the Castle was attacked by the First Gens.