paradisabeyond | Winchester/Fairfield Expedition

[You saw the towns some time ago, but it still took a good couple hours of treading past the farmland around it before you actually reached it. They have a distinctly "old western" type of feel to them, with their dusty, unpaved dirt roads and the collection of buildings-- most of them obviously wooden-- sitting side-by-side along either side of the road.

More observant residents may notice that the nearer they come to the town, the more people that look up and notice, and subsequently hurry off or head inside. And even if you didn't notice it as you closed in, it sure becomes apparent once you step under the archway of the town; there's no one around. The tumbleweed that rolls by almost seems to be mocking the residents.

Another thing that becomes apparent is the state of the town. Besides having gone eerily quiet, some of the buildings have been wrecked. There are gouges in the wood, where it hasn't been punched through or torn apart. Rails are broken, and a few of them even have damaged or missing doors.

Are they too late?]

DR. BREWER | HEATH | RECONSTRUCTION

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Oh, you know, the usual. Fighting back all the stuff that tries to kill me.

Tell me about it, dude. We've been on the lunch menu for days.

You mean they literally try to eat you?

Heck if I know. The Doc thinks they're taking people for experiments or something. But I'm pretty sure you don't need that many people for experiments.

Maybe we can try breaking them out while we're here.

Like storm the base we don't even know the location of? That's pretty crazy thinking, dude. Nostos is huge, they could be anywhere.

[or they could be in space. Because aliens] Ahh, yeah, we didn't really pack for a long trip.

[Goddamn space :|]

I can tell, you guys must have seriously rushed out from wherever the heck you came from.

Hey, the doc made it sound like you needed help fast. So we got here as fast as we could.

It's pretty awesome of you. We're not exactly soldiers here.

You're good to go on soldiers now, bro.

So you guys deal with stuff like this all the time?

Some of us more than others, but yeah.

That's pretty awesome, if there's one thing we need right now, it's people who can handle this kind of crazy.

Is this the first time anything crazy happened?

What would you call 'crazy'?

Okay, um... giant mashmallows invading? Or being able to walk through people's dreams, maybe?

Ohhhh you mean like the sort of crazy things the castles create? Yeaaaaah we don't get that so much out here.

So what happens to you when we go to the fake other worlds? Like Hogwarts. Are you allowed to talk about that?

You mean the fake worlds that are in Nostos already? I wasn't in Draconis long enough to go through one of those. Some of the others talked about it, though. Said they just got sent there for like, a week, then woke up in the castle when it was all over.

[Draconis... Which one was that again? He'll have to ask somebody]

Yeah, that's usually how it works. Which is weird enough, except some of those places pop up in Nostos later. Like my camp from home is on the map now.

Camp Half-Blood? You know it?

Really? Man that must be so trippy. I've always wondered if my school was here, but I haven't seen it yet.

[He nods] It's uhhh up North.

Should I ask? Would that jinx us and send us there next?

I got nooooo idea, bro. What's your castle like? I mean, is it super vindictive or really nice? Would it send you somewhere you want to go?

I think it's both sometimes. It can send us somewhere cool, but then something really horrible happens. At least with my camp, hellhound attacks are pretty common.

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