Winchester/Fairfield Expedition - The Town of Fairfield

[winfield]

[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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Comments

[princelyspirit]

[Aaand she heard that. She quietly mouths an "I'm sorry" to Zelos, before the doctor gets her attention.]

So, they just sort of showed up, huh... Do you know which way they went?

[vesania]

[He nods out towards the plains]

Out that way, somewhere. We're not sure where their base is. If they have one at all.

[princelyspirit]

[She nods back. Well, that clue's better than nothing, but in all honesty... what is she supposed to do with that? She's not a tracker or a hunter, and she's not in a position to get people together and tell them where to go or what to do. She'll have to leave the job of tracking them down to the rest of the expedition.]

I'll tell the others, for what it's worth. But... is there anything else we can do? To help out who's left, I mean.

[vesania]

Thank you. And really, what we need most is help getting this place defensible. A few walls, some safe lookout spots, trying to ix some of these broken buildings. That's what we need the most right now.

[princelyspirit]

Well, that's one thing I'm halfway decent at, at least. [Gives a bit of a self-deprecating laugh. She's not exactly a master carpenter, but hey, that earthquake a while back gave her some experience in the whole "clear out rubble and make repairs" department.] Just point me in the direction of a hammer, and I'll see what I can do.

[vesania]

[He'll nod towards some fencing, the one they passed as they came in]

We need a gate, or...something to at least make it less wide open. It's the easiest way in.

[princelyspirit]

One less wide, gaping hole, coming right up. Let me grab some of the others, all right?

[And if there's nothing else, she'll start on that fence!]

[vesania]

Sure thing, thank you again.