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Winter Tower Walktrought
Part I - Hungry and confused.
Is a beautiful morning in Helsengaard.
Start Rune
Is a nice morning in Helsengaard, Skies are clear, and the sun warms the land.
You wake up hungry, Moose meat has been scarce since they were over hunted last season. A couple of days ago at the tavern, you heard some talk about a pack roaming up the SW mountain, It is a long walk up, but what choice do you have? If you find it, you can even sell some in the local market for a good price.
You get up, grab your equipment and start walking outside the city towards the mountain, just another day at Greenland... what could go wrong?
Get "Winter Tower Mistery" item
Almost at the top, looking back you can still see the city far bellow.
At the top, you don’t see any moose around… but you find a tower.
At the courtyard is a carved runestone:
Winter Tower - Were Science and Magic hold hands
Inside, you see a destroyed laboratory and a body on the ground.
At the center of the room, an untouched orb, is almost noon and a beam of sunlight shines trough a hole in the ceiling, just over the orb, making it glow.
SnowStorm Orb
You see a floating orb, look like is made of thin glass, but it moves and deforms like water. Inside you see a storm of lights and snow contained by the thin layer of the orb. You feel the energy inside, the chaos of the storm trying to escape. But is not only that, you feel like...
... is looking for something ... asking for it ...
No! You don't know much about magic, but an Orb "asking for something"? It makes no sense! Maybe the altitude is messing with your head? You should go back, is a long walk back to Helsengaard and you are hungry.
As you turn your back to the orb, a blast of cold wind hits you to the ground, temperature drops and you feel your skin freeze. You look around and see a room full of snow. You are scared, want to run away but the door in front of you is blocked by an ice wall.
... Something is wrong, you see the snow and your skin freezing, you feel the wind of the storm, but you don't feel.. cold, not the same way.
You get up and turn to the orb, a sense of despaired need comes from it, you get closer enough to touch it and as your hand get nearer you feel warm from it... until you place you hand and...
The orbs glows and the room is lit with dancing shades of green, blue and purple
Your mind is overwhelmed, you can't think. It feels like floating in a boreal aurora, the snow around the room starts melting and flowers are growing all around... ...but no matter, you eyes are once again fixed inside the orb for some reason, looking deeper and deeper, you can't even blink.
For a second, the storm is no more, you can see fields of green, crops growing strong and a clear blue sky, but as the orb starts to regenerate it's cracks, the storm goes over the fields once again.
All gets black, and you wake up... You are free, your mind is yours once again and the room look normal. Looking outside, is night already, how long have you been away? Hours? What was that? An attack? Wrong place and time? A "need"? What does it need?
Get "Touch of winter" item
You check the body for signs of life.
Dead Arnfinnut
The place is destroyed, but not from a fight, someone was searching for something. A dead body lies on the floor, stabbed. You have never seen him, but you know who it is, everyone in Helsengaard knows.
The old Arnfinnur.
You heard stories of this place, the Winter Tower and its laboratory, one of the last places of magic. Some say Arnfinnur is a master in search for power over nature using magic and science, others say he is just a crazy old man who likes to live lonely in the mountains.
One thing is sure, he knew a lot about nature. From time to time, some people send his children here as apprentices of Arnfinnur, when they go back home they manage to get really god crops even with bad weather, but is not magic, just knowledge. Those children don't talk much about their time in the Tower, but they always come back happy, healthy and well-fed.
You feel sad for Arnfinnur, you heard stories of old days when he showed up in Hasengaard at the worst winter and helped with the crops, some say the city would have starved without his help.
However killed him, was in search of something, what could it be? You wonder if they found it or is it still hidden around.
You look around, curious to find a clue of what happened and what was stolen. There are some scratches on the wall near a hack… look like a secret door was leaving marks when opened, inside there is a box...
To be continued... (W.I.P.)