Mineas Well Revisited

[lord_wizard]

Who: Felix and anyone on the expedition
What: Exploring Mineas Well
When: November 17th-18th
Where: Mineas Well
Rating: PG

After days of walking in the dense woods, the group eventually came across a slightly grown over but clear path leading through the trees, courtesy of marked circles on the towering trees all around them. Many of the trees seems filled with some kind of strange fruit, though they seem rather grey and unappetizing to look at, and the wizard leading the group only stares at them with an frown. Those who have been here may before may recall these were once glowing tubular creatures that came alive at night. But now they seem dead, or at least dormant. Early after setting out this day, they come across a large hand-made gate, absent of any fence to connect to it, sitting just slightly ajar in the middle of the path. A sign to one side reads "PRIVATE PROPERTY: To all uninvited guests:
please ring the bell to speak to a messenger. Thank you." A cord extending from the branches above seems to indicate it leads to such a bell. After a moment of consideration, Felix pulls it, and it rings softly in the quiet. After a few long beats, nothing at all happens. Sighing, Felix pushed past the gate with a slight shove, and towards the clearing on the other side...

...and the enormous tree on the other side, many hundreds of feet tall, with several levels of tree house built into the different sections of it's branches. Unlike last time, it seems a bit to dim here. Too quiet.

EXPLORING | STAYING THE NIGHT | THE MORNING

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[lord_wizard]

Felix looked out towards the pathways winding their way around the branches of the great tree and tried to imagine what an entire city engineered that way would have been like.

"It must be a sight to behold."

[inafadingcrown]

"So it is." She sighed, turning her gaze back up to the stars. "I suppose I have been struck by homesickness, being here."

[lord_wizard]

"We all feel that from time to time," he said, following her gaze with his own eyes. "I'd hardly fault you for that. Though sometimes I think I may be starting to forget what it was like."

[inafadingcrown]

"I doubt very much that you will forget. We have a way of remembering those places which have shaped us."

[lord_wizard]

"I find it easier to remember the wounds they have dealt me," he said and then laughed, though it was a mostly humorless sound, "though it's likely because the castle has been good at reminding me of their existence. Like with Gideon..."

[inafadingcrown]

"It does seem to be a particular gift of the castle, does it not?" She remembered all too vividly the hallucinations that she had when under the influence of that demon. It was a topic that the castle almost seemed to take glee in bringing back up.

[lord_wizard]

"Yes," he says, somewhat distantly, before he quickly adds, "I've imagined it brings us here because we have such memories to fuel it. Few here have what might be termed an 'ordinary' life."