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549 lines
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<area top="54" left="53" bottom="57" right="57">Abandoned Silo</area>
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<area top="37" left="46" bottom="47" right="56">McKean's Inn</area>
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<area top="17" left="49" bottom="23" right="57">Home of Axel the Sage</area>
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<area top="35" left="6" bottom="45" right="16">Sweetgrove Bazaar</area>
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<area top="19" left="33" bottom="26" right="40">Abandoned Shop</area>
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<![CDATA[Sweetgrove Bazaar]]>
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<![CDATA[Axel the Sage|All seekers of knowledge welcome.]]>
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<![CDATA[McKean's Inn|Good booze, Cheap eats|VACANCY]]>
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<![CDATA[(The sign is cracked and faded. You can only make out one word: 'Avizo')]]>
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<![CDATA[BRISTOW|Fine steelwork]]>
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<![CDATA[This old silo has been abandoned by everyone except the rats.]]>
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<![CDATA[You try to take one of the books on the shelf. When you do, sparks leap out and burn your fingers. Irritated, you back away. At least there could be a warning sign!]]>
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<![CDATA[This home was clearly abandoned in some haste. Some of the owner's possessions are scattered about, left behind in a frenzied effort to escape the Vale.]]>
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<![CDATA[You find the pitiful debris of another person's dreams. Before it was abandoned, this was clearly a very handsome shop. Now it's just another empty building, filled with dust.]]>
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<![CDATA[Something is different about this shop, however. There's a strange energy in the air, and your hair stands on end a little. There's something peculiar going on here.]]>
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<![CDATA[The runes on the floor are glowing gently. It must be a magical trap. These are intensely difficult to disarm ... you can only hope it's not too powerful.]]>
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<![CDATA[On a hunch, you dig a little in the dry, cracked dirt in the pot. Your efforts are soon rewarded. You unearth a small sphere. It's polished black stone, about four inches in diameter.]]>
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<![CDATA[As you hold it, your hand begins to tingle. Whatever this thing is, it's quite a powerful little magic item. Of course, it could be incredibly dangerous, but that hardly seems a reason not to take it with you ...]]>
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<![CDATA[You pocket the stone sphere. You can only hope that it makes itself useful eventually ...]]>
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<![CDATA[You tell Mayor Crouch of the barrels of poison leaking underground. Shocked, she falls back into her chair, speechless. She shakes her head for several long minutes.]]>
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<![CDATA[Then she says, "Thank you. I beg you, do what you can to remove the poison. I don't know how, but I'm sure you can find a way."]]>
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</string>
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<![CDATA[When you tell Mayor Crouch how you managed to enter the old School of Magery, she looks disturbed. "Why are you going there? There is a crisis! There is no time for tourism!"]]>
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</string>
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<string id="16">
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<![CDATA["Please, return when you have good news to report."]]>
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<![CDATA[You arrive at the city of Sweetgrove, largest settlement in Skylark Vale. On the surface, it's a beautiful place - several large adobe domes, poking out among stands of oak and alder.]]>
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<![CDATA[When you get closer, however, you see that the beauty is only on the surface. The streets are almost empty, and the few people walking along them shuffle along weakly, as if ill. The trees are dying.]]>
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</string>
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<string id="19">
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<![CDATA[The curse on Skylark Vale has hit this city very hard.]]>
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</string>
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<![CDATA[You find yourself back in Sweetgrove, standing in front of Mayor Crouch! She is surprised, to say the least, at your appearance. She asks you what happened, and why you've just appeared here.]]>
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<![CDATA[You tell her of your adventure in the school, the leaky waste barrels, and of their destruction. Her reaction surprises you. You thought she would be thrilled, but she only grows more grim as you explain the situation.]]>
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<![CDATA[Finally, she says, "It is as I feared. You have done a great good deed. But we will not be the beneficiaries. Our masters, the Empire, have poisoned our Vale, and it will be many years before the poisons are leached away."]]>
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<![CDATA["The poison in the water and the dirt will stay there for some time. The only hope for us, here, today, is to leave before it kills us all."]]>
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<![CDATA["Please do not think me ungrateful." She sends for an aide, and you are given a large sack of gold coins. "Simply letting us know the dimensions of the problem was an incredible service. Now we can escape with our lives."]]>
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<![CDATA["In addition, you saved many more lives, I am sure, by removing the problem's source. The Vale's woes will not now spread to other locales. For this we are infinitely grateful."]]>
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<![CDATA["Thank you again for your help." She returns to his desk. "Now the work of survival begins."]]>
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<![CDATA[In the weeks that followed, the Vale was evacuated. The Empire, uncharacteristically, tried to give some compensation, but nothing could make up for what these people have lost.]]>
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<![CDATA[You are rewarded, of course, with the gold you have received, plenty of hard experience, and the promise of jobs to come. It's a bittersweet victory.]]>
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<![CDATA[As you leave the Vale for the last time, you look back. It remains a grim place, lacking green plants and birdsong. You console yourselves with the fact that while animals and fish will still die here, humans will not.]]>
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<![CDATA[In the next few years, things turn out to be not as bad as they seemed. The magic which created the sickness also serves, with great difficulty, to cure it as well. Empire wizards purge the soil of its poisons, and destroy the school and its contents.]]>
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<![CDATA[The Vale never again regains its legendary richness and beauty, but it does become safe and productive again. And finally, one day, the people of Skylark Vale return to reclaim their home.]]>
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<![CDATA[THE END]]>
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