“Well, if you want, you could help me. I could use someone to show me around this area.”
The mustached man’s eyes light up at the prospect. “Oh, do you really mean it? Happy days!”
You nod encouragingly at him, and watch with no little amount of apprehension as he begins to hop from foot to foot in excitement. This guy has far too much energy for someone who lives all alone in what amounts to a ghost town, but you brush away your misgivings. You’ve already made your choice, and the man clearly doesn’t mean any harm. He’s just excitable is all.
“Is this really The Icon Quest though?” You pose your question just to distract him from his one man party.
“Oh yes, definitely. There’s so many things you wouldn’t believe all hidden back here. Like the Coliseum and the castle too!”
You can’t help it, his excitement is infectious, and this is why you’ve come this far anyway. You want to see all these things and these places. They are part of icon history, and you are bursting at the seams with curiosity over the whole thing.
“Where should we start, do you think?”
You wrack your brain for the right answer to his question. Which way should you start?
There’s gotta be so much to see inside the castle, certainly. Relics of a bygone era, and you’re sure there are bits and piece of icon makers long past just waiting to be discovered too.
[JUMP LINK: TO THE CASTLE!]But then again, the Coliseum is fabled to have been the battleground of many a bloody, to-the-death icon battle. Those have been outlawed for some time now, making way for much tamer activities, and you’re curious to see how these vicious spectacles would have played out.
[JUMP LINK: TO THE COLISEUM!] THEME: MULTITUDES
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