Get in close with your sword
From Create Your Own Story
You dive in past the Skunkbear's claws. For a moment, it is close enough that the terrible smell that hovers around it fills your nostrils. You retch, almost staggering. Then your sword finds a soft place in the Skunkbear’s body. The beast roars and tumbles to the ground, quite dead.
With the creature defeated, you wipe your sword clean and leave this place behind.
The path leads down through another valley, and back up another hill. The sun is now just past its zenith and everywhere, a dusty heat rises from the baked earth. You begin to think about where you will stay for the night. But then you see the path runs into a small village, set into a hill.
Smoke rises from the stacks. The houses are well-set, with stone at their bases and thatched roofs of grasses and thick leaves. There is, unusually, more than just the one street running through the centre of town. But it is as though this place, once rich, has had its heart scooped away. Litter surrounds the buildings, and on the edge of the village are rows and rows of empty, abandoned buildings.
You continue your slow trudge along the path.
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