A trio - [@Blueflame][@Naltorix][@sakurasan] - found themselves mounted on top of three bored-looking donkeys inching closer to a small settlement of houses on stilts. As they slowed to a stop, a [i]frantic woman in tattered dark grey robes and dull mustard-coloured headscarf[/i] came tumbling at them.

She was [b]clutching onto a dark blue scrap of cloth[/b] as her withered-by-years face twisted with fear and urgency. "FusionC! You and your friends have to help me! My husband is gone!"

Behind the old lady was a residential area, in which [i]wooden houses with a fusion of brick stilts[/i] supporting them. Some villagers could be seen milling about, paying the woman no heed. One man was under his house; he tinkered with the pump that looked less than top shape, glanced at the three outsiders with [b]little curiosity and much familiarity[/b] before he continued the repair at hand. He took care not to slip into the drain of water that freely rushed through the canal towards other homes.

>> Accept quest or get bearings in village first?

(IC now [b][u]open[/u][/b].)