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Chapter 07: The Sugar Plum Beast
The Sugar Plum Beast—
Spring has returned to the Index and with it a whole host of new problems. Once again, everyone's journals flash with light to indicate a message from the Storyteller.
The Draft this time is very different from FrankenHyde, perhaps to everyone's relief. It's a cheerier pink-and-red, covered in gorgeous sugar roses...though it appears a mouse has been chewing on the binding and there are some claw marks. It's still better than the last one, and as everyone passes through the pages everything smells of roses and fresh cookies.
This is The Sugar Plum Beast.
The village of Amande is a quaint little thing, known for its baked goods and sweet treats and not much else. Well, and the eerie forest that is most certainly not haunted by a terrible beastly creature despite what rumors say, but it's really the goodies that get people to stay a while on their travels. The houses are all adorably rustic cottages, everything is festooned in flowers (particularly roses), and it's almost always sunny during the day with just enough of a light rain to keep the flowers thriving.
In this village lives the skilled toymaker Drosselmeyer and his lovely daughter Clarabelle, two of the local oddities but well-loved by most of the other villagers. They've lived here for most of Clarabelle's life after fleeing a mysterious incident that Drosselmeyer refuses to discuss and Clarabelle does not remember.
It's the end of spring and the start of summer when everyone arrives, finding themselves just outside the local inn where they will find apartments to stay in during this Campaign. In the center of town are flowered arches that will lead into each of the scenes.
| Good evening, everyone. We have located the next Draft in need of your services. It is once again two stories that have blended into one, though we hope it won't be quite so dark as the last one. Please report to the Draftsroom at your earliest convenience. |  |
The Draft this time is very different from FrankenHyde, perhaps to everyone's relief. It's a cheerier pink-and-red, covered in gorgeous sugar roses...though it appears a mouse has been chewing on the binding and there are some claw marks. It's still better than the last one, and as everyone passes through the pages everything smells of roses and fresh cookies.
This is The Sugar Plum Beast.
The village of Amande is a quaint little thing, known for its baked goods and sweet treats and not much else. Well, and the eerie forest that is most certainly not haunted by a terrible beastly creature despite what rumors say, but it's really the goodies that get people to stay a while on their travels. The houses are all adorably rustic cottages, everything is festooned in flowers (particularly roses), and it's almost always sunny during the day with just enough of a light rain to keep the flowers thriving.
In this village lives the skilled toymaker Drosselmeyer and his lovely daughter Clarabelle, two of the local oddities but well-loved by most of the other villagers. They've lived here for most of Clarabelle's life after fleeing a mysterious incident that Drosselmeyer refuses to discuss and Clarabelle does not remember.
It's the end of spring and the start of summer when everyone arrives, finding themselves just outside the local inn where they will find apartments to stay in during this Campaign. In the center of town are flowered arches that will lead into each of the scenes.