Author's Note: This chapter is a little shorter but I wanted to get something out just to show that I am working on it and the next chapter will most likely go in a different direction. So we'll see what happens.

After traveling through and out of Mahadevi and through most of Tigerspine, I decide that before we reach Falcorth I want to stop in a town and check out the merchants. I check my map and see that the town of Anvilton is just up the hill north of me. I gesture for Gumgum to move up the hill into Anvilton.

I take a quick look around and see that it's a fairly small town with a few merchants on the right side and crafting stations down the left side with a large inn at the back of the town. I see the NPC standing by the armor and weapon crafting stations with the title Blacksmith above his head and decide to check him out, I get him to repair my gear then take a quick flip through his inventory window that popped up, "all he sells are Evenstones and Dawnstones?" I think to myself "most games have blacksmiths sell armor or weapons, and on top of that I don't even know what these things do. Oh well the quest rewards will probably be better than armor I can buy from any merchant."

I walk over to the merchants on the opposite side of town and walk up to the first one I see Livestock Merchant it says in text similar to the blacksmith. His inventory is Chocked-full of baby animals that I only assumed (based on the little windows that popped up when I hover my finger over the items in his inventory) could be raised and then used to harvest materials from, such as wool from a sheep or milk from a cow. I continue down the line to Seed Merchant and Sapling Merchant who only sold seeds for crops and saplings for trees respectively. "These are some boring merchants" I say to myself "I can see they'd have a use when I actually have property to grow these later, but still…"

As I finish my sentence I see what looked like a Saber-toothed Lion run into town with a feline looking humanoid (I know from the character creation to be a Firran) riding on its back. The system picks up the lion as a target and a green health bar that says "13 Sandmane Snowlion" appears at the top of my view. The rider activates a buff and a little box that says "dash" appears just below the health bar and the Snowlion and its rider pick up speed and bolt out the back exit of the town. It seems that Snowlions are the mounts the Firran get instead of Leomorphs, I look over at Gumgum who's staring back at me with his glowing eyes and his mouth hanging open, "I still can't get over how intimating yet goofy you guys look" I laugh to myself, hoping for some kind of response I remember that he's just a AI and that I'm in a game "It was worth a shot…"

I decide that we should probably keep moving, I grab a tuff of Gumgum's hair and swing myself effortlessly onto his back and land in the saddle, I give him a little nudge and we're off, the light clumps of his metal feet hitting the ground makes a nice rhythm and my mind drifts off, yet making sure to keep Gumgum on the road in the direction of Falcorth.