Slayer Gothic - Wishverse
Fable.
Albion. Fable Verse.
My airship, which I still hadn't gotten around to naming, landed on Bowerstone Lake with barely a splash, which was impressive given the sheer size of the vessel and how much it must weigh. Thankfully this body of water was more than large enough for my awesome vessel.
This ship flew as intended by its design, but it was still a sea going vessel, so if you ignored the propellers it looked like just another boat, well more or less. It did have propellers, and a big steam engine in the rear as such it did rather stand out, and because of that I had to be careful where I took this vessel.
Plus it couldn't land on a solid surface, it either had to stay in the air, which was taxing on whom ever had the helm, or it had to dock on the water. The only time it couldn't do either of those things was if it landed at a special place with could support the ship. Like the special warehouse I kept in the pokegirl world.
"There it is" I said to my harem once we were all gathered on the deck "The entrance to the old Heroes Guild. If luck is on our side we should be able to get inside, and then we can do some exploring".
Since we could see the entrance to the Guild from the deck of the ship, it didn't take take us long to fly over to the island in the centre of the lake. We used brooms to get there, one of which we all carried in our pouches of holding, which allowed us to avoid getting wet since we didn't need to swim to the little island.
Fred couldn't even control a broom, as she was totally muggle and you had to have magic to control a broom, but she could ride on the back of mine. Even Arya could control a broom, a skill that she'd picked up very quickly, which meant there was something magical in her. It must have something to do with training with the Faceless Man or because she was a Stark, and had the blood of the First Men.
As to why I'd brought everyone here, it had seemed wise to me to bring Arya somewhere not too unlike her world for her first trip to another universe. Sure Albion was different, but it wasn't massively different to Westeros, at least when compared to a modern day version of Earth. Plus I wanted to come here as this world was cool.
After spending a few days here she'd be better prepared to see more worlds, and that would be good as there were a lot of places I wanted to visit before we returned to Sunnydale and started college. What Arya would do then I didn't know, and we would have to cross that bridge when we came to it.
"How do we get inside?" Buffy asked.
We were now standing before the door, and since we lacked a Guild Seal it wouldn't simply open for us. Even Harriet's unlocking spell did nothing. Whatever magic there was keeping this door locked so far it proved stronger than what the Girl-Who-Lived could conjure up.
"Well we could bust down the door" I reasoned "But I'd rather try using the Cullis Gate, hopefully it just needs charging".
From what I remembered from the game the gate that was nearby should start working once they were charged up, and that should give us away into what remained of the Guild. If it did not then we'd soon find out.
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Albion. Fable Verse.
I had been half expecting to see the remains of the Guild Hall as it was the game, lit by the torches. Instead my girls and I were met by almost pitch blackness, the only light around came from the Cullis Gate beneath our feet. Even that began to fade as we stepped off it, soon leaving us in complete darkness.
As Harriet lit up her wand Tara shouted out a word in some dead language and a glowing ball of light appeared above her head. With a wave of her hand the ball floated up into the air and hung there, illuminating the room and heating it somewhat, like a baby sun.
"When did you learn that trick?" I asked.
That was pretty advanced magic considering the limitations of her type of witchcraft, and her big ball of light made Harriet's light spell seem rather pitiful.
"It's just something I've been working on" she said to me.
We soon started to spread and started look around.
"Is this the Guild Hall?" Buffy asked asked as the light expanded, revealing more of the room we were standing in "You mentioned it before".
This was the Guild Hall from the second game if I was right. I'd gone over the history of this land in some detail before leaving Westeros, so that the people travelling with me would have some idea of what to expect.
"Yes, so lets go explore" I replied "Just remember, be careful and stick together".
Fred took out a camera, and began recording everything. By now Tara's light spell had spread far enough that pretty much everything could be seen.
"Nice mural" I heard Harriet say.
The events of the first Fable game were displayed for everyone to see, it was literally writing on the walls, or pictures on the wall in this case.
"I recognise these murals" I said to the group as I moved closer to the nearest wall. "They show scenes from a great Hero's life, so this has to be the same Chamber of Fate where he fought Jack of Blades".
The girls came over to take a look.
While I was sure the image was a more idealised version of the Hero, on the mural he was tall, dark and good looking, and he held a flaming sword, much like the ideal of a hero rather than the real thing. More likely he'd just been some poor lad who barely understand the events he was caught up in.
"There's some writing" I realised "It says that he came from a small village, and that defeated the Wasp Queen, slew Twin Blades the Bandit King, defeated another Hero in the Arena, become Mayor of Bowerstone, and died during the battle with Jack of Blades. Oh his name's worn off".
While I'd explained much about this world to my girls I hadn't had time to go over everything. So I took some time to explain what I'd just spoken about actually meant. Which took some time.
The only other place to go and search was the door directly across from the Cullis gate, which led to a stone bridge that stretched over a bottomless chasm, glowing lanterns lit up within stone posts as we moved, some sort of magic I assumed. The bridge turned into a tunnel lined with cut stone blocks, but quickly changed into simply being hewed out of natural stone.
We continued down the tunnel until we came to a point where a side tunnel branched off to the right, and I spied a broken bookcase lying against the wall. The books here were damp and completely illegible, the ink having soaked through due to exposure to water.
"I guess we'll take this tunnel" I said to my growing harem.
The tunnel ended into a chamber of sorts that was split in half by the ruins of a wall, on one side there were several crates and barrels, all empty aside from some dust. The other side had several intact bookcases. They were mostly empty except for four books, all in decent condition. Picking up the first, which was titled 'The End is Almost Neigh,' I flipped through it.
"A book of prophecies" I muttered.
The next book turned out to be about the Hero of Oakvale, which like the mural confirmed that I was in the right reality, it made mention of details that only someone from the time period or a player of the game would know about. I considered it to be a book worthy of adding to the library I'd have at the hotel, as such I put it in my pouch of holding.
Next I found a book explaining all about The Tattered Spire, which was a sort of huge tower capable of channelling all the magic in Albion, it was an Old Kingdom relic, and as such lost to the ages, the book even told of its destruction. The final book was also informative, it wove a tale about the fall of the Heroes Guild, and one man's effort to save its legacy. These books I also took.
Before long the girls and I headed back down the tunnel to explore the main branch. Here phosphorescent blue mushrooms lined the path, each giving off a soft blue glow. So far none of the bugs seen in the game had made an appearance.
"Must be magical" Tara commented "I don't think it's normal for plants to glow that brightly".
A faint buzzing sound was all the warning we had of an incoming threat, but it was enough to get Buffy and I moving. Between us we were able to stomp the nasty things before too much time passed.
"Seriously? Beetles?" I said with a sigh.
Harriet stepped forward as more of the bugs popped up and she blasted them with magic. Clearing the way.
"Thank you dear" I said to her.
Moving on we found what I discovered to be a chewed upon skeleton, the only thing with it was an empty bottle and a note.
"Suicide" I muttered while reading.
The man's name had been Drake, part of a group of three scavengers who managed to make it into the caves. He had suspected his partners were going to kill him, so he'd poisoned them, then in what could only be described as a fit of insanity he had poisoned himself and then he'd thrown the gem they'd discovered into the lake below.
"Well, his loss, my gain" I said "Harriet would you summon the gem mentioned in this note".
She waved her wand.
"Accio gem"
The expensive stone flew into her waiting hand. The gem was clearly magical, the flickering colours in its depths made that obvious, possibly it was an augment, but I'd need to find an expert to identify it.
"Come on lets go back to the Cullis Gate" I said to the group "I don't think there's anything else worth seeing here".
We were soon back in the Chamber of Fate, and again we were able to power up the gate with some magical energy. Apparently all that was needed was some energy and the gate did the rest as long as you knew where you wanted to go.
"Let's see, where should we go next? Bowerstone, Oakfied, or maybe Knothole Glade?" I asked.
Everyone just looked confused as I'd only mentioned some of those places to them while back when we were planning this trip.
"Never mind" I said "All you need to know is that were going shopping".
This world had much to buy, healing potions, Resurrection Phials, skill potions, weapon augments, and that was just the stuff I could remember off the top of my head. Who knew what else we would find.
(Line Break)
Oakfield. Albion.
The airship landed in the sea and then floated into the harbour as a crowd gathered at the docks. While the farmers here didn't have much money, and I doubted that they had much to trade that wasn't foodstuffs, which I didn't intend to trade in, I decided to try selling stuff to the locals anyway. After all I'd gone to the trouble of filling the cargo bay with stuff to trade. Plus the local authorities were unlikely to try taking my ship from me.
Before long the ship would be on its way to Bowerstone. Which was where I wanted to go as that was the best place to pick up some more local books, as well as potions, and anything else that took my fancy, but this trip wasn't about making profit or even about acquiring power and weapons that we could use, we were also to explore. Still it wouldn't hurt to make some money. Gold bars were better used as raw materials for enchanting that for paying for things.
I walked down the gangplank as soon as it was done extending, and at the bottom I met the guy who must be the local Sheriff.
"May I be the first to welcome you to Oakfield" he greeted "If you have time, please stop by the temple, it is quite beautiful this time of year. May the Light be with you".
I figured that the last part must be some sort of blessing.
"May the Light be with you" I replied "I'm the captain of this ship, and we have goods to trade".
The natives relaxed upon hearing that. Perhaps they'd been fearing an invasion of sorts. Although if that were the case then everyone crowding the docks rather than running and hiding somewhere seemed foolish. Then again humans could often be rather silly.
"My name is Slayer Gothic" I told the locals "My crew and I would like to explore this place, spend some money and then be on our way".
They liked hearing that.
"I'm a mercenary, among other things" I told the guard guy in a softer tone of voice "and I need to make some coin. I figure you must have something around here that a warrior can handle".
The sheriff nodded slowly, while tipping back his hat.
"Alright" he said "Can you handle bandits, hobbes, trolls, balverines, anything like that?".
I nodded as I could.
"Well let's see" the sheriff was now saying "Bandits aren't much of a problem, at least not until you get to Rookridge. Place is in the no man's land between Bowerstone and here. Our patrols don't go down there, and Bowerstone doesn't send any men. That why we move goods by ship".
He paused, scratching his chin in thought.
"There are the hobbes, always the hobbes. Have to clear them out every few years; little buggers love to steal livestock and children" he was now saying "Last time we cleared them out was…was…".
The man had to stop and think for a while.
"After they took the Jenkins boy," he finally finished "So, every once in a while we get together and run em out with pitch forks, torches, and the like. Little buggers keep coming back though, no idea where from. They like the old mine though".
Hobbs were converted human children, or at least some of them were, so it made sense they'd keep returning to bother this town, it had children.
"And it's probably about time to clear them out" the sheriff said.
He began to tap his fingers together, lips moving soundlessly as he worked through a problem in his head. Finally he nodded sharply as if coming to a decision.
"Tell you what. I'll have some words with people while you go clear out the mine and the forest around it" he offered "Bring me as many Hobbe heads as you can and I'll pay you what I can for them. We'll them on spikes, make the damn bastards think twice about coming back".
Gruesome work, but it was work, and it would not interfere with the stability of the realm if I went and cleared out an old mine full of goblin like creatures.
"Just point me at the mine" I requested.
(Line Break)
Near Oakfield. Albion.
After leaving most of the girls at the Temple of Light, so that they could learn more about this world, and its people, Buffy and I headed out of town.
This area was not populated, and it was filled with wild grasses, flowers, and shrubs and as well as a lot of trees. As of yet no farmer had pushed the boundary of their farm out this far yet, and wouldn't for some time I figured, not when there were plenty of safer areas around the town still open to be turned into productive farmland.
I supposed that was what made the hobbes keep coming back here, they could lurk in and around the mine during the day, then go raiding at night, and the rare traveller or wandering rancher that came out this far could easily be put in the stew pot.
With a groan of protest the supposedly locked gate that led into the dried up mine creaked inward, the chains were apparently just for show and not actually hooked to anything as they did nothing to impede our entry into the old mine.
Immediately the smell of damp and mould hit my nose, making me and Buffy gag.
"Okay so tell me about these monsters" Buffy said to me.
I told her that according to legend, the very first hobbes were lost children who had their souls stolen by dark Nymphs. They can still transform lost children into more hobbes, but the sheer number of hobbes indicates that they have another method of reproduction, given that there isn't a pandemic of lost and kidnapped children throughout Albion.
Although often considered dim-witted when compared to humans, Hobbes appear to have some cognitive abilities, which was evidenced by a degree of ingenuity and a social structure. They wore clothes, could make crude weapons, and even had magic users.
"We just need to kill all the hobbes we can find and then collect the heads" I informed my fellow Slayer "Then we get paid".
I'd even been provided with a sack for the heads.
"Okay let's do some pest control" I said to Buffy.
The laser weapons would make this easy.
(Line Break)
Near Oakfield. Albion.
"Explore the multiverse, meet new kinds of people, and cut their heads off" said Buffy as she worked with the hacksaw "What a glamours life we led".
Not that the Slayer was really complaining, actually she was enjoying this adventure, she'd enjoyed the days when it was just here and Damien travelling around North America, seeking out evil, and then kicking in the teeth of evil. Over the years they'd been all over the country, and out of it too.
Of course that had come to a rather sudden end with them setting down in Sunnydale, and while this was fun, travelling to other worlds, she couldn't help wishing that it was just the two of them, like it had been back in the old days.
On the other hand having friends was nice, so she figured it was worth not having Damien to herself it meant having a whole team with them. Besides that Lenore chick made some really cool magical items. Plus having witches around was handy.
"Why are you taking the teeth?" the Slayer asked her boyfriend "You take weapons as trophies, not horns and stuff. That's more my deal".
Damien had even brought a pair of pliers with him.
"I was thinking about trophies" he replied "I was thinking that Lenore could use them as crafting materials. When ground down they might even have a use in potions".
Hearing that made Buffy smile. Damien also thought like that. Coming up with plans and ideas that she never would. Mostly she just liked to kill monsters and have sex, normally in that order, and sometimes there was food involved as well.
"Always the thinker" she muttered.
With that Buffy got back to the messy work of harvesting heads, and putting them in the sack. Who'd be a Slayer?
(Line Break)
Bowerstone. Albion.
This city was divided into several sections. There was Bowerstone Market, which catered towards the the lower and middle classes. Also there was Old Town which could either be a crime-ridden slum or a newly renewed area of well to do people.
In this reality it turned out to be the later, which suggested that the Hero of the second game was around here somewhere, but I'd not heard anything about them so I figured that he or she was in the gypsy camp, and I had no intention of bothering them since they had a important work in this world.
Aside from those places there were Fairfax Gardens and Fairfax Castle, this part of the city was home to the more upper class people kind of people. According the book I'd brought upon arriving here, Fairfax Castle had been constructed on the site of where Bowerstone Manor, the home of Lady Grey, once stood. It was burned to the ground by witchspotters who were convinced that Lady Grey was a witch.
The book also mentioned Bowerstone Cemetery, which I desired to avoid as frankly I'd had enough of graveyards to last several life times.
Where I desired to go was Bowerstone Market, which was a bustling, thriving hub of commerce for the entire city of Bowerstone, if not the whole of Albion.
Here could be found The Cow & Corset Inn, a furniture stores, as well as an Alchemist, who sold potions that would be very useful to me and my girls. I went right over to the most expensive potions on display, which were in cases that were locked. Each of the potions had a sign beneath them explaining what they were.
The same sect of Old Kingdom alchemists who are said to have solved the secret of immortality also created the recipe for this life-prolonging potion. Few have the knowledge or the skill to brew it successfully now.
"Life extending?" asked Tara "They can make you live longer?".
Her guess was as good as mine. Tara had only just started studying potions, so she didn't know much about them.
"There's only one, so if you want its yours" I told her.
I'd find a method of obtaining immortality during my travels of that I felt sure.
"Guess I could try it" she said "Maybe the store owner knows more".
I gave her some gold to buy the potion with and started looking else where.
Death need not be the end. Resurrection is possible with this potion.
I knew this item to be Resurrection Phial is a special potion available in Fable, it acts immediately when the character loses all health.
"You're in luck" the store owner told me "I have nine such bottles. The biggest collection in Albion".
When I brought all nine, which involved laying a lot of gold bars on the shop's counter, the store owner handed over all nine bottles, and I had my girls store them carefully in their pouches, and I kept the spares. They only had to keep them close in order to make them work, should they need to be used.
I would have brought some skill potions to, but the owner of this business closed his doors very quickly, so I decided to come back later some day in the future. He must want to secure his new fortune in gold.
"There's a guy who sells weapon augments around here somewhere" I said to my harem "They can greatly enhance non-magical weapons".
Augmentations, or Augments for short, were mystical stones that could be blinded with weapons. They provide a benefit to the user, usually something involving a weapon doing extra damage, while the augmented weapon is being used by a fighter.
Once bound, the augmentation was permanently fixed to the weapon, and there were great bonuses to Augments. Some may increase the amount of gold, experience, or even attractiveness. If I recalled correctly some of the cheaper augments have some drawbacks, such as an exchange of strength to be more easily killed/knocked out.
While I had an elemental shotgun, that I'd gotten from the pokegirl world, ammo for it was costly and the weapon needed a lot of maintenance. So I wanted a shotgun with a fire augment on it so that I could take out vampires quickly and cheaply. Assuming that work.
On the way to the that place of business one of the locals called us over.
"Do I know you?" I asked.
The guy seemed like a sleazy salesmen to me.
"I am Murgo" he said to us "Albion's most trustworthy provider of mystical apprentices and enchanted items".
We all ignored him and looked at the man's wears.
"A pretty but slightly cursed snow globe" he said as I just stared at the item.
I could feel its power as soon as I laid eyes on it.
"What does it do?" I wondered.
He told me that it was cursed village and that the spirits of the villagers were trapped inside the globe until some hero saved them. Which if nothing else meant that it was too dangerous to be left with someone Murgo.
"How much?" I asked.
I knew he'd try to overcharge me, but I didn't think you really could put a price on something like this.
"Five gold" he said.
I paid the man and then took the item.
"How do you..."
The snow globe glowed and I was blinded by a bright light.
(Line Break)
Cursed Village. Snowglobe.
When I could see again I could see I was standing on a Cullis Gate but it wasn't working and everywhere I looked the world was black and white except for me. And if that wasn't strange enough when I took my sword it glowed blue and my gun on belt glowed yellow for some reason.
"What the hell is going on?" I asked
There was no around to answer. I was here alone.
I walked out down the hill and passed a house with a blue door, which seemed important for some reason that I couldn't understand.
"This is weird" I said to myself.
I walked onto a bridge and looked ahead to see three blue men who were pointing their hands to a black and white man.
"Help me, please make them stop" the man begged
The blue men turned towards me with swords in their hands. I readied Brightroar and leapt into battle, once they met my blade the blue men simply vanished.
"Okay that was also weird" I muttered.
The man I'd saved, who had been black and white, now regained his colour.
"Thank you that was….it was just horrible" he said.
"Tell me what's happened here?" I commanded.
There was no time for small talk or manners here.
"This place is cursed, just look at it, these things, they've sucked all the colour out of the world" he said.
What an odd thing to do to people.
"I see, so that's why you were black and white when I saw you, they were stealing your colour" I stated.
Because that made total sense.
"You have to save the others, they have no idea what's going on, here you'll need this" he said while handing me a blue key.
Which I guessed went to the blue door on the house I passed.
"You go hide somewhere while I deal with this" I told the man.
Soon I was heading back to the house and as I opened the door I saw another black and white man and three more Blue guys, so I pulled out my sword out and began to slay the blue figures. They had no fighting skills, I wasn't even sure if they were real creatures or just some sort of illusion.
After the last disappeared the man got his colour back and looked at me.
"Oh that's better, it's about time someone did something about this damn curse" he said "here I caught this when I was a little boy, I think it's a butterfly"
Once he'd finished speaking that he walked over to a cabinet.
"A butterfly?" I asked, no understanding why he'd give me such a thing.
The man opened the cabinet doors and a blue orb popped out.
"Go on little butterfly" the man said
Having played the game I knew what to do here I hit the orb with my sword and it took off threw a window as I chased after it to the bridge, then it went past the windmill and right to a locked fence where more Blue people. After all the blue things were gone and the gates opened up.
Once I'd passed the carriage station I saw something go into a well so I followed it and climbed down into the dark well. At the bottom I saw that it was a mine shaft and I followed it to a large cave where I saw three Yellow Shadows and another man.
They pulled rifles from their backs and began shooting at me. I ducked behind a rock, took out my laser pistol and began shooting the yellow people. It only took one good shot for them to disappear and for the man to gain his colour.
"Ah, what a relief, thank you" he said.
"What are you doing down here?" I asked.
It was an odd place to find someone.
"I followed a fat bird down here, that is definitely that last time I'll do that" he answered "I managed to catch so you play with it"
The man pulled a switch and an yellow orb flew towards the gate that was along the wall. Once I shot it and the gate was opened I followed the yellow orb into the tunnel and saw it go into the water. On the other side of the underwater tunnel I found that I was in a tomb with strange suits of armour in it. I also saw the yellow orb ahead so I shot it again, and then I followed it deeper into the tomb.
After following the orb future into the tomb I found a ladder at the end of the mine shaft. Once out I saw I was back where I started but the yellow orb was waiting for me. So I shot it and followed it to a yellow gate that had a bell on it.
As the gate opened the bell rang and soon children ran past me towards a large wooden bridge, as I followed them I realised they were transparent, and I could see threw them. They were some sort of ghosts. As they disappeared I reached a school where three Red people who had surrounded a woman.
Red was magical attacks and while I was no mage I could make little fireballs, and there were more than enough to get them the red people away from the woman. Once they were away from here I used Old One magic to burn them away.
"Oh than goodness that's over, but the children, they all ran away, they must be so scared the little mites, please you have to find them" she requested.
I figured that this could be time consuming.
"Don't worry I'll find them, how many are there?" I asked.
"Five" she said.
Well gathering a few kids shouldn't take too long.
"Okay I'll be right back" I promised.
The scream of a child was heard as I ran into the nearest house to find a little girl and one Red Shadow, once I had gotten rid of it the girl regained her colour like the others had.
"Yeah I can go home now" she said.
"Go back to your teacher, I'll get the others" I said as she ran off.
After tracking down the last of the children and eliminating the red things I made my way to the school where the children were rushing into the building as I approached the School Mistress.
"You found them all, oh well done" she said.
"It was no trouble at all" I lied.
There had been trouble.
"Here the children want you to have this" she said.
Now she was handing me a paper seal that had been painted red and decorated with beads to make a face.
"It's...uh lovely?" I said.
I figured that it was somehow important.
"They say it the key to this town secrets" she told me "Mind you they also stick crayons up their nostrils so I'd be careful if I were you".
Hearing that made me laugh.
"I will" I promised.
Before long I was heading back towards the large wood bridge the was next to a wall with a red door. Inside was a dark tomb. After I entered it, the seal was indeed a key, I followed the sounds of voices and the lit torches and as I reached a large room with doors on the other side the doors closed behind me as Red, Blue, and Yellow people appeared and began to attack.
After fighting my way past three rooms of colour creatures I found myself in a large room where I saw a woman in the centre of a Cullis Gate with three hooded men around her.
"Make it stop, please make it stop, I can't take this anymore" she cried.
Well someone wasn't happy.
"Kill the intruder" one of the hooded guys said.
More of the Red, Blue and Yellow creatures appeared as the girl began to whimper.
"Hold on I'm coming!" I called out.
With my gun in one hand and I drew my sword, holding it with the other as I began to take down the first wave of Blue and Yellow Shadows then finished off the Red with my Old One magic, leaving the three men who weree all glowing a different colour.
"Red for Strength, Blue for Will, and Yellow for Skill" I said
Acting quickly I shot the yellow man, dropped the weapon and hit the red man with one magic, before I finished the last with one swing of my sword.
I recovered the dropped weapon as the woman regained her colours and moved her hands from her face
"You, you saved me, thank you" she said as a light appeared around us "wait what's happening?"
Everything went white and when I could see again I was staring at a world with full colour, and soon people began to appear.
"You did it, look at all this colour, you saved us all, finally we can all rest in peace" the man I first meet said.
"Wait what do you mean?" I asked
They started to clap and vanish into thin air. Which left me alone for a while until I used to the Cullis gate to leave which took me back to where Murgo Caravan was. Only now I held a new beautiful snow globe in my hand, and it didn't feel at all cursed. In fact it was rather pretty.
"Oh well isn't that a thrill, not a trace of cursing on that snow globe" Murgo said.
"Yeah thanks to me" I said.
I always got stuck doing the hard work.
"Makes a nice little souvenir don't it?" he said.
"Yeah I think I'll keep it" I said putting it in my bag.
This was something I could explore more later.
"Can you tell me how long was I gone?" I asked.
"About a minute" Murgo said.
I turned to my girls.
"There's a real village inside this thing" I told them "All the people trapped in it are free now, but the buildings and stuff are still there".
Which was so cool.
"What can we do with a village in a snow globe?" Buffy asked me.
I had a few ideas.
"Storage, weapons testing or we can lock people up in it" I said to her "We can even use it as a private holiday resort once it gets fixed up. A place to escape to".
I went on to enquire of Murgo if he anything else like this, and it was Tara who directed my attention a large, ornate mirror, that did not like anything else that Murgo had for sale.
"This isn't cursed" the witch told me "But it's really magical".
I turned to face the owner of the business.
"We'll take the mirror" I told Murgo.
We could examine the artefact back on the ship at our leisure, or maybe after our adventures. It could wait, we had lots of other things to check out.