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[b]//Central Village[/b]
[sub][@Xaltwind][@BunniesOfDoom][@LupusIntus][/sub]
MacKinnon, too, was inspecting the four-pointed star statue. She felt for the medallion in her pocket, pulled it out, and took a good long look before deciding, yup, it was related.

Some kinda religious thing then? She didn’t really pray herself, and she didn’t particularly understand [i]why[/i] people would pray to begin with, but there was probably something there, wasn’t it? Welp, back to it.

Dragging the empty barrel over to the well, MacKinnon finally dropped off her rucksack beside her, pulling the sweat-stained fabric around her shoulder off and letting out a small sigh of relief as a cool breeze trickled through. She pulled the cords open, then methodically removed her finds for the day:

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Clay Pot
Clay Jug (Blue)
Painted Vase
Grimy Carpet x2
Blacksmith Tools
Silverware x3
Wooden Bowl (Painted)
Burlap Sack[/indent]
Plenty to clean, plenty more to use! While the well itself didn’t look like it had been improved in any of the ways that anyone else said it would, working with broken things was basically just want MacKinnon did on a regular basis either way. Hand over hand, she reeled up the leaky bucket and upended its contents into the barrel as she forcefully injected her way into the conversation the others were having.

[b]“Not abandoned,”[/b] MacKinnon called out. [b]“There’d be a lot more trash here if it was; feels like everyone took their time packin’ everything up 'fore leaving. Oh, and I didn’t come across any graves either, so it’s probably not a sickness that did it. Maybe whatever they were here for just ran out, and they had no reason to stay?”[/b]

That was a possibility. There were no proper roads that she saw leading here, and MacKinnon had seen her fair share of mining towns that turned into ghost towns over the years. But there was a forest; couldn’t they have gone into lumberjacking? Or fishing? Or just regular farming? Why were people here anyways? Why did everyone other than herself decide to come here? Surely, not all of them were treasure hunters, right?

[b]“Anyways, didja let the others know about the whole ‘buildings with burnable furniture bits yet’? Not seeing lotsa em here. And Wilma, c’mon over! I’ll show you how to clean things up!”[/b]