Alright I got the wolves all sorted finally, let's get on with the story.
Gotta follow this guy again. He's painfully slow
At least the wolves let me past this time
But I got stopped at this gate. The dark rider disappears down the road.
Guess I better go tell Alex what happened. Think she's worried it took me an entire day to follow this guy? lol
She says we should go ask Jasper what's beyond that gate. He's like old as balls so he should know everything about the past, right?
Off to Jasper! I was complaining earlier but honestly I really do love when we get to ride with someone to the next part of a quest. Feels like actually having friends
Alex what are you doing? Jasper's over here
He says that gate used to be unlocked every spring, just like this one I already unlocked, but years ago it stayed locked and it's been that way ever since. Suspicious.
He also says that the mayor and his wife used to have a summer home on a lake up there. Also, curiously, he makes it sound like the riding trail is behind the gate when it's not anymore. SSO needs to update his dialog, I guess.
Anyway, now I'm off to the mayor to ask him about the summer house
tell me your secrets old man
uh oh, we got a runner!
im on a horse, my guy. you're not gonna out run me. spill or i sic my horse on you
He basically just says his wife got into witchcraft and it freaked him out so he left and locked her in there. That's a bit messed up actually. He gave me the key since I've done so much for the city...I really haven't done much but we'll pretend I'm not ignoring all the sidequests rn
Back to the gate!
Oh hey Alex, lemme get that gate for you
Amazing
Now what do you want?
Ah, yes, of course. I'm the one to go in and snoop. She'll just stand guard. You ever think about how weird it is they make the rookie do everything?
Spooky. I like the purple tbh
Oh hello again completely normal person, you're looking as normal as when we met. I too like to keep my horses in birdcages. He likes to be tall, what can I say.
Ah. I appear to be a frog now. This is fine.
I managed to be unfrogged and I told Alex what happened. She said to go to Linda because she holds the braincell of this group and I think we're gonna need it now
Hey Linda why are you never on your horse. Alex is like always with Tincan.
Oh and a witch has Justin's horse
She, predictably, wants to research witches at the library.
I followed her definitely-not-creepily to the library
Chester that's not helping, we're trying to study witches
It won't let me sit down to read the books so I just stood there awkwardly inside a chair instead. Compromise.
We got a lot of books to read, this is gonna take a while, in fact it'll take all night. See ya tomorrow