PlayerOliver

When you were a kid, you lived with your grandmother in the small town of Silvertree, on the edge of a magical forest. Grandma is a witch, and she taught you how to use your magic to affect the natural world, too. “Magic is a part of you,” she always told you. “Learning how to use it means figuring out who you are.”

Now you’re 19 and on your own. After years of living in the forest while you perfected your witchcraft, you’ve returned to take care of your grandmother’s house and crow-familiar while she’s gone. Figuring out who you are feels more important than ever - not to mention, figuring out what Silvertree is. A lot is just as you remembered: the friendly generous next-door neighbors with a kid just your age, the proud town council, the quaint little shops with quirky punny names, the gentle shadowy forest full of magic.

Stone in the shoe

You take a single thick brush and hold it at the ready.


To your left, Tobias is carefully drawing the outline of a big, bounding dog in a mixture of browns, yellows, and reds—it definitely suits the mood of a day at the fair. Now that you've chosen your brush, you think you'd better follow suit and pick your colors for your flowers.


It only makes sense; you don't want people getting confused.


As you're kneeling there, poised with your single big brush, you see Tobias starting to trace out the letters D-O-G in bold, swirling calligraphy. So far, you haven't even touched the paper.


Finally, you think it's about time you decided on a design for your flower show banner—and of course, now's the time to decide what you want the world (or at least the town) to see when they look at it. Could you somehow use the banner to help the forest? You could do something totally different, of course—like just focusing on making a banner Tobias will be happy with—but either way, you think it might be tricky to find the line between sending a message and simply advertising a flower show. You'll have to get it just right.


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