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

As yet more days, and soon even weeks, pass by, the town begins to evolve into somewhere you don't quite recognize. Each time you walk into town, a different building seems to have been reduced to rubble, ready to make way for something new. Little by little construction sites turn into newly-built walls which turn into empty stores.


Fairly soon, the first Alberobello-branded business—a gym and spa—opens just off the main street. There's a long line at the door on opening morning, punctuated by a few people picketing with signs demanding that Clarence Industries be forced to halt their plans for the forest once and for all.


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