You open your eyes to see that you are standing in the middle of a very small village. About 12 buildings stand surrounding the well that supplies fresh water to the people who live here. Such a village must be pressed to have the basic ability to support themselves. As you start to walk around, you see a group of about 6 young children playing. Then, of the buildings you see, about 5 of them seem to be used to operate specific businesses.

As you investigate, you learn a few things:

  • The village is known as Verdale.
  • You aren't able to easily manipulate the vision, such as lifting papers
  • The children are practicing for a play, in front of a stage with a musician on it.
  • One household in the town belongs to a doctor searching for a cure to the disease affecting his son
  • The townspeople are all masters of their trade, dealing with several settlements and are able to charge incredibly high prices for their work

The townspeople consist of:

  • a knight, his wife, and their daughter, Alendra
  • a doctor and his son, Belfan, who has to wear a mask to cover the scar on his face
  • a blacksmith, his wife, and their daughter, Chale
  • a ranger, his wife, and their daughter, Erwin
  • a tailor, her husband, and their son, Peran
  • an orphaned boy, Ryje, who lives on his own
  • a general goods merchant, a cook, a musician, and a woodworker

After some investigation, everything around you seems to race off into the distance, and before you know it, you are standing on the stage sides, watching the children perform their play. During the play, each child have a different role:

  • Alendra played on her harp
  • Belfan acted out the story of the play
  • Chale played on the drums
  • Erwin played on the flute
  • Peran narrated the story of the play
  • Ryje operated the music box during the play

At this point after being tired of being in this place, Eressil shoulder-checks Belfan while he is in the middle of acting out a scene, causing his mask to fly off, revealing the butterfly scar across his face. As this happened, their parents, in the audience gasped in shock of the events and felt bad for the child, but to Belfan, they  were disgusted by what they saw.

His father, more determined than ever to cure his son, went to work, and finally had a promising breakthrough. While it wasn't a cure, it could at least hold the disease at bay, and hide the rash that plagued him.

Vision Recap