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Ruralscape

The next morning, we left castle rock and headed
north on I25 for 4 hours. We turned west and
took I80 until sunset. The next day we turned
off the highway and went north into the
Ruralscape. Soon after, we entered a
spectacular valley. Sunshine informed us that
we had entered New Eden. After two days of
travel on the rocky remains of a road, we passed
through the ruins of a town named Pinedale. For
the next hour we passed several collections of
run down shacks that Sunshine pointed out as
various settlements of New Eden. We had to stop
for an hour as a massive herd of bison crossed
our path and blocked the road. Shortly before
dusk, we arrived at Kristiania on the shores of
a vast lake in the shadow of snow capped
mountains.

Though no words could describe the beauty of the
surrounding lands, only one was necessary for
Kristiania: dilapidated. All but one of the
dozen buildings of the community were sheet