*You have accepted the quest.*
*You will be teleported shortly.*
"Wait, I changed my mind! I'm still at the bus stop!"
Sern felt as if his consciousness slowly separated from his body before opening his eyes in the middle of a small village.
*Welcome, host. To Beginner's Village.*
Sern quickly looked around to observe his surroundings. He was standing at the end of a small road going one way towards a forest. Turning his gaze the other way, he saw a few of the villagers. Some of them were lying down. Some were actively working against the scorching sun, and beggars were begging for any kind of scrap they could get. Apart from that, there was a small mob that screamed about something food related.
Sern quickly realized that this mob might have been related to the quest he was given. So he squeezed himself through the villager and reached the end of the crowd, where an old man was trying to quell the mob's anger to no avail.
"Please everyone! Go back to your homes! The carriages shall arrive soon! I promise we will survive this winter!"
"Boo! You've been saying the same thing for over a week now! Where's our grain!"
"He must've taken it all for himself!"
"Hang him at the stakes!"
Sern decided that his task must have been to discover what happened to the caravan. Thus he immediately set foot, he needed to return back to his job on time if he wanted to support his family.
And with that, sern swiftly ventured towards the road leading towards the forest.
*Quest received: Investigate the missing food carriage.*
The road was empty. Sern kept walking amongst the silence. Nevertheless, he carried on.
An hour later, Sern discovered the carriage. Or whatever remained of it. It was destroyed. The food was taken. Corpses were lying beside the remains of the carriage. Most of them were stripped of their valuables already, except for one.
He saw a singular sword lying in a pool of blood. Abandoned. Sern decided to take it incase anything bad happened to him.