The Usurpers of Hochenyana

Something has taken Hochenyana, and nobody outside it knows what. It was a bustling village. Now its people go up and down their clean streets with a jerk in their step and a glaze upon their eyes, and they answer no greeting.

Traders who still cross its bridge all tell the same things. The guard there stares into space and says, now and then, 'Look at the pretty insects...'. The keeper of the Laughing Eagle wipes his counter over and over. The constable stands at attention and says that nothing is amiss, and a bear has walked into the town and met no resistance. Only one man in Hochenyana still looks a stranger in the eye, an old one in wizard's robes who sells potions, and he has a great deal to say.

Details

• Built by Yaegar.
• The townsfolk are levels 27 to 36 and the intruders 37 to 49.
• Beware: a few creatures are far stronger, up to level e1000.
• There is a quest here. It starts with the old man in the potion shop.
• It lies on the world map a long way south of Midian.