How to get there: The middle of the world. Townward (say hemma, Magic 12) brings you back to the square from anywhere.
The square is a protection zone: nobody can fight there. Signposts at its edges point north to the mine and the mountains, east to the forest, west to goblin country and south to the lake.
The well and the Guide
A well stands in the middle of the square, benches round it, and the Guide beside it: talk to her first. Market stalls and bunting fill the rest of the square.
Around the square- North: the temple, where you wake after a fall, with Old Henry outside it; the paint shop on the north-east corner (the Painter).
- West: the bank (the Banker); north of it, the pet shop (the Pet keeper and the shop dog).
- East: the general store (the Shopkeeper), and a chicken pen beyond it.
- South-east: the smithy, open to the sky: a furnace, two anvils, the town’s sawbench and the Smith.
- South-west: the kitchen, with two ranges and the Cook.
The little mine
North-west of the square lies a small patch of bare rock with copper, tin and iron rocks: the ore for The Smith's First Sword. The north road climbs on past the temple to the big mine in the mountains, where coal, silver and gold wait the farther up you go and trolls (level 25) roam, and to The Humming Stones where the road ends.
The evening fires
On the lake shore south-east of the square, behind the smithy: two campfires ringed with benches, a lantern at either end. Nobody fights there, and sitting by a fire brings your health and mana back twice as fast. Supper by the Fires and Another Dragon both end here.
The southern lake and its bridge
The south road runs down to the lake and out over it on a long plank bridge. Billy the Builder stands at its town end (Stake Your Claim). Shrimp swim along the shore, for the small net every newcomer carries; harpoon spots lie farther out, and rod spots to the east.
Round town
Hoglets root about in the meadows round town and never start a fight: bare hands will do. Beetles live in the clearings, wolves in the eastern forest, goblin whelps and goblins round their camps to the west. Pheasant Meadow lies just west of town, by the Honeybrook road.