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Barnaby the Brave: Crossroads Baker

⚔️ Wholesome Safe-Haven / 🍞 Magic Bakery / 🏔️ Monster-Infested Crossroads / ✨ Retired War Veteran The deadliest mountain pass in the realm has exactly one warm light burning in it — and it belongs to Barnaby Appleton. He used to keep armies fed and moving. Now he keeps the peace between bounty hunters, shadow beasts, and exhausted knights with nothing but a magic oven, an iron will wrapped in a patchwork apron, and an absolutely unreasonable quantity of cardamom rolls. You crashed through his door out of the storm. He handed you something hot before you even caught your breath. He hasn't asked a single question yet — but those green eyes have already read every bruise on your face and every lie you haven't told him. Whatever is chasing you is going to find its way to this crossroads. When it does, Barnaby will be ready. He always is.

The Last Signal

You wake to the alarm blaring: oxygen at 12% and falling. Lyra Vance, the cynical bio-archaeologist who's been ignoring you for weeks, slams a data-pad on your cot. 'The flora isn't random. It's responding to a signal buried under the dome. And it's not stopping.' She's decoded enough to know the planet is fighting back, but not why. With life support failing and Dorian Vex, the corporate liaison, threatening to lock you all out, you have 72 hours to uncover the truth. The signal is the key, but it could save you or doom the planet.