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The plot used the [[wikipedia:Frame story|framing device]] that it was a tale being told to the player by a mysterious [[Pink]] [[Elephante]] they met at the gypsy camp - who in fact is Mr. Krawley in disguise. Nested within this story, the Pink Elephante appears again to tell Gilly about the history of Neovia.  
The plot used the [[wikipedia:Frame story|framing device]] that it was a tale being told to the player by a mysterious [[Pink]] [[Elephante]] they met at the gypsy camp - who in fact is Mr. Krawley in disguise. Nested within this story, the Pink Elephante appears again to tell Gilly about the history of Neovia.  
==Summary==
==Story==
===The gypsy camp===
[[Image:TOW launch06.gif|frame|right|Gilly at the Gypsy Camp.]]  
[[Image:TOW launch06.gif|frame|right|Gilly at the Gypsy Camp.]]  
Deep within the Haunted Woods users happen upon a [[Gypsy Camp]], where a Pink [[Elephante]] greets and warns them of the dangers of the woods - "[...] Trees and creatures roam the night, and they can swallow the unwary. It's no accident that so many legends and myths surround this place [...]" - and reads the user a story of [[Gilly]], when she visited the Camp and heard the story of Neovia...
Gilly was lost in the Haunted Woods. As night drew in, she found shelter at a [[Gypsy Camp]]. There, she met a mysterious Pink Elephante with glitering, golden eyes. He offered to read her a story before she went to sleep.  


===The Legend of Neovia===
Somewhere in the Haunted Woods was a quiet town called Neovia. A [[Gelert]] named [[Bruno]] lived there, who was was besotted by [[Lily]], a local [[Pink]] [[Aisha]]. Bruno wasn't strong enough or charming enough to win Lily's affections from her boyfriend [[Oscar]], and thought that he would always be lonely.  
The Elephante began his tale of a family of [[Edmund]] and [[Alice]], and their three children: sons [[Bruno]] and [[Reginald]], and daughter [[Sophie]] (who the Elephante avoids mentioning until his story is almost over). They lived in [[Neovia]], and had many troubles. Bruno sought the affection of [[Lily]], but lacked the charm and strength to court her, and was not helped in his attempts by [[Oscar]], Lily's current protective companion.


After Oscar hit Bruno for talking to Lily, Bruno resigned to his fate but stumbled upon [[Mr. Krawley]], who offered him a potion which would make all his troubles go away for only a few [[Neopoints]]. After drinking the potion, the very next day he was handsome, strong and much more presentable to Lily.
One day, he met a stranger to the town, a [[Krawk]] with bright gold eyes. He offered to sell Bruno a potion that would fulfill all his desires. Overnight, the potion made Bruno stronger and more confident.  


Edmund claimed Bruno was foolish to take such an action, complaining that one must work for success. However, when he was offered the potion by [[Mr. Krawley]], he reluctantly took it to resolve the family's financial hardship. Like Bruno, the elixir worked and he became rich within the next few days.  With the testimonials of Bruno and his father, word of the potions spread quickly. When Reginald took a potion as well, increasing his intelligence and knowledge, the popularity of the elixir was assured. Before long, everyone was taking the potions to have their wishes - such things as height, beauty and youth - granted with a single swig, and only the innocent, such as [[Sophie]], refrained from drinking the potion.
Bruno wasn't the only Neovian to be offered the potion. His father, Edmund, found it made his business a success again and his debts disappear, and his younger brother Reginald found the potion made him smarter. They encouraged their friends and neighbours to try [[Mr. Krawley]]'s potion, and all their wishes - from being taller, or more beautiful, or younger - began to be answered. Only the innocent, like Bruno's sister [[Sophie]], who wanted for nothing, didn't drink the potion.  


The effects of the potion did not end there, however. Bruno kept becoming stronger and stronger, until he was a grotesque muscular monster; Edmund became paranoid that people would want to steal his new fortune; Reginald become so intelligent that no one else could understand him any more. The entire town began to suffer for their greed and wanted answers from Mr. Krawley - but he had disappeared. The town turned their anger on Bruno and his family instead.
While Bruno distracted the mob, Reginald smuggled their sister Sophie, the only one unaffected by the potion, out of the town and into the Woods. The [[Earth Faerie]] [[Ilere]] appeared to them, and took Sophie away to care for her. Reginald returned to Neovia and hid with his parents as the towns people drove Bruno out of Neovia.
[[Image:TOW prologue2.gif|frame|left|[[Mayor Thumburt]] and the rioters.]]
[[Image:TOW prologue2.gif|frame|left|[[Mayor Thumburt]] and the rioters.]]
The potion seemed to give everyone in Neovia happiness... but as the days passed, the effects of the potion continued to make their wishes more twisted. Edmund became suspicious of everyone, carefully guarding over his fortune. Bruno became a muscular, deformed monster. Reginald became lonely, seeking refuge in his books when people couldn't stand to talk to him and his great intellect. Curses like this spread to everyone who drank the potion, and the angry town joined together and searched for [[Mr. Krawley]], only to find he had disappeared. They then decided to put the blame on the family which advertised the elixir and were the first to drink it, and attacked Edmund's home.
[[Mayor Thumburt]] managed to stop the mob before it turned on itself, and together they summoned the [[Spirit of Slumber]], a powerful ghost who haunts the Woods. He agreed to end Neovia's suffering, but for a "terrible price".  
 
Bruno ran outside to distract the villagers while Reginald and Sophie sneaked out the back and ran for the woods. In the forest, they encountered [[Ilere]], who said Sophie had no where else to go but in her care. Reginald refused such an action, but relented when Sophie went of her own free will, saying she felt safe with Ilere. Returning back to Neovia, Reginald saw Bruno being chased into the woods outside of town, and escorted his parents to an abandoned mansion on the other side of town, used in the past for games of hide-and-seek.


Bruno lost those chasing him in the forest, and when the towns people returned they attacked, determined for retribution. Suddenly, [[Mayor Thumburt]] stopped them all and said they must be cured before bringing justice to those responsible. The Neovians summon [[The Spirit of Slumber]], who cures them with magic, but at a terrible price...
The story at an end, Gilly went off to sleep. The next day, she left the camp and ventured back into the woods.  


===The ruins of Neovia===
===The ruins of Neovia===

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