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The city in the purple area is called Puncture, then?

"Yeah, Puncture is the "purple city", or Capital of the Pain Petal, if ya wanna get all formal. All the different colored chunks on the map are called Petals, by the way."

Petals?

"Yeah, on account of our world looks like a big flower. It didn't used to, but it does now, so we roll with it. Don't ask me what happened, nobody knows why it changed."

Oh... so the other cities and petals, then?

"Right... we'll getchu a map and a bag when we're in town, but if ya wanna get a headstart on yer geography class here... from the red country and clockwise, it's: Discard, Capital of Rot, Sizzle, Capital of Heat, Treat, Capital of Pleasure, Bonsai, Capital of Growth, Negative, Capital of Chill, and then Puncture."

Sounds like a lot of variety packed into a small selection.

"Yea... it's cool."

So, which of those are you from, Jay?

"I'm from Sizzle. Pretty much all the Whiptoads come from there, it's like our homeland or somethin."

Huh... what about the other "Blanks"? What happened to them after you found them, do you know?

"Nah, don't know, except for the first one I found. I bumped into them once or twice on my travels, looked like they made some friends and decided to take up the scavengin' and treasure-huntin' life. It's cool, but that means they might be one'a my business competitors now, hehe."

Is that where the money's at around here?

"Yeah, you wouldn't believe how many people don't try to hunt treasure... well, scavenging's pretty common, but the best way to earn beads is to bring back somethin' nobody's got anymore. I wouldn't recommend you try it though, and not just cause it'd make you a business competitor of mine, no. Treasure's runnin' low, you gotta dive into monster nests to find anything good these days."

"We're almost at town, anything else you're curious about?"