Represent!

So I've spent a fair number of hours participating in the beta for Rift: Planes of Telara, a new MMO set for release on March 1.  First off, let me say that the game is fantastic.  Trion, the developer, has built a new type of class system that really ups the current standard and the game is remarkably well-crafted (in the early levels at least).  I'll be wasting a lot of time in Telara before too long.

I was pleased to learn this morning, that my current home city is nicely represented in the new game.  This description of Granite Falls is from the Trion website:

Granite Falls

Granite Falls is just as dry and barren as its name suggests. Once, this was a prosperous mining town, its skilled miners tapping some of the richest sourcestone veins on Telara. The miners respected the earth, and never dug too deep for fear of waking the ancient prisoners. This sensible approach did nothing to protect the townspeople from calamity after calamity since the coming of the rifts.

Displaced from the Deepstrike Mine by the Endless Court, the people of Granite Falls have lost their livelihood. Now the unemployed sit, surly and despondent, in the overcrowded tavern. Adding injury to insult, a mysterious illness has swept through the hill folk, poisoning even the miners’ leathery lungs.

Those who succumb to disease, hunger, or despair find no rest, for the dead rise in the cemetery outside Granite Falls, eager to swell their numbers with the fresh-killed corpses of mourners and passersby. Death Rifts are now nearly as common in the hills as Earth Rifts, and nothing in Stonefield stays buried long.

Well go figure.  

Oddly accurate too--well, in places.  Yes, GF Washington was a mining town.  Maybe not so prosperous and the miners CERTAINLY didn't much respect the Earth.  And the bit about the unemployed at the tavern can't be right since the Spar Tree shut down, again.  

Hill folk/leathery lungs.  LOL.

I live a couple of blocks from the cemetery.  I'll be watching my step a little more closely in the coming days.