Applebloom is talked into playing a game of Immersive Ogres and Oubliettes, a game that promises adventure and danger in equal measure. Her first adventure is the Dungeon of Statues, a low level dungeon with a higher than average fake-death rate.
A frustrated young orphan with a talent for painting attempts to run away from his rural village and escape to Baltimare on a raft, only to find out that the river Fen holds an unexpected answer to his problem: Seaponies