The buildings lining the road barely differed from when Tash was only a child roaming the streets of the large city. A few licks of paint on some and a number of scratches and chips on others were the only changes. As he came to an intersection in the road he paused. He glanced off to his right as a wave of nostalgia passed over him. Four houses down, left turn, two houses down on the right. His old residence sat alone in the recesses of the residential district. He sighed under his breath and continued walking, as he did not wish to reminisce over such things. Soon enough the bank passed by with its own sect of business flowing back and forth through the wide open doors. From there the exit was only a short walk, and just like that Tash had traveled half way across the known world in only half an hour.
Tash consulted the map in his pocket once more. "It'll probably be easier if I follow the road up to the Jolly Boar and then go from there. It's been way too long since I was last out here, and I really don’* want to travel too far north."
The fancy cobblestone road that weaved through Varrock died out into a plain dirt trodden path once it left the city gates and then split in two directions. The northern path led up towards the Jolly Boar Inn as well as towards the gates into Morytania, the dreaded dead lands thriving with vampires, werewolves, and other ghoulish monsters. The southern path led to a much more joyful location, that being Lumbridge as well as the northern reaches of the Kharidian desert. Tash set his sights on the northern road and began his journey out into the forest.
Judging from the location of the sun when Tash had first arrived in Varrock, he believed it to be midday. The walk to the Jolly Boar Inn would roughly take three hours, which would leave him plenty of time to go out and search the woods for this rune altar. He once again stashed the papers in his pockets and started walking.
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