For some reason, despite the intense cold screaming at any part of your body not covered, you decide to go mountain climbing. And not just any rinky dink human mountain, either. No, you wanted to climb a proper mountain. And looking up from your current vantage point, the mountain seemed to stretch out for many miles, overlooking the quaint small town like a gigantic monolith of rock and snow.
Indeed, human mountains, from what you remember, looked almost...pitiful, in comparison to monster mountains. Following the same sense of scale as the rest of the monster world, the mountain seemed to stretch up infinitely before you, and you weren't even at the base! It looked like a terrifying, exciting, terrible and great idea. But as you walked towards the base of the mountain, a process that would take several minutes, you wondered how exactly you were going to go about this.
Of course, humans can't climb the thing alone. It's mountain sized... to the monsters, so of course it was unreasonably large for any human beings. But after a fair amount of walking, you see a comically large lodge, aptly labeled "Scream Town Mountain - Help Center". Perhaps they'll have some information inside?
After running for a few more minutes, and walking up the human-sized stairs, you eventually reach the front door to the lodge. Monsters, who you don't bother to get particularly good looks at, enter and leave at a fair rate, but you've yet to see a single human that isn't you. Which makes sense, given how daunting of a task the mountain climbing will be, but it's at least a little concerning, leaving you wondering if this was a bad idea after all. But you step inside the human-sized entrance anyway.
Looking around, it's a fairly typical lodge. Aside from some minor human accommodations, it's a normal lodge, sans it being up-sized for monsters. A warm fireplace surrounded by chairs and couches sits in the corner to your right, with several monsters whom you don't recognize talking about something. Directly in front of the entrance at the other end was a help desk, where you spotted what you could only assume was a satyr standing at the front desk. Which is kind-of funny, when you think about it, because it's a mountain and satyr's are kinda like goats... okay, yeah, she probably wouldn't be too happy if you said that, but still.
To the left of you, at the left of the entrance to the place, was a wide set of stairs and a human elevator, leading up to the second floor. You had no reason to go to the second floor until you get some information at the help desk, but it'll be worth checking out later. Maybe that's where the supplies are?
Ascending a human-sized spiral staircase to allow you to reach the top of the help desk, again, takes another few minutes, but living in this world has given you enough stamina to get through these tasks well enough. At the top, you stop and take a breather, and take a look at the help-desk lady conversing with another monster, who you ignore.
From your vantage point, she just looked like a fairly slimly built human woman, albeit monster-sized at what you could only guess was 700 feet tall, a little short for the regulars of the town, although her chair gave her a boost. She had brunette hair, tied up into a ponytail (which looked strange in tandem with her large, protruding goat horns), and she was wearing a blank white shirt that simply read "Scream Town Mountain" on it, as if this place was some sort of brand. You also spotted a name tag. "Cindy". You'd have to remember that. Looking further down, where her shirt ends you find that she apparently didn't subscribe to wearing pants, although her bottom half was entirely goat-like in typical satyr fashion, so it did the job of covering up what needed to be covered anyway. Yeah, she was a satyr alright.
Finally, she finishes her conversation with the monster above you, and looks down at the desk, having noticed you during her conversation. "Anything you need, sir?" she asks extremely politely, a trend that seemed to persist throughout the town. For the most part. "Yeah, I was wondering. How can a human hike up the mountain? I've always wanted to go mountain climbing, and figured I'd do it here." "Is there anybody with you? A monster, maybe?" she asks, looking around. "Nope, it's just me."
The satyr looks at you in confusion for a moment before reaching to her side and grabbing a pamphlet, and opening it up, skimming through it. "Here," she says, turning it to face you and pointing at the corner of the page, "Our pamphlet states that humans cannot hike up the mountain alone. It's far too dangerous for a single human." You frown. "Come on, isn't there something you can do? I was hoping I'd be able to hike today..." "Well, luckily for you, humans aren't totally out of options." she says, flipping through the pages of the pamphlet. "There's a tram system on the second floor that can give you a ride straight to the top, if you're interested in the hot springs and don't want to go through the trouble to hike all the way up. Alternatively, you can rent a vehicle in order to drive up our specifically paved human roads, where there are multiple points along the way to park and camp for awhile, while enjoying several of our scenic views."
That was something, at least, but it still left you unsatisfied. "Anything else?" you ask, and the satyr shakes her head. "Unless you have a monster with you, there's nothing I can do, honey. Maybe you can ask some of the monsters over by the fire place if they'd like to go with you?" she says, pointing at the few monsters near the fireplace that you couldn't get a good look at from here. "Oh well. Thanks anyway." you tell 'Cindy', and she smiles. "Oh, and the rental hiking supplies are upstairs." she says as you begin to make the trek down the staircase that brought you up here.
But as you step down the staircase, you feel a tad disapointed. There goes any hope of you hiking up alone, just you and the wilderness... except, maybe you still can. Although you're not supposed to, you could rent the supplies and begin to trek up the mountain yourself. Security looked pretty lax (or rather, there is no security) so nobody would be able to stop you if you tried. But maybe the Satyress is right, and it is too dangerous. If it's a monster sized mountain, odds are monster sized animals live on it. What if there are dinosaurs? Dinosaurs were native in the monster world, after all, and you let out a shudder as you consider the possibility of a dinosaur catching you off-guard. Still, that hardly deterred you from your goal, so by the time you reach the floor again, you've decided to...
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