Jonna shook his head again, "Sorry, quick walking... its...Well... magic works differently here.  I've heard outlander mages complain that they had to completely re learn everything they already knew.  But thought shapes reality here.  Unfortunately only to a very limited degree.  Basically if you're alone and walking somewhere, you just need to focus on a place you know very well, and as long as it's not magically blocked to you, you get there in a fraction of the time that it should take.  Don't know how exactly, but it's like... well... You'd have to talk to a mage to find out how it works.   But the upshot is any place you spend a few nights sleeping in, you'll have no problem getting back too with ease.  That's why I say set up a camp, no matter how tired you are, you'll somehow find yourself back there.   I passed out stinking drunk one night miles from here, and when I woke I was back in my bed.  Don't remember how, just happened."<br/><br/>"As for what's 'safe' the simple answer is nothing is.  If you want to be 'safe,' make sure you only buy food from our vendors here.  Other wise you risk corruption out there.  Anything you eat slowly will make you a part of this place.  The water from our lake is fairly safe, and you can find some pink berries that grow around the lake, those are fairly safe, but you'll go corrupt eating just those, if you don't bore to death of them first."<br/><br/>He shrugs, "Other than that, you take your saftey into your hands eating or drinking anything out there."<br/><br/>"As for the best place to find gems, they seem to appear in the mountains, but you don't want to go there.   The grasslands around the lake are the safest places to be, then the grasslands south of here and the lake, then the forests start to get dangerous and then deep into the hills.  But you start traveling to the south and things get much more dangerous.  The swamps, the desert, the mountains, even the big city of Melinir.  These are bad bad places, don't wanna go there if you aren't ready.  So the easiest way for someone new to get gems is go out and kill some bad guys.  I'd suggest imps to start off, singles, don't go for groups, they get tougher in bigger numbers."<br/><br/>"One word of advice, don't try whorin... it's.... a mistake."