| Journey to Yafall
Man, if only I had a scanner at home. I always forget to take maps in to work to scan 'em so I can attach them here... I really want to try to post a map of Gorel and Yafall with this next update! Sigh... well, we'll see. Maybe I can manage to bring it in with me when I go to work today...
In any event:
Yafall is nestled just off the coast of Gorel. It's small, and there was no official 'state' or anything there. At the time, as now, over two and a half centuries later, Yafall was officially a part of the Forinthian province of Gorel, but it was mostly lawless and lightly inhabited at most.
It seemed, to our poor heroes, battered and depleted after their battle, like a place to search for a hideout that might not lead them directly into the hands of genocidal cannibalistic elves. So, after hiring on a sufficient crew- strongly desiring to be able to fight off an ambush by a war party of grugach or something similar- the party set sail for Yafall.
The new crew members included a strange human named Rajah and Sh'larn Eloh'myr, one of the merellin the party had met previously on Captain Drake's vessel at the Coral Caves. As the party sailed, they gradually gathered a few interesting things about Rajah- namely, that he was raised by tigers and that someone was trying to capture him.
Then the party reached Yafall and took the Sea Hag up a river. The river led them to a lake surrounded by low hills and a few cliffs. "Maybe," Malford reasoned, "we can find a hidden cove or even a cave to use as a hideout." Galiger nodded and barked orders to the crew; the knarr glided out across the water, staying reasonably close to the edge for easier searching. Some areas showed beach; and, strangely enough, a vessel- a small galley- was beached on it. Listing to one side, the vessel seemed to be empty, at least at first glance; and so our heroes obliged....
Next Time: A strange boat, an ambush, and a strange disappearance! | 
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