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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pacdidj" data-source="post: 5167170" data-attributes="member: 86793">At the Ringgitj[sblock=ooc]Since it seems like there aren't any questions for Botj in transit, I'm going to skip ahead.[/sblock]The journey through the mangroves proves to be an arduous one. You spend several hours hacking through and tripping over the smaller mangrove roots, though as you move further inland the mangroves get progressively taller, and you end up having to climb over the giant roots as they are too thick to chop through.By late afternoon you come to a branch in the river. Taking the smaller westward branch, Botj leads you into flat, marshy terrain where the mangroves thin out, and the predominant flora are eucalypts and palms.Plodding along through the mud, you are suddenly startled when Botj calls out a greeting up into the trees: "Way! Walala! Whanhamala ringgitj'ku?"Looking up you see a group of people sitting on a platform fashioned of logs and rushes, one of them trailing a fishing line into the river shallows below. They examine your party with impassive faces, then in response to Botj's question, simply point to a spot on the other side of the water.<img src="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/22/10canoes_wideweb__470x373,0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />"Manymak," says Botj, nodding his thanks, "follow this way."He leads you across the water using the rocks above a shallow rapids as stepping stones, and finally to a larger version of the platform you saw on the other side that rests upon a solitary and truly enormous mangrove tree. You follow him up a rope ladder to find a group of about twenty people seated in a large circle. Botj briefly addresses the assembly, "Ringgijt ma. Dhangu djambatj mala."Rather than making introductions all around, Botj whispers an aside to your party. "This the Ringgitj, eh? The, uh, elder council. Leaders of the four clans all here. That one there's Dhakanmirr. Leader of my clan," says botj, pointing to an a very old, clean shaven man with thinning hair and slightly bugged-out eyes, sitting at about 9'oclock relative to the position of the ladder. "Over there is Larrani. She the leader of the Munhaku, the sunrise people," he indicates a rotund, jolly-looking old woman seated directly across from you. Pointing to the right at a wiry man, with steel-grey curly hair on his head, chin, and chest, Botj says, "That one's Dhawu, leader of the Waltjan clan over by Moonshadow Lake." And finally with a wave of his hand he indicates a younger, albeit middle aged man with long black hair and a goatee, saying, "And him Matjala. He the leader of the Djaapana clan down south. The ones that needing your help.""Show em all proper respect, eh?" Botj implores, though given the blantantly apparent difference in social customs among these people, you're not at all sure how to accomplish this. After bringing you up to speed Botj simply finds an open spot on the floor of the platform and sits down, motioning you to do likewise.There are a few moments of uncomfortable silence, and then the one Botj identified as Dhakanmirr speaks in a dry voice, far less accented than Botj's, "Welcome adventurers. Why do you seek to help my people?"</blockquote>

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