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Message: <blockquote data-quote="driver8" data-source="post: 2136434" data-attributes="member: 17559">On the Road"Ahh the Viscounty's a land of opportunity, nowadays.  Paradise for adventurin' folk. Head east..there's fortunes to be made for the right sort."The fat tavern keep in Verbobonc City, the one whose name you can't recall, had painted a rosy picture of the Viscounty of Verbobonc. A open land with few nobles running the affairs of the peasants, a place full of opportunity, a frontier where one could make his name.After a few hours of his talk, some drinks, and lack of anything to do in the city, a party was formed.It has now been over a week since youve left the city and began travelling east along the River Road. Your experience thus far has been a little different than the one predicted by the tavern keeper.Everyday, its been the same thing. An endless parade of grey clouded skies and cold autumn winds. The road you've travelled has been lacking in other travellers-so much so that youve begun to doubt the existence of people in Verbobonc. And your view has been unchanging- the swift Velverdya River to your left, the low forested hills to your right. Sometimes, in the distance, a small farm or thorp.However a quarter of an hour ago youve become aware of a presence in the treeline to your right, perhaps 30 feet away. A movement , a sound, difficult to place. As the party trudges to a small rise in the road, everyone is aware that something or someone is paralleling their movements along the road. Or at least, you think so. Between the wind, and the gloom of the overcast day, it is difficult to confirm.As the party crests the ridge, your minds still occupied with movement in the woods, you almost miss a wisp of smoke in the distance. There, about a quarter of a mile away, you see it float skyward from a stand of trees between the river and the road. The trees block the source of the smoke, but a large red caravan wagon can clearly be spied nearby the river and the smoke.So far the tavern keeper had been wrong about everything. Maybe that would change now.</blockquote>

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