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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3084874" data-attributes="member: 18549">18: The End of the RoadThis is, quite literally, the end of the road.&nbsp; This point is as far as the road builders made it when attempting to connect a distant city to the highways of the (current or previous) empire.&nbsp; The plan was abandoned when political problems caused the budget for the project to be scrapped.&nbsp; The road is currently in a state of disrepair, since no one uses it and it does not appear on any official maps (its existance is somewhat embarrassing).&nbsp; It was, however, once a very expensive brick road suitable for cart or pedestrian traffic.&nbsp; The road ends abruptly in the middle of an area of uninhabited wilderness, days from any major settlement.&nbsp; A simple barricade, weathered almost to the point of destruction, blocks passage from the road to the bare earth beyond.&nbsp; The barricade bears a sign on which one can still make out the words: &quot;Road closed.&nbsp; Construction will resume shortly.&nbsp; Bricklayers inquire at Capital about employment opportunities.&quot;About a mile past the end of the road, and exactly in line with it is the abandoned husk of a half-built tavern that was supposed to have been a waystation and inn for travellers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 3084874, member: 18549"] [b]18: The End of the Road[/b] This is, quite literally, the end of the road. This point is as far as the road builders made it when attempting to connect a distant city to the highways of the (current or previous) empire. The plan was abandoned when political problems caused the budget for the project to be scrapped. The road is currently in a state of disrepair, since no one uses it and it does not appear on any official maps (its existance is somewhat embarrassing). It was, however, once a very expensive brick road suitable for cart or pedestrian traffic. The road ends abruptly in the middle of an area of uninhabited wilderness, days from any major settlement. A simple barricade, weathered almost to the point of destruction, blocks passage from the road to the bare earth beyond. The barricade bears a sign on which one can still make out the words: "Road closed. Construction will resume shortly. Bricklayers inquire at Capital about employment opportunities." About a mile past the end of the road, and exactly in line with it is the abandoned husk of a half-built tavern that was supposed to have been a waystation and inn for travellers. [/QUOTE]

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