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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 7286986" data-attributes="member: 813">Two days before The Sun Day Festival, the first day of the new year and also the longest day of the year, finds the town of Bit swollen from its normal size of around 8,000 people to well over 20,000, The caravansary has overflowed into a couple bare fields nearby. The inns are packed with higher class folk than they might normally host. Houses are renting out space to travelers.The bustle of work decorating the main square, preparing portable food carts, and preparing various locations for sporting events continues as it has for the last few days. The Tierden (high priest) of the Cathedral of Bit can be seen out and about making sure all twelve offering stations to the gods are properly prepared.In the villages surrounding Bit, the opposite is true. Villages like Groaning, Forest's End, Tolman, and East End are practically ghost towns, their residents already in Bit or on the road there. One or two inns are still open in those towns as the denizens of the Groaning Forest sometime stop by for a drink or a night's rest. But by tomorrow, those inns will also be closed as their owners head to Bit.The weather is seasonably warm and there has been little rain since Spring ended after the Pledge Festival two months ago.Rumors abound in the city and it is not hard to find a contradictory rumor to most of the crazier ones. Some popular ones (DC 0) include: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Old man Rillstone, the reclusive head of one of the four ruling houses of Bit, has finally passed away.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No skiffs from Leed's Crossing have arrived at the Festival this year. (That part is consistent. For the reason, there are several conflicting accounts.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">East End villagers are all happy to tell anyone who cares that raids from the Swamp of Torment are down this year.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sira Oln, a known diviner in Bit, is said to be leaving (or to have already left) town because he has foreseen some tragedy coming.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eliana Puth'Sayol, third in the line of succession in the Puth'Sayol ruling house, is said to be engaged to a nobleman in Cade-Crable. She is unhappy with the arrangement.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gurum's Golems is in town. They put on amazing circus shows. A teaser show is happening tonight in a large tent erected in the caravansary.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Homestead Horrors are favored to win the sandball competition (think lacross played on a sandy course), according to the bookies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Groaning Forest is said to be less active but louder in terms of the groaning it is known for. Like no one knows what causes the groaning, no one knows why the frequency or volume might have changed.</li> </ul>---That's the intro. The opening to the game will be as fast or slow as you like. You have two days to get from where ever your character calls home to Bit.</blockquote>

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