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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 1422766" data-attributes="member: 8243">The miles pass underfoot, and the town falls away behind you. The grey clouds scuttle overhead but the rain holds off. The road is a little less well travelled today than it is usually. Those who wanted to get back to their homes and villages after yesterdays attacks have already done so. But you do meet the odd traveller as you go. A couple of farmers and merchants on their way to town. A peddler returning from a trip around the villages.Farmland surrounds the road on this side of town for the first couple of miles. Slowly it is replaced by open grasslands and scattered patches of forest. Grazingland mostly. Occasionally, you can see the smoke from the campfires of a few scattered herdsmen. The road is a little muddy from yesterdays rain, but still easy enough to travel. The road is well enough travelled that typically muddy areas have long ago had stones or logs laid down to prevent wagons and carts from getting bogged. Small steams, if too large to be easily stepped over, have large rocks for foot traffic to use to keep their feet dry. After about 2 and a half hours, or 5 miles, Nate, having travelled this way way more than once, realises that you are approaching the first stop on your route. Ujersu. The letter is addressed to The Bourge*, Jenry Pruss. Its a small farming village. And sure enough, you crest a low rise and beyond lies an expanse of farmland with the aformentioned village at its center, a couple of miles from where you stand now.ooc: the Bourge is the head of the village. Usually, that means being head of the council, although some villages have other ways of selecting their Bourge. In some towns he may also have the role of Bailiff and be able to adjudicate simple (those not involving the nobility, clergy or military) disputes on behalf of the Lord of the region. This position would be granted to him by the Lord of the region, rather than come with the position of Bourge by default.Ujersu is essentally a market, serving a number of surrounding hamlets, and farming village of some 500 people. Its location, some 14 miles from Trolluk make it a common stop for those unable to go the distance from Trolluk to Seven in a day (21 miles).</blockquote>

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