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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5340951" data-attributes="member: 21938">It takes the better part of the day to slog through the jungle between the falls and the city, but wherever you are, the days here are long and it is still light when you reach the edge of the settlement (up close, the term "city" seems a bit too grand).Land has been cleared for about half a mile around it and converted into farmland. The port is surrounded by a wooden palisade, with watchtowers over the gate and interspersed along the perimeter. The gates are currently open, and a surprising amount of traffic is passing through, mostly heading inside. There is a large caravan, perhaps the one you saw earlier, comprised of ten flat-bed wagons with something piled under tarpaulins. Each wagon is pulled by a huge ox-like creature and driven by a human slave. Two ur-man guards walk alongside each wagon.However, there are work-gangs of human slaves also being herded back into the city by ur-man overseers, and you also notice some humans who are evidently not slaves, or, if they don't actually have freedom still dress and act like ordinary townsfolk. The volume of traffic heading through the gates has bought things to a standstill.</blockquote>