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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6181187" data-attributes="member: 93930">The night passes without incident.  Varga does keep a pair of men on watch, but they're not professionals, and they make enough noise to wake you once or twice during the night while they patrol.  The following morning, Varga organizes the men into loading the boat, while your lieutenants report in.Uder speaks first.  "You heard them stumbling around too, did you squire?  There's not enough guards, and the ones they have ain't trained.  If it were up to me, I'd have at least eight on guard, but Varga's probably going to raise a stink if we take that many, because it'll cut into work time.  We could also start putting the dwarves and half-orcs on midnight watch, with the half-elves on morning and evening, so as best to take advantage of everyone's night-vision.  But that might cause some grumbling in the ranks about racism and such.  And if we can map a few miles out, I'd start up some patrols farther out."Shari delivers her report on the warehouses next.  "First, we have some furs.  The good news is, they're from super exotic animals and they would be worth a ton of money if they were cured the Landellian way.  The bad news is, they weren't cured the Landellian way.  Apparently, the Jiragan natives use a different process that makes them more weatherproof, but really, really stinky.  As is, the furs are not going to be worth much without some sort of alchemical cleaning.  Franco could probably contract it out to the Alchemist's Guild back in Venza, but it'll take a lot off the profitability."Peet grimaces and grudgingly says, "It's something I could probably do, or get set up here if you want.  I can't guarantee success, though.  And I smelled those things, and holy crow, it's not something I'd look forward to doing.  And it'll take money ... for the equipment.  And, uh, stuff."Shari continues.  "In the longer term, if we ever open trade with the Jiragans, it might be worthwhile to bring over a Landellian-style tanner and just have him do it on-site.  Moving on, we've got three cords of really nice hardwood -- they're species of mahogany and teak that I've never seen before.  We could use it here to get things built quickly, if there's anything you urgently want done, or we can send it back to Venza to sell.  The last thing is that some of the mineral samples had gold in them, but I have no idea where they came from.  I only know that one of the natives brought them, who knows from where exactly.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that the samples probably came from the mountains inland, and we're near a river that comes out of the the inland mountains, so there's a possibility that there's a place we could pan for gold somewhere upstream, maybe even nearby.  But it's a guess.  It might be better to scout for it."Peet speaks up again.  "On the local front, the workers are generally pretty happy.  Varga's one tough lady, but they respect her, and since the workers have been promised a share of the profits, they're working pretty hard.  The native elves have been wandering by from time to time, but they prefer the mountains, and they don't seem to believe in money, so they're not that interested in us.  There is supposedly a little frog shaman guy who's been hanging around, and I'd guess he's our best bet for local knowledge.  Oh, and Cato's letter?  The one addressed to 'Scout'?  I think I found out who it's for.  There's some wayang woodsy-type that wanders through every week or two.  Apparently, he was here before the Gabbiano guys were.  And he has a Sumbru accent."<img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/peet_150a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/uder_150.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=56902&d=1364420027" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Wholesome Peet . . Uder Gormengeist . Shari de Leye[sblock=GM]Choices for you here:1. Send or keep the furs.2. Order alchemical equipment for fur-cleaning.  (Good probability of success.)3. Send or keep the wood.4. Order gold panning equipment.  (Probability of success unknown.)5. How to organize the watches.1-4 need to be decided before the ship leaves if you want money and equipment ASAP.Optional goals: Find Scout, find shaman.I'll work on getting some sort of rough idea of the finances later.  We're not really into kingdom-building yet, so I don't want to go for that system right at this moment, although I reserve the right ot change my mind.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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