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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 5003260" data-attributes="member: 19688">OOC: The route up-river is actually a bit faster than horse for the following reasons:The river is wide and very slow flowing, except at its tidal point, and has been constructed with rope-pulls all along the stretch of it to allow the light river barges to move up-river by pole and rope and horse-pull. It is a frequent trade route, ferrying products to and from the city. The river also opens at its end into a large lake that is quickly crossable. The Skull River that leads to Fort Rannick is a much faster river that also pours into the lake, and this river is narrower, and while it has been dammed, that last stretch cannot be taken by boat (except on the way back). The boat system is so widely used that you can travel by day and night. Trade Guilds operate stables of horses that pull the boats along the river 24 hours a day, with shift workers who change horses and boat several times a day. In short - the first 50% of the journey is quite fast by river, despite being against tide, the next 25% is also very fast across the lake. The last 25% has to be done by horse or foot.Note: The ferries are small and light, and thus you cannot take a horse on them, so you are probably best going by horse so that Jokad can ride his new mount. Still, I wanted to explain how it works, as when i read the adventure I thought the same thing and thus had to think up a reason why it would be faster <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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