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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 6547174" data-attributes="member: 34958">Zephia sneaks off and tracks down some of the crewmen from Jack’s ship, the Bonne Homme Ricard.  Easier to track them rather than the more experienced core team Handsome Jack brings with him during his treasure hunts.  The rogue picks up snippets of the conversation.  How Jack and his crew will be travelling at first light, a couple of hours before the Relic Hunters, but that they will have to take a northerly side route before continuing back east, meaning that they’ll reach their objective a day or two later than Zephia, Angelina, and the rest.  That they were given an Azure Legion observer of their own, who it is rumored doesn’t know his way too well, hence they are also given a Shem guide with crude mannerisms that seems to annoy everyone except Rolfe, who seemed to enjoy goading the Shem.  Zephia also hears it said, “The Captain’s nay sure when they’ll be back.  His mate gave us a token, though.  Says to break it and speak a short message in case we gets trouble here.  They’ll know something is up then and head on back quick.”  After that the conversation switches to women in various ports, the poor excuse for alcohol found in the area, and the stupid trick a sailor named Cluge Fivepalmed can do with his fake eye, so Zephia turns in after sharing the information with her comrades.Briony went shopping, gathering some weapons and equipment she felt would come in handy.  Bella did the same, smug in the feeling of success.The next day they are refreshed and meet up with their new guide, the same Azure Legion officer that the Relic Hunter’s had seen during their successful negotiations with the Grey Wand Clan.  The Azure Legion officer is tall and dark-haired.  Though she has the shape and face that men would find attractive, her business-like stance and habit of staring at people in a long and critical way quickly diminishes her beauty.  There is no visible sign of her office on her body, as she is supposedly undercover, and her attire is simple for someone in a lower middle-class caste: sandals, a beige Tsoylani skirt, light blue and beige tunic without sleeves, a tiara with coral stones to keep her hair pulled back, and a curved, specially treated bone sword with simple bronze handle.  ”I am Yolkana, and you will follow me to the village of Akajhun, a seven-day journey, where I will act as a simple hired hand.  You will provide cover for me in this by keeping the elders there busy while I investigate the dealings of the Black Earth Clan.  The following days we will search the surrounding swamps in order to locate the nearby temple and discover its purpose,” she says all this simply as if describing the weather.  With that, she pulls her supply-laden pack mule and begins the track, not seeming to wait for you to catch up.  Several other pack mules carrying camp supplies and food await for each of you to claim, gifts from Chaturgha hiTokeshqu.  The day is quite warm, though dark clouds hang in the sky ahead.</blockquote>

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