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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2757505" data-attributes="member: 3192">[Session 13][DAY 97 – Sunday, Sceptre 1st, CY 81]The team slept in late Sunday after the long discussion around the campfire.  No one relished another day of saddle sores riding through the rough terrain.  Grog looked to be tiring as well.  Darius convinced Dram to describe his brother in case they could find him in Kera.  “He looks like me only shorter… and a little older.  He’s a damn find smith”, said Dram.  “Good smith is worth much as slave,” said Grog.  This tugged at Ben’s memory.“What do they do in Kera?” he asked.  “What’s it like?””Fifth Earl of Kera rules.  People of Kera, they mine metal.  Bad metal.  Not good metal like Margrave or Dwarves”, said Grog.  “Kera cuts wood from Greenwillow too.”  Grog admitted he had not been to Kera very often.  He did not like it there out of everywhere he had traveled.“Where have you traveled to, Grog?” asked Darius.  The half-ogre said he had walked all along the Hellfurnace’s Mountain range.  But only on the western side near Margrave.  He did not explain why he had not crossed to the west, but quickly continued with his story.  “From North Grog visit Radon, Sunstar, Nightshade, Raveneye, Kera, and Margrave.  Grog like Margrave best.”  Radon was a placed ruled by the Viscount Radon – a short human – and very militaristic.  “They are likely at the Front then”, surmised Kayla.  “Sunstar, Nightshade, Raveneye is mixed breeds, half-breeds,” explained Grog.  “Council… Feefdum.”  As the day wore away a cool wind a strong, cool breeze picked up from the east.  As the group walked into it Grog said they would reach Kera by nightfall.  Outside the city were several unprotected territories.  They would be at the outskirts of one or another soon.  Rose’s ears twitched.  The feeling of being watched was stronger than ever.  Kayla and Diedre had been bothered by the sense too.  Ben felt least effected.    Something was watching them; something in the woods.  Rose who was sharing her horse with Darius convinced him to steer towards the Forest.  Once in range she called out to whatever animals might be within.  It sounded like strange grunting and chittering to everyone else.  “Why are there no roads?  Grog, don’t the people of Kera ever come to your… inn?” asked Kayla.  “No road.  Broken land is here.  Caravans are attacked here,” he responded.  “People can be sold for money.  In Kera.  It is a secret, but everyone knows”. Rose used the human tongue again.  “It is always like this.  It’s difficult to be certain, but it may have always been like this.  The watching.”  Ben rode up to her and Darius’s side.  He requested a private meeting off to one side with her for a few minutes.  After a few grumblings Darius agreed, but he would not leave the horse.  The dwarf tried to ignore the two as they talked in private.</blockquote>

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