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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4436335" data-attributes="member: 21938">OOC: If you need any more shopping, let me know, otherwise:You load up Grandfather Wen's little boat under his watchful eye. No matter where anyone places their belongings in the boat, even if directed by the old man himself, Wen never seems satisfied. He shakes his head, clucks his tongue and moves the offending item elsewhere, even if only a few inches. Despite this, we wears a friendly toothless grin at all times.Finally the boat is readied to Wen's satisfaction. The Vashti is there to see you off when a young clerk comes running down the ghat steps, robes hitched up with one hand, the other clutching a scroll."I was...". He doubles over, gasping for breath, holds up one finger as a sign to give him a moment. Recovered, he continues. "I was asked to find you. I hear you're heading upstream? The League would like somebody to deliver a message to our mines in Tigerskin Gorge. We'll pay 500 yen for the delivery. I'm instructed to offer you another 500 yen to bring the return message."Wen snatches the scroll from the young man's hand a nods. 500 yen isn't much in adventurer terms (5gp), but not bad for a fisherman.*****You travel upstream for a couple of days, Grandfather Wen instructs you all how to handle the boat, mainly so that he can "fish" (i.e. sleep) at the front, it would seem. Xielt and, surprisingly, Annika, seem to be the most capable and quickly master the basics of poling the narrow vessel. The Leng River runs the gamut of river scenery, from broad meads to overhanging forest. You see no sign of the wolves as you pass by the old temple, and the only other signs of life you see are some cormorant fisherman just upriver of Cormondal.By the morning of the third day you reach Tigerskin Gorge, and the reason for its name becomes obvious once you can see the orange and black layers of rock strata. A narrow stream flows from the gorge into the Leng, and within the broad bite-like crescent of the gorge from surrounding cliffs you can see the huts and spoil piles of mining, but no people.OOC:Working out the money here I realised that I miscounted the gp-yen translation rate. YOu should have been paid 200gp equivalent each (i.e. 20,000 yen). I think the prices that I quoted need to be bumped up a factor of 10 each too.Xielt and Annika now have 0 ranks in Profession (boatmen). This means that you can treat the skill as trained (skill = to Wis modifier) even though you technically have no ranks in it. Dr. Simon's rule of learning moderately unimportant background skills!)Brief reminder too to Blackrat and Shayuri to update your characters to Level 2....</blockquote>

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