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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 1876714" data-attributes="member: 19990">"Due south is right, Razir", replied the elf.  "If the map is accurate, I can't imagine going south for more than three days before either finding the hill or the far edge of the swamp", he continued.Keeping a compass point was another matter.  Oirhandir could easily follow a compass point at sea, if he had a compass.  And that gave him a thought...he began racking his brains to see if he could recall a compass packed amongst all the gear that Rupert had provided for the expedition, although he wasn't so sure that he could keep a compass point well with all the back-and-forth weaving among the tall trees and around the deeper holes that the party was forced to do.  He'd been worrying about Razir's query even before they had reached the mill the day before, since he recalled the first trip through the edge of the swamp along the Roars.  It wasn't hard to follow the riverbank, which sloped up out of the swamp before dropping down steeply to the river.  But here in the middle of the swamp, there was little more than trees, grass, and endless water to navigate by.  Oirhandir kept glancing up at the sun in a vain effort to keep some sense of direction...now, there was a compass in one of those packs, wasn't there?</blockquote>