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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1023848" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 099“North Ledopolus”The mul was big, strong and skilled.  Now she is knocked out.Dutch was never one to make speeches or draw out a fight.  This was especially true when an angry salesman sends his top dog after him within a crowded market.  The mul never got in one shot.Dutch was finishing up business in North Ledopolus for House of Blewes.  His journey was now to take him to South Ledopolus by Silt Skimmer then to the south to a rarely used outpost near Walis.  Dutch hoped this meant he was going into the Hinterlands to look for Greene’s “city of water”.  Dutch preferred the open land versus the red tape of caravan and trade routes.  Dirty Dogg and Jocasta were within the city also.  Dogg enjoyed the strong drinks the dwarves created to drink but didn’t care much for Ledopolus.  Ledopolus was separated into two halves, North and South.  A wide river of silt created the separation.  Some felt it even had currents like a river found in the forests.  The dwarves have been trying to create a rock and earth land bridge to once more connect the two halves.  This would create unity of the last dwarven settlement and also create a new source of income for traders to use.  Dogg appreciated their work but disliked the fact of the buildings were sized for dwarves, not humans.  Dogg had regular bumps and bruises on his head from walking into door beams or ceiling supports.  To sit was similar to hiding outside of a templar’s town house- cramp.  But the drink was good.He was having a “house special” called Moradin’s Mallet” at the Used Mallet brewery.  It was a warmed up drink that used fermented cacti juice and a “secret” ingredient passed down from one dwarven generation to another.  This meant the recipe could be a thousand years old.Jocasta was at the map room looking up trade routes to the north.  She was possibly going to Draj to get silk and wanted to know what to expect there.  Her friend, Grammy was there.  The old female dwarf ran an information network within the city of North Ledopolus.  Some felt she had ties to the thieves’ guild also but Jocasta purposely avoided that question.“Jocasta, child of Blewes, may I offer information of interest to you?” she asked.  Her Platinum tooth sparkled and Jocasta knew it come at a monetary cost.  Still, her information was always important to her and accurate.She slides over a silver piece and awaits the information.Grammy squeezed the coin and licked it.  “Ummm…minted in 188KA….Tyr I think.  Okay, I have information involving a friend of yours from Nibenay.  I believe his name was Man or manna.”“Mania?”“Oh yes!  That is the name and you do know him.”  She winks at her.  “He was seen fighting the Templars in the defense of the Veiled Alliance then fled the city.”“He’s alive then.  Thank the luck crystals.  Anything else?  Where is he?”“He is alive and the run.  I know this since a bounty hunter has come here looking for him.  A very good and expensive hunter.”  She shuts her mouth and awaits more coins.Hurriedly, Jocasta presents another silver.  A squeeze and taste later Grammy continues.  “Tangiers is the name.  Very good hunter.  Very strict when it comes to the contract and the bounty hunter’s code.  He is wanted alive I believe.  Tangiers was stocking up on undead defenses.  Suggests he may be in Salt View.  Many on the run go there and find the lure of treasure in Bodach too great to pass up.”“How old is this information?” Her voice betrays her urgency.“Two days ago.  This boy- he is special to you?”“That is none of your business Grammy.  Thankyou” She puts down another silver and rushes off.Grammy smiles watching the girl rush off.  Then frowns as a curtain is pulled back behind her.  A short female figure tattooed in green steps out but not into the light.  “You didn’t tell her about Cosa.  Good.  She will run to find him now.  My thanks Gramduran.”The dwarf stares forward until she is certain Tangiers has left. “To be young and full of adventure…” lost in memories Grammy closes shop early and decides to drink…a lot.  After all, it isn’t every day you stab a trusted friend in the back.</blockquote>

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