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    Here's the IC thread for our game. I'll post some intro/background info soon.

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    You disembark in a tropical city under the blazing sun. The familiar sounds of a harbor - creaking ropes, slapping waves, heavy barrels rolling across cobblestones - mingle with voices shouting and cursing in an unfamiliar language filled with clicks, inhalations, and singsongy words that make it sound almost musical. The aroma of unfamiliar spices and tropical fruit mixes with the wharf-side smells of fish, tar and canvas.

    Beyond all that, Port Nyanzaru is an explosion of color. Buildings are painted in bright shades of blue, green, orange and salmon pink, or their walls are adorned with murals portraying giant reptiles and mythical heroes. Every building sports baskets and clay urns of colorful flowers or is draped in leafy, flowering vines.

    Minstrels in bright clothing adorned with feathers and shells perform on street corners. Multicolored pennants and sun awnings flutter atop the city walls. A crowd of children dressed in feathered hats and capes races past you, squealing in delighted terror as a street performer costumed as a big-toothed lizards stomps and roars behind them. The whole city seems to be bustling, sweating, laughing, swearing and singing.

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    Lady Ziri Foxglove, Dame of Steel Fists
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    Ziri stepped off the boat, feeling the crunch of grit on the wood of the piers. Her body was swaddled in her clothing; chainmail and tabard, sturdy thigh-high boots under ornately decorated protective skirts, a foxskin draped around her shoulders like a scarf. No sweat dripped down her moon-pale skin.

    Because, of course, it was not skin at all, but porcelain. Ziri had shed her flesh for iron and wood and a crystal that clenched and beat inside her chest, and left her former chyrssalis sleeping and still an ocean away.

    The city was bright with life and colour, and for a moment, the exhuman simply stood and watched it, arms folded in her habitual pose. Her unsmiling face hid any traces of her thoughts on the matter. Compared to the liveliness of the city at large, she cut a stern figure. She surveyed the area; no obvious threats. As someone who relied on her fists, anyway, she never had to worry about being caught blade undrawn. The longsword at her waist with its gold wire-wrapped handle had found only ceramonial use.

    She took a last look at the boat, nodded to the crew, and centred herself to move forward. There was no sense in delaying. She'd kept much to herself on the voyage; as a noble, she'd had the right to dine with the officers, and joined them occasionally, even if she could not taste the food and had to empty it from an internal sac later. For the ordinary crew, they'd been treated with polite dismissal for the most part. Only thrice had she come forth to spar with any willing
    You have a punch like iron, Lady, they'd said.
    So I'm told, she'd replied.

    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    "FINALLY! Oh I'm ready to go on an adventure I'm sick and tired of boats!" Nyx, the half-drow was tired of being seasick and was grateful for solid land under her feat. She was ready to go visit every shop and sample local delicacies, to partake of this new place, and to register as an official explorer of the jungle of Chult. But what to do on day two? "Come on Squeak, let's get going!" Nyx dashes off into the city.
    The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.

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    Draelin had spent much of the voyage looking over what he knew about Chult. It wasn't much, really. Sure, plenty of sailors had stories about Port Nyanzaru - sailors have stories about every port they've stopped in, and if you're lucky half of them are true - but naturally they hadn't had any reason to delve deeper into the jungle. They'd heard of his prize, of course, the golden city whose name still eluded him, but besides a few of them having heard local twists on the story he was told all those years ago, they had nothing of use. That left the physical information, which was...also not great. He had two maps, and he wasn't sure if either was useful. The one in his map case was of a structure of some kind, and the man he got it off swore it was from Chult, but who knew really, and the other...was utterly incomphrensible, as if a madman with no understanding of how distances worked and a very loose grip on half a dozen languages had drawn it. He hadn't paid for that one, merely coming across it in his youth, but it still vexed him somewhat. He guessed that just meant that the original 'plan' was still the way to go - look for local information in the port, maybe some help if his coin extended that far, and then start exploring, following up leads and keeping eyes open for any opportunities. Not great, but it's what it was. At least he had a good idea whose ruins were out there in the jungle. He hoped his prior research would be useful in that regard, at least.

    The city was pretty impressive, he had to say. A brighter place than some of the places he'd ended up in since leaving his home in the forests, that's for sure, but his gut said brighter didn't mean safer. Now then, where were the others - the people he'd talked to about his goal and who'd seemed interested in coming along? He certainly wasn't planning on heading out alone, that was for sure.

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    Farid stands next to his small pile of possessions, lost in a surge of information... colors, scents, languages, accents. As always, the need to count, to catalog... Finally he focuses on one quiet eddy in the larger stream of sensation. He watches the children and entertainers, immersing himself in the happiness of others. This is soothing for a time, but the quiet thoughts remain. When the small parade finally passes, they grow a bit louder. He is here to solve a mystery, to reveal a bit more of the shape of the world. But what exactly do these others want? Once again he thinks through all of the potential selfish, shallow reasons, then sighs when he realizes that this speaks as poorly of himself as it does of his new companions. He walks back up the dock, where the others are finally gathering near the gangplank...
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    The children are shouted at by an old Chultan woman, walking along the street with a huge clay pot balanced on her head. Laughing, the "dinosaur" chases them back across the road. Then several things happen at once.

    A strange trumpeting squawk is heard, a sound of pain unlike anything you've ever heard.
    A man's deep voice cries out in alarm in the musical language of Chult.
    The street trembles as something heavy charges towards you.

    Alarmed, you all look up from your position near the end of the dock, to see a triceratops charging down the road, right towards you! It has a yoke around its shoulders, and had been pulling a cart laden with stones. One of the struts attached to the cart had snapped, and is dangling from the unbalanced toke. The cart has flipped onto its side, and stones are rolling into the street in the dinosaur's wake. People shout and dive into doorways, run down the docks, and two even jump into the harbour.

    Two Chultan men chase the dinosaur, terror on their faces. The children scream, and some run, but six stand in the street, eyes wide in shock. The old woman drops her jug, which shatters on the cobbled street. She tried to run, slips, and falls into the shards, cutting her hands and legs. The dinosaur actor scoops up two of the smallest kids and runs for an alley. The triceratops trumpet-squawks again; it shows no signs of slowing as it thunders towards you.
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    The dinosaurs had been one of the things Draelin had been curious about when it came to the people of Chult - he'd heard that they had big creatures like this tamed, and had heard the general description of a triceratops (as described by a man who talked to someone who'd seen one, and who had been heavily drunk on both occasions) and he'd wanted to see one, but this wasn't the way he planned on it happening. He might not have had the most heroic life, and his motivations for coming here may be rooted in gold and glory, but he still wasn't going to sit by and watch kids get crushed. At least he was quick. As he dashed out into the street towards the nearest child, he hoped that was enough. Crushed minutes after leaving port was not how he intended his time on Chult to end.

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    "Waaah!" Nyx dodges out of the way of the rampaging dino into an alleyway.
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    The charging beast snaps Farid out of his musings... He turns to face it, concentrates and conjures writhing tendrils of mist that reach through the planks of the dock. He's not sure it's going to stop an elephant-sized creature, but maybe it will be slowed down for a few crucial moments...

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    Lady Ziri Foxglove, Dame of Steel Fists
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    Ziri's eyes narrowed.

    Four children and the old woman in the path. There wouldn't be time to move all of them out the way, so-

    Vines began to sprout beneath the charging beast, slowing it down, and hopefully it would be enough for this to work. She didn't have any fancy magic to halt the thing; all she had was the strength this body had embued her with and the weight of duty.

    She broke into a run, her chainmail clanking.

    "Get them out the way!" she roared to no one in particular and put herself in the way of the beast. With a bellow, she grabbed the triceratops by the horns and strained to shove it back down into the vines.

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    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
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    Fearlessly, Ziri threw herself into the path of the rampaging triceratops, hoping to wrestle it into the entangling vines that Farid had summoned. Draelin caught up a child in his arms, and Ziri's command for others to help spurred several terrified onlookers into action. Children were pulled aside as Ziri leant all her strength into the triceratops horns.

    She might as well try to wrestle an avalanche. The creature was so massive that its momentum carried it through the enchanted vines as if they were string. However, the creature was domesticated, and Ziri's unafraid demands of the animal slowed it down some. As near-victims were whisked away, the dinosaur continued to move forward, pushing Ziri's feet backwards along the cobbles. Her weight wasn't enough to stop it, but it continued to slow.

    It seemed to take forever, but a few moments later the animal's handlers caught up to it. One of them found a quick-release catch on the yoke, which tumbled to the ground behind them. The other joined Ziri at the animal's head, grabbing a hand-hold specifically pierced into the frill, and yanking hard to the left, while speaking soothingly to the animal. The dinosaur stumbled, then dropped to its front knees, skidded a few more feet, then finally was still.

    There was a moment of breathless silence, then absolute bedlam as the people began to cheer, talk, shout, scream and laugh shakily. The little girl in Draelin's arm threw her arms around his neck and cried, "Again! Again!" Parents caught up their children and hugged them tight. The dinosaur handlers thanked Ziri profusely for helping prevent catastrophe. A tabaxi minstrel stared at Farid, then smiled appreciatively. The striped cat-person began quietly working out a beat on her drums, already working on a song to commemorate the near-disaster.
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    Lady Ziri Foxglove, Dame of Steel Fists
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    Ziri merely raised a hand to the dinosaur handlers. Her boots had left clear skidmarks from the edge of the vines to where she stood now.

    "It was nothing," she said. Now she wasn't shouting, there was a peculiarly musical ting to her voice, like striking a bell. "I was here, so I acted. That is all. Keep better control of your beasts."

    Seeing none of the children were injured, she went to the old woman and offered a hand. It was nothing life threatening - but why leave the old woman to bleed if she could prevent it?
    "For the cuts, old one," she said. "Give me your hand for a moment."

    When the old woman did, the paladin simply frowned for a brief moment before orange light passed from her to the old woman, knitting together the cuts and leaving unwounded skin.

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    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
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    Draelin was a little surprised that worked, but he was thankful it did (albeit for reasons other than those he expected). The child's laugh and shout gets him smiling again, and he passes her off to her parents, complimenting her spirit of adventure. Right, that was an interesting diversion, now to the business at hand - getting some people together. The star of the moment seemed like a good starting point - he wasn't quite sure what her deal was, whatever it was was weird enough to be out of his speciality, but she'd seemed a least a little interested when he'd told her his goal (at least, he thought so, lady had one hell of a poker face, although how much was his own wishful thinking was hard to say in hindsight) and if nothing else recent events had shown that having her around was probably a good idea.

    Walking over to where the old woman is being healed - she can do that too? - Draelin smiles and waves once Ziri is done. "Hey, it's me. Draelin. We talked on the boat about why I'm here and what I'm looking for, and you seemed interested. Now we're here, I'm needing people to explore with - it doesn't seem like a good idea to go out there alone - and you've just made a good argument for wanting you around. Do you have other business here, or are you free and willing to come with me? The prize at the end is worth it." He doesn't say the "if we succeed" part of that last statement out loud.

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    The Lady Foxglove thought for a brief second, placing the figure before her.

    "Ah, yes. Draelin Tailir," she said. "You would be correct - it would not be wise to go out alone. I have little enough business in this town. I too seek something out there."
    She looked him down for a moment. Bow and blade; one hoped he knew how to use them.
    "There is something I must destroy I hope to find in this accursed land. If you agree to aid me in this task, I shall help thee in yours."
    She looked around.
    "There was another who cast a spell to slow the beast. Quickwitted, and willing to aid the innocent; he might do well as a third in this venture. Aside from that, we should hire a guide experienced already in this land."
    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    Farid makes sure nobody is hurt and helps people gather possessions that were dropped or scattered. As he finishes, he notices some of his fellow passengers talking among themselves. He listens as he approaches...

    "So you all are going to go through with this... to find this thing, this place in the jungle?"
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    Draelin turns in the direction of the newcomer, nodding as he does. "Of course! I have a lost city to find, and she has a..." He pauses, glancing over at Ziri. "Evil...temple...relic...to destroy? Or something? We haven't establised the details there. Point is, yes, we're planning on exploring out there."

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    "Woo! Evil Temple! Let's go!" Nyx has appeared behind the rest of the group.
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    The Lady Foxglove shook her head at Nyx's enthusiasm, but didn't seem startled.

    "Not a temple," she said. "A hag, who laid a curse on me and mine, and I seek to eliminate it for its misdeeds. Last I knew, it was on this continent, and know little enough besides."
    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    The old woman thanked Ziri profusely in a language she didn't understand. Gradually the activity in the area went back to normal. The handlers brought the triceratops back they way it had come, dragging the broken harness and cart away with them.

    As the four newfound companions discussed their plans, a tall black man approached them purposefully. He had a shaved head, wore bright saffron robes, and carried a thick ledger. A young girl pulled impatiently at his hand, then stopped and pointed at Ziri and the others. She spoke demandingly in a language full of clicks, and the bald man smiled at her indulgently.

    Stepping forward, he said, "I hear I have you to thank for preventing some deaths here." His common was thickly accented with melodious vowels. "I am Kwalu M'wenye, factor for the Merchant Prince, his highness Ifan Talro'a. Prince Ifan is responsible for beasts and beast training here in Port Nyanzaru. In his name, I thank you for your brave actions here today."

    He pulled a pouch from his pocket, made of brightly woven cloth with a pattern of dinosaur footprints. Holding it out to them, he said, "A gesture of the prince's gratitude. We hope you can enjoy some of the many delights to be found here in Port Nyanzaru."

    You know there are seven merchant princes that rule Port Nyanzaru, and each have specific monopolies on merchandise sold in the city, and according responsibilities. The pouch contains 100 gp.
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    Nyx's appearance gets Draelin looking, but he shrugs and nods. He was pretty sure they'd talked on the boat, and he didn't see the reason to turn down such willing help. Instead, he thinks over what Ziri said. "A hag, huh...maybe we might find out something if we ask around. Someone goes around laying down curses at people, that's the kind of thing that gets attention, and they might have kept going here. If there are victims over here, that might give us a trail to work from."

    The factor was a surprise, but a welcome one. Bit of a higher-class sort than Draelin was expecting to meet within an hour of stepping off the boat, but he's not complaining, and more funds would always be useful. "Thanks. It was mainly our woman here," He gestures at Ziri. "Who did the heavy lifting there, but your thanks are appreciated. We're planning on preparing for a journey into the jungle soon. Do you have any recommendations on places to go and people to talk to for those preparations?"

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    The factor was a surprise, but a welcome one. Bit of a higher-class sort than Draelin was expecting to meet within an hour of stepping off the boat, but he's not complaining, and more funds would always be useful. "Thanks. It was mainly our woman here," He gestures at Ziri. "Who did the heavy lifting there, but your thanks are appreciated. We're planning on preparing for a journey into the jungle soon. Do you have any recommendations on places to go and people to talk to for those preparations?"
    Kwalu nodded, "Yes, I am not surprised that you seek to find adventure in the jungles. I will not try to dissuade you, though I fear once you leave the safety of our city, we may never see you again. It is very important to hire an experienced guide. Prince Jobal is in charge of the guides, and I strongly urge you to hire one that has been vetted by Jobal. There are many black-market guides, but they will likely abandon you, or even kill you for your treasures. The official guides have advertisements up in many inns, or at the harbour-master's office."

    "It is also very important to bring a water-purifier - there are many parasites in Chult, and you do not want to be infested with throat-leeches. Or buy a rain-catcher - the rain is safe to drink. Bug-repellent is also very important or you will get the shaking sickness, or the sleeping sickness, or something worse. Depending on which way you want to travel, you may want a canoe. You can travel down the River Soshenstar, or Tiryki for many days. You can find all that you will need at the Grand Souk. The merchants there an inspected regularly, and can be trusted."


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    Farid nods after listening to the long list of warnings. "I agree. The Circle taught me much about survival in harsh environments, but a place like this... is outside of my experience. One of the most important part of any learning is understanding your limits and where those limits lie."
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    Nyx eagerly grabs the coin pouch and tries to count the coins in it. "Nice! Let's find a find a nice place to strike out from! Or should we find a quest board and see who's hiring first? Ooh, or get something to eat, I'm famished!"
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    "If this construction of a body has any good points,"
    the Lady Foxglove rumbled, "Diseases will find little purchase in iron and porcelain. Good fruit from an evil tree, I suppose."
    She clapped a heavy hand onto Nyx's shoulder as the orphan sprang out to grab the coinpurse. She hadn't helped with the dinosaur,
    "As for you, miss Nyx, hold on. That gold may have a use yet without being spent on... fripperies. We should definitely hire a guide, at least. I do not need to fear starvation if we stray from the trail; the rest of you cannot say the same."
    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    Seeing the back and forth between Nyx and Ziri, Draelin nods and speaks up. "Alright. As I see it, here's the plan. First, we get a guide. From what I heard talking to people on the boat, they often want a good amount of coin up front, so let's handle that first. Gets our biggest expense out the way, and lets us know how much we have for everything else and how much to hold back to keep them paid. Second, we check out the markets. The guide will probably have some advice on what we'll need that we don't have, so we can get that, pick up anything else we come across that is of use, and maybe get something to eat to keep Nyx here happy - maybe the guide will know a good place for a meal. Then, once we're equipped and ready, we can go looking for leads on our goals and see if there's any way we can get paid to do what we were going to do anyway. Sound good, everyone?"
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    "I'm not familiar with this place, but I may know enough of the trade to figure out which of the potential guides actually know what they're doing..."

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    "Sounds good to me!"
    The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.

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    Bliksem Los, the fabulous
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    Bliksem arrived too late at the dinosaur incident but he was able to witness the heroic of the Dame of Steel, he wispered amidst the crowd cheering "The dinosaur tamer, might be interesting". Bliksem shadowed this dinosaur tamer. As it appeared she was getting readied for going outside town, Bliksem stepped in front of the group. Pleasure to meet you, friends. I'm searching for adventures and coming back from them so i can write the exploits of extrordinary adventurers.
    Bliksem bow, taking his ridiculously large hat off, letting his black and gold fur shining in all its beauty. "I am, Bliksem Los, I've been on the road with my master, who disappeared, probably in Chult but no more clues. It seems he found who killed the one i considered my first master. I fell in love with his stories and i'm here to make my own, for that, i need a group and someone who'd get in front of a charging dinosaur does give a feel of a good story starting. Permit me to join you, the pleasure gonna be all yours my friend."

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    The Red Horns had also been among the witnesses of the rampage. To himself he thought: There is a group, that might have a chance to survive the jungles.

    Following them, he used the opportunity to step forward once the beautiful tabaxi had drawn their attention:
    "There is strength in numbers, though I admit you already have considerable strength among your number yourself.
    I too would ask you to consider adding me to your expedition.
    My name is..."

    There was just the slightest hesitation as if the red skinned Tiefling wasn't quite sure himself.
    "The Red Horns. I am an arcane scholar of artefacts and I've been looking for an enterprising crew for a while to share the cost of a guide."
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