It was about 5:00 PM when the party departed from the Fafara ports in their chartered vessel, the 'Tomb Horse', and set course for the Valleys of Morgura... which is the prefecture immediately south of Mount Sabretooth. Everyone takes turns on the bridge piloting the vessel through the sound along the shoreline. TRITHAL, being the calculative one of the group, determines that it will take about a day and a half to reach the port city of Myria, in north-eastern Morgura Prefecture.
Just like when they were on the barge floating up the Dolmaiyan River toward Tanchi City, the party decides to engage in idle discussion:
CHRIS: "Ya know, up here in Muriad it's kinda hard to determine exactly where the sea ends and the land begins. It's all swampy."
THRAX: (a'la Family Guy): "Duh, do ya think so?"
TRITHAL, while laying his back against a wall on the "Tomb Horse" confesses, "I sure could go for a hit of weed right now. I ran out of my own little stash."
Rishna: "Boy, Trithal, I never noticed how much of a stoner you really are. It's almost as if it was added to your persona all-of-a-sudden. That's odd......."
The party looks around all paranoid-like, then Danika frantically tries to change the subject:
Danika (to TRITHAL): "Hey Trithal! Isn't Morgura the place where you were assimilated by Macha-Rei?"
TRITHAL: "Yeah, it was. That happened in Laurenstown... which is sorta in the middle of the prefecture. We're going to Kurgemenheim, which is kinda in the north-west... not far from the Tanchi prefectural border."
Palledoris: "So that means we can get back to the Mountain Castle by way of the Tailudidan Highway. That should take half a day at most."
THRAX: "Provided, of course, we can find transportation. It's a long-ass walk from Myria to Kurgemenheim, and even longer from there to the Mountain Castle.
A second later TRITHAL's PDA beeps unexpectedly. He picks it up to discover that he received a reply to his email from King Midus. TRITHAL is surprised to have received it, despite having a very weak wireless signal onacounta how far away they are from the shore.
After reading it, TRITHAL announces to the party: "King Midus is gonna have 3000 GP waiting for us at the Western Union office in Myria! We could rent a car with some of that money! Dickass!"
THRAX: "Stomp! We can also stock up on items and shit!"
The party continues for a while in idle conversation. Aelle studies the maps that came with the boat, then interjects, "Hey! There's a small lightly-populated island not far from where we are now. We could have the ceremony there tonight!"
Palledoris: "That's a great idea! How about it, Lord Thrax?"
THRAX thinks for a second, then says "Sure, why not? If anything else, it'd be cool to camp out on an island tonight."
About an hour later, the party finds the island called Ragnarok off the port bow. The sun is beginning to set as they find a place to dock the vessel. One-by-one the party disembarks and takes a look around. The island isn't too small, yet isn't too big either. It has a few trees, but is mostly ankle- to knee-high grass. There is also a small marketplace near the center of the island where many people are exchanging goods and services. CHRIS immediatly spots a booth selling various Weird Al porducts and darts on over.
CHRIS (to THRAX): "Yo, dude, you got a '20' I can borrow? I really have to have this autographed poster!"
THRAX: "CHRIS, you already have that poster back in Dale Gorge. You don't need another one!"
CHRIS: Yeah, but this one is autographed by Bermuda Schwartz!"
THRAX: "So fucking what?!? You have all of their 'graphs on your Poodle Hat cd! You don't need this. Besides, we're all flat broke until we reach Myria!"
CHRIS: "Damnit! I really need this! Well, maybe we can come back sometime later on and I can get it then."
THRAX: "Yeah, maybe...On a totally unrelated topic, it's gonna be silly when we get back to Dale Gorge, I've got 'plants' to 'harvest.' "
CHRIS: "I know! That is going to be great! We can smoke that 'herb' all day and get comepletely fried!"
THRAX: "Yeah, that'd be nice."
While THRAX and CHRIS are wasting time, the Saibot chicks have been looking around and found the perfect place for the Rite of Ascention. TRITHAL locates his two comrades and drags them to the site. As TRITHAL, THRAX and CHRIS are setting up a campsite, the Saibot chicks are preparing the adjacent area for the ceremony. From the boat, they bring out the necessary supplies. They set up some weird-looking tiki torches in almost a semicircular pattern around one side of a huge pentagram laid out on the ground.
As the daylight begins to fade, the whole party carries on with their particular tasks...
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