GM Post:<br/><br/>"I am able to provide you with fifty crowns now to engage your party and to mitigate the initial costs for travel," Jeminda said.  She placed a coin purse on the table before her.  "Consider this to be petty cash, to be used at your discretion to continue your investigation."<br/><br/>"To cement the particulars of our contract, I would like for you to secure payment for Ravenmoor's non-paid taxes.  If payment has been made, then I need for you to find the thief who has made off with said monies.  Although I hesitate to mention it, it might have been Elias who has made off with the money.  On a related note, I would also like for you to locate my brother-in-law.  If something has happened to him, as I fear, then I want you to bring forth the culprits.  Elias is... or was... an official of Magnimar."<br/><br/>With that done, contracts were signed and Jeminda provided the party with the following:<br/><br/>1.  A contract for payment of 1,000 gold crowns to be paid for the performance of the terms.<br/><br/>2.  A map of Varisia, and particularly the route to Ravenmoor.<br/><br/>3.  A letter of marque, as it were, signed and sealed by the Taxing Authority of Magnimar.  "To give your actions on the road the color of authority," Jeminda explained.<br/><br/>Here is your map:<br/><br/>(https://db4sgowjqfwig.cloudfront.net/assets/305656/ravenmoor-location.jpg?1394653949)<br/><br/>(https://oznogon.com/golarion-tile/tiles/6/27/42) (To show the location of Galduria)<br/><br/><strong>Planning Phase</strong><br/><br/>Congratulations, members!  You have received and accepted your first job offer.  Now, we enter the planning phase.  You will have to travel to Ravenmoor.<br/><br/>Ravenmoor is located almost 250 miles from Magnimar through foothills, forests, and marshland.  Those traveling from Magnimar to Ravenmoor essentially have two choices:  the Lost Coast Road or the Yondabakari River.  While the Lost Coast route is overland, the river route is longer.  Both routes meet up in Galduria; from there the rest of the journey is generally made via horseback along a well-traveled road on the western shore of the Lampblack River.  As the Lampblack River curves away to the east, this road continues north along the edge of Churlwood, eventually reaching Roderic's Cove and Riddleport.  Travelers to Ravenmoor must abandon the road at this bend in the river to follow a little-used trail up along the river's west banks into increasingly dreary landscapes of bogland and bleak moors.<br/><br/>Things to remember:<br/><br/>1.  Wagons travel 16 miles per day (8 hours);<br/>2.  Rowboats, which travel up the Yondabakari River, travel 15 miles per day (10 hours).<br/><br/>However, remember travel costs.  Whatever way you cut it, this trip will take approximately 16 days.  Originally, I stated that the rules were:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Travel Cost/Day:  <br/>1gp/Day: The character is well-fed and well-rested throughout the journey;<br/>5sp/Day: The character is fatigued by the time he arrives to his destination, and will require a week to recuperate from the journey;<br/>1sp/Day: The character is exhausted by the time he arrives to his destination, and is ill. (Roll for random disease)<br/><br/>The journey can be hurried by paying extra money to get from one place to another.  This essentially means that the player has hired a carriage, or a boat, or what have you, to make the travel less burdensome.<br/><br/>Travel Multiplier:<br/>5gp/Day: The journey is expedited by a factor of 10.<br/>3gp/Day: The journey is expedited by a factor of 5.<br/>1gp/Day: The journey is expidited by a factor of 2.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>... but this might unnecessarily over-complicate matters.<br/><br/>So, let me know if:<br/><br/>1.  You want to play out the travel.<br/><br/>2.  If you do want to play out the travel, then let me know if you'd like to have encounters on the road.<br/><br/>Otherwise, feel free to commiserate.<br/><br/>BTW:  The scene is now moved to the<strong>MORNING OF THE FIFTH OF ARINDOR.</strong>