<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=332237.msg15854280#msg15854280">Quote from: Annaamarth on 14-05-2021, 17:10:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I bet that everything inside the barrier has been picked over - and probably also mapped - by the natives.<br/><br/>If they have a map, we could maybe buy in and speed the local mapping, get a head start on getting out of town.<br/><br/><del>Shara now has questions about the Green Dragon - how it keeps its larder stocked, and who cookie is - if Tide Pool has been behind a barrier for an age, how have they had the sorts of guests that would leave Hogg sanguine in the face of a dhampir, a marshwight, and her abusive would-be pimp?</del> <strong>Edit: Well not this then.  Still - everything else seems ... reasonably likely. Or at least plausible.</strong><br/><br/>Also, beyond the line of the Barrier, I'm calling eldritch shit.  That all got <em>exposed.</em><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>We literally arrived on a ship yesterday. Taking a couple of days to get a handle on things is normal. We're not just going to spin the bottle and strike out in a direction. This is an excuse for you guys to get some benefits on  your own, and for Phantom to sprinkle some plot seeds for us - which he's doing admirably. Davriel is a scholar, so he's spending his time doing academic things... So expediting the process because someone already has a map isn't really the goal. Though he'll certainly make copies of any maps he can find.<br/><br/>I know we have the deck of many things to look for, but we're not going to actively seek it. For now. I think of that more like a House Nox side quest.<br/><br/>The wizard has a history that goes back hundreds of years. He has demonstrated magic well beyond our capabilities(the card). The Inn has almost certainly been erected/brought here by magic. I'd be more shocked if his people were fazed by us. We should be fazed by them.