Four Distinguished Emissaries in a Canoe

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Four Distinguished Emissaries in a Canoe

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One of your warships encounters a canoe drifting in the open seas somewhere west of the Makarensian chain of islands. There are four men on board, dusky-hued and daubed in outlandish ways with white paint. Considering how long they must have been at sea if travelling under their own power they do not appear to be particularly malnourished. Indeed their general countenance does not inspire a great deal of confidence, especially as your captain has started to entertain nagging doubts about quite why four men would need five oars with which to paddle.

The dialect they speak is strange guttural and quite barbarous. Communication is difficult, especially when at one point during the conversation they attempted to nibble at the translator.

Eventually it becomes apparent that this party had been not been cast upon the oceans by mere chance or misfortune but rather had been dispatched westwards with deliberate intent carrying a message for the Emperor of Aryasht. The gentleman with the protruding facial decorations resembling nothing so much as the claws of a crab and who appears to be the leader of the party insists that his message cannot be divulged at this point since it specifically concerns the ears of the Emperor.

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The ship's captain will take these gentlemen back to the Imperial Capital to deliver their message to the Emperor, though they must deliver it to the whole court. These gentlemen can either take passage in the warship or sail on their canoe westwards. If they do so, they must throw away their five oars and instead take four oars donated to them by the captain. A raven with a message of their existence has already been sent ahead to the capital.
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After an anxious group huddle it is agreed that the four - erm - gentlemen will accept the captain's kind offer of conveyance to the Imperial Capital. They only ask to retain the five oars for sentimental reasons - in memory of a long and dangerous journey.

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The captain is extreme suspicious and demands if there is a valid reason that they should keep their oars.
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Anyhow, you may go on with your oars after all.
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The gentlemen, especially the one with the ornamental tusks where his mouth should be (no-one is quite brave enough to check), are deeply grateful for the captain's wise and generous decision - for whilst they are at sea the oars are indeed the very extension of their souls - and they now look forward with mounting anticipation to visiting the untold lands of the Aryasht which their imaginations can scarcely comprehend.

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The inside of the captain's mind: if something should go awry in Aryasht due to these gentlemen and their oars, no Aryashti will be at fault. The honor of the Aryashti prevents them from taking any actions that would stain their virtue even if it is for the good of Aryasht, but if a non-Aryashti does the task somehow, then no harm is done.
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The ship has arrived in Aryapur. The captain bids you a farewell with a bag of gold so that you may accomdate yourself or travel.
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Having been reluctantly convinced that gold is of greater worth in these parts than salt, the four gentlemen bid the captain and his ship a fond farewell and look to find their way to the Emperor. That is once they have recovered from their shock at the size of the huts, which seem to be so solid as to have been built from whole rocks and trees, carved and fitted by ways unknown. After some hushed debate amongst themselves the party conclude that the village of Aryapur must have been built by giants.

They hurry on their way lest they meet one of these terrible creatures.

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It is hard to miss the palace, easily the biggest building in the city.
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The only building in the city with OSHA-compliant construction?
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OSHA?
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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No structure on earth is OSHA compliant. They WILL find something. >_>

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I was thinking more on the lines of this: this.
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