>TM 4 >LS 2 >PS ON >PL60 >SM6 >CP ON >FO OFF >------L-----------------------!---------------------------R ä179ä You wake early and take time to clean your weapons Š and equipment before going downstairs to the taproom Š at dawn to meet with Yranai. Together you leave the Š tavern and pass through the town's east gate as a Š bell in a nearby tower clangs five times. For a mile Š you walk along the caravan route to Hikas until you Š come to a place where a fallen toa tree lies across a Š ditch beside the road. Yranai stops here and points Š to a gentle hill little more than half a mile Š distant. "I'm sure she's behind that hummock," he Š muses, and he sets off with you following patiently Š behind. As you reach the top of the hill you see his flying Š craft resting in a gully below. It is huge balloon Š which is attached by steel cables to a basket that Š lies on its side. A tangle of metal pipes and brass Š cylinders hang suspended in a cradle under the Š balloon, and several parts of this strange engine are Š dented and scraped, indicating that Yranai must have Š had a bumpy landing. On reaching the balloon, you Š struggle to set the basket upright while Yranai fits Š the repaired convexor. Minutes later, he turns a Š valve and the engine sputters into life. After a few Š bangs and wheezes it settles into a chugging rhythm, Š and you both scramble to climb aboard as the balloon Š rises and hoists the basket off the ground. éSimoomé ascends rapidly into the cloudless sky. Soon Š you can see the town of Bavari spread out below you Š like a detailed map, the southern Vassagonian Š coastline with its inlets and villages, and to the Š south the snowy peaks of the Great Masourn mountains. Š Yranai tinkers with the engine and you feel the Š balloon beginning to drift southwards, towards a gap Š in the peaks of the great mountain range. If you possess Grand Huntmastery and Telegnosis, turn Š to â316â If you do not possess both of these skills, turn to â211â