Editing Welcome to Jabar (section)

==Entirely Without Incident==

We head off towards Jabar!

With the protection of Lissa Tera, we have a smooth (and fairly boring, according to Gale and Scout) two weeks across the ocean, until we are a few 

We get a briefing on Yellow from Lissa Tera.
There are four Varna.  Nobility Priest Merchant, Farmer (everyone else).  Ranked in vaguely that order; there’s some overlap at the edges.  All Priests (well all the Priests of the Goddess…) are in the Priest caste, plus mages, scholars, philosophers… things like that.  Kids can move between Varna; it’s hard for adults in the three major Varna to move, although Farmer’s can be promoted.

There are 5 Major Rivers. The Queen’s, the Great River,  The New River, sometimes called the Fifth River (the Lady made it).  The Masahanalta, and the Merani.  Major ports where the rivers meet the sea.  Three High priests (Love’s Servant, etc.) have three cities near the mountains.  Diomarche’s Herd is in the northeast.  There are not many major passes– just one far to the South, though it’s possible to get across elsewhere.

Lots of Illusions, lots of people will pretend to know more than they do.  Don’t be rude.  People speak Jabaran!   She offers to teach some Jabaran.

We’ll want to get to the Maharani’s city eventually, but she hears it’s under attack by slith, so better to go by land than by boat.

Managaratha wakes up, and Vidan and Stella hear something thump the bottom of the boat.
Lissa Tera thinks probably slith, since she can’t see anything under the boat.

Gale gives everyone water breathing and underwater action.

The slith come over the side.   

Vidan and Stella put a lot of them in timeout, but a named slith decloaks and starts waking them up.  
It’s a tough fight, since they all have dodge pools, but we end up killing about half the mook slith.  The named slith takes several sets of death checks but escapes over the side, and we can’t defeat his stealth rolls.  (Lissa Terra says there is an invasion going up the Queen's River and they are fighting in the northern waters, so it was a little surprising this far south but not super surprising.)