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'''Labeling'''<br>
''[[December 987|Monday, December 26th, 987 AD]]''

The girls label all of the jars we got from the pirates before we all go to bed.


'''Sailing on Ice'''<br>
''[[December 987|Tuesday and Wednesday, December 27th and 28th, 987 AD]]''

[[Edward]] speaks with God and finds out that the salves are made out of [[Christianity|Christians']] babies' blood. We help repair the boat and continue on our way. We pass Rechiza and two river forks before the river starts to ice up.


'''Ship Stalls'''<br>
''[[December 987|Thursday and Friday, December 29th and 30th, 987 AD]]''

Frost falls on Thursday morning. At the end of the day, the captain sends out people to find out from locals up north how iced up the rest of the river is. We find out that it's pretty iced and that thnigs are attacking Chernigov at night. We sleep in a barn and walk back to ship next morning. We all load up and carry stuff until nightfall. During second watch, [[Ivan]] is awoken to hear tales of winter wolves that are around the area.


'''Winter Wolf Attack and [[Vselov|Prince Vselov]]'''<br>
''[[December 987|Saturday, December 31st, 987 AD]]''

Early in the morning, during third watch, the camp is attacked by winter wolves, larger than normal wolves that have a frost breath attack. We kill them all, [[Reynaldo]] cleaving two in half from below the snow. He used the Axe's ability to move freely under the snow and positioned himself underneath the exposed underbellies of the wolves and backstabbed them. We take the wolf skins to tan later. We are forced to leave some of the ship's cargo behind in order to make it to Copus by nightfall. Once there, Governor Seasta asks to see us. He tells us that [[Vselov|Prince Vselov of Polotsk]] would like to see us in his palace. We hem and haw because the Polotskian envoy to [[Kiev]] called us traitors and we would very much like to avoid other mix-ups. The [[Vselov|Prince]] then steps out of the shadows and invites us in person. He shows us the severed head of his real envoy who obviously never made it to [[Kiev]]. He rambles about how he's not sure why the dark woman who took the envoy's place called us traitors except to discredit his own province. We agree to see him in the morning. [[Reynaldo]] finds some wine to drink on New Year's Eve.


'''A Prince of Men and a King of Cats'''<br>
''[[January 988|Sunday, January 1st, 988 AD]]''

We across the river to Orsha to the governor's mansion, where we speak with [[Vselov|Prince Vselov]] and his guest, [[Snowflake]], the King of Cats. We talk about the fake Polotskian envoy and generally agree that it was the same woman who [[Wong]] had her ridiculous duel with. [[Snowflake]] lets us know that he's looking for some cousins that he once thought dead. [[Jean-Claude]] grasps his meaning and lets him know that the [[Patriarch|Patriarch of Constantinople]] recently acquired some saber-toothed cats. The [[Vselov|Prince]] informs us that a [[:Category:Dwarf|dwarven]] female was found in a river with a note that had all but washed away. The only words on the note that could be read were 'Agafangul,' 'Dwarfholm,' and 'Help.' This prompted [[Reisha]] to use her Virgin Mary statue to see if her sister is okay. When the statue cries blood, she knows her sister is in trouble and decides to leave the party to travel to Dwarfholm. Ivan decides not to help because he feels saving the world, the quest the [[:Category:Byzantine Envoys|party]] is currently on, is more worthy than saving a town, even if it is his hometown.


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