Day 20 Jekopolis

Araz looked out the barred windows of his prison cell. He asked the man in
the tower "Where are all those soldiers going?" "They're attacking the
Shadow." Nick replied. Araz felt helpless. He was stuck in a cell while his
clan was attacked by about 10,000 soldiers. And they were already weak
enough from the war with the Twin Moons, who were probably at the Shadow
base right now anyway. And there was nothing he could do about it. And it
was all Jadax's fault (sort of.)
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Day 21 Yehaskala (port town south of Rolin City)

The "Eagle" docked, and Jon, Jadax, Zew, and Jaya got off. Zando and his
two friends stayed on board. They slipped up, and Jadax went into a bar. He
sat down at the counter and ordered a drink. While he was drinking, the
bartender went over to a group of four tough looking men at a table and
whispered, "That's one of 'em." The bartender went back behind the counter
like nothing happened. Jadax ordered another. While the bartender went to
get it, a paper on the wall caught his eye. He got up to examine it, but
one of the men from the table charged at him with a sword. Jadax drew his.
The man swiped, and Jadax backed away. Unfortunately, he tripped and fell
over the counter when he dodged. He rolled to his feet, and found the
bartender with an ax raised over his head. He jumped out of the way, then
killed him. One of the other men jumped over the counter, but Jadax slashed
his stomach open. Then Jadax jumped over the counter himself, and impaled
one of the other men. The path to the doorway was now open, and Jadax used
it. Jadax ran back to the "Eagle", along the others. They were being
followed by the two from the bar still alive, as well as a few from other
buildings. They all got back on the ship, and Zando pulled up the anchor.
Jadax learned that Jon and Zew had gone through a similar encounter in the
weapon shop across the street from the bar. And Jaya found a poster that
read:

                                WANTED: FOR POSSIBLE MURDER OF MR. ZOCHI
(no first name given)
It had pictures of Jadax, Jon, Zew, and a few others that were near Zochi
at the time of his death.
It also said that there would be a §15,000 reward for the capture/murder of
any of them. It hadn't been much of a rest stop, but at least they found
out something.
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Morning 23, Vesterez. 

There were bounty hunters here, too. As soon as Jadax had said goodbye to
Jon, Zew and the rest, he was chased out of town. It seemed that word had
reached here, too. He spent all day in the forest outside town. He managed
to steal a newspaper from a traveler to see what was going on. He had been
on a ship for three straight days, after all. On the front page he read
that the Shadow had been massacred at their base by Signus's troops. (The
Twin Moons there had also been killed.) The leader, Panther, had gotten out
alive, but not many others. The soldiers had turned northeast towards KST
City. and would be there soon. (The paper was a day old, so Jadax figured
they were fighting the Kin Shi Tal at that very moment.) The war between
Shadow and Twin Moons was pretty much on hold (again) because of the
attack. Nothing else was that major. Jadax decided to sleep out here until
the bounty hunters left town.
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Night 23, forest near Vesterez

Jadax woke up about at midnight for no real reason, and noticed a figure in
a tree. He got out his pistol-style crossbow, just in case. He went for a
closer look, and the figure swung to another tree via grappling hook. Jadax
shot him, but only scored a hit on the arm. A dart whizzed by his ear and
stuck in a tree. Jadax shot again, and knocked the man/woman/whatever out
of the tree. He drew his sword and charged at the figure. He slashed
him/her/it twice, then dodged a few shurikens, then stabbed for the kill.
He searched this person, who seemed to be in a Ninja suit, and found several
throwing weapons, a cloth, a packet of a chloroform like substance, and, a
rose. Jadax suddenly remembered hearing about "The Rose", better known as
Gorgio W'Tcaps. He placed the rose between Gorgio's teeth, and then got an
idea. He took the Ninja suit off the corpse, and put it himself. He would
sleep until morning, then he would enter town as Gorgio W'Tcaps...