made it to elko

Two days of travel to get out here.... so what is it I'm doing out here you might ask?

More of the same really. Drifting, following the work, finding lost and misplaced things... or things that have been "misplaced"., or in some cases misplacing those things, though I try to avoid jobs like that.

Place itself reminds me of a smaller Reno. Granted none of that really answers the question as to why I'm here. Hopefully before the week is out I'll be able to answer that.

Signal found

Authors note: Some portions of this post are actually based on reality. You be the judge as to what those are though.

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A belated N-day to everyone. I'm about thirteen days late. Firstly, I would like to apologize for having not posted for four months. I kind of got out of the habit for a couple weeks and those weeks turned into months, and by the time I had something worth writing about I'd gotten so out of practice, I basically ignored it.  I've actually been out of the SLC area since may believe it or not and am now off in the Bi-nation area between the California Republic and the Salt Lake Confederation (what they're now calling themselves after this spring's vote). More or less  it's kind of a demilitarized area patrolled and enforced by The order that stretches from the eastern sierras out to about old highway 93. This was the result of a full on shootout between militias of the CR and the SLC in Elko, the only reason the order didn't roll in and start disarming both is there's no proof anyone actually gave any orders.

Anyway I've been mapping springs for ranchers out here, some of them moved back to their forefather's lands, some have been out here since before the war and just needed the help.. drifting from ranch to ranch is working out pretty well and being able to kinda figure out where springs are by using ice magic kinda has it's perks. It's honestly pretty nice out here... well once you get past the smoke from all the wildfires and the fact you have to distill the water (arsenic and other heavy metals in the groundwater from some of the old mines and cinnabar deposits.)

Part of the reason I even begrudgingly decided to post, is that one of my contacts in the order got word to me through Hawthrorne depot offering me work. A decent gig, and straightforward. Go find a cache of equipment for the order, get paid handsomely and get claiming rights to anything I fancy at the cache. Seems simple enough. Well the catch obviously is it's deep into the ashlands in one of the areas where rumors of weird things come from. Man like creatures as tall as a tree, fire breathing lizards, thunder eggs the size of cars. the usual outlandish bullshit that comes out of inexperienced people wandering off into areas chock full of wild magic. I figure a couple more weeks of this and then I can head back east, stop in on Eivan and see what Leishey's outfit is doing now. I kinda cut ties with them.. nothing to do with Leishey himself, just more the bureaucracy and that they're kinda... some of the people getting hired on are not the best sort of people I guess is what I'm trying to say.  There's some truths to those rumors of dealing in weird swag out of the ashlands and it sounds like they tried to "forcefully acquire" the electrum mines... it didn't work out for them but.. well I'm not working with the Archivists anymore to say the least.

Actually now that I think on it I might be heading to Elko next week anyway for... well I'm really not at liberty to say.

Oh well, let's survive the week and I'll see if I can muster up the energy to post something when/if I get there.