0004 - Yellow City: Yeong Prosperity District
The Yeong Prosperity District is one of the great Centers of the Yellow City, with many of the most established Opium Cartels, Bazaars and a large range of businesses, set up in colossal buildings crammed next to one another besetting the large 60 feet wide thoroughfares that form the main transport axes of the Yellow City. There is no shortage of goods-hauling pack animals, palanquins containing very important persons carried by extremely muscular and powerful looking Lamarakhi subjugated into servitude by the most powerful in Yoon Suin, extremely skilled or just very desperate goons and thieves that take advantage of the bustle to make some quick but very big coin, and the vicious Adjudicators robed in their uniforms of Red and Yellow, who are perpetually after such thieves and are known for ruthlessly cutting off thieves' arms with their heavy ringed daos as punishment for their infractions.
It is in this very Center of the Yellow City you find yourself in, and also the center of great curiosity and attention as the passers-by stare at your foreign Chelonian likeness. Near a great crossroads you stand with the large thoroughfares cutting north-south and east-west. Towards the north you see two vast compounds facing one another both which you have spent much of your time during your stay in the Yellow City: The great compound of the Prowling Cockatrice, the largest Explorers' Guild in the city, into which numerous carriages and groups of adventurers haul their large backpacks and gained treasure into.
The second compound towards the east is very much obscured by the overgrowing vegetation that covers the entirety the compound's outer rim held in by a tall plastered wall and a large brass gate, both of which have menacing rusty spikes protruding upwards likely to deter trespassers. Nobody stands guard at those gates, but not a single one dares even touch it for there are rumors that it will curse those who are not meant to enter, and will automatically open to those permitted. You had the fortune of acquainting yourself with one of the wealthy patrons of this vast rumored to be haunted compound, and your ocassional visits there have led to much rumors that Turtle Ghosts own the place. This compound, unlike what the rumors suspect, is no haunted house, but the archive and study area of a secretive group Seekers of Secret Knowledge - The Molten Eye.
AS you look about, you seem to notice something odd with the compound of The Molten Eye... near one of the spiked tops of the plastered walls of the compound, you catch the sight of a strange black skinned ape-like creature jumping into the overgrown vegetation and disppearing into the shadow of trees within the compound.
Meanwhile, near the compound of the Prowling Cockatrice, you notice a procession of very muscular, heavily tattooed men of Lamarakh wearing nothing but loincloths, carrying an extremely over-decorated, ornate palanquin, surrounded by heavily armoured men wearing dao, with distinctive peacock feathered helmets. The procession marches steadily through the large gate of Explorers' Guild compound, and those about to enter fall back to give way, and even some bow down as the palanquin passes in an expression of subservience.
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