Editing Trouble in Below Town (section)

='''The Two Paths to the Caves of Cthoth as related by the Apothecary 'Zo''''=

Zo is worried. She has been sleeping badly, seeing in her dreams the approaching sea monster (which she refers to only as 'it'). 'It' will arrive by the end of the week! 

She invites the Nelly's officers to her shop where she spreads a large, pre-flood map of Cuwayo (this island) on her broad counter. On it, the shrine, the Maze of Cthoth, is marked with forbidding symbols. It stands at the top of the Mountain of Clouds [the fourth hump down from the top of Cuwayo; please see the wiki map-this is kind of important if you want a sense of where you are heading]. There are two ways there. The most obvious is a track running from Xaxa on the east coast, which wends its way into the mountains. The second is to pass across FROM WHERE YOU ARE NOW across Carroway country overland to reach the mountain's base.


The journey from Xaxa up into the mountains should be doable in that time, but since this zig-zagging line looks forbidding even on the map, and has gone unmaintained since the fall of Ograpog, it it could be a scary business. Some also say that the mountain route is guarded by creatures such as elementals or even (some say) a (sacred ?) roc. 
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The alternative is to start from Maroa, striking inland across the Carroway swamp. This is the way that Crass went, taking Dongo and Zo as his (unreluctant?) hostages. Zo relates that he took small boats inland to the eastmost verge of the Carroway forest, where the deep seawater swamp becomes a shallow freshwater marsh, following remote creeks inland. The marsh teems with monsters like giant spiders and snakes, and one night Crass lost a whole dinghy of sailors to a unseen monster of some kind. Once Crass' crew reached the base of Cloud Mountain they found the final part of trail up sturdy and undamaged....
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