Cloudborne Row

City Parijanah: Svagatam, traveler! Welcome to Cloudborne Row. Turn the corner, and you will find the Cloudborne, purveyor of fine Bhujerban Madhu!

Cloudborne Resident (man in turban and green & brown shorts): This street is not a place for travelers, bhadra. It does not do to wander the back alleys. You might become lost. You might find trouble.

Cloudborne Resident (tan bangaa in green vest): How is it that Judges walk our streets as though they belonged here, their soldiers with them? The Marquis is a fair-weather friend to his people!

Cloudborne Resident (tan seeq with turquoise horn): I saw the Marquis Ondore and a Judge pass by not moments ago. The Marquis… any lesser man would quail before a Judge, but he stood proud.

Cloudborne Kid: My sister works at the Cloudborne, though she is no bar-wench, but the taverner. Very busy, very strict. Best not to trouble her, no.

Bhujerban Sainikah: Back here, bhadra, it is not lost travelers, but lost drinkers whom we must care for. Take the spirits, but care the spirits do not take you.

Cloudborne Resident (woman in white leaning against wall): I have just heard that Captain Ronsenburg of Dalmasca was spotted in Lhusu Square! Drivel from the mouths of drunkards!

Archadian Wayfarer: P-Pardon… Please, stop shouting like that… Urgh, my head, it pounds! Bhujerban Madhu is as sweet as her maids, and as strong as her Stones!

Cloudborne Resident (moogle in gold with orange pom-pom pacing in front of tavern): My first ever visit to the Cloudborne. It’s been a long time coming. I’m going in, kupo! With a friend. Once we can find the door.

Cloudborne Patron (light blue seeq talking to woman sitting on crate): Yer not from around here, are you? Well, this here’s the Cloudborne, favored watering-hole of miner and traveler alike. Those guides you see around, the parijanah, they hold meetings here, too.

Cloudborne Patron (man standing beside collapsed bangaa outside tavern): Every time we drink, this! I tell him, count the cups, count the cups, and does he count them? Yes! If only he would stop counting…

City Parijanah: Svagatam, traveler! If it is shopping you desire, do see Travica Way. Why, Targe’s Arms is just up the stairs here, you see. Here… this is more of an alley, to tell the truth. Most come here only for drinking… that would be at the tavern down the slope. Good journey!

Bhujerban Guru: Haa… I have recently met the leader of the parijanah guides, Havharo. Very mysterious, very handsome! He frequents the Cloudborne, you know.

Cloudborne Resident (tan bangaa talking to blue seeq): The other day, a man in his cups was shouting of the Marquis’s “involvement” with some anti-Imperial resistance. Now… he is gone. The lesson: show the fool’s coin, pay the fool’s price.

Lhusu Miner: They say the Lhusu Mines are silent today. People talk of important men from the Empire come to see the mines. The ones in armor, perhaps?

Bhujerban Sainikah: I have heard that the quality of our Stones is dropping, but this is because the Empire buys all the best. I trust the Empire not, with their laboratories and their experiments. What are they up to?

Archadian Wayfarer: I came to see the source of the power that keeps this land of Dorstonis afloat, yet with the Lhusu Mines closed…

City Parijanah: Svagatam, traveler! Welcome to Bhujerba! Wish you to see the estate of his Excellency the Marquis? Then go you down Travica Way. You can see the estate at the north end of the Way from most parts of Bhujerba. It is quite impressive, and a useful landmark, if you are lost.

City Parijanah: Svagatam, traveler! You have been to Travica Way? It is right up these steps. And Mait’s Magicks is at its end. I recommend stopping there, oh yes.

Cloudborne Resident (woman talking to red bangaa and blue seeq): Have the inspectors from the Empire left? I mistrust the Empire. After what I saw in Nalbina, who wouldn’t?

Cloudborne Resident (moogle in gold with orange pom-pom sitting on crates): This building here? Why, this is the Staras residence, kupo. House Staras has long controlled the Lhusu Mines. They’re nobility!

Cloudborne Resident (man in dark pants sitting on crate next to moogle): I hear an Imperial fleet is to put in to port quite soon. Each fleet arrival is a great opportunity for our merchants to sell, you see.

Cloudborne Resident (light blue seeq): Careful on these streets. Gets dangerous ‘round here at night. Bunch o’ drunks gave me a right beatin’ just the other night. Think they were part of this resistance group I been hearing about.