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>>> Incoming Transmission
>>> Source Identifier: Dazzling Sand # True Siruta 
>>> Destination Identifier: TE3-Firebrand#Her Glorious Command#Starlight Ebbing#Muse IX#Endeavour#Unquiet Journey#*
>>> Subject: Freelance Pathfinding Expertise Required
>>> Message Begins

True Siruta needs valuable assistance!

The founding of a new lumber yard on the far side of the mainland of True Siruta has found us needing to forge a new path for a supply route between the great storage houses of Siruta (The Chest) and our new lumber yard (East Point). Ever threatened by the Scourge from the coast, and those who might seek to disrupt us on land, True Siruta seeks volunteer explorers to scout out and establish a safe route between The Chest and East Point.

With the news of the Orion Gate’s failure, it is more essential than ever that True Siruta establishes these supply routes! Those who assist will be greatly respected in our eyes.

I look forward to seeing the esteemed volunteers who will commit themselves to such a vital task!

Dazzling Sand

Infrastructure Adviser to Bright Sunset

>>> Message Ends
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Gathering Flow - Phil
Delicate Harmony - Mike
Warding Path - Tamsin
Foul Wick - Joseph

Summary

The party land on Siruta and meet with Dazzling Sand, the expansion adviser to Bright Sunset in True Siruta and get their task: to scout out a supply route between the warehouse district of The Chest in True Siruta and East Point, a new Lumber Camp.
They set out on a Sirutan Sand Buggy and find themselves encountering trouble on the route as someone seems to have removed warning signs from Quicksand pits. Cautiously they advance through a choke point and have to dissuade would be Ship Heart Hunters from digging up the route on the say-so of some informant.
Beginning to realise there is politics afoot, the party continue into the valley they're scouting out and defeat Decaying creatures while retrieving a Solar Shielded Flight Recorder and papers which confirm their suspicions.
Further, they encounter a Ziline attempting to reconstruct a destroyed bridge out of range of a Ship Heart. They fight off a Scourgeling as well as Decay before making their way to East Point, past a picket line, and save the site manager - Elegant Hectare - from robots being sabotaged by a rogue Union member (one Aspiring Cove).
While Delicate Harmony confronts Aspiring Cove, he doesn't turn the saboteur in, and Cove is able to get away with Foul who joins up with the Sirutan Workers' Union. The others decline Hectare's request to break up the Union and get paid for the job they did, determining they agree with the Union's aims but not its methods.

Delicate Harmony provides detailed maps of hazards and concerns on the suggested road route, but provides a far more detailed survival map to the Sirutan Workers' Union directly for those doing the work in exchange for them handing over Aspiring Cove.
Aspiring Cove is promptly handed over, and Delicate provides details of their sabotage to the True Sirutan authorities. This provides them with an additional Clout with True Siruta.
Gathering Flow liaises with the workers and Endeavour to determine what support is possible to provide to clear the road. Endeavour isn't particularly kitted out for road clearance though, but the Workers are still able to acquire sufficient explosives to clear the Decay.
Gathering does get in touch with the Ship Heart Hunters to confirm with them the evidence they have of there being no Ship Heart. The Hunters are disappointed to discover they had been duped, but remain optimistic about finding one in future given the egging on of Foul.