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[March]

Laying over the gate in awkward silence feels kinds wrong.

Suddenly a trapdoor open up in the ground in front of you on the far-side of the gate.
"Ok, who stalled the story?" pops out a greasy looking dwarf climbing out of the ground like a gopher...
"Think it might have been me." says the elf a bit embarrassed
"Let's have a look at the problem, than." the dwarf responds pulling out a unbound book and starts flipping through it, "cloaked person lays of gate... yet unnamed elf says elf words... DM gives list of rolled words but not their meaning, well that's probably it."
"Well how do we fix it?" asks the elf, "Don't worry i've got this." the dwarf proclaims tearing about half a page out and shoving  it into your mouth.

Spoiler: dwarfan script fragment (click to show/hide)

tradra- traveler or trader
pas- direction of pas
-an- made by
dor- gate or guard
umbr- the big negative modifier
ilk- people
oneeku-meat or slang for [redacted]
kokod- heretobe
luake-tell or teach
daalown-sunbloom mushroom specificly
owo- sex love fun
-en- racial emphasis
-in- self emphisis
phit- early first, to start with
atiue- generocity
ztkee- finish or be done
sideret- caring
kudu- act actions acting
saru- leave
conci- wealth money
ogaaku- music
shizumu- water
akour- alcohol
abrams- targeting
opepi- [redacted]
da-- movement
kin- trees
oishe- tasty
tsubu- grain
ama- flax
tabako- smokeplant
omugi- barley
kinoko- mushroom
kusa- grass
gohan- rice
pan- bread
docke- poison
suena- [redacted]
phot- last, ending up
hapi- [redacted]
ahiru- duck
jeen- temple
hunta- hunter or searcher
barda- bard or singer
jagaimo- potato
egack- potion
maho- magic
-lit- positive modifier
hoppu- hops

"And you quit playing this like its a puzzle game, we warned you about this last time with the damn doors!" the dwarf scolds the DM
(sorry, got a little carried away there forgot people tend to dislike hard to understand contrivances)
"well don't let it happen again, us lot got worldbuilding to do and cant be stopping the whole story just to fix a stall." the rather grumpy fellow fires off, before storming off back down his trapdoor closing it like it never existed.

[Naturegirl1999]

”Thank you” stand up. “Sorry about this, am I allowed to enter”
(Sorry for not posting an action in a while)

[King Zultan]

”Thank you” stand up. “Sorry about this, am I allowed to enter”
(Sorry for not posting an action in a while)

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[Naturegirl1999]

Is this still on?

[March]

”Thank you” you say standing up off the gate. “Sorry about this, am I allowed to enter”

The elf still a bit embarrassed explains plainly, "The elf-gate only lets elfs through, there's honestly nothing i can do about that, my job is only to keep humans from hurting the elf-gate in ignorance."

(sorry i slept in), explains the DM

[Naturegirl1999]

”can you tell me about other areas I can visit?”

[March]

”can you tell me about other areas I can visit?”
The elf thinks for a second before replying, "If your honestly desperate to get to pas dor you can follow the elf-gate neathward through the kinlit to the meran district, or seaward to... the sea, there's also... Ter... at the other end of the mer road." the sloppy directions give you great confidence this elf doesn't do much traveling.

[Naturegirl1999]

”Thank you”

Head to Ter

[March]

”Thank you” you offer the elf as you start back down the road you came from.

You start heading to Ter; but it's not long at all before you are mockingly stopped by a bird blocking your progress, "Told ya so, told ya so."

[Naturegirl1999]

”yep, I should have listened”

[March]

”yep, I should have listened”, you tell the bird and it smuggly starts hopping along with you.
You continue toward Ter, bird in tow.

(this is technically a very long trip, so if you want to continue on without stopping say so)

[Naturegirl1999]

Yes, continue without stoppoping

[March]

You travel on to Ter; after a while the bird grows tired of hopping along and decided riding on you was easier, you walk walk through the rest of the day & all through the night & into the next afternoon...
You pass by the sign and the trail, the now half missing wagon, and even some elfs with loaded-up backpack camping for the night on the road...
Until the road exits forth from the orkbarken unto crop-fields on hills, passing these you enter into a village straddling the road.
Wooden buildings with thatch roofs; busy humans walk by working, playing, living, talking... what looks you get are welcoming if not wary.
"Ter firma, only thing harder than the soil is the lives of the people who work it." jests your birdly passenger.

[Naturegirl1999]

”If their lives are hard, we should help them”
Start helping the people with their work

[March]

”If their lives are hard, we should help them.” you tell the bird and it retorts, "I only work if the Measures are good, and besides with this cloak you'll cause more harm than good if you try to get involved with these people's business." the bird proclaims tugging at the white cloak on your shoulder.

You go to help the people; walking around for awhile you find yourself circling some sort of display-board with various strips of cloth, bark-paper, and assorted pieces of plank attached to it... all of which have writing on them.
"How quaint a job board, where are you going to take us next; a tavern, a cave, some far-off tower to rescue a fair maiden." the bird chuckles insultingly.