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Insurmountable

[Insurmountable]	Room: 8209505
Providing shade from the sun, a bright red awning stretches wide across the short wall where the wagon opens into the grounds. Opposite the entry, a small window looks out over the rider's seat, its worn wooden frame allowing air to pass freely through the space. Along the length of the wagon, several wall-mounted racks and floor-to-ceiling shelves line both walls, neatly holding two distinct styles of saddles, their leathers ranging from pale, sun-bleached tones to darker, oil-rich finishes. You also see a mesquite and parchment sign and a woven beargrass basket.
Obvious paths: out

a mesquite and parchment sign

Rumor Woods
In the Common language, it reads:


~*~ Welcome to Insurmountable! ~*~

On the rack, you'll find the Faendryl Scutix, a saddle designed in those far off lands.  For more information on the scutix, please read further down this sign.

On the shelves, you'll find the Tehir Saddle, Vurziod.  This is a forgewright design.

In the basket, you'll find unlock certificates and a mount naming potion.  Please read further down for more information on the saddles.

---The Scutix - A Faendryl Chitin-craft Saddle---

The name scutix is deceptively simple, meaning little more than saddle in the Faendryl tongue.  The design it describes, however, is anything but.

Originally fashioned from the great chitinous plates of deceased wastes scorpions, the earliest scutix was a triumph of pragmatic elegance.  The plates fit the mount's natural contours seamlessly, cradling the rider while protecting their back beneath an articulated shell. To the eye, rider and scorpion seemed almost one creature.
The pheromones embedded in the harvested chitin told a different story.  Imperceptible to the riders, the scent spoke plainly to every scorpling within range: here was a host.  The resulting swarms were catastrophic for mount and rider alike.

Modern scutix are carved from carefully shaped wood, treated and finished to mirror the living chitin beneath them; glossy where the mount gleams, textured where the natural plates ripple.

The best craftsmen spend as much time matching the color and sheen of a specific mount as they do the saddle's construction.  When the articulated plates are folded open for mounting, even a trained eye may struggle to find where the scorpion ends and the saddle begins.

Note: scutix is both a singular and plural word.

---The Vurziod - A Tehir Forgewright Saddle---

In Tehir, vurziod draws from roots that mean stinger, finger, and strength in equal measure, with seat woven somewhere beneath all three.  Scholars have settled on "stingseat" as the working translation, though any Tehir present for that decision would likely find it incomplete.

What the name describes is a saddle built not around the rider, but around the mount.  Where other cultures design riding equipment to subdue or conceal, the vurziod is fitted with the precision of someone who regards the creature beneath them as a partner rather than a beast of burden.  The Tehir do not consider the sandfinger tamed.  They consider it convinced.  A willing partner.

The saddle follows the natural segmentation of the scorpion's mesosoma, sitting cleanly along the tergite grooves rather than strapping across them.  A series of hook clasps, which retract flush when the saddle is unengaged, are set into each groove sequentially.  Once positioned, a rear tension knob cinches the whole assembly firmly from behind.  The leading edge is placed precisely behind the carapace junction, leaving the scorpion's median eyes unobstructed.

The seat itself is high-backed, padded in local hides, and flanked by a forward rail.  Two rigid stirrups extend outward on jointed billets, adjustable to the length of the rider's leg.  The rigidity is deliberate.  A scorpion's gait is not a horse's gait, and a stirrup that gives with the motion rather than holding against it will teach a rider bad habits quickly.

When the tension knob is seated, and the clasps have found their grooves, the vurziod becomes less a saddle than a connection, the final expression of a bond that began before the first molt was shed.  Built for the unforgiving rhythms of the Sea of Fire, it holds the rider not by force but by fit.  After all, precision and trust, among the Tehir, amount to the same thing.

On the tall wooden rack you see: a folded oxblood-tinted mahogany scutix trailing adamantine rivets, a folded gylph-incised wenge scutix accented in ora designs, and a folded and lacquered bloodwood scutix.

Item	Type	Info	Details	Price
a folded oxblood-tinted mahogany scutix trailing adamantine rivets		2 lbs	Saddle - Scorpion Analyze Analyze: Style: Chitin-craft-style (articulated wooden plates) Rivets: urglaes Hook plate: adamantine Wood color/type: oxblood-tinged mahogany Seat padding: quilted ramie linen Tiers present: 1 (OTS).	2,600
a folded gylph-incised wenge scutix accented in ora designs		2 lbs	Saddle - Scorpion Analyze Analyze: Style: Chitin-craft-style (articulated wooden plates) Rivets: urglaes Hook plate: ora Wood color/type: black wenge Seat padding: scarlet-on-ebon bourde Tiers present: 1 (OTS).	2,600
a folded and lacquered bloodwood scutix		2 lbs	Saddle - Scorpion Analyze Analyze: Style: Chitin-craft-style (articulated wooden plates) Rivets: ora Hook plate: rolaren Wood color/type: bloodwood Seat padding: ebon spidersilk Tiers present: 1 (OTS).	2,600

On the yucca wood shelf you see: a heavy copper vurziod lined in thick murduska hides and a hammered copper vurziod fitted with amdhir blue goathide.

Item	Type	Info	Details	Price
a heavy copper vurziod lined in thick murduska hides		5 lbs	Saddle - Scorpion Analyze Analyze: Style: Forgewright-style (articulated metal frame) Metal type: bronze Seat leather: thick murduska hide Clasp embellishment: triangular Tiers present: 1 (OTS).	2,600
a hammered copper vurziod fitted with amdhir blue goathide		5 lbs	Saddle - Scorpion Analyze Analyze: Style: Forgewright-style (articulated metal frame) Metal type: copper Seat leather: amdhir blue goathide Clasp embellishment: overlapping ring Tiers present: 1 (OTS).	2,600

In the beargrass basket you see: a dark sandy brown certificate decorated with copper geometric designs, a pale dusky brown certificate decorated with silver geometric designs, and a multicolored glass bottle.

Item	Type	Info	Details	Price
a dark sandy brown certificate decorated with copper geometric designs	unlock certificate		Saddle - Scorpion The certificate will unlock an Insurmountable saddle ("scutix" and "vurziod" items) to tier 2, adding verbs ATTEND, NUDGE, PULL, RUB, LEAN to it.	5,600
a pale dusky brown certificate decorated with silver geometric designs	unlock certificate		Saddle - Scorpion The certificate will unlock an Insurmountable saddle ("scutix" and "vurziod" items) to tier 3, adding verbs TILT, RAISE, TOUCH, CLENCH, PUSH to it.	5,600
a multicolored glass bottle		< 1 lb	Potion of Naming Read Read: The label reads: ~~~ ~~~	2,500

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