My goodness - has anyone seen how large the crew of a Tukera freighter is?! That'll fill Smitty's then if only half of them go! 14 of them. <resists temptation to roll them all up> Did name their ship the Golden Wheatsheaf - imagining a bunch named on the Golden... theme given in TTA.

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Although I have generated 10 Vargr UPPs (mainly because I wanted to know their charisma so Gvoudzon could interact with them and all the PCs, if they wish, could play footy with them. (What do you reckon on a task - Difficult Dexterity to score a goal?!)

Have also named all the NPCs we could meet in the early part:
Port Warden (or someone from his office): Sameel Denton
Concierge (looking after bookings/cargo): Deeko Maistairs
(Howood) Warehouse clerk: Jan Woodman "Yes, I've heard *all* the jokes")
Minor Bureaucrat: Grator Xalman
Salvor Methodius (or is that a bit obvious?!)
Old woman at stall: Old Marj
Baraatsa's first name: Buul

That should keep me going for a bit. They're beginning to take shape in my mind for mannerisms or speech patterns. Oh, and I've named the five settlements between Sadi and Itzeny: Walton, Western Junction, Lauraville, Karto and Plain Sailing. Mainly because I've always wanted to do a train announcement. "This is the 5.30 departure for Itzeny calling at..."

That should keep me going for a bit. Though I'm not sure it's what Richard meant about being relaxed about the details! Still, I feel a bit more confident now. Will practice the rules for blowing up howood trees tomorrow.

My 15 (going on 21 catwalk model) year old French niece was most impressed that I could look at the text of the chapter and say "Hang on a minute, that govt code isn't 0, it must be D" so I gave her the Itzeny church to examine. Took her about three minutes to spot the lack of stairs. I mean I wouldn't mind so much if they'd just duplicated the plans but they *redrew them*! <sigh>

Right, I'm off to get high on the tainted atmosphere of Pysadi...

thanks again for the encouragement.