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[Author's Note: Ethiopia pictures (cw nasty scarring on one of them); Dallol pictures.]
And so with one thing and another, the investigators meet up in an office to prepare to leave New York.
Miskatonic, Rome, and Ethiopia
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strange-aeons
germs-of-empires
What they learn over the next few hours is that Federico Acquaronte SUUUUUUUCKS.
germs-of-empires
He is VERY BITTER about how "those nuns" destroyed the CMC's relationships with the local Afar nomads.
germs-of-empires
The nuns got the Afar to shirk their duties and interrupt work for extended periods and steal supplies and spread malcontent to others.
strange-aeons
Anemone has some concerns about this man's family life, but she was raised to keep her concerns to herself in polite company. And is silently glad to hear that the nuns might not be evil. It's really better living in a world where nuns are sometimes not evil.
germs-of-empires
And as soon as they found potash somewhere else the CMC moved to somewhere with more cooperative employees.
Incidentally ruining Federico's entire career and leaving himself with nothing but his three dubiously consenting black wives.
strange-aeons
Behold Eskander's complete lack of opinion about any of this.
If he had an opinion, he might lose his job, so he has NO OPINIONS AT ALL.
strange-aeons
He heard something about white men being less likely to die at the new location, were there problems here?
germs-of-empires
The Eritrean and Ethiopian desert in the area inland from Mersa Fatma is scrub desert lowland, hotter than hot. Foreigners — even Africans who aren’t from the local area — would be foolish or suicidal to travel alone in this wilderness.
Presumably they were not planning to do that, right.
They were going to get a native guide.
strange-aeons
Oh yeah they were absolutely going to get a native guide and would never think of biking three days through the wilderness alone. Obviously.
strange-aeons
Zoe agrees a native guide is clearly the best way for people to travel through such an inhospitable environment!
strange-aeons
Yes definitely they are getting a native guide out of curiosity how does one best do that.
germs-of-empires
They can go to Adua by themselves fine but they really need a guide to go to Dallol.
They can probably find a guide in Kolluli, which is on the way to Dallol. Although black people are very lazy and you have to bribe them with liquor to get them to do anything. Savages.
strange-aeons
Well, they can probably figure something out.
It's very good of him to give them this advice.
strange-aeons
Zoe compliments his wives and children and house and his right hand man and when it comes the food and does her best to keep Federico talking about himself and not asking questions of them.