# Nobody Uses Swallow Pass

Valmora · Year 412 of the Lantern Calendar · a dilemma from [Be a CEO](https://mantar.io/beaceo)

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**The dilemma.** An old shepherd swears that Swallow Pass, abandoned since a rockfall in his grandfather's day, is open again. It would cut three days off the Kordag–Saltmere road. Every driver you have refuses to be the first.

## Options and what happens

- **Lead the first wagons through yourself.** (bold: d20 + adviser skill against 14)
  - Succeeds: The pass is narrow but sound. Your drivers now call it the Master's Road.
  - Fails: A ledge gives way under the second wagon. You climb out of the pass alive, and much humbler.
- **Pay surveyors to check it first (300 cr).** (certain): The surveyors say yes, slowly and with many conditions. Others will use it as soon as you do.
- **Stick to Greyhorn.** (certain): The shepherd shrugs. Shadow Caravan's scouts are seen on the pass a month later.

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