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It felt to Vadim like his prayers were being answered when the first two adventurers spoke up.  He nodded at their words, then looked at one of a soldier named Lewis and gave him the nod of approval to fetch the things that Adam and Fenna were asking for.  Lewis had taken soldiers with him to prepare bedrolls and provisions for each adventurer.  They made sure to include a compass and a map for Adam.

"You are a noble man," Vadim said to Clive in response to his words.  "If there are more like you, where you are from, then those people are fortunate indeed."  Vadim felt, when he looked in the eyes of Clive, that this was truly an honest-eyed and simple farm man - just as he had said - and Vadim could relate to a man like that.  Perhaps if they'd had more time, he would've come to like him, just as he'd come to respect him now.  "But I insist on your reward," he continued assertively.  "My people will take refuge in Bridgeton where we will shore up the defenses and weather the storm with strength in numbers.  If this silver will help save the world, then it is silver that could not be better off anywhere else but in possession of your party."

When the soldier handed over the adventurers' reward, he chose to hand it over to the closest one to him that had a backpack - MacKensie.  Once she put it away in her backpack, she would feel it's weight and bulk magically minimize.  This was just one of many gifts from the power of Source Crystal in each adventurers hand - a power that connected them to the very [i]Wellsprings of Existence[/i], where even the laws of time and space were created.  

All of the adventurers would be able to carry a considerable amount in their belt satchels and backpacks, weight and bulk minimized in a similar way.  There was though, a limit to this power, in it's raw base level.  But such enchantments and magic had been researched and developed over the centuries to create expensive [i]Magical Haversacks[/i] that a person - adventurer or not - could wear to enjoy seemingly limitless carry weight, provided they had a considerable amount of wealth to purchase one.