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[center][h2] The Blacksmiths' Chronicles: Chapter 6; Travel and Confrontation (Supposedly)[/h2][/center]
[center][h3] 4.8 years PA (Post Arrival) [/h3][/center]

A ship arrived recently, it contained a letter, requesting that I move to Sardenia for 5 years to teach my skills. I have decided to accept the request, and go to Sardenia, the people here are concerned for my safety, especially during the journey. However their nerves have been eased when a compromise was reached, because initially they refused to let me go. The compromise was that I and my new family, would travel on our ship, The Nimitz. The name of the ship serving a purpose, besides the fact that it is the name of a character in a book Olliver likes, it should also be a giveaway that he is not from this time, an oblique reference to the 'USS Nimitz'. He felt that he didn't have much of a choice to go, he felt a responsibility, that if others were time-shifted, he had to meet up with them. 

In the past 21 and a 1/2 months though several important things had happened, Olliver had gotten married to Almeda, and it was a joyous union, they had had a child already, a beautiful young girl named Albareth. She was a year old already, and was rapidly learning to crawl. Additionally in the wider scope, after the ship started coming back with ill after long voyages, Olliver immediately stopped the lesson on some of the more advanced weapon crafting techniques and shifted to teaching his apprentices to learning to make steel barrels . They were confused and disappointed at first, but when they learned that storing the water and such in the metal barrels would stop the water going bad, which was the cause of the illness on the ships, they went to the work and learning with joyful hearts. 

The man who arrived with the letter to their land, was surprised when Olliver asked him for a map, and were going to take their personal boat their, instead of one of the fast public boats that Crete had been building. For he knew not that Olliver had drawn the plans for the boats himself. When Olliver showed him the clipper that Olliver had had the people start building after the galleys were completed, the man was in awe. Olliver explained that the ship was completed ahead of schedule due to the fact that many people had come to help build it on their time off as a way to thank him. "This ship has a more limited cargo capacity than the galleys that we normally use, but it makes up for that in pure speed." Soon after the arrival of the messenger, everything was packed and they headed off to go meet with the person who had sent the letter