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Old 03-08-2015, 05:48 PM   #471
Abe Sargent
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As dinner is served a few hours later, Alzar asks about their history. They claim to have been from a city that has fallen asleep, and tell their tale. The masabas have been there since the dawn of time. They are impregnable and there is a spiritual significance to them. A priest named M’rin comes back from a hunt with a few other Nairotan and are warmly greeted. They have some under-sand dwelling insects they have speared, each about the size of a hand. About 6 or 7 of them were captured, and they are cooked and added to the meal.

This communal event, called fire tales, involves the Nairotan telling many tall tales of the history of the desert, and each one is wilder than another.

Alzar asks if he can investigate the 12 mastabas on the next day, and the village agrees.

They stay the night. Alzar memorizes a different slate of spells tomorrow.

The next morning, after dawn-meal, Alzar and Volcifar head out and investigates. There are 6 smaller and 6 larger mastabas, and some have traces of a faint paint on them. They are about 35 minutes from the village. They don’t have any other markings.

Alzar traces many with his hands, and notes no ways in. Volcifar verifies it. They were built to keep what is in, in, and nothing out. Alzar cast Detect Undead to see if any are here, suspecting they might be like the mastabas that were around the Pyramid of the Illustrious One on the Holy Isle.


One of the smaller ones does – just one undead. One of the larger ones has 10. That’s it.

He heads over and touches the wall, trying to control them. He can’t control the 1 or the 10. He is in range. He can just axe open a wall and check it out if he wants too. But instead he marks the exact location as precisely as he can. He can teleport back here later, and just use Passwall or something similar to open the mastaba and then close it again and no one will be the wiser…

They decide to head back north to Bralizzar. That’s where Aman Al-Rafiq is likely to be, and it’s just a few days away from here probably 4 or 5 to Northknife Pass and it’s easy to find, just stay on the mountain chain to their east. This mountain chain encircles the region, and on the other side is the Hek controlled part of the Sand Mire
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