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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7104294" data-attributes="member: 20323"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/sizCSAU.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Departing Tajar, Into the High Desert[GM]Long Rest     [MENTION=6803188]VLAD the Destroyer[/MENTION] Your gen, Easifa, returns with the spell magic circle, negotiated from none other than Calipha Fatima ibn Zaida of the djinn.     [MENTION=23]Ancalagon[/MENTION] After relaxing in the palace baths, Lal Qalander has a vivid dream of a man in a burgundy cloak leaving the Yellow City, passing through a sandstorm, and emerging in the High Desert of Zakhara. The man’s face is not Lal’s, but that of a stranger, someone tied to him by bonds of Fate.     [MENTION=6855204]tglassy[/MENTION] Harun crafted a mechanical bird named “Ahzeem.”     [MENTION=6814006]Thateous[/MENTION] Akilah gains Inspiration for role-playing.     [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] “Amina” gains Inspiration for role-playing.     [MENTION=20005]Matthan[/MENTION] Husam is gifted a warhorse with saddle, saddlebags, bit, and bridle from the Mamluks of the Dutiful as a token of their support.[/GM][SBLOCK=Akdam's Traveling Spellbook, as read by Salahuddin]  [MENTION=6803188]VLAD the Destroyer[/MENTION] Akdam’s Traveling Spellbook is a slim volume with an oiled leather cover worn from travel wrapped about with leather cord. The interior cover reads: “Salaam Daskin! May  your 75th birthday be full of mischief!” After perusing its pages by candlelight, Salahuddin finds it contains the following spells: alarm (1st), detect magic (1st), unseen servant (1st), continual flame (2nd), <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/5prirt/deeppockets_a_2nd_edition_utility_spell_updated/" target="_blank">deeppockets*</a> (2nd), fog cloud (2nd), and phantom steed (3rd). A fine collections of spells for a traveler in Zakhara. There are also unusual geometric shapes in the border margins that don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason, perhaps simply a bit of whimsy... However similar pattens are inscribed on the interior of the leather cover. Strange.[/SBLOCK]Before the sun yet rises across the dimly glimmering waters of the Golden Gulf, the first call to prayer is swallowed by the din of merchants and their animals coming to market. The sounds are distant outside the palace walls. With your preparations in order, you depart the palace grounds and make your ways to the western gate, framed by an old sandstone arch into which are carved cat-headed sphinxes from ages past. The sandalwood and rose scents, like the oud playing of Dulcet Riqqiyah, are replaced by the smell of camels, dung, and roasting coffee.[SECTION][align=left]http://i.imgur.com/cJK6AIy.png[/align]Ajan bin Najon al-Yaqud, nephew to Sheikh Ali, is easily spotted, for he waits beyond the city gates along with a dozen of his white-robed kinsmen who each hold the reins of one or two camels complete with saddles and tack. The dusky skinned Ajan nods your way and offers a slow raise of his hand, though he superstitiously avoids venturing too close to the gates.”Peace unto you, champions of my uncle, Sheikh Ali,” he says with a solemn bow and a melodious accent marking him as one accustomed to an oral tradition. His skin is unusually dusky, unlike the other nomads of House Bakr, Clan of the Young Camel, and his eyes are mismatched – one amber like the setting sun, the other green like a brilliant emerald. A nasty scar mars his upper lip. “Greetings from House Bakr,” he says with an arched brow suggesting he barely views Sheikh Ali as a representative of the tribe. ”I have brought camels for your journey, though my uncle’s message did not send word of your destination…” He trails off, as if asking the question directly would somehow be impolite or outré.[/SECTION]The sun is just rising, but there is yet no sign of the brothers Derafsh and Nimar, and the rest of their gang whom Akilah contracted.</blockquote>

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