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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elfstone" data-source="post: 5674046" data-attributes="member: 83937">Session 1 07/29/2011Akbar the Carthigian mageI can only assume the gods are very angry with us for whatever reason or smoking too much of the black lotus, at any rate serving in the carthaginian army our battle lost general slain and in full retreat from sicily beaten by sicilians of all things ugh we retreat on ships and run right into the storm of the century which lasts what seems forever we awaken some time later on a beach many dead around us (guess the gods missed a few, sure they will make it up later) the generals slave we see screaming and yelling and drowned himself in the surf other than that apparently the survivors are mostly from various parts of the army few know each other and i know none almost all gear is lost many hours of searching comes up with very little to help shipwrecked on a beach next to a vast dessert we gathered what we could and followed tracks of people heading away from our wreck site as best we could (no tracker in the group) my two mules idi and bidi succumbed to the elements after a short while along the way we found bits of equipment here n there armor here spell tablets there and weapons to and frowe came upon a few dead humanoids some empty skins and dead animals assumed the people we followed fought over water and this was the result then dying for a drink the gods decided to give a few of us a drink almost drowning me in the process (ha ha very funny) lost and found more spell tablets and it seems there were others victim of the same joke upstream but saw no sign of them other than some screams we heard initially onward we trudged finding an abandoned ancient city with a step pyramid we took some rest (still finding no water just waiting for another punch line) and our it seems natural leader felix took to studying the pyramid and some statues of what looked like a mix between two religious icons greek and egyptian and he found a dead humanoid with a big arrow stuck in him holding open a door after resting we all decided to explore the pyramid thinking we might find something to aid us as well as the people we were following which we assumed were inside since the body was pretty fresh quintus pulled the body from the door allowing it to close (another punch line methinks) and when reopening it he almost got skewered by a big arrow then we entered to find another body with a dagger in its back i think and felix continued to another door (oh yeah another punch line no thief in the group) and pushing on the door almost got shanked by things dropping from the ceiling and so we entered the room beyond containing 3 bronze cylinders going from ceiling to floor with doors in them felix opened one to find a ladder going up n down with some blood around and on it and upon opening another door was shot in the back with darts and the door to the room slammed shut throwing quintus out into the hall and a hissing noise came from the ceiling and began to choke us so we headed for the ladder and down we go as quintus got the door opened and followed clinging narrowly on to life so it seemed and at the bottom of the ladder nasty looking beetles(truly the gods are not with us unless it is to see what we can do with almost all our equipment and abilities gone and without the proper skills for the setting truly they must be high)</blockquote>

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