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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7631944" data-attributes="member: 9255">DARKSUN: THE ELEMENTS OF EVILSEGMENT 030“THE RAAM-DRAJ CONFLICT”07/02/19SEASON: FRIEND’S VENGEANCE  YEAR 24MONTH: THE NOMADDAY: 21KA: 190Koe remains vigilant as the farmer, pulling his cart of “fresh” roots and edibles comes towards them from Raam.  The King’s Road remains eerily quiet.  “Do not bother with Raam.   They are excepting no merchants today….. I suspect especially merchants from Draj.”“What do you…kik.kik. mean?” asks Drak.“There are rumors of conflict building between Abalach-Re and Tectuktitlay…. Raam and Draj.” Yaesha reveals.   “Yadda warned me of it when she visited the compound.”“Thankyou for telling us.” Mumbles Choro….. really and truly missing his mount.  Damned Urikitte agents.“Anything else we should know about?” asks the cheerful and smiling Tiefling- Olan.“No.   We go on.  The water cask used for emergencies for the mounts has a leak.  We need the water.”“We are near Raam….. there are many small but available deposits of water.  We just need to ask.”“We go.” Yaesha demands.“Then we go.” Follows Koe.There are few farmers and people in the fields.   Even slaves seem to make only a rare appearance…. But always with a handler carrying a whip.  Koe doesn’t show it but he has many thoughts about freeing the slaves.  Many.Raam is a city of un-rest and paranoia.   From the view point of Draj, Raam is a city where disease breaks out often.   Their sewer systems are too shallow and close to the city’s main water supply.  To Raam, Draj was the first to call attention to the plague and thus they are the closest to it….. aka the epic center of it.   Either way, each city and its ruler are more than willing to start a battle using the plague as a reason to blame ill of the other.The Tsalaxa caravan, though very small, draws out six templars at the Raamian gate.   Others including a dozen half-giants can be seen behind cloth and wood screens and curtains nearby. “What do you have Drajian scum?!?” sneers the woman.“Nothing for trade.  We seek water for the animals.  Possible food for ourselves.”“You have crates!   What are you hiding?!?”  and six templars sweep out to the cart.  Koe places a hand on his belt where his sling is kept.  In return, an old man, still a templar, pulls out a wand and keeps it pointed on the mul.Yaesha frowns as he hears the templars go through the cart.  The carefully rolled and bound silk colored cloth is thrown onto the sand and unrolls as it bounces to a stop 15 feet away.  Choro goes to pick it up but a templar steps between him and the cloth.   Many crates are opened.   Olan notices the templars keep pushing one with blue scuff marks on it to the side to gain access to cleaner and better looking crates under it.“If you prefer we go else where then we must.” States a red-faced Yaesha.“Take your diseased crap and return home with it Drajian dog.” And the templar woman spits to the ground.Several hundred feet away Koe, without looking up asks “If you knew this would happen then why did we come?”“To gauge the problem.”And Koe allows a slight tilt of his head for a response.  “and…?”“It is bad.   Unless something is done soon there will be war.”</blockquote>

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