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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 979192" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 087  “Unique Sand Storm”It has been three days of walking on hot, stinging salt now but now they begin to walk on sand.  It is just as hot, just as hard to walk on and though it doesn’t sting as much, it gets into everything.  Stonecrusher seems to have the greatest bit of difficulty.  His enormous size and weight makes it hard for him to climb up the shifting sand dune and when he goes down the dune it often is on a wave of sand.  I am sure he doesn’t care for it, but the party insists he travel 20 yards ahead of them in fear of a sandy wave engulfing everyone.Much like the salt plains, there appears to be little life here.  There are an occasional cacti, large rock or bone remains that give shelter to bugs, spiders and they suspect scorpions.  The group has an another day of sand dunes then about 2-3 days before reaching Samarah.  There they will try to restock on supplies using the last of their money.They continue to walk by night and early morning and rest by the heat of the day.  It serves them well and allows for trust with the group and the elf.  The elf seems to know to the area some but says he has not been here.  Perhaps he is lying; perhaps he just knows these terrain types.  Either way, it has saved the life of the ½ giant and made travel easier for everyone else.   Mania and Cosa listen to the elf carefully.  They are trying to learn everything they can from him on surviving in the lifeless area of salt and sand.Just as the group prepare to set up camp Glaze spots a light brown cloud.  Mania and Dessantee both recognize it as a sandstorm.  There is some shelter here provided by tall broken off rocks with cacti growing within.  They go here for shelter.  Dessantee stares at it long and hard frowning the entire time.Dessantee drops to the sand and covers his body.  Stonecrusher looks up and goes “ooohhhhh…. not sand winds…flying creatures.  The howl of the winds deafens Mania and Cosa.  Glaze, curious about flying creatures peers up and sees seven winged shaped within the sandstorm.  “Uh-oh…guys …it’s heading for us!” She tries yells above the wind.And that is how the seven Sand Wyverns came onto them.</blockquote>

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