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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 4347957" data-attributes="member: 24234">Your party rides about 500' ahead of the main caravan, with Ahmed Khel taking the lead among those behind you, and his guards riding their camels to form a perimeter around the merchants and their pack animals.  Nargon floats about 20' above the ground.[sblock=ooc]Since no one but Rhun addressed the distance I had to make some assumptions.[/sblock][sblock=renau1g]Razor reports that the desert men don't talk much even among themselves.  However, he overheard enough to know that many of them are afraid of the Master's forces.  Not all of the desert tribes are united under the banner of the Master after all, and most of those in this area are not.  One popular theory among them is that some of the other guards are spies who will lead the caravan into a trap and take their goods.  Another school of thought holds that your party are the Master's agents who will do this, as evidenced by the skeleton and the demonic orc.  He did not overhear anyone admit to working for the Master themselves.  Also, there is much speculation as to the desirability of various races of demihuman women.[/sblock]No attack comes that evening as you head into the sunset, and when it grows dark, the caravan stops to make camp.  The conversation remains muted as you eat with Lashar and some of the others.You hear talk of the "Lost Oasis" and Lashar explains "I do not usually travel this route, but I have on occasion, and I think we can find it.  In truth, we need to, or our supply of water will run out before we reach another source and ... but we will find it.  We should reach it in another day's travel."You share guard duty that night as usual, and the night proves uneventful.The following morning the caravan sets out again after a quick breakfast, trying to make time before the midday heat makes travel unbearable and forces the caravan to set up its tents to provide shade.Once again your party rides (or flies in the case of Nargon) out ahead of the main group.  In this area you notice signs of the passing of a large group of men. Occasionally you find shallow graves or simple cairns, often torn open as by wild animals. From the remains, you can tell that the Republic army must have passed this way recently.Then, as you ride past the base of a steep bluff, you see a cloud of dust in the distance. It appears to be moving your way.The 'cloud of dust', it soon becomes clear, is being stirred up by a large force of riders now galloping towards you!  They are roughly 2000' away at this point.  From the size of the 'cloud' you estimate that there must be around a hundred of them.ooc: At this point, no one else in the caravan can see or hear the oncoming riders.  You can go back to warn and reinforce the caravan, stand your ground (in which case most of the riders could likely go around you if they so chose) or of course head forward to somehow engage the oncoming army.There are some some large rocks in this terrain which a man could take partial or total cover behind.</blockquote>

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