Worship the Desert

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Summary

Adventure: Worship the Desert On Plane/Off Plane
GM: Bernard
Session: Winter 819
Night: Thursdays
Location: Birdlands, Massey.
Level: Crunchy, maybe good with ketchup

Party:

• Hagan - Michael P
• Basalic - Keith
• Grizelda - Jacqui
• Jaycey - Anne
• Sau Rus - Ian A
• Rayne - Annuskha

Employer:
Ranjit Kayal, a Trader from Izmiraldi.

Mission:
A messenger bird has arrived at the guild with a missive. Ranjit is seeking to hire a guild party to investigate an area of desert in the Gatar Depression, one of his rivals was attacked there by someone unknown, and he wishes to know who this is, probably have them dealt to permanently, and also find the lost temple the rival was searching for.
Along with the missive was a down payment of gems, valued by the guild at 30,000sp worth after taxes, and a finger belonging to an unknown attacker. This finger has been identified as being off plane from the plane of Athas, so there is a strong possibility that part of the adventure may require off plane travel. The Messenger bird is still waiting at the guild to carry a message back to Ranjit to let him know if there is a party and if they would like to meet in Izmiraldi, or in another location.

Pay:
30,000sp down payment (total, after taxes) Remaining payment negotiable. 30 Arcane Points

Diary

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Initial Brief

TBC

Chapter One

The First Two days, as noted by Jaycey

On Guild meeting day there were only 3 of us in the guild meeting room. Smallest adventure party I’ve ever been apart of. We are informed that the remaining members of the group would be with us in a couple days as they had some loose ends to attend to. We decided to leave assigning rolls to when they joined us.

We are partially briefed by a 7ft Eagle that spoke common. According to the bird it was natural, of course because Mages are natural. And we are fully briefed by guild security We were to find who killed Ranjit Kayal’s rival, along with find a temple that the rival was looking for. Potentially going off plane because of the POO on a finger.

Deciding to take our time to prepare we put in our order for rations for the adventure and while waiting for this to be fulfilled we did as any good adventure part would do and set up to go out. Getting our appropriate greaters, knowing that lesser would be covered by Basalic and picking up specific desert gear. This search lead us to a couple of merchants’, only one of which I trusted to be honest enough in what he sold and being the party’s current merchant, we went with him.

The merchant sold 6 pairs of sand goggles along with some other neat items like a staff that he said cast lightning that ended in a thunderclap, and some snakeskin leather armor. The Merchant took particular interest in Rayne’s Hawk, Murder, which lead to a haggle session of what Rayne was willing to give up of murder and what he would give us for that item she decided to give up.

Being helped by myself and Raynes knowledge of beasts and merchants we settled on, Murders skin for the staff and two sets of bird sand goggles, this was the alternative to giving up Murder and potentially getting a lot more. So Sau Rus got to indulge in some live taxidermy and we got a decent trades. Oh and of course we regrew the birds skin with the help of the healers.

I am obliged to say that we did put the bird to sleep, before skinning him alive. As to be ethical and nice to the bird. It made Rayne feel better knowing that he wasn’t going to feel anything and that Murder got something out of it.

With all this having happened we were ready to leave tomorrow on the morning of the 3rd.

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Daily Pattern

• Sleep/Camp 12 Hours
• Travel 9 Hours
• Meals 2 Hours
• Rituals 1 Hours

Default pattern, vary as wanted by party

Watch Order

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Travel Magics

Rayne; Summon Cloud

• Total speed: 33 Miles / hour.
• Duration: 50 Hours
• Ft cost per duration: 1 FT / 9 Hours.
• Effective travel distance: 1500 Miles.

Caster & Spell

• Total speed:
• Duration:
• Ft cost per duration:
• Effective travel distance:

Marching Order

Front scouts:
Main body front:
Main body rear:
Tail Guard:

Formations

Buffs

Buffs listed in the table don't need to be detailed, other buffs not on the table must be mentioned at the time they are cast.
Y means always on, N/- means never on, 'Sit.' means when the party has time for buffs before a fight.
Weapon Spells which weapon/s it is going on normally should be noted also.

General notes.

Long Duration Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Sa	Jc	Ra	Gr	Ba	?
Wrath Cloak (Sau Rus)	15	23 Def -5 Dm(non magical silvered) +16 Stealth	480 mins	?	?	?	?	?	?
Necrogency (Sau Rus)	20	-25 infection -6 Drain +65 Vs Fear lesser undead	25 Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?
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Short Duration Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Sa	JC	Ra	Gr	Ba	?
Spectral Weapon (Sau Rus)	15	+16 BC +5 DM	20 Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?
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Calendar

Winter
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	Samhain
Frost (7)
			1	Guild Meeting	2		3		4		5		6
	7		8		9		10	Solar / Wotan in Opposition	11		12		13
	14	Auspicious full moon.	15		16		17		18		19		20
	21		22		23		24	Wotan enters "North Wind"'	25		26		27
	28	Gatar Depression Solar Eclipse	29		30
Snow (8)
							1		2		3		4
	5		6		7		8		9	Moon enters "The Camel"	10		11
	12		13		14		15	Solstice	16		17	The Duke of Carzala's Winter Ball	18	Yuletide
	19	Days of Chaos	20	DoC 2	21	DoC 3	22	DoC 4	23	DoC 5	24	DoC 6	25	DoC 7
	26	DoC 8	27	DoC 9	28	DoC 10	29	DoC 11	30	Twelfth Night
Ice (9)
											1		2
	3		4		5		6	First Plough	7		8		9
	10		11	Wotan exits retrograde. Thunor enters "The Spear"	12		13		14		15		16
	17		18		19		20		21	Freya passes "The Lovers"	22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30