The party spent 5 days in the Sunken City of Pazar, waiting for the sandstorm to pass.
They headed SE towards some rocks and circling birds.
Just on dusk they found the remains of a camp. It looked like someone or something had destroyed the camp with fire magic. The Efreet perhaps?
There were the tracks of two people on horseback. They entered the camp then left quickly, heading north. The tracks were maybe four hours old.
The party found a note from someone called Thurnas to someone called Braga, about a slave shipment.
The party spoke with the dead spirit of what appeared to be the leader of the camp.
What happened? A large figure flew in and fireballed the shit out of the camp.
What direction did they leave? I dunno, I was dead by then, idiots.
What is your name? Captain Braga.
Where does Thurnas come from? From the oasis of the White Palm.
How to contact Thurnas? Go to the oasis, ask for Zorath.
There was a huge amount of arguing about whether or not to follow the tracks.
The party followed the tracks, risking exhaustion. They got exhanstion.
And acid rain, which almost killed one of Zaiden's retainers.
The party then split, with the non-exhausted members continuing to follow the pair. They lost the tracks around midnight, but since the tracks had been straight for the last few miles, they party just contued on in a straight line.
They found two figures camped. One quick ambush later and the party had killed one and forced the other to flee.
Gee, I hope they were raiders, and not, say, representatives of the Semphar government.
It wasn't until after lunch that the party all met up, after some clever use of sky writing magic.
Some were still exhausted.
Ambushed the pair in the desert
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