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Chac 28, 101

Still Wandering Through the Desert

by Fidget

Chac 28th - We found a 2nd oasis. Some shadows flew overhead -- giant wasps attacked us. We killed them fairly easily. We found some Tracker's Goggles in the oasis.
 
Hal had a conversation with us over the campfire. He mentioned that he had had a vision about the desert. He mentioned flying over the desert and saw it shifting around. He mentioned a focal point of the shifting.
 
This oasis is too far away from the last oasis, so we decided that we needed to backtrack and find an oasis between these two.
We spent several days wandering around the desert.
 
About a week later, something like a sandstorm happened, and we could see shapes moving in the sand. Ham said the sandstorm was being generated by a creature called a sand golem. There were 3 of them. He warned not to use fire attacks. He also warned us that they have a breath attack and explode when they die. One of them blew sand in my face and blinded me for a bit. The also exploded when they died.
 
We weren't finding any oases in the northern area where we were, so we decided to head back south and have the outriders follow a parallel path. We intended to meet back up 10 days later, but they didn't arrive. So, we decided to go try to find them.
 
Nemvimbra 23rd: As we were looking for them, we found the scarabs but not the riders. We found signs of a scuffle and tracks leading away. We followed the tracks to a village of huts. We saw some gnolls and hyenas and some other kind of hyena-ish creatures. We also saw that they were holding our outriders prisoner. It looks like there are between 5 and 10 combatants as well as a bunch of non-combatants.
 
We're going to need to rescue them.