Tales Under a Burning Sun

The slave wagon rocked to a halt and the sudden removal of motion woke those slaves that had been restlessly sleeping. The old ashik looked around the dark slave pens and said to no one in particular ‘their setting camp before the sun sets, we’ll be fed soon’. And so they were, and as the slaves started to eat the old man continued to tell his tale. As the last Weezer drops to the floor dead Scar attempts to administer first aid to both herself and Kank, but she is not successful so they both take some Weezer honey to heal their wounds. Once their wounds start to heal Kank leads the Company forwards but discovers that the passage only leads to another shaft heading upwards. Balboa steps forwards and climbs up the shaft, he drops a rope back down and the rest of the Company follow him up. They realise that they are near the main entrance and decide that it is time to clear out the soldier Weezer from the hive entrance. Kank charges into the entrance cavern, closely followed by Arthur. K...

The old ashik made sure that the small amount of water that was delivered by the slavers was rationed out and not consumed to quickly. The sibling herders, seeing the old mans calm demeanor, believed more and more that he had been a slave once. And so they listened to his story and followed his lead. After a quick flurry of blows from the Company the final animated statue collapsed into a pile of rubble. Kank quickly leads the rest of the Company of the Cloaked Inix into the first tomb, when they arrive they find the lid of the sarcophagus still upon the floor. Arthur approaches the open sarcophagus and stares at the corpse dressed from head to toe in metal armour. He reaches forwards into the tomb and his fingers caress the metal, as soon as he touches the armour the suit of armour, the weapon, and the corpse itself just crumbles into dust. Arthur turns to look at the others with a look of loss upon his face, and then quickly leads them through the secret door and down towards the sec...