GAME (Azag, with Dungeon Goons)

[tibbius]

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You're a small group of adventurers who have just plundered the house of a sorcerer in the Amaranthine City.

The City is all opulent towers of crystal and marble that seemed to grow overnight. They had, in fact, been summoned from some other place or time by the city's rulers; a cabal known as The Amaranthine Sorcerers. This order draws power from a mysterious patron who demands only a tithe of dreams from any within the metropolis. Either the wizards or their master grow ambitious and seek conquest of further realms. You infiltrated a sorceror's home and pillaged her secret papers, which you should bring to Byzaron. Now you flee the sorceror's ethereal servants, who move through dreams. You need to find some kind of ward against the stalkers of dreams. Your dreams grow increasingly strange and worrisome each time you sleep.

You've encamped on a bluff overlooking the western end of the Sunset Sea, enroute to your spymasters in Byzaron. A new companion has joined you at the campfire: a Tifawin warrior, her steel-gray dreadlocks matching the blade of her spear and the glint of her eyes. She speaks of a war preparing in the central plains.

"They say the Amaranthines gather steppe-land mercenaries in the waking world, and summon things to stalk the dreams of their foes. Meanwhile the webmasters of Byzaron lay plots, and connive with the City of Masks to make my folk serve their purpose. … But you do not look surprised?"

[Gorethirster]

Etul casts an appraising glance up and down the figure at their fire.

"How can we be surprised when all who travel these lands hear the same tidings? You yourself lead with the news of war before you even offer your name. Who might you be, who shares our fire?"

I know we're still vaguely hashing things out in the other threads but I just wanted to get the ball rolling!

[tibbius]

The old woman grins. "Call me Lyin. I am who you see, an elderly warrior of the Sunset Sea. I look to recruit other warriors for the coming clashes. Are you interested in glory?"