Chapter Seven: Tyr

In Athas, reading is illegal on pain of death/slavery.  Vex is the only one that can read/write

During the day:  Kriv is working on weapons and cloaks.  Vex is carousing.  Tenneth builds a sling.  Aruna ensures that there are no slaves in Kled.

                  Vex gathers everyone over lunch.  She proposes that we tavel to Tyr instead of going back to Urik.  No one seems against it.

                  We're escorted to an outdoor banquet for dinner. They place us at the head table.  They serve cactus fruit, no meat, and we get the best ones.  The leader of the village makes an announcement.  As thanks they are presenting us with a bonus reward: sword forged by one of their smiths.  As a demonstration, she draws blood from a volunteer, and it heals their wounds: it is a healing sword.  Vex accepts the Sword of Kemalok and lavishes praise upon the village, and their faith

                  Xa'oc's sword was examined by the priest, and he won't touch it directly, and he says it is +1 Shortsword, requires attunement, attacks with this weapon have advantage, and a creature attuned to it is proficient with it, and the priest looks disturbed and says "it feels like the sword wants something from you, and I don't know what that is, but just be careful."

                  The dwarves are sending Drog with us to take the mounts back after we reach our destination.  As we prepare to leave, Kriv finds the dwarfling to say goodbye. Kriv gives the child the weapon he made and gives him advice on how to use it next time he runs off into the desert.

                  It is a two-day journey to Tyr.  On day two, Xa'oc attunes to the creepy sword.  Vex burdens Tenneth with the curse of literacy. We get ambushed by spider swarms. Aruna likes Kriv better than Xa'oc. Tenneth only likes Xa'oc for his spooky sword.  We are covered in spider guts.  We arrive in Tyr!

                  Drog goes home.

                  Vex starts spending some money to try to get good information about work for us.

                  It has been just over a year since Tyr became a free city.  Tyr is no longer paying the Dragon's Levy that every Sorcerer-King has to pay to Borys every year.

                  Tenneth thinks that Xa'oc is the epitome of the perfect adventurer.  We are approached at our table by a human man who tries to talk to Xa'oc.  He noticed the spooky sword and is wondering if it is for sale.  He offers 5 Dark Sun gold pieces, but it's probably worth more.  Xa'oc kindly refuses.  If he changes his mind, we should look for "Ramas."  Xa'oc conceals his sword while in the city.

                  Aruna finds two units of wood.

                  The bartender points us to a woman at the bar, Dara.  She needs protection for her journey to Nibenay and make a detour to pick someone up in Raam, and she's willing to pay us half up front, she's offering 6 copper a day and 10 more copper when we reach Nibenay, she expects the journey to be 12 days to Raam, and then 6 days from Raam to Nibenay, but we might have to buy mounts.  We can travel 20 miles/day (about 1 or 1.5 hexes/day).

                  Kriv asks someone at the bar about killing the dragon-king.  Apparently a magic item was used to kill him, and he hasn't come back in over a year.  Kriv mentions Dragoth the Dread Lord, who died for eleven days, and then came back.

                  Tyr has probably lifted the ban on literacy.

                  Someone is hiring mercenaries: they think someone killed their brother and escaped justice, so they are looking for someone to murder the suspect, and they will pay 3 Dark Sun copper, the target is in Tyr, murder is illegal, we could get all the info about the target.

                  The Templars in Tyr are arguing about how to run the city, and they've lost their divine abilities.

                  A silk farmer is looking for somehow to figure out who is stealing their wyrms, and it pays 5 bits.

                  Kriv says that thousands of years ago the Dread Lord ruled a city, but he was betrayed and killed, but he came back and the stories say he's building a new city underground, and exiled all the dragonborn.

                  We take the silk worm job.  We decide to start looking into the missing silk wurms by talking to the farmer.  He's an elf named Jonix spent several nights in a row watching his wurms, but some keep going missing, even though he's watching, and no one is coming or going. He has eight of cages in his backyard, each of them have between 1-5 worms, surrounded by a fence with an opening on either side, the cages have lids, a few go missing every night, from a different cage every night, they are poisonous to touch, they are eight inches long and an inch thick, the floor is dirt.

                  Kriv rigs a trip wire with wooden bells on the entrances to the gate.  Kriv is going to take a rake and cover it with dust to act as a trap.  Aruna is going to set up a buried pressure plate that will pull a string of wooden bells.  We plan to hide on the roof.  Vex does some asking around and finds nothing.

                  That night, Kriv notices that several houses down, one of the neighbors, a dwarf, is standing outside suspiciously trying to get a good look at the farmer's houses.  Aruna sneaks over to the neighbor’s house and looks inside and sees nothing interesting. The trip wire goes off and the rack smacks someone invisible.  It was the suspicious neighbor carrying a sack.  We point out the neighbor to the farmer.  We get paid.  The farmer says he'll report the theft.  Tenneth asks the farmer to give us good reviews but asks what to call us.  We say we're the Heroes of Kled.