It's not long before you see your first humans. A group of 5 men walk through the crowd. Lizard men make way for them and give them room. They are chatting and laughing. Two of them wear some sort of armor, and have gleaming metal spear like weapons, somewhat like short polearms. The have colorful ribbons wrapped about them to make them look decorative. Another wears a full suit of gleaming bluish metal armor, and has a huge sword upon his back. The fifth man wears no armor at all, and dons a baggy pair of pants, and a loose puffy tunic, open about the chest. An amulet with an emerald inset in it glows upon his chest.

Since you have no other direction, you trail them for some time, until they get to a walled off building. Two human soldiers guard the gates, and above the gates in gold and red letters are the words, "The Beruse Club". As the strangers near the gates, they are opened and let in. You take a few quick steps and duck through as well. The gates are closed behind you. You find a large box to duck behind, apparently a shipment of some sort. (in case the guy with the amulet can see you) This seems to be somewhat of a small walled off estate. You see a garden, and a small pond where a couple people are swimming. You see a nice patio, people lounging about in skimpy clothing and drinking.

The people you followed head into the building that looks somewhat like a large Inn, made of sculpted peices of rock. On the second floor of this building you can see a porch of types, with tables, and you see people sitting around eating and talking.

This estate is quiet large, and it looks like it may extend for some ways behind the looming building. (the building is 4 stories tall). Everyone here at the club seems to be human, except for one lizard man servant who walks through a side door and comes out bearing drinks for some of the lounging people, and also a lizard man waiter upstairs.

You quickly walk out. It looks like noone has noticed the gaping whole in the base of the pyramid except a small boy. He speaking, pointing, and pulling at his mothers dress, but she's ignoring him. You dispel the passwall, and head off to your room.

A short nap later, and it's about noon. That's strange. You get up, and after asking about, you realize the sacrifices were yesterday, and that you probably woke up sometime around 4:00am this morning.

You head out into the city after a good rest and a long time memorizing. (it's evening now). You begin looking for information. You discover that literacy in the city is extremely low, and there is no such thing as a public library here.

Failing that, you begin asking questions. A few veiled questions about giants in the temple result in blank stares. You begin asking about the sacrifices, and suddenly everyone won't shut up. Ya, they're great. Priests offer two sacrifices a week (on the same night). The sacrificees are usually thieves or killers, though the odd virgin offers herself to the goddess (though usually they aren't killed, they vanish and are said to be with Sharaka in service to her. About once a month, the sacrifices are blessed by Sharaka's actual presence. Sometimes she appears as a beautiful woman, other times she appears in the form of a black bird.

You return to the temple late at night, and passwall again. You move into the tunnel and find the doors. Your wizard eye moves forward, and gets to the door. As it comes to the doors, *bonk*. It stops, unable to go through. You use the wizard eye to look through the rubble, and you find the hallway beyond clean. The rubbled area is actually bricked off with smaller black granite, so that it is the end of a hallway. (behind which is the rubble and the rest of the hallway) This hallway is clean, and decorated with strange drawings in white chalk, all over the walls. You see the hallway stretch off and different doorways. As you watch, a young girl in a white smock walks comes out a door and walks down the hallway. She is barefoot. (much like the servants who were bringing food earlier).

Finally you go back to the throne room. The council is still in, they seem to have hardly moved at all, as they continue to talk, and eat, and drink. You cast tongues.

The snake headed man to Sharaka, "But our spies say that they are obvlivious to the whole thing."

Sharaka, "Issus, do not be fooled. We have always known races that sit idle for generations but can still summon considerable force. Do not forget the lesson we learned from the Hyuctor."

The spider woman to Sharaka, "Issus is not saying that we should not be cautious. He is just saying that the resources we have assigned to them may be better used elsewhere."

Sharaka, "I do not think so. We have already made several key blunders in this whole matter. We all know this. I will not have us make another one. We must be assured that we stomp out these smaller powers, so that they do not come back and bite us in the leg."

Jackal man to table, "I think that Sharaka is correct in this matter. Though these sea creatures seem harmless, they are still of the elves, and one of our gravest miscalculations was the elves. I do not think we should divert any resources from this endevour."

(silence about the table)

Sharaka, "We will hold a vote on this matter. All in favour of maintaining the current resource allocation for the sea elves of middle sea, say aye." 6 of the members say aye, Issus and the spider woman do not. Sharaka, "They aye's have it. Next we have ... the matter of Unther. Glordathukar, how do we fare there?"

Glordathukar, "Well. With Gilgeam's Avatar destroyed, he has fled into his capital city and hides. We have been able to infilitrate his numbers. Already we have unrest. The army has seen an increase in deserters. There was a rebel burning of a village which we are concentrating on. We hope to begin working the local populace up to a frenzy. They know that something bad has happened to their king, and we are spreading rumours quickly. We have a couple candidates for rebellious leaders."

Sharaka, "Everything there seems in order. There is still the matter of...."

(the world shudders and shakes, and then finally settles with an odd rumble.)

With a dramatic poof of smoke, a man appears in the air, 4 feet above the table, and falls. He lands with a crash, dishes and food splattering in different directions. The floor is littered with debris, including food, dishes, and a few small metal objects. All of the large beings stand at once, and stare down in shock at the sprawling human.

Issus reaches across the table, and places a scaly hand upon the mans head. He squirms for a moment, then is still. They all stand silently and watch Issus for a couple minutes. Then Issus speaks, "He is from Earthsea. It has been destroyed. Earthsea is Dwervalerimal's?"

The elephant man, "He may be dead."

The jackal, "The second."

Issus, "This is a threat to us. To our very power. Fate must meet and discuss this."

Sharaka, "I will go on our behalf. The rest of you, make sure you accelerate the attacks on Toril."

Issus, "Quite, we must end this threat quickly, it is our prime concern. We gludtkar damloelam......" (tongues wears off)

You sneak out of the palace and make your way through the city. On the way, you see a large number of parties gawking in the streets. Stopping to hear the news, you find that apparently a large number of people appeared suddenly all throughout town. At first it was thought to be an invasion, but now it is merely many lost souls, thrown from their own world, which apparently ripped apart. The only religion here is that of Sharaka. Though she is called a daughter of Fate (as far as you can tell, people take this to mean exactly what anyone else would, that the idea of Fate somehow resulted in her becoming a god). You head south and find a smaller town a few hour away, and set up shop, renting a small place. You magic mirror Kendrick. You are unable to find him. You attempt the others and see them marching double file across a desert. They look hot and miserable. You see a new person with them. A very attractive young female, with white skin and dark hair. She seems to not mind the heat as much as the others.