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| 5min = The players feel the constant caress of the sand on their face, so thin like a silk veil. They grab a bit of sand in their hands, it is thin and volatile like flour, they realise that they have never see such thin sand in their life. What is the purpose of all this ? They could be easily trasnferred transferred to another templar commanderie and be holding flour in their hand right now. They see a little gust a wind moving slowly on the side, at the pace of a person, very strange that it moves in a specific spot as if it was a ghost of some kind.
| 15min = The players notice that they are completely sunburnt, they remember a day when they didn't even know was sunburning was before they came to the holy land. Somehow their left hands seem much more sunburn than the rest of their bodies, much blacker and it is very painfull, much more than the rest of their skins. After a few minutes it passes.
| 30min = With the little weat that is left, they cook some bread under their camp fire by burrying the bread in the sand, however the next day they search the sand and the brand bread is completely dry and black, as if it was there for months or years ?
| 45min = In the sand they find a little pottery, on it some weird drawings,it looks like a weird reptile like creature with human hands, horns and a protuberant forehand, a mix between a crocodile and a seal, very uncanny eating a human. Below it are writing undecipherable from languages long forgotten by mankind. Whiever Whichever player took the statue doesn't want to let go of it. He has to keep it or become [[Insane]].
| 60min = They are now completely dehydrated and start to have visions. Afar, they see a mighty beast with 7 heads and 10 horns rising from the sea of sand. Once they get closer it was just a big tree. All the Templars fall un their knees and pray for a few long minutes. "rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against it? " "je vis monter de la mer une bête qui avait dix cornes et sept têtes, et sur ses cornes dix diadèmes, et sur ses têtes des noms de blasphème. Et toute la terre était dans l'admiration derrière la bête. ils adorèrent la bête, en disant: Qui est semblable à la bête, et qui peut combattre contre elle ? " A few of the player's followers (if any left) stay there behind.
'''Day 21 : Everyone roll a desert dice.'''
'''Music : itisraped (just once)then back to normal'''
They find the Oasis, but it there are several floating corpses in the water.
Action : Knowledge (apothecary) can help make some local remedies to disinfect like Moringa Seeds, Miswak tree, or boil it. (if they can't resolve this, roll one '''Desert dice''')
One of their men fall into madness. He says “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” / "Si tu es le Fils de Dieu, ordonne que ces pierres deviennent des pains. and he seems to actually try to turn some sand to bread." and he actually tries to turn some sand into bread then he becomes more and more frustrated and fights them.
Action : Combat (duel or skirmish) or any other way to stop him from killing everyone.
'''Day ?????? : Everyone roll a desert die.'''
The wind is now a storm.
And the players wake up in the ruined deserted city. Those that were killed are dead and dry.
It’s Roncelin who wakes them up giving them something to drink.
I gathered the bones of the long-dead king, and over the next days, I labored, crafting a cover worthy of the knowledge I have unearthed. A book of power, encased in the remains of royalty. So it begins.
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Enfin, mes recherches ont porté leurs fruits. Devant moi se dressent les anciennes colonnes d'Iram, sur lesquelles est inscrit l'apocryphon de Jannes, le sorcier de Pharaon, tiré des anciennes écritures. La sagesse des anciens, porteuse de vérités alchimiques, s'offre désormais à mes yeux. Au milieu des ruines, j'ai découvert des vestiges de la pierre philosophale elle-même, une substance digne de sa légende, la véritable Materia Prima.
J'ai rassemblé les ossements du roi décédé et, au cours des jours suivants, j'ai travaillé à la création d'une couverture digne du savoir que j'avais découvert. Un livre de pouvoir, enveloppé dans les restes d'un roi. C'est ainsi que tout commence.
=Epilogue=
