Session #58: All He Surveys

[Though actually played quite recently, hence its §#, this expedition from Cothon, led by Sesel, set out only shortly after the wedding of Sesel and Zaida, in order to formally lay claim to and survey the coastal iqta' granted them by the Souffets. The delay was due in part to initial uncertainty by the referee as to what to do with an iqta', as well as to life circumstances; regardless, the initial survey has now been completed, and construction of the iqta's structures is under way!]

Granted by the Souffets the rights to an iqta' of land on the coastal headland north and east of the Dual-Cities and northeast as well from the slopes of the massive Tel al Safina, the former-barbarian Sesel and his newly-wed wife Zaida al Rashid wished to travel to their granted land, to survey the locale and observe where best to lay foundations or raise fences.

Rather than walk the long way around the Tel, Sesel and Zaida elected to hire Najm and his ship, Saint Iskameen, and crew, to ferry them up the coast, for the price of 25 dinars. They also went about hiring a small group of archers and footmen men-at-arms, and sent word to the Great Spire of the Klackons to meet their dore-architect at the coastal iqta'-site. And thus these (plus their men-at-arms) set forth on the Saint Iskameen north-east up the coast:

• iqtadar Sesel (fighting-man 6)
  accompanied by Raoden (magic-user 4)
  and acting-hireling Najm (magic-user 4)
• iqtadara Zaida al Rashid (fighting-woman 3)
  accompanied by Rand al Murashi (footman)

The company returned a couple days later, after the Klackon architect had finished his surveys, and Sesel and Zaida had paced out the land granted to them.

Najm reported to those at Fara's Hole-in-the-Wall that he accompanied the adventurous couple on a short adventure into a smaller and abandoned Klackon spire near the iqta', where they battled several many-legged oily-black "serpents", laid low easily in the end by Sesel's weirding mind-powers. In the depths of this old spire were strange ruined room which contained scattered remnants of a ru'un, near which Najm himself helped discover some tattered Klackon khipus. It wasn't much of an adventure compared to others that have been recorded here, but a few extra coins in one's pocket is nothing to curse at, as they say!

The Lucre

• 220 dinars from 5 gems (1@100, 2@50, 2@10)
• some old and tattered Klackon khipus and drawings of a ru'un on disintegrating silk-paper

The Learning

• 220 xp from treasure
• 823 xp from "snakipedes" x3 (250 + hp ea.)
• 100 xp to Sesel and Zaida for exploring the first new area of their iqta'

The Cut

• 105 dinars (gp) to Sesel (and Zaida)
  52 dinars each to Najm and Raoden
  11 dinars to Rand
• 1143 xp to Sesel
  622 xp to Zaida
  572 xp ea. to Najm and Raoden
• the khipus and drawings

Sesel or Raoden may provide a report or art to be published here to increase their xp by 100 per level