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[Anastasia]

You fly a time before it comes to the top of a sand dune. Here the scent of blood lingers thicky in the air. Virtually impossible to see for normal eyes, you spy a few discolored patches of sand in the dark, tinted towards dark red.

[Ebiris]

Any other interesting smells around here? Or tracks?

[Anastasia]

There are tracks further south that you notice, winding into the desert.

You can smell the scents of incense, sweat and blood lingering faintly.

[Ebiris]

She'll follow those tracks to the south then!

[Anastasia]

Have Track or anything like that with  scent to make up for it?

[Ebiris]

Just scent and epic ranks in survival/perception.

[Anastasia]

Give me a survival check.

[Ebiris]

[20:35] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+49 survival
[20:35] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 51 > [d20=2]

[Anastasia]

You follow the tracks. You go on perhaps 45 minutes before the scent just stops midway up a sand dune.

[Ebiris]

Any magic or evil evident?

[Anastasia]

There's fading magic here - some sort of ability to slip into the sands.

[Anastasia]

Also, meanwhile, Alicia gets a message from Syala.

'I've confirmed it. We've found one of them - she was directly empowered by Io himself.'

[Ebiris]

Marie can also slip into the sands, being incorporeal, so that's what she does going straight down from where the tracks end.

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Where is she? Who is she?

[Anastasia]

Marie dives down into the sands. You down into the darkness until you come out into light. A cavern is here, dimly lit with green dots of light that hover in the air. It's a rather small cave, with a path leading deeper in to the southwest. To the east is a cave in, what was likely once a tunnel now filled with broken rock and sand.

Her name is Alyssa and she is a powerful wizard empowered by Io. I suggest your avatar comes and meets her personally, love.

[Ebiris]

Very well, is it safe to gate to where you are?

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Marie decides to explore that cave-in first, since she can easily move through the debris.