Episode 1 Scene 1 : The Arrival

The group finally arrives at a bridge in perhaps the eastern most part of town. The bridge spans a deep chasm separating a fort from the main village and resides at the end of two of the roads out of three that exist within the village. The other road is the north-south road that seemed to be a nearly straight line between the north and south gates. Using these main packed dirt roads is pretty easy and there are board walks along either side to allow easier travel when the roads are not so dry as they are now. Further they can see that once you leave one these main roads the tents appear to be a haphazard maze of narrow walkways interspersed with small open areas where a tent once stood. Upon getting closer the group can see that the bridge, which from a distance looks rather crude and unstable, is in fact quite stable and probably capable of handling a pretty heavy load before even complaining. Just before the bridge though seems to be a guard check point as the group is halted from going any further, "Please state the nature of your business."

"Ah, so you are wanting to join the garrison, good. Well then you will need to check all your weapons with him," he points off to his right where a man sits at a small table with a book. "Then we search you to make sure you are not holding out. Then we check you and if everything checks out we escort you in. Fairly routine procedure."

"Nah," the scribe says to Arjaak, "that will be taken care of in a bit, you can keep your instrument."

The scribe at the table answers Amos' comment with, "As is our charge."

Belgar hands over his short staff "Here take it, and careful with it. Its used for more than just walking!" As he is about to withdraw from the man at the table and turn around fetching something from one of his pouch. Putting a small knife, which looked more like a butter knife than anything else, next to his staff he adds "I almost forgot I had that thing on me... Barely ever used it".
He then wait with the other for the next instructions.

The scribe nods to Belgar's statement, "Do not be concerned, we take great care of all items checked here."

Once all the weapons are turned over and each person is respectfully checked for any hidden weapons another guard steps and says, "Left hand please," he demonstrates by holding out his left hand palm up. Upon compliance he places a small orb, about two inches in diameter, into the palm of your hand. Arjaak being first the orb glows a soft blue and the guards says, "Divine caster." Then another guard steps up to Arjaak holding out a short dark metal bracer, "Left wrist please."

Meanwhile the guard with the orb moves to Amos repeating his mantra when the orb is placed in Amos' hand it flashes a faint red, then a blue swirls in. The guard waits for the the colors to stabilize and soon the orb is a chaotically swirling sphere of faint red and blue that in turn gives off a faint purple glow. "Divine, Arcane caster." the guard finally says.

The guard looks at Amos and matter-of-factly states, "The orb is never wrong, perhaps you are simply unaware of your abilities."