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     "I thought he was Tentoragan because Tentoragan owned an item like that, had a brother, was a friend of mine and was that age."
      With that, Erunion looked at the oasis, then his eyes glossed over, and the water started to flicker. When it stopped, it was lower, and their were four considerable leather bags at Erunions feet. He tossed one over his shoulder, then the other three flickered, and dissapeared.
     Noticing the stares, Erunion spoke; "It's a simple trick really, you just open a hole in time and space, drag the item into the vacuole you made, then close the hole. Open it again to access whatever you put there. It can be modified to be used for clothing and equipment, hence my quick change. No one can open the same vacuole as someone else, each is attuned only to the one who first accessed it, or created it. It's really impossible to tell if it existed before you use it."
     With that, Erunion started joggin alongisde Sorank's horse, water-bag sloshing from side to side.

"Raidel, would it be better for us to cross at night?"

Mac downs his canteen, and lets Qymaen, finish his canteen. Then Mac lets the horses drink their fill. After this Mac fills several water bags and follows Raidel.

 OOC: Water!! WOO HOO! That's my element ;)

    Atreides stood beside the water and waved his hand. A long stream of water rose up and filled his canteen.
    "I don't need much water," he explained. "Since it's my element, I know of a few nifty spells to help in a desert..."

Still behind Raidel, Senturu mutters. "bloody Elf, allways a pain in my ass". touching the spot where the arrow had pierced his armor, the spot was still tender. "bloody Magic" Senturu muttered again

  "What did i say about healer" Seloc started, but then burst into a fit of laugther as the remains of the vial on Erunion's head started to turn his hair yellow.
  "Forgot I had that one on me, don't worry to much it should wear out pretty soon." even as he said it Erunions hair started sprouting feathers, till what appeared to be a yellow chicken sitting on Erunions head, became reconisable. The excitment was short lived for as suddenly as it had begun the chicken exploded in a whirlwind of yellow feathers, leaveing Erunion's head quite the normal colour, shape and size.

  "Out of all the people that had survived a skirmish, I'm stuck with grandpa grumpy....." Seloc groaned to himself. Already bored with complaining he started shifting through the ranks liserning to other peoples conversations.

    Everyone misunderstands us elves, thought Vorian as he shook his head. Ah well, onwards through the desert and into...whatever the city is called....

After listening to the others talk back and forth Mac realises: Now I know why we travelled by ourselves.

  "Well then?" Seloc mounted his horse and rode...

Paracelzus sits in a hot tube enjoying a nice back rub from one of the local women in the town of Illian.

They had been riding for hours without much change of scenery.  The forests had been left far, far behind and everywhere only sand could be seen.  The moonlight illuminated their paths, and thankfully it also had cooled down the day's heat.  Looking around, Raidel noticed that some people had even fallen asleep on their mounts, probably dreaming about something.  For the most part, though, he kept his attention on anything sticking up out of the sand.  After about another hour of riding, his diligence paid off. 

He took a couple drinks out of his canteen, nearly empty now, and dismounted, everyone who hadn't been paying attention slowly coming out of their dreams/daydreams as the horses stopped.

"Alright, we're here!"

Raidel motioned around him, but there was just sand.  He heard a couple of grumbles along the lines of "Goddammnit he's lost his mind" and "What the hell?", but then proceeded to approach a small white stone sticking up out of the sand.

"To tell the truth I've never used one of these things before, so hopefully it'll work for me."

He got on his hands and knees and starting pushing the sand away from the stone, until a symbol could be clearly seen.  He traced that with his finger and waited.  Nothing happened.  Raidel tried it again.  Still nothing.

"Damnit!"  He stood up and kicked the rock, "This was our oasis.  But now we're going to have to rush to Illian I guess.

As he started walking back towards his horse the wind whipped up, and a greenish light started glowing from behind him.  Around the stone sand started sinking and blowing away, revealing a large archway covered in symbols.  Behind the archway more sand was disappearing, revealing a large blueish dome, something that the sand apparently couldn't penetrate.

Raidel started laughing, then got his horse and led him down the steep incline to the archway, where he disappeared inside.  As the others began to follow him, hesitantly or not, they realized what kind of magic must be in place to protect this place, as it was huge.  A large pool, crystal clear, sat in the middle, fed by a waterfall from a smaller pool up at the top.  Everywhere there was lush green foilage, and no hint of sand could be seen.

"Alright, I'm going to bathe myself and go to sleep, I don't really care what the rest of you do, but just be in here before the oasis closes up again, else you might not find it so easily."

 Seloc entered having been unwillingly awoken from his dream, realised the band was spliting, he gavered his wit.
  "well guy, no rest for the wicked, i'll bath but afterwards i've got some potions to play with."

*Bursting out in delighted laughter Erunion walks into the oasis*

       "Wonderful Raidel! I had no idea this was here! Of course, I can see the use of one in the middle of the desert, This one must have been built after Makalidek wrote his journal. Unfortunatlely, he didn't write how to make them, he just wrote the proporties of them and where he made them. I've always noticed that places like this just seem to sing, don't they? Like the most amazing symphony, only it plays in your head."

*With that Erunion dived into the water, his armour dissapearing as he slipped into the oasis.*

*Tiber jumps out of the water, coming from nowhere he grabs a poor, dirty peasent who is making barely enough gold to feed his family and....................

....................................................gives him a bath.

*tiber is then shot in the back multipule times by a crack counter strike team.*

*Goes for a brief walk outside and gazes at the stars*

*Discovers that he's been locked out when suddenly Holowan opens the entrace.*

*Then Holowan proceeds to incinerate Senturu in a ball of flame. Senturu begins to scream and....*

it may be. you never know with him. i think it best if we stay away from him while he sleeps.

is it my turn for the watch?

"You know what i suddenly feel like join senturu in leaveing this place and you guys really fast.........Wait no i mean the watch.............."

 *gernade*

(resounding silence)

A strange rumbling sound started to become apparent, waking nearly everyone from their respective dreams.  Soon the rumbling was followed by a strange crackling noise, and the field holding back the sand all around the oasis began to flicker.

Raidel barely had time to utter the word "*beep*!" before the field collapsed and the sand began to fall in.  It took only seconds for most to become buried.

Eventually Raidel made it back to the surface, and after shaking the sand from his hair and eyes, looked around.  The dome had collapsed, leaving a large sand crater where it used to be.  That meant the sand was thinner towards the middle, and anyone lucky enough to have been caught there made it out easily.  They had already begun digging through the sand to look for the others and their mounts.  Raidel quickly joined them.

 *Only a foot is visible above a giant layer of sand. Raidel grabs it and pulls out one very sandy Seloc, Seloc then fusses about trying to get sand out his hair. Raidel drops him on his head and returns to digging*

 "*beep**beep**beep**beep**beep**beep*"

 *Seloc then stand up brushes himself off and starts looking for his backpack which had been separated for him in the whatever it was*

*Near the sides of the crater there is an explosion in the sand*

"Blood and Bloody ashes! Blast it! Can't I ever get a good sleep??? Bah!"

*Flickers slightly and is wearing new clothes when it stops, then all the sand falls of of him*

"Well Raidel, headed to Illian now?