A team from across the Muslim Caliphate investigates a shady smuggler in 8th century Damascus - what strange thing has he brought into the city?
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In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, in the Christian calendar year 725 the caliphate of Hisham ibn Abd-al-Malik stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River. Controlling the far flung caliphate is helped by the courier network that carries official messages and reports back and forth. You are members of a secret group within the courier network, and your team of agents has been summoned back to the capital Damascus, where your spy chief suspects a merchant of smuggling something strange into the city. But what if the merchant does not work alone? What if the conspiracy goes deep? The City of Jasmine is one of the oldest cities in the world, ruled through the ages by Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans. What if something unnatural lurks beneath its aged stone walls? Only God knows all things.
The biggest bully in your high school dared anyone brave enough to spend Halloween night in the old Denford school on the edge of town. Can you stay or will you be called chicken?
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Bill Wessler is the biggest bully in high school. Heck, he is probably the biggest bully in the small rural town you live in. You've all had run-ins with Bill and his two sidekicks. Just this week, Bill dared anyone brave enough to spend the entire night in the old Denford school on the edge of town. Now you are all standing outside the ruined building that was the town school over 100 years ago. Bill and his two friends stand far behind you at the edge of the meadow, the lights of their car on, playing loud music, drinking beers and laughing amongst themselves. “We'll be watching!” he shouts. “No sneaking out unless you wanna be known as chicken!” Once you enter, you can't leave until sunrise the next morning. It is almost sunset on Halloween night.