From Shefdu Sootootma's Personal Scrolls-
Mabuki has been busy in his search for me. Recently he clashed with Ashai, one of Lord Khepri's newest Dark Harbingers. Apparently Mabuki was on a mission for his Heru masters to gain information about Khepri's movements. During a sandstorm he took a chance to scout near Fokhara, one of our outlying necropoli. Ashai's warband made quick work of poor Mabuki's breathers but their spy succeeded in escaping unharmed.
A minor setback for our overall goals...
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Yet another Typhon Warband has surfaced near Ankhara to vie for power of the Heru. It amuses me how they all scuttle about bashing each other in service to their own 'greater purposes,' all the while adding to the ranks of Khepri's coming deluge. If only they knew a fraction of what was to come. But to this warband of Tat-Thamekh the Albino. From what we have learned he was a frail child that managed to survive the harsh Typhon ways. How he became a Harbinger is not yet known, but it was only very recently that there was any account of him.
His first fray in this area was against the powerful Heru Harakhty, who has declared himself 'Protector of the Nome' or somesuch. The Heru mind is a fascinating pebble which thinks itself an insurmountable mountain-- much like the Typhon mind. If those cousins could stop their squabbling for a moment there might be a slight threat to Lord Khepri's plans. Alas that will not happen. The Albino foolishly charged into Provocation with Harakty and quickly fell to the old bird's blade.
It will be a cold day in Tuat before this Albino represents a threat to anyone...
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My network of informants and agents was able to plant a seed of hope in Mabuki's fragile little mind. A rumor reached his ears revealing the location of a supposed cache of my writings. Though to make the rumor more believable, the word reached other ears in the area.
A Typhon Harbinger, literally calling himself 'The Nameless One,' arrived at the location soon after Mabuki and his pitiful warband. The battle was fierce and quick. Mabuki managed to gain Ka from The Nameless One, but the Typhon's sorceror took flight with the false scrolls. I hear Mabuki was more impressive in the Provocation than I would have ever expected.
Perhaps the boy has matured....
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From near the Shrine of Ra-Ahlli came a report of action between two Typhon warbands and two Horus Faction warbands. The Typhon were Ebo Fenuku (a vicious little beast) and the Albino (poor fool). Their enemies were Kissa, Daughter of Isis (a fine candidate for conversion to Khepri's ranks) and the Heru Harakhty (so-called Protector of the Nome).
What should have been an impressive struggle was brief for the murderers of Osiris. The Albino brashly rushed ahead of his warband into the sight of Basti archers, even Mabuki would not be that foolish! Wounded, he then took the charge of Harakhty with similar results to their earlier meeting.
Ebo Fenuku impressively held back and managed to rout a unit of slingers before they could fling any stones at him. But this victory was short-lived when the beautiful Kissa charged into Provocation. Kissa has earned a reputation in the area for using the hekau of Fiery Aspect in Provocation to great effect. Her results this time were much the same, felling the Typhon with a brief struggle.
Tat-Thamekh's warband was heard to have rumblings of mutiny. But like any good Typhon, the Albino cut out the tongue of the supposed instigator....
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