Despite the reassurances to Jubilost that the exploration would be<em>fine,</em>he and his party still managed to run into trouble. Barely three days into mapping the area, they came across an ancient tomb, that was uncovered by the sandstorm they were taking shelter from. While the undead that poured forth were relatively easily dispatched, diseases and curses ran rampant through the company, until they managed to get back to civilization for treatment.<br/><br/>Pitax made no overt responses to this slow and subtle accumulation of power along the border, but news from the small nation was often hard to come by.