<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/42/7d/3d427df3d29fc3adfe98667e350ce9f6.jpg)</div><br/>With his decision made,  the caravan made its way that day.   Good time is made and they reach fort Nazim a few hours before sunset.   The fort looks like it holds five hundred soldiers.   Large walls surround the fort.   There is a shanty town-tent city of several thousand people around the fort.  With an area of 100 yards around cleared.    The caravan stops where other wagons and individuals are camp.  It is a staging area for caravans.<br/><br/>Darius is able to inquire and he finds out that the caravan he came with is spliting.   One is going to the port city of Ur-Azzam.  The other  to the desert city of Padishishari.     Their current caravan master is continuing to Ur-Azzam.   With his decision to go to Padishishari  a cost of 1 gold and 6 silver is paid.<br/><br/>There is several stables,  for them the caravan park,  has its own  stables.    It costs 6 silver for them to stable the horses with the caravan stable.   Which meant their horse would be taken care of,  watered and fed and watched over.<br/><br/>The government offices are inside the fort.  Where he can file and register Songbird as his slave.  The cost is 1 copper piece for the registration.   The clerk looks up after filling in the registration and preparing the disc that he will have, declaring her his property.   He looks over Songbird.   Then back to Darius.<strong>"I would advise having her branded with your mark,  there are those that will attempt to steal one such as her.  The cost is 3 gold pieces."</strong>It is the cantrip sigil that will be cast on her at heighten at 7th level ability by one of the war-mages assigned to the fort.<br/><br/>There are a dozen or so drinking tents.   Within the tent/shanty town city around the fort.   None have rooms, with being pavilions.  There is a boarding house within the fort.   It is 4 copper to purchase a bed there.  It is three floors with a dozen beds on each floor.   Each be has a locker, a table with lamp.  It is set up as a dormitory.    No food or drinks are offered.   To find  a place to eat, it is out in the surrounding tent/shanty town.  Four such places that one can get grubs,  basically like the drinking spots under pavilions.<br/><br/>Prevalent is the rumor there is a gnoll war band raiding.   A force of fifty of the fort's soldiers are currently trying to track down the war band of Gnolls.<br/><br/><strong>Level advancement to 5th:</strong>Posts each 30 x 25 xp = 750 + caravan master 160 xp  + accomplishment +10 xp = 920 xp = current over all total 3710 xp / zero hero points gained<br/><br/>