The Ireem Chronicles

Arabesque Cafe Proudly Presents:

Arabian Nights Belly Dance Extravaganza With
The Daughters of Sheherzade - Honey & Pasha
Friday February 24th at 2PM SLT

Belly Dance Contest after the Show
1st Place $G 1000
2nd Place $G 500
3rd Place  $G 250

Contact Princess Page Siegel to sign up for the contest.

((OOC PS.  Please detatch sgs system and any face lights, a/o's or any other scripted items to reduce lag. And please do not touch the curtain of the stage. Thank you very much. Enjoy the Show.))

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Greeting Denizens of Ireem,

I will be hosting a series of events in the arena to keep all well entertained to the best of my ability. Besides, when we can bring friendly competition and bloodshed at the same time, what is there to argue?

    But I digress... On the 12th of February, Sunday at 1800 (6:00 PM) SLT, the arena will be hosting an opening competition. This competition will be for entertainment only and of course some betting will be encouraged. I have placed a sign up board for anyone to enter. There are 16 slots available on it, and if we have more than 16 entries then send a scroll to me and I will make sure you will be in the competition. The competition will be freestyle fighting and weapon of choice. Each weapon has it's pros and cons that work with differing strategies. Use what you feel you are best with (Excluding ranged weapons). I wish for a high turnout but if not, the fun shall still be had!

    As for upcoming events, there will be official Ireem Championship tournaments. There will be a series of events with competitors using different styles of weaponry against each other that are exclusive. Examples being, one-handed swords, greatswords and spears, axes and hammers, daggers, fists, and weapon of choice, so it would be best to be well rounded in different fighting styles. These types of events will be labeled and bolded as "IREEM TOURNAMENT" To display that it's an official fight. The top four competitors in an event will be granted points in a ranked system/ leader boards. The winner of an event will be given 10 points, runner up is 5 points, and the defeated finalists receiving 2 points each. At the end off all the official events the fighter with the most points will go onto the championship and be granted an opportunity to de-throne the reigning champion and become the new champion of Ireem.

  There will be other events just for fun as well. Faction based team fights and single fights, such as Bedouin vs. Slavers or Undead vs. Knights. All for fun and bragging rights of course. Other fights including a last man standing brawl, and gladiator matches where slave owners can send their slaves to shed blood in the arena.

    If there are any questions, feel free to send me a scroll and I will try to get back to you.

Fight well,
Azimuth of the Misfits

Salaam Ireem,

By know you all have come to no me in some form, even if it has simply been hearing my name.

As I have moved from the desert camps to live within the city walls, in hopes to better tend to those in need as I work to gain the position of Head Physician, I have also proposed a clan for all citizens of Ireem in hopes to unify and creat a close, family relationship among us.

The name of this clan proposed is  المملكة~AL MAMLAKAH, translated as "The Kingdom"..

If you are a citizen, no matter your birth or blood, please I encourage you consider this clan.

Safest reguards and good health

~Inara Sands~

Greetings citizens of Ireem! I'd like to introduce myself. Not many know me but I have come to love this kingdom of sand.

Though there is no current owner to the Alchemist storefront, it still offers a treasure of cure for your ailments, aches, and problems.

Can't sleep and the highest quality rum isnt working? I have a solution for that.

Men not lasting as long as you use to or have no drive at all?

Way to much to drink last night and you have a tribe to run?

I look forward to seeing you around the city streets and at the storefront.

Whats your poison?
Hana Attiya or Atti

*PS* Other uses for herbs, minerals, and salves can be discussed in privacy.

Salaam great peoples of Ireem, both inside and outside the city walls.

Voting has begun at the Physicians office, I call upon you to make a wise choice, a healer who will do all in her power to see to anyone in need!

I have gathered food, bandages, potions and cures, meat and other suitable items to heal any and all who need it, be you Bedouin, Knight, Djinn, Citizen or Un-dead.

Please, come cast your votes, even if you choose another, your support is greatly needed and appreciated in these terbulant times.

Salaam and good health
~Inara Sands~

Dear Ireem,

Today I ask for your support in becoming Ireems next physician. A long time passed since I came to Ireem and was able to learn a lot about all the wonderful species in and around Ireem. Getting swept up in all those fights I learned quickly to heal a lot of wounds.

For a long time I was a loyal knight to our beloved sultana. In this time I learned that prejudices are the enemies of everyone, not only the knights. I tried to be there for the people that asked for help. I didn’t care for rumors against my family and friends and keep it that way. I am one of the few that doesn’t ask if you are from same “tribe” or “clan” I don’t ask if you feed on blood or bread. I am just me.

If you need help, whatsoever, I am here. I do not only bandage your wounds. I also listen to you and maybe my experience in the law can also heal your soul from doubts. I am not trained in any kind of magic. My personal magic is a warm smile and a strong hand to reset a dislocated arm. Perhaps the best magic needed in a combative city like ours.

Come and find out that you can trust someone in this city doubtless. Someone that won’t let you bleed to unconsciousness and don’t ask for your money and wont sell you to your enemies.

Best regards
Lady Caya

Good day to you, I am Inara Sands, Bedouin of the sands of Ireem.

I will keep this short and simple, after having been braught here by slavers years ago, I came to study many skills that the city offers her people. Among these was a position at the clinic learning medicine and treatment.  Now more than ever with the unrest that prevails within and without the city walls, healers are in dire need..it is our duty to see to all whom may come to us injured, sick and in need.

I have placed myself in the position to help all I can, a testiment to this occured two nights past when the Knight hall was attacked and a battle broke out between those who protect the city and the Djinn.
Having placed myself in the frey, I preceeded to aid the injured Knights, bandaging their wounds and healing injuries so that they could continue to fight and end the disturbance in the streets.

I wish to continue my oath to aid those in need, be it within the walls of the city, the Palace or the sands..call up on me and I will do my best. Should I be elected to the status of owner at the Phsyicians office, I will propose meetings once a month to teach proper medical procedures to the healers of Ireem, and basic classes on healing and how best to utilize what the clinic offers the people.

Salaam and good health!
~Inara Sands~

My name is Eve, and most of you know me i think, but for those who dont, i would like to tell you a bit about myself.

  Since i came to Ireem, i saw many bloody fights, cruel punishments with whips on slaves for example and all forms of wounds. I always felt the urge to help.
This is what made me learn how to use special herbs to cure illnesses or treat wounds. There has been a lot of knowledge about this in my bedouin family, as we often had to take care of our wounds on our own. Now i would like to share this knowledge with those in need and hope i can become the new owner of the hospital.

To achieve this, i need your help and hope for your votes.

My plans for the hospital would be, to find new ways to take care of wounds and heal more effectively. Therefor i plan to get more people to work there and i will be looking for some sexy nurses for the male patients and also some handsome male doctors for the ladies.
Also, i hope i can get some slaves involved, who can take care of the minor duties there.
Magi and Djinn power is an essential part of healing so i hope we can find a way to work together and create some new healing potions together. Test persons fort he potions will be needed too ;)
The stay at the hospital should be safe and also somehow comfortable.
Perhaps we can even get some new beds and i promise i will not let any harmed person, who enterst he hospital, be attacked.
As i am also the Bedouin Co leader some of you might certainly think i wont take so much care of the wounds of my enemies. But if you come to me with a sheathed weapon, i will help you, no matter which race or clan you are in.

Another point which you might be concerned about is that i fight a lot to protect my family, but this means also that im always close to the battles and can take care directly of peoples wounds. I see this as an advantage and being a physican and helping people wont stop at the physicans door or at the gates for me. If i see a hurt person on the battle grounds i will do my best to help out with some bandages, potions or whatever is needed.

And for my enemies, if im busy at the hospital, i wouldnt have time to hunt you, so consider it is also an advantage for you ;)
I would be very happy about your vote for me!
Good health and warm breezes everyone,
Eve Forgraine

BEDOUIN LEADER ANTAR REBUTS RECENT ALLEGATIONS!  PROCLAIMS... THE TRUTH IS HIS SWORD!

It's come to the Chronicles attention that Antar, leader of the Bedouins, has taken umbrage with recent articles published, that, in his perspective cast aspersions on the Bedouins.  While validation of Antar's side of the dispute cannot be confirmed, the Chronicles has decided to at least give him the opportunity to state his take on the situation.

 Antar's statement follows (For the benefit of our readers, our writing team had spent several hard working nights to make sure the statement is at least now understandable)



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 Since the history of this land, the Knights and the Bedouins have a background of helping each other.  This has been well documented and is truthful, although there has never been any favor granted to the Bedouins for this aliance.  In fact, they were treated like any other race.  If a Bedouin committed a crime, that Bedouin faces the justice of this land.

I will admit that I, myself,  went to trial for the crime of fighting in the city.  However, in my case I must ask, since when is it a crime to defend your family from harm at the hands of the Undead and the Slavers?   

There was another incident where I was forced to defend myself against a slaver and then against an Undead posing as a Knight.   In that situation, I calmed a sister Bedouin, who was ready to attack the 'so called' Knight,  in order to respect our agreement with the Knights. I chose instead to insult him, calling him names, rather than attack him.   This to honor the alliance we've enjoyed for centuries with the Knights.

Let let it be known, that the Undead have infiltrated the Knights and the Knights are powerless to do anything about it.  In aforementioned situation, the 'Undead' turned  Knight sided with the Undead and Slavers during the battle and arrested me, despite my protests of injustice,  when he observed me capturing two of his Undead brothers. 

As Bedouin we haven't started most of the fighting and the allegation that we incite trouble in the city is unfounded.  I, Antar, never told my Brother Brad to burn the Knight's headquarters nor did I approve the deed! Many of the Knights are my friends.  It's not our honorable way, as Bedouins, to do anything of that kind.  Never in my life have I tried to hurt a Knight. It is the rodent-like Knight, a former Undead, who carries the vendetta against the Bedouin.  The Knights are the guardians of the innocent of this city while the Undead and Slavers have a history of trying to control the city.  Recently, they are trying the approach of misleading the newer, less experienced Knights. 

In conclusion, I don't  need trouble makers spreading malicious and fabricated stories about the Bedouins and in particular disrespecting me as the leader of the Bedouin.  I ask that anyone seeking information to come directly to me and ask me personally for the truth.  The truth is my sword! 

The Chronicles reports that during the trial of Bradflea vs People last night, Knight Nino was accused of protecting his friend or paymaster by lying to other knights.

  Citizens of Ireem would recall that a few days ago the Knight HQ was burnt down.  A suspect was arrested and it was Bradflea from the Desert Guards, henchman of the Bedouin's co-leader Eve.  According to insider's source, Bradflea was order by the Bedouins leadership to burn down the HQ in revenge for the knights arresting Eve and several other well known Bedouin criminals. 

  However, when the crime was reported, curiously Knight Nino dismissed the report out of hand, claiming that Bradflea didn't do it despite a number of independent witnesses.  Some witnesses claimed that the Bedouin Leader Antar had been talking to Nino and suggested to dismiss the reports before the formal investigation took place. 
 
  Despite the fact that the initial case had been dismissed, Bradflea's conscience got the better of him and he confessed to the crime.  During the trial, when asked who was protecting him from being accused of the crime, Bradflea very clearly said Nino was the one who lied to protect the Bedouin arsonist.  He was quoted as saying, " Nino lied to people that I actually did set the fire but I have a conscience and want to clear it by coming clean."

  It seems that there are much deeper issues existing within the knights.  How much longer can this favoritism continue? Imagine yourself if you are not a friend of the powerful knights.  We, the Chronicles, are proud to be the voice for the voiceless in the city and we strongly condemn this corrupt practice by the people who are supposedly here to protect the citizens!

The Chronicles was told that Knight Ehson, once a Beduoin clan Leader and found guilty of rape, was back to his old ways of attacking women again.  Our source revealed that a lady was being beaten and whipped by Ehson.   When she fought back in self defense, Ehson allegedly used his power as a knight to charge her with murder.

  What's more was when the victim of the crime hired a lawyer, Ehson decided to attack the lawyer too, brutally assaulting her and leaving the lawyer for dead.  After the lawyer recovered from the attack, Ehson was seen by eyewitnesses insulting and attacking the lawyer again repeatedly, and threatening to drag her to the dungeon to show her "what a real man is" as her punishment.

  As the news of the lawyer being attacked by Knight Ehson in broad daylight reached outside, friends of the victim gathered to help.  However, knight Ehson got help from an unexpected source, his former leader Antar and his gang.  A wild fight then took place in the city where Antar and his fighters ganged up and out numbered the innocent victim's friends.  

  What we are concerned with about this incident is that, while Antar has been on the case of the knights recently, it seems that he and his people are only against the knights who arrest bedouin criminals.  Further more, we would like to question as to why the reported crime perpetrated by Ehson (for attacking an innocent woman and her lawyer and incite a riot in the city) was never investigated despite the fact that was reported over a week ago!

The Chronicles will bring you more on this news when we have more details.

A letter was passed on to the Chronicles office a few days ago.....

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I've heard a lot about the recent struggle between the bedus and the knights. Today I've been a witness to an outstanding event which I would like to tell about. A bedu named Bradflea came to the knight's headquarter and ignited it on fire, luckilly, noone was inside at the time. He did that at daylight, me and three more people have seen it.

  By the way, only one of the witnesses belonged to the undead race, so don't tell me about undeads and knights plotting together against bedus! Definitely not in that case. Four of us tried to stop the firestarter for questioning, but the insolent bedu just stated he is innocent and did nothing. He started to insult us and we had to explain him he was wrong. So is that male one of the glorious bedu freedom fighters who opposes the corrupt knight reign? If so, I am dissapointed. He's no rebel, just a small crook, pyromaniac who puts the fires on and then cowardly lies he didn't do it.

  The second disappointing thing was that bedu leader, Antar, took the side of the criminal. He protects his men even when they obviously don't deserve it. I expected more sence and more wisdom from someone who leads so many people. Instead of teaching Bradflea the right way, he took his side! How are we to treat bedus after that! I am no knight, I'm just a citizen who wants to walk streets safe, without a need to watch my back for bandits coming from the desert. Maybe if bedu leader starts viewing his own people more critical, there would finally be peace in Ireem.


  There are many outlaws amongst desert folks. And there are many honorable bedu people who suffer, being judged by the actions of those few troublemakers. What a shame! And Antar, that shame is on you!

Signed:"The voice of truth."