"Subakh ul nar. Hard to say quickly. Perhaps sit." He gestured. "So the Harkonnen attacked them? They must have thought they could succeed."

So the worms were the source of oxygen. They performed some process similar to photosynthesis. But... the entire planet. On the backs of the worms. The number of them had to be staggering. Incomprehensible. On most planets it was forests and seaweed... here it was the worm. It didn't just rule, it ...

So many questions without answers. Or were the answers more questions? The only way to measure infinity, to put a stop to anything, was to make a cut, to react to the universe by bringing violent will upon it. Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'N...

"It's Mapes, speaking with the authority of Liet." Stilgar claimed. "We should help them." "We cannot let them here any more than we could let the smugglers!" Someone shouted back. "That is not what Liet commands in the distrans." Stilgar replied, holding a cage with a bat within. "How do we know th...

Then, a revelation struck Bom just when he'd been wondering about the water cycle: there was so much oxygen here, the atmosphere was perfectly breathable. But there were almost no plants in sight. Where was all the oxygen coming from? He remembered the odour of ozone when the worm had almost got them!

The commotion in the sietch just before dawn was unusual. Was it still about the smugglers? Ahmina had been resting, having previously done all she could do about the situation. But she felt it could be something new. Maybe Liet had come?

Chatt was actually taking a moment to drink some spice coffee in the yali his tribe had appropriated. It was at the lower levels, and the hum of the windtraps and the thicker whiff of water vapour tickled the nostrils. His baliset was nearby; he either must have player or strummed it, or was about t...

Thankfully, the thopter had already been out. He'd bought them just enough time.

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"I want to believe." Cuyler whispered. But what was there to believe in? What kind of infinity, immensity, incomprehensibility? What kind of... God? Humankind had a rich stock of those. Cuyler's mind was like this desert below now, rippled by intricate and chaotic forms, but clean and empty, ready ...

https://i.imgur.com/qwAPwsR.jpg Oblivious to what was going on with his companions, Edwell peered outward to the dunes while searching inward for resolution. Through the extensive training of his youth, the importance, the necessity of logic and order had been drilled into him. Following the patter...

Addison Understand/Faith Observe or pilot? 12/?7 : 2#1d20 2 7 Addison kept her mind on flying the thopter but of course it wandered somewhat. (2 or 4 Successes) As they were flying south into the deep desert, at least for the time being, Allison had a random thought: if it is the North Pole where h...

Bomilcar looked to Mapes and wondered what it was that she felt in that moment. He looks out over the dunes, over Dune. He wondered... D8 LE, Understand + Faith, TN 12, Difficulty 2 : 2#1d20 1 1 4 successes, momentum to improve understanding of Fremen mindset as well He saw Mapes in her own wonder ...

Cuyler went silent as she took it all in, lost to the sands. - - - After Dark [LE8], Understand (6)/Truth (8), Deductive Reasoning, “What one wishes were true is seldom so.” : 2#1d20 20 20 Wow.... Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the rea...

https://i.imgur.com/qwAPwsR.jpg As they flew over the dunes, Edwell's mind went to where it had been the past few days, since his encounter with the Fremen outside the Shield Wall. He delved further into the Zensunni philosophies to gain understanding of the Fremen people and how they had survived ...

As the had finally landed into a rocky gorge that was emptying into a cliff somewhere in the midst of it, they found themselves in a night like no other. Against the canvass of emptiness, there was life nestling in the hidden spaces - bats and other small rodents, insects and their avian vores, gras...

As they turned leftward, toward the heart of the planet, the howling of the winds swivelling around the articulated wings started setting the music for their journey. Mapes seemed silent, but elated, watching through the transparent plas as the great sea of sand unfolded before them. Cuyler had been...

There was no change in reaction. His deafness was apparently very real.

The man faced him with lead-laden silence. His disfiguring scar was staring at Dorian.

"For now, there is nothing else." He dismissed her with his usual strict paternal expression.

[13 from on-board team, at least 2 from distracters, makes 15. Extended task completed in 1 round!] Perhaps it was wise to rely on faith, for it was nothing short of divine providence that they had done everything right and had synced their efforts so perfectly. God willed their escape from Harkonn...

[Complication: Monitored]

Reins' errant behaviour drew attention to himself though; not enough to distract, but enough to put a red spot on his head. And that of his dog.

[Security is thick. Many, well-armed, well-placed. Automated systems present.] He was immediately denied such things given this base had officially nothing to do with spice mining. It was a military outpost and a commercial hub with the investment of several houses present. But his was on the list -...

Lt. Kinet was certainly having a hateful eye on him, tone-deaf to the games Dorian might be playing, and generally deaf. But still having a lasgun an men with lasguns at his disposal. And thopters. He was in the process of telling off his subordinates with his creaking unnatural voice for not being ...

Stilgar nodded. "You did good, Ahmina." He said finally. "Between what you have been doing for Liet and your contacts with the offworlders, you are making a name for yourself among the people. Taking a Maker out of the salt pan is difficult." A rare acknowledgement. "When we're back in Sietch Tabr, ...

Between Edwell, who'd mentated out the position of Harkonnen searchlights and automated systems to the point they could be avoided, and Bom and Cuyler who'd verified this by practical pointers on how to navigate the latitude and area, they stood a chance to escape undetected, or at least their escap...