So while reading through the old adventures I read Black Flames. In it describes how Hamanu cursed the oasis in Yaramuke so no one could settle it, and more importantly it would probably kill anyone without foreknowledge who tried to loot the place. Great idea.

Then I decided that the Tari would rebuild it. If the Tari being crazy resistant to sickness and poison were immune they could easily keep the city buried while working under the cover of sand to rebuild the city as a modern Ythri. They breed like rats, so it wouldn’t take long until their were enough of them to probably even defend the city. Moreover anyone who would try and siege them would suffer the curse if they drank the water. You can’t siege someone without a steady supply of water.

Anyway, the adventure hooks come pretty easily. A party finds a Tari black market trader dealing in ancient relics and investigates. A recent rise in the Tari population in either Urik or Raam requires investigation which leads back to…

My guess is within 10 years they could be somewhere between 100 and 500 Tari living there just off of breeding. Once the word got out there was a safe city the rats would flock there. Within 20 years they could have a city state with 10,000 tari, which can’t be sieged by an army and has access to everything they can find.

Nice idea, may use portions of that.

Nice idea but I would ad some poits. I think your Tari reproduction rate’s TOO big, they wouls just starve like that and there’s no need for then to have such a big population. Taris are really resistant to poisons and diseases so your idea of then resisting te water’s really good. However form what would they all life from? Here are some ideas of mine: Apart from all the scavenger, hunter and maybe some litle farming roles, they could work as guards and scouts at the trade route South( Yaramuke was once an important trade center) it would be possible for then to take the dricks egg market ! ToA says driks only live near that region and their breeding grounds are near the oasis. Since the taris can dig and should live underground anyway they should be pretty safe and a population of about 300/500 of then should be just fine to normal treats, a bigger army of a sorcerer king would simply not care to target such a small problem( Yaramuke was already looted anyway). Hope all this help you somehow.

My view is that the Tari have dreamed of having a homeland. Think Israel. If they discovered that the waters of Yaramuke weren’t poison to them they would start setting up shop, and exploring. The city was looted, but most likely the sewers remain. The Tari would then start farming underground, and trading things they find for food. As their population got bigger they would need more food, but at the same time this idea of a homeland would lead them to find more ways to make food.

They will have literally an entire city state of area in order to feed their people. They should easily get the population in the 1000’s.

The real problem would be the other things in Yaramuke. My guess is that for every three tari born at least one or two would die fighting the bad things. So you get a scenario much like Celik eventually where part of the city is safe, and part extremely unsafe. I still think the timeline holds:
10 years 100-500 Tari
20 years 3000-15,000 Tari
100 years viable city-state that can only be populated by Tari, since they are the only ones who can drink the water.

The biggest thing, is that I view their reaction to this homeland much like the Israeli’s. 1. They will never give it up. 2. They will do anything they can to make it livable. 3. Once established they will defend it at all costs. 4. It will attract their people, and have a huge immigration boost to their population.

It is really getting that first 500 Tari to make the entire city self-sustaining that is the difficulty. Once there it would take off like crazy.

For adventure hooks:
1. Much like Celik, adventurers would be needed to clear out the bad areas.
2. The occasional food shortages might lead to caravan raiding.

It was looted but many buildings remain burried so the taris will find shelter easily. The monsters should give some problem but the taris reproduce fast they shouldn’t have too much problem and I think they can use then as a food source. I don’t really know but is the water good for plants? Aren’t mushrooms the only thing possible to be farmed underground ? I don’t think they would be able to cultivate much there. For food sources hunting and trading should be ok, Taris are small creatures and can eat more things than humans. Your comparation to Israeli’s really interesing.

OK, I just had a crazy idea that may solve all the food problems( plz comment and tell me id it’s too crazy). As I said before, the oasis’s near the driks breeding grounds. So, what if the taris hunt adult driks? They aren’t hunted by other humanoids and one of then should fell all the taris for months. In my mind the taris could use their poison to slowly kill one older drik in a week or two. It’s time consuming but even if 10 or more taris die I think it’s still worthy. They just have to ambush the thing hit a litle and run, repeting this until it dies.

Just a little crazy but I like it. The drik killing could become a tribal/cultural rite. Twice a year the young warriors could have to team up and kill a drik as a way to become “true warriors”. The food would supplement their own supplies, and the rite would help give them an identity.

As the city expands, and they begin to feed themselves in a more regular manner the practice could become a curiosity.

It’s good that I could be of help. If it’s not too a problem could you keep posting about this idea ? I really like campaigns about working for a community or rebuilding cities. I should post somethig about rebuilding Celik or Tar-elon soon too.