Al-Qadim: Bottle Shock

Thanks! Feel free to drop by this entry and leave a comment. The big mystery of this game is: What is giving genies the ability to break their bonds and act against the wills of their masters? It happened to Farid al-Mutan in times past, and it happened to my family's genie just recently, resulting in my mother, father, and sister being tossed into the caliph's prison. Meanwhile, the caliph (my future father-in-law) himself is growing increasingly tyrannical, suppressing speech and jailing people for criticizing his policies or even making jokes. (To be fair, neither the game nor the setting have given us any reason to believe that something like the First Amendment exists in Zakhara.) Oh, and my betrothed, Kara, is missing—transported somewhere by my family's genie. Farid has told me that only the Genie Lords will be able to tell me what is happening. I spent the last session trying to find the name of their island, Jaza'ir Jiza. As this session began, I ordered the captain of my…