Harakhas in Awakutja
Real-world date: 2026-09-17
Author: Harakhas Gomas
The Kaptein came to Awakutja for a little while.
It lies between the Khurudundu plateau and the Tjadundu Hill. Awakutja was the last settlement built by the Kuriaes after the migration and serves as the seat of the Awamab clan.
Unlike the rather small Dorurams, it had established itself as a major mining town not just for Gold, but also Terracotta and Copper.
Due to their wealth they were able to reinforce all of their buildings with Copper!
It also serves as a point to observe the Khasholo in Toroundu on the other side of the Aw!ab river... Harakhas came for a rather small thing.
However, a bang went off one morning!
The people, including Harakhas himself, thought that it was a Creeper which blew itself up, so they armed themselves and approached the origin of the explosion.
It happened at the back of a house.
And a man, whose name is Tjoro Juku, stepped out of that house, shocked and awakened by the explosion himself.
No person was harmed.
However, all his cattle had perished in the explosion and his back door was damaged.
He explained that he had been able to extract a certain powder from Creepers in the past few weeks and experimenting on how to utilize it.
But he was unable to store it inside his house and had to use his backyard for storage instead, where his cattle once rested.
It is unknown to him as to how it went off so suddenly.
Nevertheless, Harakhas saw the potential in utilizing this powder, of which Tjoro still had samples of.
So when Harakhas departed from Awakutja he took Tjoro Juku with him to Hais!am, where he would further explore the properties and utility of the grey powder...