Dexter spent most of the day working on creating gadgets, he managed to rig the motorcycle for remote control and also to make quite a few small smoke bombs disguised as cigarettes, then it was time for the party at Nam Cam's karaoke club. Nam Cam was initially a bit hostile, although he said he did not wish to engage in violence at his party. However when a gift arrived and Mike shouted for him not to open it he did stop long enough for Dexter and Miriya to examine it, revealing that it was not a bomb, but did contain a curse of barrenness that would be unleashed on whoever opened it. He was grateful enough to offer the party an opportunty to earn his friendship if they would bring him Dung Ha, who had sent the "gift" they also learned from the courier that it had been sent by Phoq Li, a mage previously in Nam Cam's employ who had apparently switched sides. He had been given the package and directions in a coffee shop. The party travelled to the coffee shop and made it clear to the owner that Phoq Li was no longer a friend of Nam Cam's, and that if he was seen there again the owner should give Nam Cam a call. They went to Phoq Li's house and Mike gave an envelope with an ace of spades (a local symbol of death) to the doorman to give to Phoq Li, then they went to a market that Dung Ha was known to frequent and she was there, along with several guards, a couple with swords and more with rather odd looking submachine guns. Phoq Li was also present. A battle broke out, resulting in the immolation of an alcohol cart, a couple of near deaths for the party, the capture of Dung Ha, and the escape of Phoq Li. Dung Ha revealed that she had been trading prostitutes as slaves for weapons, armor, and drugs in another dimension, she also revealed the coordinates of that dimension. The guns were brought to Shang Da, who recognized them as coming from the dimension of Naram Sin, a TL 9 dimension ruled by Akkadians. A democratic republic, run on lines similar to the confederacy in the US, controlled the local area. The party also found a very nice Katana, with a monowire blade on Dung Ha, a lethal electrolaser, and a smal computer with a translation program and maps. Miriya learned the Akkadian language from the computer and a plan was made to travel to Naram Sin with Miriya, who looks smilar enough to a Sumerian to pass, posing as a foreigner with the rest of the party, barring Dexter, as Slaves, while Dexter was a consulting engineer from the African city states.
