Trouble is brewing in the desert colony of Desertsands. People are disappearing, leaving behind everything they own. No one knows where they are going. Rumors are spreading that The Sandfort, a secretive military base on the edge of the town, is sabotaged. Caravans that have delivered food to the colony are coming less and less. Bandits are amassing outside the town, making it nearly impossible to leave the city gates without getting robbed, or worse, killed.