With twelve long days for preparation, Duppin is finally ready for inhabitance by the Shamai, with several of the more spiritual mages communing for hours on end with the planet itself, greeting it, conversing with it, learning from it and teaching it that which they had learned on planets abroad in return.
Iroku and Irrelai walked the planet, their magic preventing them from sinking into the pudding-like surface as they explored, narrowly avoiding one of the Pudding Wyrms, locally named Rorier.