The Strangers' co-opted vehicle has come to a halt within the basalt walls of the dread fortress, Krak al-Tawil. Now they must accomplish the impossible:
- defeat or evade the devilish hell hounds that have entered the scene
- locate the imprisoned djinn commander, Jiraad Amir bin Jaqaan al-Amin
- free him and escape from the fiendish efreet prison
- ask him for the boon promised by Shaira
- fool their efreet contact with a false Eye of Janid and learn where the 2nd piece of the Rod of Seven parts rests
- locate the piece
- obtain the 2nd piece through force or diplomacy (*snort*)
- and return safely to Taer Mithéngol in Túmgûl
