Boise
Thursday 12 May 2094
1230 Hours
Partly Cloudy
Entering Boise, Idaho
"Simon's Rock" was a small colony that used to be called "Near Boise". It was located not too far outside the Ghost Storm over Boise's downtown area.
Simon's Rock was the last stop for traders and caravans who didn't want to go further into the Ghost Storm itself. It was also a waypoint a steady stream of pilgrims, petitioners, Companions, Knights and Squires passing through the storm wall.
Their instructions, however, were to pass through the wall and into Boise itself. There, they could drop off the three Templar swords at the Hall of Heroes: Arthur's, Chance's Crusader sword, and the remains of Michaela's broken katana (although she had been a Squire and not a full-fledged Templar).
Since the Templars moved in and rebuilt the Temple (an old Freemason's hall in the downtown) the storm had weakened but not dissipated. No one had seen such a storm go away and people agreed if it was going to happen it would happen here, but not yet. Like all other storm walls, greenish-black storm wall was still shot through with whitish streaks that some said were the souls of the damned. The storm wall was obviously weaker but it still hurt to pass through.