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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4946122" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p><strong>Time and the Serpent: Part 1 – The Thing from the Gate</strong></p><p></p><p>The citadel was constructed of pure obsidian and it reached two hundred feet into the reddish sky. It twisted like a gigantic serpent, looking as if it grew up from the dark plane. It was an ominous sight. </p><p></p><p>The only opening was at the base, approximately twenty feet high and ten feet across. The interior was shrouded in shadows.</p><p></p><p>Inside, the fortress was a vast complex of tunnels, passages, and rooms. The passages inside perpetually twisted and turned in seemingly random directions. All were completely cylindrical, like giant tubes.</p><p></p><p>"Did those worm things build this?"</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa snorted. "The Chthoniansss? No, they have no need of sssuch ssstructuresss. They make their homesss deep within the Earth."</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa led them through the tunnels. </p><p></p><p>"Where are we going?" asked Hammer. </p><p></p><p>"If you wisssh to leave here you will do asss I sssay."</p><p></p><p>"That's not an answer," muttered Hammer, but he continued to follow the serpent man for lack of any other options.</p><p></p><p>They entered a room that was approximately fifty feet in diameter, its ceiling nearly twenty feet high. The walls, like the majority of the fortress’ architecture, were made from obsidian. </p><p></p><p>Filling the room was a stunning amount of machinery. It was strange, alien equipment; tubes, spheres, and philes containing liquids of every color of the spectrum filled the chamber. The tubes ran from the walls to organ-like structures suspended in mid-air, ten feet above the lab’s floor. These structures seemed almost bio-mechanical, giving the lab a surreal similarity to the interior of the human body, with wires and transparent tubes the veins, pumping insane liquids from organ to organ. There was a pungent, oppressive odor present.</p><p></p><p>Jim-Bean gagged. He rifled through his satchel and tossed Hammer a gas mask while donning his own. </p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa walked straight to the far end of the room, to a pile of stone tables. They were two feet by two feet, carved into a strange type of rock, turquoise in shade. </p><p></p><p>"He seems to know this place pretty well," said Hammer. "I don't like this."</p><p></p><p>"He probably comes from here," replied Jim-Bean.</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa led them back out and into the tunnels without a word. They followed him to a great door, circular in shape and ten feet in diameter. It was covered with the now familiar pictograms they had seen elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa effortlessly rolled the door away. Despite its great size, the door was curiously lightweight. </p><p></p><p>They entered a huge domed chamber. Nearly one hundred feet high, the chamber was made of the same obsidian. Covering the dome were hieroglyphics, the same style as before, only much larger. A fifty-foot high statue stood in the exact center of the room. The half-human/half-snake creature was hideous to behold and appears to be carved from a turquoise material.</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa made what might have been a genuflection before the statue.</p><p></p><p>"That thing's not going to come to life, is it?" asked Jim-Bean nervously. </p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa chuckled. "This isss Yig. It isss by hisss good gracesss that you live at all."</p><p></p><p>They continued on through more tunnels until they reached a huge circular room. </p><p></p><p>It was composed of the same obsidian, nearly one hundred feet wide. The ceiling of the room was a great shaft, and the red primeval sky could be seen two hundred feet above the floor. Starting at approximately fifty feet up, other passages opened up into the shaft.</p><p></p><p>The openings in the shaft above occasionally vomited forth noxious smoke that drifted up through the shaft and out into the sky. Some of the gas was a glowing green, some a putrid orange. On the floor of the chamber was more of the ancient hieroglyphs. </p><p></p><p>There were two archways at the opposite end of the chamber. These portals were approximately thirty feet high and twenty feet wide and were covered with runes that emanate a bluish glow. Each had a slot filled with a gold cube. </p><p></p><p>The archways were filled with a deep gray mist; much like steam, which did not seem to drift far from the door. There was something odd about the way the smoke drifted; it occasionally seemed to twirl, twist and congeal into tiny storm-like collections of clouds; and it never drifted far from the stone doorway before evaporating.</p><p></p><p>"Temporal gates," said Jim-Bean. "Like the other ones at Hellbend and Duxbury."</p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa cocked his head, reading the symbols.</p><p></p><p>"What, you having problems reading signs?" asked Hammer belligerently. </p><p></p><p>Ssuthraa pointed at the symbols on one of the gateways. "I am not familiar with thessse gatesss. </p><p></p><p>The symbols over one gate looked oddly like a series of giant lizards in various poses—foraging, sleeping—and near the top, eating each other. The other symbols appeared to be that of a city. </p><p></p><p>Hammer peered at the symbols. "I don't like the look of those symbols." He turned around, his back to the archway. "If we're going to go through another gate, we may want to go into the city—"</p><p></p><p>Jim-Bean looked up and behind Hammer in horror.</p><p></p><p>Hammer didn't have to turn around, because the fetid breath of a meat eater was accompanied by a trumpeting roar. The shuddering footsteps of the thing shook the structure of the tower. </p><p></p><p>Hammer needed no urging. He ran straight for the other gate. There was the snap of razor sharp jaws behind him and another blast of wind, this time from the thing just missing him as it lunged. </p><p></p><p>Without hesitation, he dove through the portal…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 4946122, member: 3285"] [b]Time and the Serpent: Part 1 – The Thing from the Gate[/b] The citadel was constructed of pure obsidian and it reached two hundred feet into the reddish sky. It twisted like a gigantic serpent, looking as if it grew up from the dark plane. It was an ominous sight. The only opening was at the base, approximately twenty feet high and ten feet across. The interior was shrouded in shadows. Inside, the fortress was a vast complex of tunnels, passages, and rooms. The passages inside perpetually twisted and turned in seemingly random directions. All were completely cylindrical, like giant tubes. "Did those worm things build this?" Ssuthraa snorted. "The Chthoniansss? No, they have no need of sssuch ssstructuresss. They make their homesss deep within the Earth." Ssuthraa led them through the tunnels. "Where are we going?" asked Hammer. "If you wisssh to leave here you will do asss I sssay." "That's not an answer," muttered Hammer, but he continued to follow the serpent man for lack of any other options. They entered a room that was approximately fifty feet in diameter, its ceiling nearly twenty feet high. The walls, like the majority of the fortress’ architecture, were made from obsidian. Filling the room was a stunning amount of machinery. It was strange, alien equipment; tubes, spheres, and philes containing liquids of every color of the spectrum filled the chamber. The tubes ran from the walls to organ-like structures suspended in mid-air, ten feet above the lab’s floor. These structures seemed almost bio-mechanical, giving the lab a surreal similarity to the interior of the human body, with wires and transparent tubes the veins, pumping insane liquids from organ to organ. There was a pungent, oppressive odor present. Jim-Bean gagged. He rifled through his satchel and tossed Hammer a gas mask while donning his own. Ssuthraa walked straight to the far end of the room, to a pile of stone tables. They were two feet by two feet, carved into a strange type of rock, turquoise in shade. "He seems to know this place pretty well," said Hammer. "I don't like this." "He probably comes from here," replied Jim-Bean. Ssuthraa led them back out and into the tunnels without a word. They followed him to a great door, circular in shape and ten feet in diameter. It was covered with the now familiar pictograms they had seen elsewhere. Ssuthraa effortlessly rolled the door away. Despite its great size, the door was curiously lightweight. They entered a huge domed chamber. Nearly one hundred feet high, the chamber was made of the same obsidian. Covering the dome were hieroglyphics, the same style as before, only much larger. A fifty-foot high statue stood in the exact center of the room. The half-human/half-snake creature was hideous to behold and appears to be carved from a turquoise material. Ssuthraa made what might have been a genuflection before the statue. "That thing's not going to come to life, is it?" asked Jim-Bean nervously. Ssuthraa chuckled. "This isss Yig. It isss by hisss good gracesss that you live at all." They continued on through more tunnels until they reached a huge circular room. It was composed of the same obsidian, nearly one hundred feet wide. The ceiling of the room was a great shaft, and the red primeval sky could be seen two hundred feet above the floor. Starting at approximately fifty feet up, other passages opened up into the shaft. The openings in the shaft above occasionally vomited forth noxious smoke that drifted up through the shaft and out into the sky. Some of the gas was a glowing green, some a putrid orange. On the floor of the chamber was more of the ancient hieroglyphs. There were two archways at the opposite end of the chamber. These portals were approximately thirty feet high and twenty feet wide and were covered with runes that emanate a bluish glow. Each had a slot filled with a gold cube. The archways were filled with a deep gray mist; much like steam, which did not seem to drift far from the door. There was something odd about the way the smoke drifted; it occasionally seemed to twirl, twist and congeal into tiny storm-like collections of clouds; and it never drifted far from the stone doorway before evaporating. "Temporal gates," said Jim-Bean. "Like the other ones at Hellbend and Duxbury." Ssuthraa cocked his head, reading the symbols. "What, you having problems reading signs?" asked Hammer belligerently. Ssuthraa pointed at the symbols on one of the gateways. "I am not familiar with thessse gatesss. The symbols over one gate looked oddly like a series of giant lizards in various poses—foraging, sleeping—and near the top, eating each other. The other symbols appeared to be that of a city. Hammer peered at the symbols. "I don't like the look of those symbols." He turned around, his back to the archway. "If we're going to go through another gate, we may want to go into the city—" Jim-Bean looked up and behind Hammer in horror. Hammer didn't have to turn around, because the fetid breath of a meat eater was accompanied by a trumpeting roar. The shuddering footsteps of the thing shook the structure of the tower. Hammer needed no urging. He ran straight for the other gate. There was the snap of razor sharp jaws behind him and another blast of wind, this time from the thing just missing him as it lunged. Without hesitation, he dove through the portal… [/QUOTE]
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