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<blockquote data-quote="SelcSilverhand" data-source="post: 5998522" data-attributes="member: 30016"><p>The Rumbleball rolls on over a desolate wasteland. Here and there you can see what remains of a great civilization. Roads are cracked and heaved leaving gullies and ruts along their length. Fields have gone fallow and are now overrun with weeds and vines. A field of gourds seems to be doing well until you pass closer by and can see each gourd is shaped like a head and colored to show eyes and wide open mouths. Some roadside hamlets you pass are leveled, others are intact but deserted. Rarely, you spot a light from inside a window but consider it prudent not to investigate. When night falls you set up a mean camp next to the Rumbleball with tarps and spare blankets. Remembering your first nights experience you do your best to find a hidden spot behind a ruined farmhouse. The night passes slowly and you are awoken occasionally by far-off wailing in the mists.</p><p></p><p>Three more days pass like this one. You see abandoned towns, crashed airships, battlefields full of long-dead soldiers whose bodies do not rot, distant moving shapes that vanish as you come closer, and other strange sights. You pass a graveyard whose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin" target="_blank">tombstones have small bells attached</a>. Each one is ringing erratically, with no wind to account for it. You pass a shallow pool of water, no more than a large puddle in a field, but in whose depths the shadows of leviathans move. </p><p></p><p>The farther into the Mournlands you travel, the more twisted the land feels. At night as you watch the moons overhead passby you are startled to glimpse another moon, one that you have never seen before. When you stare hard though it is gone again. Another night you awaken to find Midian covered in flies. They buzz away in an angry swarm once he awakens. Your dreams are always dark and terrible. In one you stare down at a tranquil pool of water. Beneath its surface men, women, and children struggle trying to break the surface. It is a barrier to them and they choke, gasp, and eventually sink to the bottom only to be replaced by a new person struggling for air. Each morning finds you awakening with a start in a cold sweat.</p><p></p><p>Finally, the evening of the third day, you spot something on the horizon. At first you thought it was a large hill with an oddly shaped top. As you get closer you can see shapes, buildings in fact, rising from the top of it. Soon you are close enough to see the entire hill is a single massive structure. The Archon.</p><p></p><p>Kraken stops the Rumbleball far enough away that it won't be easily spotted and the group creeps to the top of a nearby hill to spy out the place. The entire structure looks to be about a mile long. When it crashed it remained relatively upright but you can see parts of it have twisted or are tilted. Several campfires glow on the ground near the "stern" of the city-ship. You can see tents and banners staked out around them. Farther towards the bow you see another encampment with different colors being flown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SelcSilverhand, post: 5998522, member: 30016"] The Rumbleball rolls on over a desolate wasteland. Here and there you can see what remains of a great civilization. Roads are cracked and heaved leaving gullies and ruts along their length. Fields have gone fallow and are now overrun with weeds and vines. A field of gourds seems to be doing well until you pass closer by and can see each gourd is shaped like a head and colored to show eyes and wide open mouths. Some roadside hamlets you pass are leveled, others are intact but deserted. Rarely, you spot a light from inside a window but consider it prudent not to investigate. When night falls you set up a mean camp next to the Rumbleball with tarps and spare blankets. Remembering your first nights experience you do your best to find a hidden spot behind a ruined farmhouse. The night passes slowly and you are awoken occasionally by far-off wailing in the mists. Three more days pass like this one. You see abandoned towns, crashed airships, battlefields full of long-dead soldiers whose bodies do not rot, distant moving shapes that vanish as you come closer, and other strange sights. You pass a graveyard whose [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin]tombstones have small bells attached[/url]. Each one is ringing erratically, with no wind to account for it. You pass a shallow pool of water, no more than a large puddle in a field, but in whose depths the shadows of leviathans move. The farther into the Mournlands you travel, the more twisted the land feels. At night as you watch the moons overhead passby you are startled to glimpse another moon, one that you have never seen before. When you stare hard though it is gone again. Another night you awaken to find Midian covered in flies. They buzz away in an angry swarm once he awakens. Your dreams are always dark and terrible. In one you stare down at a tranquil pool of water. Beneath its surface men, women, and children struggle trying to break the surface. It is a barrier to them and they choke, gasp, and eventually sink to the bottom only to be replaced by a new person struggling for air. Each morning finds you awakening with a start in a cold sweat. Finally, the evening of the third day, you spot something on the horizon. At first you thought it was a large hill with an oddly shaped top. As you get closer you can see shapes, buildings in fact, rising from the top of it. Soon you are close enough to see the entire hill is a single massive structure. The Archon. Kraken stops the Rumbleball far enough away that it won't be easily spotted and the group creeps to the top of a nearby hill to spy out the place. The entire structure looks to be about a mile long. When it crashed it remained relatively upright but you can see parts of it have twisted or are tilted. Several campfires glow on the ground near the "stern" of the city-ship. You can see tents and banners staked out around them. Farther towards the bow you see another encampment with different colors being flown. [/QUOTE]
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