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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antithetist" data-source="post: 5308044" data-attributes="member: 88443">The stairway winds its way steeply up for a long way - you are obviously now ascending the spire of the temple. As you near the top you feel hot air in your face from the Cogs outside, and above you you can see the inside of the temple's tall tower rearing vertiginously to a vaulted dome high above. You emerge onto a bare stone floor, square and about twent feet across. On each side there is a large square archway opening out into open space and revealing the hellish vista of slums and forges beyond. There are bloodstains on the stone slabs, spattering an area as if there was a brutal fight here in the fairly recent past. All of you are conscious of the same disquiet that you felt before, the disturbing sensation that something is reaching out to you like a blind insect extending tendrils to touch and taste its prey.</blockquote>