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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4957526" data-attributes="member: 3285">Ocean Meets Sky: Part 4 – Shot Trap Loading ChamberBeldin smashed open the rusted iron door at the top of a natural staircase.  Beyond the door was a large cave with a wooden and iron rack built around the outside of the wall.  Several k’n-yan moved about the room, lifting the large boulders from a pile and loading them onto the rack.  The rack led to a circular pit in the center of the floor. Kham drew his pistols.  “Now we know who was running that trap.”Beldin’s pent-up frustration was unleashed.  The dwarf bellowed and waded into the thick of the bronze creatures, hacking and bashing.  Kham fired a few shots, but it was more to give Beldin some breathing room until Sebastian could…A blast of flames tore through the k’n-yan ranks.  More beams of light sizzled towards them, but the k’n-yan’s resistance was token at best. When it was all over, Kham kicked one of the bodies into the hole.  He watched with satisfaction as it rolled over on itself and slid out of sight. “Is it just me, or do the k’n-yan seem weaker than before?”Sebastian nodded.  “Like you and I, they have been cut off from their lord—““Stop calling him that.  He’s not my lord.”Sebastian shrugged. “Whatever you call him, the King in Yellow’s influence has waned.  These pathetic beings are all that were left of his legacy here on Arcanis.”The room shuddered, a reminder that a war was raging overhead with far more powerful weapons. “Not sure how we’re helping,” said Beldin.  “We should be up there, fighting.”“I was given the impression that retrieving the Moonsilver Orb will weaken the k’n-yan further.  Perhaps it is central to their defense.”“Or maybe it’s central to the defense of Leviathan,” said Kham, “and the k’n-yan are just trying to prevent us from getting to it first.”Sebastian peered into the hole. “What makes you say that?”Kham pointed.  “Uh…that thing.”On the opposite side of the cavern was a large green statue.  It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.  One of the tentacles moved.</blockquote>

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