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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhun" data-source="post: 3989971" data-attributes="member: 29098">[sblock=Introduction Post For Leif]Trevor stops to catch his breath, putting one hand out against the brownish granite wall to steady himself. The rumors of loot beneath the abandoned Temple of Elemental Evil, a ruined bastion of dark power, may well be true, but one thing was for certain: The place was NOT abandoned.Trevor had successfully made his way through the Temple Proper, past the obscene and vile paintings and scultpures, and was certain the place was abandoned. There was no danger above, besides the overwhelming perception of oppression and darkness, and the nagging feeling that he was being watched. Still, no enemy presented itself, and so the young soldier made his way down the stairs and into the dungeon beneath the Temple.And the dungeons had been anything but empty. Someone had been here before, to be certain. Trevor had found the chopped and smashed remains of sickly rotten corpses; he had found a few bodies of warriors garbed in brown and black garb. And finally, he had stumbled upon some living warriors dressed the same. It was a mixed group of humans and humanoids...several men, a couple of hyena faced gnolls and even a bugbear.Faced with such odds, Trevor made the only logical choice: he ran. And now, he was lost. The corridors had become a blur, and he had remembered moving through a concealed doorway, hoping to throw off his pursuers. Now, he stood in a wide hall with walls of brown marble, lit by flickering wall cressets. Large triangles of yellow marble are set in the floor, pointing around the corner to the north like some kind of trail. The air smells of earth and peat.A great roar suddenly sounds, followed by the sounds of men yelling and weapons crashing. But does it come from ahead or behind? The acoustics of this place make it hard to tell. Trevor knew that standing still was not accomplishing anything, though...Gliding forward as silently as possible, the former soldier finds himself following the yellow triangles around the corner, and passing beneath a large, ornate archway decorated in smaller triangles. Before him is a great open area, at least eighty feet square...the walls here appear to be crafted of sandstone, and the entire floor is dark brown soil. The smell of fresh earth is much more potent here.Some sort of phosphorescent lichen provides a soft light in this place, growing upon the walls and ceilings, archways and supports. Cressets and wall sconces also line the walls, but none of them are currently lit. Still, the lichen provides enough dim light to see by.In the center of the room rises a pyramid of hard-packed earth. The sides rise some six feet, and the top is flat. Stone steps are set in the four faces of the pyramid, and atop it is some sort of stone column. Each of the column's four sides are inset with a triangle, and bronze manacles hang from each face. A bronze box sits near the column.Three doors are set in the south wall; those to the left and right are normal, appearing to be of solid, iron-bound hardwood. The center pair are huge bronze valves. They appear to bear the same silvery, writhing runes that you noted at the main entrance to the Temple Proper above.Of course, the most obvious detail about the room is a huge earthen form, shaped vaguely like a man, towering three times the hieght of the group of men it is currently trying to smash. The earthen giant looks to be damaged, but so to do the men (and woman) trying to fight the rocky colossus!Trevor acts on Initiative Count 18, and can act on Combat Round 5 (round 4 just finished)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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