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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4958013" data-attributes="member: 46559">Kalas leads the way down the center path.  The mist seems to retreat before you as you pass, but the way back remains open, and you can see clearly for some distance.  After perhaps half a mile's trek, you come to another clearing in the mists.  Here, there is another monumental temple.  The north end is intact, while the south end is ruined.  The stone plaza again surrounded by luminous mists that light the area brightly, is roughly paved, and a shallow channel of water runs from north to south through the middle of the temple.  Pure water bubbles up from great stone cisterns in a pool to the north, flows southward beneath an arched stone bridge, and sinks into another pool at the south end of the plaza.  There are more dead bodies of monks here, but no obvious enemies to have killed them.  Looking around more carefully, you can see that whoever killed these monks left other damage behind.  At the center of the bridge, a ritual circle pulses with foul red menace, and a palpable miasma of corruption exudes from it.  The water passing beneath the bridge is tainted by the corruption, and the southern pool is a brackish mire of filth and stench.  Both ends of the pool exude magic auras, though they feel very different.  The northern end feels cool and pleasant, refreshing.  The effects of the water there on those touching it would likely be beneficial.  The southern end.   on the other hand, feels as foul to magical senses as to mundane ones, and you instinctively shy away from touching it.</blockquote>

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