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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1120310" data-attributes="member: 224">Obscure movie references?  Nah!Session #15: "They’re going after the medical frigate!"(Session of RL August 6th, 2003)The adventurers were finally within sight of the ruins of Alderslook.  It had been a long time in coming.......In front of them lay a shallow vale, dotted with low, tree covered mounds -- mounds that were said to be the burial places of the orcs.  When the orcs came to raid, years ago (17?  20?) they would camp here, and when they were finished they would bury their dead here.  (Bury their dead?  How could even the most barbarous race have such a foul and necromantic custom?  How could their spirits go into the graces of the gods without being first liberated from their corpses by fire?)Towering over one side of the vale was a huge cliff, perhaps 1000 feet tall.  Its face was pock-marked by innumerable crevices and caves, some of which, even from this distance, could be seen seeping water.  Some might even be called miniature water falls.On top of the cliff was the ruins of Alderslook, it’s five towers simply broken stumps connected by crumbling walls.  The only way up was around to the side, on the gradually steepening tree-covered slope that ran up to Alderslook’s gates.  It was there that the adventurers were heading.Somewhere up there....somewhere up there were goblins, lying in wait for them.End of Session #15 </blockquote>