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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 2394035" data-attributes="member: 3346">The party leaves Nulb to the Haunts and Crazies.The party presses on to the legendary Temple of Elemental Evil.Even with its forces twice defeated, the remnants of the Temple of Elemental Evil remain a sinister and disturbing pockmark on the territory.  The ruins are mostly quiet, although people still tell stories of strange lights or creatures moving about the old place.  Elmo told you that a band of marauding hobgoblins moved into the ruins about two years ago.  The evil creatures have been driven out at least once before, but they enjoy using the terrible reputation of the place to their advantage, so they keep coming back. The area around the old Temple of Elemental Evil is weed-choked scrub, full of gnarled trees and twisted vegetation.  It is not uncommon to stumble on a skull or a skeleton of a humanoid creature amid this dark growth, for this is a place well-accustomed to violence.The Temple of Elemental Evil: Its name befits its hideous appearance.  The huge charcoal gray building, with its arched buttresses and obscene designs, stands a mute testament to the darker side of history.  Every surface of the structure teems with leering faces and twisted forms of demons and monstrosities unlike anything previously imagined.  The massive main doors are crowned with winged beasts and disgusting figures that chill a viewer to the very soul.  The place is huge.  It extends over 450 feet north and south, and is nearly 450 feet across at its widest.  The walls rise about thirty feet, and the roof peak is about twenty feet higher, making it 50 feet tall at the highest point.  The narrow windows are barred and the only entrance is to the south.  The surrounding compound is equally terrifying.  Vermiculated growth, covered in dark thorns, twists amid rubble from what was once a high curtain wall.  Shadows dance along the blackened trees whose branches claw at the air around them like desperate, dying men.  It need not be said aloud, being obvious immediately.  This is an evil place.Kerwyn (seeking treasure) and Toriah (seeking to protect Kerwyn) scout out the Temple of Elemental Evil, while the rest of the party wait.  The old curtain wall surrounding the compound is mostly collapsed rubble.  But the thorny growth makes it an effective obstacle nonetheless.  The gatehouse was destroyed and the party will be able to walk right on through to the Temple.  Kerwyn and Toriah don’t enter the compound because they hear several goblins talking right inside the compound entrance, probably guards waiting to ambush the unwary.  Kerwyn and Toriah also see that one tower still stands attached to the curtain wall, in the northeast of the compound, and they hear goblins talking in that tower.  Finally, they hear the sounds of dogs barking in the compound.</blockquote>

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