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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 2752500" data-attributes="member: 3346">In addition to the Air Temple, the party has now captured the South Gate into the Crater Ridge Mines.  So far the party has found three entrances into the Crater Ridge Mines: The High Western gate the party entered by, the lower Southern gate the party just captured, and the secret passage into the Dwarven Temple.As the party is deciding where to go next, a warrior cultist walks up, is about to hand you a pouch, and then suddenly realizes that you aren't members of the cult.  He tries to flee, but is dropped onto the ground by Neshi and becomes another prisoner.  He admits under questioning that a hooded cultist gave him a message for Choranth; he does not know which cultist it was that gave him the message.The message is written in elven.    Lylamwyn,The time has finally come for me to communicate with you and your associates. Please share everything I have written with your companions and then destroy this note.  Sending you this note comes at a great peril to myself. However, I can no longer ignore your success thus far in penetrating our enclave in the Lortmil Mountains. You have achieved much against difficult odds, but the trials ahead will become harder. Our esteemed chief has dismissed your progress thus far as no more than chance – luckily, for if he turns his attention upon you your doom will soon follow. You have done well to not attempt crossing the Fire Bridge. Had you done so, you would surely have been destroyed. Soon will come a better time. The concentration of the leaders of the cult is directed elsewhere, as the search for the champion intensifies. This gives me the distraction and time to provide this warning to you. Your conquest of the fiend, D’Gran, was an excellent omen of things to come, but it does not compare to your victory over the Forces of the Air Temple!  Good tidings indeed! News of the destruction of the Air Altar has reached us here in the Outer Fane. Not that it was difficult to discern, what with the mountain shaking like that. We wondered what it was at first, until Mistress Naquent came rushing in, and in what foul mood! I was – secretly, of course – overjoyed. Hedrack, I am afraid, sees things in a different light. He made mention of “crushing those puny infidels”, although I am uncertain as to whether he meant you or your superiors in Hommlet. Heed me. I pray for your success when you face the next temple, whether you choose to fight the Fire Temple or the Earth Temple. Know that the Earth Temple is now populated exclusively by the reptiles from the Underdark.  The leader of the Fire Temple is Tessimon and she bears a rod of tentacles, a potent sign of favor from the Elder Elemental Eye.  Should you succeed, I implore you: do not be hasty! The Outer Fane is well protected, and you will need to gain more power as well as the appropriate keys before making your approach. The time is growing near, but it is not upon us yet. I am doing my best to delay proceedings in the search for the champion. I will try to get a further message to you when he is found, but you should not be able to ignore the omens of his finding even should I fail.Beware, my friends. The path ahead is rough. I know, as I have trodden upon its darker twin. Mayhap I will never be able to make my way back. Be it that your path stays lighted.-- A friend</blockquote>

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