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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 2825040" data-attributes="member: 3346">Raner dreams.  Like a scene from hell itself, the interior of the crater is a dry, cracked yard of uneven volcanic rock concealed by fingers of sulfurous mist.  A hot, dry stench fills the air, burning the inside of your nose and mouth.  At the center of this area, pounded down into an wound in the earth like a spike pounded into flesh, stands a black tower glistening with the dull sheen of iron.  The earth seems to recoil from the touch of this strange structure, so it is surrounded by the gaping trench of this wound, its black walls plunging downward out of sight.  Cracks, exposing red, hellish light from below, start at the wound and cross the yard.  No windows appear on the tower, and the single door is accessible only via a narrow span bridge crossing over the wound.As the dragon descends into this blasted yard before the black tower, the drowsy Craven and Raner lose their grip upon the dragon.  The dragon reasserts his hold to prevent them from falling to the ground.After landing upon the ground, a group of humanoids with white milky skin and wearing tattered black clothing and black breastplates gather around the dragon.  The creatures have a black obex seared into their foreheads.  The creatures lift up Craven and Raner and carry the heroes away from the Red Dragon towards the door of the Black Tower.The milky white humanoids carry the heroes without talking aloud.  They cross the bridge.  Raner can see lava in the crack of the wound below the bridge.In front of the tower itself, Raner realizes that the door to the black tower is solid adamantine and the tower itself is an alloy of iron and adamantine.  Raner feels an evil spirit assault his mind (will save: Raner 18+, Craven 16+), although drowsy he feels like he can still resist.While the group stands before the door to the tower, two new black robed figures come up behind them, from the wall of the crater(the outer fane?).  One of the robed figures appears human with a goatee and the other cultist appears elven.  The human holds up a symbol of the black obex.  The milky white humanoids bow to the cultist.The whole group leaves the door before the black tower and silently heads back towards the crater that surrounds the tower.  Raner sees a door into the crater that the group is now headed towards.  The Red Dragon is still in the yard, surrounded by the aura of magic as the dragon casts spells upon itself, healing its gaping wounds and replacing scales.Suddenly there is a loud roar as the Dragon roars in rage and leaps into the air, as if it found something more important to do than finish casting healing spells upon itself.</blockquote>

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