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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felikeries" data-source="post: 1287487" data-attributes="member: 15359">beyond the altarFREEING THE MIGHT  beyond the altar F T M       beyond the altarCertainly the sight of the lingering corpses of the demonites in the chamber Taiken had first discovered was responded to with zeal,however they each had their hopes for some more treasures.Across the room a hall of standard dynamics was set into a crossing hall 40 ft aways.There the group opted to turn towards the altar room,rather than away and as suspicians had hoped when Marty pushed the lever at a set of stairs the opening panel,which was a roof to them,led to the floor of the altar room,and the switch configuartion at the altar could be seen,as to the three neccesary that opened this passage.Passing the hall from the room,underneath-they found an iron door,old and fearsome looking ,-a large pentacle was engraved in it’s center,and decaying mineral deposits formed about the brim and signature.Though there was no apperant way to open it,Marty began taking a closer look,and soon was using picking tools at a small hole that was revealed after swiping the gruff away from the pentacle.Click-there was a sound of encouragement,and Morigin pushed the door in,swinging on hinges from the other side,and they beamed with delight of the spectacle before them.There in a darkened grey room,were three chests sitting on stone croppings,of construction,and a waterfall,fell from the ceiling to a catch at the right.Each chest was in much finer condition than the first,and so lock picking began,and the contents soon revealed.The first had strange coins of an unknown metal that were engraved with Zintrin on one side and the image of the wholsesome temple,as it once stood on the other-they each took 100 of these,the next had a scroll,written in common,which were the incantations for the spell of invisibility.Mif claimed it,and promised he’d cast it on someone other than himself,but he was in fact the only one to be trusted with this sort of trickery.The third had a crown,of platinum,un-damaged in any way from stale airs,and the circle was layden with thorns,and magical rune signatures….“well,this could be interesting,I don’t think we can avoid the curiosity that such a gift brings,why don’t I try it”Kliza answered as each wondered with no reaction,and she allowed herself to take it and try it  on.The first reaction felt by the elf,was of sheer gravity surging so as to make her knees weak,the confines of the spell it held were being released.That gave way to a minor glow of silvery shale,that scattered from it like a prysm of metallics sheding their broken images.She stayed concentrating on the hopes for a reaction,not chided by the bluntness of the powers makings as of yet,and the others were easily more concerned,however let the series run it’s gamit of reactions.She stepped away to take her sword,and that’s when the world changed before her eyes,images of the ethereal sentience that bound all of lifes forces quickly blighted the room,a spirit or ghost rushed passed them,a demonite was gurggling in agony as it slipped into the floor,an image of the ghost that was once one of the salyne foes.“I can see the afterlife images,a demonite,a wraith…a special seeing eye into the unmaterial plane,-it’s great….though  maybe I should use it with more care-there”she took it off,and attached it to her waist,for quick use in another situation.“the door –let’s get moving,we’ve been lucky I don’t see why that should stop”Taiken made to the wooden door with a standard push ring,and opened it.The confining hallway spanned for a great ways,the ceiling was only 6 ft high and the width a mere 3 ft,more serving of a workers passage,or a way that was less used,perhaps for good reasons,though as fate has it with underground places that lead in derogitories to lurching caverns in the natural underearth,a helter skelter tomb or enemy portal was more likely.Thus the searching newly agitateble as they were,was taken in more precaution,and as the sounds of dripping water,soon revealed that a grand space was at the end of the hall,Kliza slipped on the crown,and at that very moment shrieks filled the air.Clipping their minds,the periah of buzzing swarming blasts that cracked the high tone barrier was deafening,and vile,what un godly creature was this,no it was more than one,each had pressed their hands in torment to avoid the subdueing effect and stumbled into the natural cavern before them,the only way to stop it was going to be quick and fine swordwork.The image of ‘shriekers’ was taken in,and the result was a burgeoning,slew of slashes and stumbling forays,that finally cut to silence the terrible mushrooms.This was enough for a sip of healing potion each,and bits of blood ethcing from their inner ears made this all to apperant.“wholly vegetables of voracious evil-what do you see Kliza”Marty spoke first as they were dumbfounded by the muffled sounds of hearing their own voices from the damage.She stood in refined contemplation,there was an image the other’s could tell,and they kept their swords set,Mif calling the harp into the air before him,and they awaited her statement.“a spectre…it sees us,I don’t think it intends harm,yes it has a skiff to take us through the underground river”she started walking forward and their torches,picked up from the ground after the encounter,finally,let all behold the robed,skeleton like creature.It glowed purple,with hazy silver eyes,standing on a makeshift raft,and grasping a pole which purchased into the water,for pushing the vice of it’s control,for weary traveller’s it seemed.“hail…seekers of the fortune of the temple,Zintrin awaits any who wish to claim it in these days of it’s deterioration,I will grant you safe passage to a meeting with an agent who will speak with you”it mired a response to them,in an unkindly tone,though it was certain that there were no lies being told.“for the love of Letheria,do you think we should do this”Morigin said as they continued towards it,each implicit with a stange desire to strike it with their weapons.“what good are we,we’ve only hoped to bring back treasure from this place,the great burdon of reclaiming the ruin,is….beyond our intentions”Marty answered as they stopped ten feet before it,curious as to what made such a strange being,or illusion alive.“I hail thee,the passages were gaurded and you have made it to the ferryman,granted passage will be met,or”it began another undertoned skirting statement.“we want to go to this agent,take us”Kliza said and steeped forward and onto the skiff,the others doing so remitadly,and still holding their weapons for fear of action.“if you’re so smart mr ferry ghost,I require you tell me of what magics this ring is used for”Marty suddenly with a wise assed idea,made an inquisiton that could bring interest to their realtion with this ghost.“a thief you are….the gaurdian died whom you faught before being granted this ring,it is one of 10 within the temple,once serving to create portals to the villages that sent worshippers for the preistesses to-….slaughter,now it will open a portal to…your own village,- you may use it”it answered as somberely pushing the craft on the wide lack luster unflowing river area.“a portal that teleports us! Hey that is a special trick..didn’t I tell you guffys”Marty said twisting the ring,wondering what it took to do this.“carefull Marty,we don’t want our hope for safety if we get lost-cast before the time is right”Taiken stated,an obvious notion,yet one can’t be too carefull in quests of this nature.They finally after quite some time,reached arches of sculpted makings,that spanned over the now 15 ft wide water.They had similar etchings as had been seen before within the ruin,and were set consecutively 50 ft one from the next.The cave turned to a darker grey hue,from the brown dirtlike material scince the cave opening from the service hall,and the suprize of what could be there,any more forebodding or elaborate than the altar room should surely be a pleasant sight.As the seeping energy that somehow bound this spectre to life,fused from its hands to the pushing staff,it’s negativity felt to be,searching the links to real life hopes,and wanting to hurt them,or mire the lack of sin;the pole which was wooden,had burining calouses from the smears of magic clefted from the hands of withering incandesanse.The strange keeper of the river caverns was not as friendly as it may have looked,and when they stepped upon a stone cut floor,even more so the next room leaked the offering of solace against rapture.</blockquote>

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