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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gospog" data-source="post: 686382" data-attributes="member: 2348">Sorry for the delay! (RL injury)The heroes and their native "guides" approached the palisade gate.  Two dozen more natives swarmed out to meet them, all men, and half of them also carrying rifles.The leader of the hunting party has a hurried conference with the leader of the "guards".  The group are ushered into the village.  The village is a scene from another time, long, long ago.  Simple mud huts provide shelter.  The visitors spot a handful of building built with a wooden frame of some kind.  As they progress through the village they are met by pointing, shouting and wide-eyed stares.It is not without a little ceremony that they are brought before three older natives, standing by a large, long hut.  These village elders, two men and a woman, are adorned with several exotic feathers and wear necklaces of giant teeth.  The heroes remember something huge pushing down trees in the jungle, and swallow uncomfortably.An exchange of words begins, clearly involving the outsiders.  Antonio does his best to keep up wit the bizarre toungue, never heard on the surface of the Earth!ANTONIO:  I think they're talking about the "skull men" again, and some kind of "white coat"?  it's hard to say, exactly.A sinister voice cuts through the close jungle air."Very impressive Mr. Agostino.  Very impressive indeed."The speaker is a tall, rangy man, with pale skin and black eyebrows arching over eyes like a snake's.  A pencil-thin mustache sat on top of a mouth pulled into a permanent sneer.  This newcomer wore a white lab coat, like the one Dr. Heller favors, but his sports suspicious red stains that no soap could ever wash out.  A variety of wires and metal devices peeked out of the sinister man's pockets.  They bore the look of weapons rather than tools.JOHNNY: Dr. Asmodeus!ASMODEUS: Yes, Mr. Chang.  it's good to see that my new...employees have arrived safely.JACKSON: Hand over Heller...now.ASMODEUS:  But of course.  Just as soon as you do me a small favor.  Should be really simple for a group of "brave heroes" such as yourselves.  I just need you to retrieve a certain item from me.ANTONIO: That ziggurat looks almost South American in origin.  Could it be?  Could he want-TURTLE: The Mask of Quetzalquatl?!?ASMODEUS: Exactly.  And you'll get it for me!  if you want to see your dear Dr. heller again!  Needless to say, the mask is in the Ziggurat of Terror.   Do be good pawns and fetch it out.MR. QUELL: My dear doctor, hee, why is it you have not retrieved the mask yourself?ASMODEUS: Do you take me for a fool?  I have already lost more than half a dozen men attempting to breach the temple inside.  No, you'll be doing it for me.  You are...professionals.  You are...expendable.Now go!  My gift of rifles has allowed us access to the temple, but not for very long.  Enter the Temple of Terror, retrieve the Mask of Quetzalquatl...or you'll never see Dr. Heller alive again!  Ha ha ha ha ha ha</blockquote>

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