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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archon Basileus" data-source="post: 7200360" data-attributes="member: 6855545">AANZUAs the prince invokes his powers, the gathering storm falls under his scrutiny. This is no accident, no contingency. In the distance, an electric storm begins to form, unlike any other he has seen before. As the black clouds amass, he becomes sure of it: someone is controlling this climate, probably through magic, potentially through other mysterious means. He can't define the origins of such control, though. He only knows that the climate turns around the mountain, a few miles up and down the slope they climb. It becomes clear as well that the effects of such conflagration will be quite destructive. As the others, Aanzu has heard about the potent thunder storms that course through the cursed lands, tainting whatever they touch and burning those unlucky to be caught in them. Considering the unusual nature of the changing weather, it might that one such storm comes their way. Shelter will be needed. Soon.In the distance, Aanzu also glimpses the presence of a flock of flying beasts in disarray, as if the storm has set them at a state of alert.EVERYONEThe steps that follow aren't as hard a climb as they've faced thus far. Still, it is not a simple walk in the hills either. As the heroes move upwards they discover that the trail turns into a stone pavement, broken on all parts and shaped quite like a giant stair, each step rising at least five feet up. Formations like these are not uncommon far up the mountain, it is said. As the legend goes, the arrival of the first star made the terrain like this - one of the first gifts of the Teraphim, apparently, was isolation. Clear, almost white slabs form columns that go up towards the ruins, making for dangerous, sinuous paths among the massive steps. The party can walk up, but any mounts might have trouble going up. Also, as the heroes soon discover, the climb needs to be made slowly to be completed in a safe way. This would delay the party even more as the weather gets worse and worse, though. To climb with haste, one would need to be specially agile.Oddly enough, something seems to shine through the fissures amidst the rocks as the heroes make the climb. It is almost as if something is housed among the square-like boulders, or maybe underneath them...[If the heroes decide for normal pacing, the climb will take around ten more minutes; other ways are possible. Simply hasting might cut this short to a third, but there's risk of falling down if the hero fails a dexterity/acrobatics test; there might be other ways out of it, of course, such as tracking easier trails among the rocks with proper tests, or... Well, I'll leave the rest to you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />] [MENTION=5044]Charwoman Gene[/MENTION] [MENTION=23298]industrygothica[/MENTION] [MENTION=6776182]JustinCase[/MENTION] [MENTION=8858]hafrogman[/MENTION] [MENTION=6855102]Greenmtn[/MENTION] [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] [MENTION=24380]Neurotic[/MENTION]</blockquote>

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