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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1333190" data-attributes="member: 1710">Yeah, I've never contributed anything to this thread before, so I deserve the sarcasm. ><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />CoppervaleAmong the gentle hills and valleys well east of Nyos Festra lays Coppervale. This desolate place was once a bustling hub of trade and the inhabitants became wealthy mining the ore that was found in abundance there. It is said their greed became their undoing. The majority of the city dwellers worked the mines and received a pittance in return. The members of Council of Landowners were the ones made wealthy by breaking the backs of the common folk. Workers were only allowed to work the mines if they lived in Coppervale, and one was only allowed to live there if they rented their housing from The Council.A few uprisings were attempted, but they never succeeded in upsetting The Council’s chokehold on the town. During one such uprising the workers laid down their tools and refused to work. In response the Council had the mine openings caved-in and magically sealed. The workers in the mine were told that food and water would be sent down into the shafts after a suitable amount of ore was sent up.In near darkness the miners toiled for nearly a year. This crushed the spirit of the workers and no more uprisings occurred. The Council ignored safety precautions and always demanded that the shafts be dug deeper. More copper at any cost was their mantra.One fateful day the ground underneath Coppervale collapsed and took the city with it. Only a few buildings surrounding the edge of the colossal crater still stand, they comprise the Coppervale Ghost Town. The sinkhole that swallowed up the city, The Council, and the workers is at least a mile deep and many hundreds of feet across. It is said that you can still hear the screams of the workers, echoing up from the darkness.Bold treasure hunters sometimes venture into the pit, hoping for untold riches; none ever return. As such, it is unknown what exactly dwells in the sinkhole’s depths.Next: The Outpost at Kandarai</blockquote>

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