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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 974207" data-attributes="member: 1125">The Valley of FrogsIt has been approximately eighteen days since our party left the village of Mazuhtla and the journey has been arduous and unpredictable. The Alps are of an exceedingly high altitude and consequently temperatures are exceedingly low, such that nights are kept in miserable silence with all huddling over whatever heat is to be found. Worse though than the heat is the extreme aridity of these mountains, such that is a veritable desert.The natives claim that this was not always so, and indeed they have shown us dry riverbeds and even arid escarpments where they say great waterfalls once flowed. The problem they say is with the goddess 'Shwak-Kuh' who, as far as I can ascertain is some great amphibian. Aparently Shwak-Kuh was offended by the words of a chieftain who spurned her romantic advances. In retaliation she took the Rain Spear of Tchaquaotl and has confined all rains to her home valley and nowhere beyond.Shwak-Kuh lives in a Valley further down the mountain ahead of us, and the natives say that despite the surrounding dryness that valley is full of fresh water streams and pools. The Valley is deep, dense with growth and has but a single entrance. Amongst the trees and undergrowth the children of Shwak-Kuh roam - tiny poisonous arrow frogs guard her gates, and give warning of any who intrude, further in larger and more terrible creatures roam, most terrible of all a great Froghemoth that sits at Shwak-Kuhs side. NEXT: The Red Grotto</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 974207, member: 1125"] [b]The Valley of Frogs[/b] It has been approximately eighteen days since our party left the village of Mazuhtla and the journey has been arduous and unpredictable. The Alps are of an exceedingly high altitude and consequently temperatures are exceedingly low, such that nights are kept in miserable silence with all huddling over whatever heat is to be found. Worse though than the heat is the extreme aridity of these mountains, such that is a veritable desert. The natives claim that this was not always so, and indeed they have shown us dry riverbeds and even arid escarpments where they say great waterfalls once flowed. The problem they say is with the goddess 'Shwak-Kuh' who, as far as I can ascertain is some great amphibian. Aparently Shwak-Kuh was offended by the words of a chieftain who spurned her romantic advances. In retaliation she took the Rain Spear of Tchaquaotl and has confined all rains to her home valley and nowhere beyond. Shwak-Kuh lives in a Valley further down the mountain ahead of us, and the natives say that despite the surrounding dryness that valley is full of fresh water streams and pools. The Valley is deep, dense with growth and has but a single entrance. Amongst the trees and undergrowth the children of Shwak-Kuh roam - tiny poisonous arrow frogs guard her gates, and give warning of any who intrude, further in larger and more terrible creatures roam, most terrible of all a great Froghemoth that sits at Shwak-Kuhs side. NEXT: The Red Grotto [/QUOTE]

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