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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6162899" data-attributes="member: 93930">Samad creeps to the top of the tower and peers through the doorway.  From what he can see, the top of the tower is divided into a central area surrounded by four slightly raised platforms.  On the western platform, he can see a large table on which is the disemboweled corpse of a troglodyte.  A single set of smeared, bloody footprints lead to the northeast.  Peeking around the corner, the nomad sees an identical tableau laid out on the northern platform -- another pool of blood, another dead troglodyte.  The layout of the corpse seems to indicate it was sacrificed.  And Biaggio did mention something about such a thing, didn't he?  Well, whatever is going on, it appears the troglodyte troops weren't expecting it, or else they wouldn't have panicked.  Or have let themselves be slaughtered, for that matter.The footprints lead from the north platform towards the southeast, out of sight.  The idea of a sacrifice is reinforced by some sort of chanting in the troglodyte tongue coming from the east, occasionally interspersed with grisly chopping and cutting noises.[sblock=Map]<img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/ToP_top1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]</blockquote>