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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melvin the Mediocre" data-source="post: 1034941" data-attributes="member: 12539">I've never been there, but I have been to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza.  It was a whole city (and quite large).  Most of the ruins were realted to religion which tied into the calendar.  The huge pyramid for which the site is famous, had 4 sides each with 91 steps.  91*4 +1 for the temple at the top represented the 365 days of the year.  There was also a huge observatory with a domed top remarkably like today's observatories.  There was also a huge sinkhole (caused somehow by a meteroite, I didn't quite understand the connnecion) that was regarded as a sacred site.  On the edge of it was a small chamber in which human sacrifices were starved/drugged for days before being thrown into the watery sinkhole to die.Perhaps the mose interesting site was the huge court for a game that I would guess was a precursor to basketball.  Carvings in the bleachers suggest that one of the teams was killed at the end of the game.  Some say the losing team was was put to death as punishment; others speculate that the winning team earned its rite to move onto the next world.Hmmm... There was also a huge structure that was just blocks of stone with skulls carved into them.  It is beleived that each stone was carved into the likeness of an actual skull.  Possibly people sacrificed or killed in war, or possibly like tombstones.If you want pictures that seem far more 'other worldly' to us westerners, I suggest you look for pictures of Angkor Watt.  As far as putting really cool stuff in your game for the PC's to find, you could get really wild and put in a crashed UFO (find the old 1st edition modules Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax).  Or you could have a lot of battle golems similar to the Aperatus of Kuwalish that may or may not be repairable.  This could have been a huge training ground for battle wizards where they tested their new weapons and stratgies using slaves or construct races (see the Taladas game's lost continent).Have fun and make it wierd!</blockquote>

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