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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 4067476" data-attributes="member: 6390">The Cliff of VisagesTwo more days of travel in heavy forest, the caravan decided to go North at the crossroads. Soon afterwards, a large cliff, nearly 300 feet tall, came into view. Carved over ever foot of the cliff were the faces of Uruk-Hia and Mogu-Kia. The caravan travelled beneath the gazes of these silent stone faces for 5 days, following the cliff, until a road was found that went up the cliff."West, we have to get beyond the volcanos before they erupt again." Ambrosia insisted. "I will not have my flock suffocated beneath ash and poisonous gas like the Uruk-Kia did."At the top of the cliff, the caravan followed the road for most of the afternoon, until they came to a huge wall, the gate closed. The walls were nearly 200 feet high, and great statues of muscular Uruk-Hia women held up the walls, staring down ominously at the caravan."We'll have to explore it ourselves." Hoggle said. "This vast city may give us refuge.Careful work opened one of the side doors, and the group found nothing but skeletons and rust inside the towers. When they entered the city itself, they drew back in shock.Hundreds of skeletons were in front of the gate, thousands of skeletons near the wall, and all of them having fallen as if they were rushing toward the gate.Exploring a few buildings found nothing of worth, just stone shells.The four companions followed the main avenue, their nerves on edge in the silence of the vast metropolis of the dead. Within a quarter mile, there were no skeletons on the street, as if everyone had fled toward the gates. And died.At the northern edge of city the group entered a large palace, finding nothing but empty stone rooms, and skeletons."I don't like this place. Something bad happened here." Ambrosia murmmured."Listen to her, master, we should flee." Acorn whispered.In the throne room, they found evidence of a great battle. A dead Uruk-Kia sat on a melted and twisted throne, its bones charred and blasted. A crown, half melted, sat upon his head. The group searched, finding a staff and a strange orb that Verdoon identified as a crystal ball. The staff was obviously a badge of office, and out of respect, the companions returned it to the charred hands of the dead king, and left."FLEE, MASTERS, ALL IS LOST!" Acorn screamed, leaping off of Kalife and running down the road as fast as his legs would carry him.Verdoon took one look behind them and ran, following Acorn."What?" Hoggle said, looking behind them and seeing nothing.Ambrosia looked up, and saw on top of the three tower of the palace, three firey eyes. One orange and black, one made of gold, and one made of purple and black with stars."The eyes of the Uruk-Kia gods!" she screamed, and followed Verdoon.Kalife and Hoggle looked at each other, shrugged, and began jogging after their companions.Outside the walls, the four companions overrode the colonist's demands that they go into the city and settle there. The three firey eyes could be seen from outside the walls, and the sight of them, combined with an impassioned speech from Ambrosia and mutters of "heresy" from the older nun, convinced the colonists to go back to the highway and follow it further north.When Ambrosia led the colonists in prayer to Pelor, the light from the golden eye shined out behind the walls, settling a few hundred meters from the kneeling colonists, then swept around, as if the Eye of Kapelor knew that they were there, but could not see them.Nervously, the caravan returned to the highway, and went north.Next: The Pass; The Lizard God; The New Colony</blockquote>

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