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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mazi" data-source="post: 1208239" data-attributes="member: 1901">The Lost City-Part...uh...next.Brigit picked up Kella’s lifeless body and moved her to the ledge. “Ach, the stench! Not but moss and slime.”Milo climbed onto the ledge by the boulder.  “See any way out?” Mazi shouted up to him. “No it’s sealed up tight.”Milo continued to search around the cavern and then down the tunnel looking for another way out.  The tunnel was a dead end.  A shield lay and spear lay against the wall.  A clothed skeleton was crumpled nearby a bone scroll case in its grasp.  Milo cautiously approached the figure, finding it unmoving he cast detect magic. The shield, spear and bone case glimmered as well as the chain shirt, cloak, and boots the skeleton wore.  Milo smiled greedily “I hope they’re elvenkind.”The ground shifted as Milo circled the skeleton relieving him of his possessions. He kicked the debris aside and scooped up a handful for a closer inspection.  In his hand were black and green disks, small and flat, a little like.....COINS! Scanning the area he thought, “There are thousands of them, no tens of thousands!”   He rose to the surface and climbed on the ledge to inform the others.Brigit examined a few of the coins, did a little polishing and replied, “Tarnished copper and silver coin.”  She slapped Jer on the back, “We have some shoveling to be doin’ big man”Milo looked to Mazi, “They’ll need the box....super sized...there’s a lot down there.”Milo and Mazi continued to search for a way out.  Then Mazi glanced up, “Is that a hole?”   Milo came and stood beside her, “Looks like a hole to me.” He loaded his crossbow and took aim.  The bolt flew into the blackness then the clatter on the rock could be heard and the bolt fell back to the ledge.Milo looked at Mazi hopefully, “Well we know it goes up.”  He pulled a sun rod from his pack.  Mazi commanded the rope of climbing but it could find no hold and like the bolt it fell to the ground.“Mazi can you help me with a fly spell?” Mazi hesitated, “I only have that on a scroll I’m saving to scribe, how about spider climb?”“No,” Milo answered shaking his head, “I need the freedom of movement fly will give.  We don’t know what is up there.”   Reluctantly Mazi pulled out the scroll.Milo grasped the sun rod and practiced a few maneuvers.  “Hey flying is great!  You should try it some time Mazi.”Mazi scowled back, but Milo just chuckled as he started up the passage.  The light reflected off the mossy rock walls.  About 70 feet up niches and cracks scarred the walls and in the ceiling there was a trap door.  As Milo moved closer he heard fluttering.  He turned quickly to the noise.  The shape was familiar but the coloring didn’t seem right.....STIRGES!?!</blockquote>

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