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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 3783200" data-attributes="member: 49514">The Stone QuarriesAs the group nears the quarries, they note that the wagons carrying the stone blocks are still lined up on the road, blocking it.  The horses are still...unnaturally so as they do not paw the ground or neigh...they just stare straight ahead.  It becomes apparent that they have suffered the same fate as the workers...they stand, but they are not alive.  Further back on the road, a smaller wagon, laden with wine barrels, stands off the side of the road.  The smaller horses attached to that wagon appear to be in the same state as the quarry horses, but there is no sign of the smaller wagon's driver, Orin.The quarry itself is deathly quiet.  There is a small wooden building off the road, the makeshift office of the foreman.  The door to the building hangs open.  A wooden scaffolding with a complex pulley system leads into the quarry itself.  At the edge, the group can see that the quarry is massive...nearly 1000 feet across and about half as deep, with a series of wooden and rope ladders, stairs, and bridges spanning its length and depth.  About a hundred workers can be seen, moving slowly about their work at the bottom.  At this height, it's difficult to make out any details of the workers.</blockquote>