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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5681935" data-attributes="member: 11751">********Swamp / CliffsAnother hour of tracking through the woods brings you very close to the cliffs, and the sounds of the ocean are much louder here.  The trees begin to thin out as you approach the craggy cliff wall and the presence of the spider-shaped effigies and markings are very abundant.  You reach a clearing and quickly try to hide yourselves behind thick tree trunks, fallen logs or mossy rocks, for you see that a small camp sits about 100 feet away from you at the base of the cliffs.  The camp is nothing more than a grouping of crude lean-to's, tents made from filthy hides and one large hut built from logs, sticks and hides.  Surrounding the tent is a low wall, perhaps waist height for a medium creature, built from fallen logs, stones and mud.  The rotting remains of various humanoids are pinned by spears against the exterior of the wall as a warning: some wear robes, tattered armor or commoner's clothes.  In the middle of the camp are a cluster of cook fires that shed oily smoke into the air and whose flames are blackening hunks of bloody meat on spits.  Maybe 15 to 20 savage-looking goblins mull about the camp, cook meat or squabble noisily in their high-pitched voices.Directly behind the camp, carved into the face of the rocky cliffs, is the facade of an ancient structure.  The facade itself seems to incorporate a number of snake-shaped and scaly carvings and weird runes.  Moss covers much of the surface and the climate has either worn much of it down or obfuscated the details with mold.  Weather worn stairs lead up to a yawning portal in the rock that leads deeper into the cliffs.  Painted around the portal are the same spider-shaped markings you've seen during the last few hours.Given your slow start for the day and the hampered movement in the swamp, it is about 12pm or 1pm in the afternoon.</blockquote>

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