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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stonegod" data-source="post: 4526654" data-attributes="member: 36973">At the lowest point in the valley, the river stretches wide and seems to take over the land. Dead-grey reeds form patches over the soggy marsh, moss-hung trees replacing the close about forest. The sounds of insects can still be heard, even in this cold weather, and fog drifts slowly of the murky waters. Perhaps a half-mile distant, some sort of stone ruins could be seen.Tessa seems quite adept at laying a trail ahead, and the group makes as good time as possible. But their unfamiliarity with the land costs them---a few murky traps, some living plants best left alone, and a couple of swamp denizens irk them. [5hp all around from various swamp hazards.]Soon, the group looks up from the murky water to see the ruined walls close now, rising on dry land ahead. Pillars tumble into the murk, but a large square column clearly juts into the sky, its height marked with blood-red stones. Though the fog does not reveal any forms ahead, snatches of an incoherent, sing-song mumble can be heard from that direction.[sblock=Jarrith, Ashlyn]The two of you also see something moving in the deeper water ahead. Its flesh is the sickly white of a drowned worm, but it writhes and twists in the water like an angry snake. You see one rear up out of the water, revealing a disgusting sucker-mouth in its eyeless white head.[/sblock]</blockquote>