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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7272722" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER08  EXPLORE THE HIDDENSEGMENT 148“Guards and Guardians”11/03/17BARRAKAS   2, 1000Having rested above, the group awakes and looks out into The Hidden.The deep valley is filled with jungle, waterways and ruins.   Miles of it in each direction.  It is all encased by glass shard walls with small points of water coming through.    Near the center are two black highly-reflective globes.  They float very high in the sky.Checking the ropes leading down for strength, Ayru nods a yes.  Feldrix wants to go first as he fears if he slips he may hurt others.   Plus he is certain there will be guards at the bottom.“Guards?” says Zig as he edges up to the cliff.   “Yup.” He smiles as he pulls out a potion.   Four guards and they are close together near the end of the rope.  Kyr wants to go quicker and is impatient.  Kyr is given a potion of spider-climb and down he goes without fear or pause of going over the edge.The men and woman below call out in pain as the acid hits them.    Weakened, they are no threat as the warrior and summoner reach them.   The camp is easily searched.   Little of use is here.Water.Water is everywhere.   Dozens of small waterfalls can be seen and more heard.  They come mainly from small cracks in the glass.  Bigger falls rush forth from separations of the glass shards.    The ground is soft and water is just below the surface.   The five colors of the beads are in greater quantities here.  They cover the floor of the water ways with in many cases over a foot of color.   Worse, the water depth is uncertain.    Sometimes it is the usual foot to eighteen inches and sometimes it is over four feet deep.These make for ideal conditions for surprise attacks by things under the water.Kyr collects samples of the leaves here.  They are emerald green five armed maple leaves with red, green, blue, yellow and orange boils on the top surface.It is not long before they learn what kind of creatures live here.Ayru and Tyson spot a medium sized lizard watching them from ahead.  It tilts its head like a dog may watching and listening to them.“I don’t like this.  It looks….. intelligent.” Says Tyson.“Worse….   Looks like raptors.” Says Zig recalling his days in Talenta once again.  “Fast, sneaky and they like ambushes.”Kyr has wandered away from them to look for the fruit Zig uses for his “Hidden Butter.”   As he looks he hears a soft hoot and a whistle.  Curious, he pushes the plants apart and…..  tentacled lizards attack!  Two from the right, two from the left and one straight ahead that was distracting them.  The summoner takes repeated slaps from the reaching tentacles.   Their bites also do damage.Zig throws more acid potions at them which makes them screech loudly and begin to back off.   The secondary burns however kill them.</blockquote>

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