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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theskyfullofdust" data-source="post: 4920323" data-attributes="member: 60048">Snakes & Ruins In the middle of the night, as Kairee stood watch over her sleeping companions, prodding the dying fire and attempting to coax it back to life, something moved in the shadows beyond the trees. Looking up with her keen eyes she spotted a giant snake, a viper, slithering towards the camp. With reckless abandon she drew her twin swords and charged at the beast, heedless of the danger, not a word of warning to those sleeping. The snake reared up as she attacked, dodging her blows; it snapped its jaw around her arm, biting deep and injecting weakening poison into her blood. As Kairee's cry of pain Nix awoke, and upon seeing an enourmous snake that could swallow him whole, he quickly woke the camp. Meanwhile, Kairee scored a hit on the viper, cutting deep into its side. It bite her again, on the shoulder, the poison burning the wound. Fischer and Sherman picked up their weapons and moved in, swinging and stabbing, and in a few short seconds the snake was dead. Nix said he had heard that such creatures ate treasure, so with help he cut open the snake and Caracala, his elf girl companion, was astounded that he was right: inside the guts of the snake werea pair of bronze spectacles, a scrollcase of bone, and the remains of an elf that was partially digested. * * * They arrived at the ruins just before dusk. It was raining heavily, great drops pounding into the earth. The ruins themselves were little more than foundations sticking out of the barren soil, in concentric circles that held a wide pit at their very centre. By the remains of a wall, red flowers grew. Fischer noticed the body first. "Look, over there, is that a body?" It was. A woman, slumped against some rocks, head lolling, a corpse several days old. She was dressed in explorer's clothes, her pack on her back, something wrapped around her neck like a scarf. It was obvious she was dead. She had that stillness that only a corpse has. Sherman and Kairee approached it carefully, looking out for anything odd of place. Fischer readied his net and grasped his trident tightly, while Caracala and Nix watched from the back. As the two humans approached the body, the thing wrapped around its neck slowly unwound itself and took to the air: a cord of thick muscle with a bloodshot eye on either end. The eye-cord spun violently and flew towards them... Next: into the ruins</blockquote>

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