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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8957144" data-attributes="member: 6696971">The treeline marks the final, underwhelming when compared to the prior trials, push to Stoneroot's Perch and the summit.  At 12000 feet, the air is thin here and bitter cold, but its a beautiful, gentle transit as the birch trees dotting the mildly ascending terrain carry an eerie, mystical quality about them with their scattered drapes of ice and snow.That is until foolish mountaineer and pilgrim troupes reach the vast, dark moat that bisects the high-altitude grove.  Stark white and unmoving freeze turns to dark, mottled colors of rust-infused black-grey which roils and bulges and tumbles like that of a lava flow.  There is heat, and it begins to grow as you draw near, crescendoing at the edge of the 40 foot gap of the gaping trench (at the shortest).  Meltwater sizzles as it drops from the precipice into the viscous, rocky, mass and there is evidence of prior attempts to transit cutting down nearby trees to bridge the gap...but no tree-bridge remains.A disembodied voice rises up from the gaping earth and the roiling contents within; the sound of fire melting protesting earth and then the crackling of molten rock as it cools and fuses.  It speaks an impenetrable language that no one here knows, but it shares enough with Abyssal that there is fractured communication and an underlying threat."Turn back...embrace embodied creation, destruction and the world below...and begin the path of elemental prowess forevermore.Go forward...embrace the animating spirits of this realm and that beyond...and bear the burden of prey forevermore."[HR][/HR]Tell me what your intent and action is to resolve this situation and I'll let you know what the potential consequences are.Regardless, HARD DC.</blockquote>

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