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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5821425" data-attributes="member: 34958">Nerin charges through the tunnels in pursuit of the killer or killers.  He is followed by the rest of the party.  After a couple of minutes of running slightly up and slightly to the left, the party finds itself on the other side of the Wailing Caves.  The exit is one simple but large opening leading to a stone outcropping.  Slightly to your left is a sloping trail which ends ten feet below to the start of a lush, tropical forest.  The sky is cleaner here, though perpetually covered in a covering of white flowing clouds.  A few miles in the distance can be seen a huge, twisted tree which rises an unbelievable height into the cloud bank.  Underneath the tree, inside a circular opening in the foliage can be seen a strange and foreign-looking ziggurat which fills you with a sense of foreboding.  It is much like a pyramid, but with addition square-like structures in the front entrance and a small, flat top.Your thoughts are pulled away from the structures, however, as you notice ten wolf-like humanoids growling below you.  It seems as if you caught them as they were beginning to climb onto the limbs of the branches with the intent to go deeper into the jungle.  The largest and grayest of them holds a hand up to stop his younger followers from rushing forward.  He is able to control their bloodlust, though just barely."Hold!  Unlike the youth here, I have no wish to throw their and my own life away trying to take on gods.  That was the mistake of Yeenkak, who lost his entire tribe of gnoll warriors to you, but it will not be mine.  And I have tangled with one of you before and got the worst of the deal," the werewolf points at a gash in his face where once there was a right eye.  He then points at Sarpot.  "Of course you remember this, Marshall Potter, who others called Mars, God of Battle.  It was you who took this eye so long ago.  I like you in this new form, though I'd remember that swagger and face anywhere.  Since you have us at such a disadvantage with your powers, would you do us the service of meeting us down here to parlay?"OOC: Arkos needs to please make an intelligence check.Nerin[sblock]Nine of the ten wolfmen register as evil.  The large gray speaking strangely does not.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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