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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashy" data-source="post: 2058411" data-attributes="member: 312">Still somewhat disoriented from their utterly strange day, many of the companions huddle around the meager fire, shivering in their various stages of wetness.  Larris looks around for something to burn, but finds nothing but bare rock and ice.  Wayne fails in his attempt to conjure items from his home from his umbilical, but those that attempt and return or summon items which they had upon their person at the time of their deaths manage to do so without difficulity...As Vargo and Adauth meditate/concentrate and regain their store of spells for the day, several members of the party, namely Kal, Wato, and Grundy (as well as his creature companions) wander off out of the cave of the mouth and vanish into the snow.They soon find the going far more difficult than they had imagined, wading through several feet of snow drifts which all lie over well worn mountain boulders and rocks.  Eventually, however, they arrive at the bottom of the short, but steep slope and see the structure before them.  They soon trudge through the knee-deep snow and arrive at the structure, nearly frozen: ears, noses, and the tips of extremities quickly turning blue.  Wato places an ear up to the side of the structure - it feels like ice.Wato: [sblock]You first hear a deep, steady thrumming sound that does not disipate.  However, after listening for a few moments, you can make out, over the chattering of your teeth, two irregular sounds.  What seems to be the striking of metal upon metal, or perhaps another hard surface can be discerned - it sounds like an organic sound - a non-automated sound for certain.[/sblock]Adauth: [sblock]Overhead perspective: You see the structure, which sits roughly in the center of a deep chasm.  All around it is a flat, featureless field of snow which ceases sharply into well-rounded walls of stone and ice.  Beyond the chasm walls, you see more ridges of rock, punctuated by more dark chasm holes rimmed with snow.Interior perspective:  Within, the structure seems oddly alien with strange panels and devices the likes of which you have never seen.  Lights shine wanly in places here and there and you see the signs of slight habitation.  The interior of the structure is dominated by a central clear tube that is lined with cables, ropes and pulleys but that also contains twin spiral staircases that seem made of glass.  Circular walkways ring this central tube and hallways erupt from this central walkway into various other parts of the structure.  Down the chasm, you see what appears to be the far off flicker of torchlight and hear what sounds like a couple of someones banging on something.  Occasionally, you will hear a muffled voice like a curse or a muttured oath.  Also, a deep, thrumming sound seems omnipresent within the structure.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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