Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Temple of Ptelas

Using Lodos you are able to find the Temple in the mountains of the Yin-Sloth jungle. The plateau at the entrance of the temple is littered with very large cairns made of boulders, so landing Theoninn there was not possible. Fortunately there was a clearing near the base of a set of stairs that ascends from the depths of the jungle floor to the temple plateau.

Silus immediately senses something watching you from the jungle and Treasda quickly neutralizes about 12 tribal warriors. Things go uneventfully until you reach the plateau where a sniper starts taking shots at you all. Silus, Farallon and ??? sneak around to flank the sniper while Agar and the others keep him occupied. Eventually Silus drops the snipe with a poison blow dart and you all tie the bastard up. Farallon correctly guess from the Skedic uniform that this snipe was from Eta, meaning that Sonjia was most likely here.

You pick you way through a couple of booby-traps, find the main worship hall of the temple, disarm a remote alarm device and finally come to a great battle.

You reach the central shaft of an extinct volcano and discover/disarm 8 other Skedic who are working for Sonjia. Unfortunately Sonjia has already obtained the ring Chronos and attacks you. Although some of you take a little beating you manage to kill her just after Landros arrives on the scene, plummeting down the shaft in a frogsuit. Avenar, Ankar's son, also shows up demanding to know what is going on. You quickly school him and gather the information that Sonjia and he were going to meet someone named Fermarcus at an ancient ruin call Harkem-Viol.

Farallon manages to convince the Etan Skedic to leave the employ of Ankar and you all pack into Theoninn to go to Harkem-Viol. The maximum comfortable capacity for Theoninn, in terms of bunk space, is 24. As it stands, Landros is "guarding" Chronos and won't let anyone have it yet. The ruins of Harkem-Viol seem to belong to a race of beings about twice the size of humans. You have landed in a sort of town square near one of the glacial lagoons that dot the area around this town/ruin.

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