+1 benny for making it thus far and for of course your guys most excellent rp
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Stealth, guile, a little luck, and skill found the assult team avoiding a rampaging horde of murder wraiths and a well attuned gate gaurdian. Beaten and battered, but with most carrying extra loot the assult team heads down the cavern and rocky face through a red hot portal and into a domain black as the night sky without any stars. It takes a minute or so to adjust and realign the modern sensors to the morass of utter dark that greets you. Sadly Jitters was not kidding when he speculated that the sun does not shine in this domain.
The team finds themselves on a wide plato that backs up against a small cliff. For right now you are unnoticed and have several precious seconds to regroup and rest.
Two paths of sort seem to be immidately accessable. One path to the left seems to wind itself down the barren hillside into a valley. The torch light in the valley can be barely made out, but the sounds of guggled cries, unnatural groans would indicate it is the undead army the mystic knights had mentioned. Something about them being Uruki from a world known as middle earth. From the sounds of the army, and that is what it would appear to be it could change the tide of battle if it were to join Geist's forces.
The second path would seem to lead to the right and along a great stretch of barren plains. The only thing on this path worthy of note are large razor like black monolithic hooks jutting up out of the ground. It would lead to the base of a dark tower with a gloomy green energy swirling about it. Clearly that would be Scara's tower.
The portal itself seems to be a complex series of runes and carved stones placed upon a ring of solid platnium. Given time, it seems feasible that a well accomplished student of the arcane arts might be able to figure out how it works and even how to disable it. On the plato is an amazing amount of what could only be described as junk, wonders, hidden death, and luck untouched. Any intrepid adventure with enough spunk could certainly poke arround and find something unexpected. The murky darkness makes trying to sift through the cornicopia that is strewn accross the plato somewhat difficult to descern certain doom from wonderous wonder.
There is a third path high above you, you can just make out the sillouette of a precarious bridge path that stretches from the cliff face up and behind you running the length of the barren plains seemingly defying gravity to the tower itself. It is hard to make out, and looks awefully narrow, a fall from it would leave you most likely hurt, possibly dead, and definately wide out in the open. While on this bridge you would be hard pressed to dodge any area effects and if the enemy saw you up their there would be little retreat from any force they send out to meet you. The good thing is that the top bridge like path does connect with nearly the top of scara's tower. It would presumably put you close to Scara's library, and the ring you were sent to recover.
Either path is devoid of cover and opportunities for immediate concealment, you would have to be a master thief to approach unnoticed. In the distance the heavy clomps of a robotic footfall remind the assault team that roaming patrols may be approaching from above the plato the team is on.
The allies that have come with the group seem split on which path to take...
Tesse the mystic CEAL lovingly grunts, " My master iswell informed of your coming, Over the last two weeks I have given her a full report on your abilities. You should have seen her laugh with great glee. Take the path on the right and we will be unmolested."
The weakened Crystal Claw leaning against Jude and Vello for support weakly whispers, " The path to the left... If there is a large army there we must gather information and find a way if possible to stop them here. The fate of Gloom depends on us making sure that army does not make it to Geist... We may encounter heavy resistance but... For my friends, for my father we must go."
The well presented and sharply dressed Herr Klaus adjusts his uniform. He nods and stands at attention, " The path through the sky bridge is the one a hero would take. Full of danger, and not everyone will make it... But she would never know we were coming. I would surmise if we pulled it off resistance would be slim." Th short farie like kobold looks down at the barren landscape and his unprotected feet.