The glow of it flickered and washed, and I could see there were others there. Out ahead of us, about fifty feet, a figure lit up in dim purple. “Something’s on him.” The rope was jerking around, and the rest of the team was huddling around me, occasional chuffs and sighs giving away the exasperation we all were feeling. The others were around me, and heard me grunting with the effort of keeping hold of it. Then went tight, and almost jerked me off my feet. Of course, that should have been my first clue of the impending disaster. Once he was across, we’d each individually follow the rope to the wall as quick as we could, and then up the wall we’d go.ĭex led the way out, rapidly vanishing from sight, only the slowly trailing rope pulling its way out from me gave me any indication he was still attached. Only he had the ability to see clearly in the almost perfect darkness, and we didn’t want to advertise our presence with exposed torches or other significant lighting. It was almost more useful to simply close my eyes and walk that way, with our lights out my eyes were almost more a hindrance than a help.ĭex volunteered to lead the way across, trailing a rope which I would anchor. Trying to see in all this was quite frustrating – you’d catch a view of something, and your eyes would tell you it was this, but it was that. The plateau started some sixty or eighty feet from the tunnel we were emerging from, and although the ground between it and our position was fairly smooth, hardly any of us could see at all in the faded purple.
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I assume the entrance around the other side had a simpler way in, but this is what we had to deal with.
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The temple, where we wanted to go, crouched on a great plateau, about twenty feet or so high, in the center of the enormous cavern. It was hard enough convincing myself to stay here, and not simply turn around and leave. Above it in the giant cavern, some great winged thing slowly arced over. We saw the outpost stretched out around us, glowing gently purple in a sickly fashion, the faded darklights still showing up after apparently months of disrepair. I’d have no better fare in the Turathian army. But, I suppose, this is the life I chose. It would be positively fantastic if at some point I was able to wash myself before climbing into these boiling kettles we find ourselves in.
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I suppose the next few moments should have come as no surprise to me – but still, I found myself in an unwelcome situation once again.