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the tunnel is shown stretching off into the distancethe party tries to push over a large statuea large gargolyes statue blocks the tunnel
  • Greyside: “I don't like this statue.”

  • Faraine: “Kyaren, think you can push it aside?”

  • Kyaren: “Ermm, maybe would be the last of my azralens though.”

  • Faraine: “Hmm better save it, we can just push it over.”

  • Greyside: “This thing. Is solid!”

  • Kyaren: “Keep going, we almost have it.”

  • Tyto: “Yea, you are really putting your back into it.”

  • Tyto: “Woah, watch out!”

  • Kyaren: “Look at those scrape marks we made.”

  • Tyto: “The only marks here, are those left by us then...”

  • Faraine: “It means we are the first one through, in a very long time.”

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a water soaked gargolyes stone leg
  • Faraine: “Is this a shrine to one of the pantheon or just a gargoyle?”

  • Kyaren: “Hmm, strange for just a random statue to be here.”

  • Kyaren: “Maybe it belongs to Zyrefang?”

  • Tyto: “Should we have not pushed it over?”

  • Greyside: “Errr, bit late to worry about that now.”

  • Tyto: “Let's just pretend it was rock.”

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a vast underground cavern filled with glowing water
  • Faraine: “It is stunning!”

  • Kyaren: “This level of light is amazing.”

  • Tyto: lets loose an impressed whistle.

  • Greyside: “Quite the hidden gem.”

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a party crosses over the glowing water in the pylock depths
  • Tyto: “Which way, should we go, Faraine take a peek in the past?”

  • Faraine: “Probably not worth it, I should not over use my gift.”

  • Tyto: “So I guess even royal powers have their limits.”

  • Faraine: “Yes I have to remain still while using it, not useful if we are in a hurry.”

  • Greyside: “As long as we keep moving, we should be able to stay ahead of them.”

  • Kyaren: “Your eyes aren’t considered magic I can see why now.”

  • Faraine: “Hmm?”

  • Kyaren: “It is not like any spell I have seen, no incantation or channelling you don’t even seem to use any Azralens.”

  • Faraine: “Shhh, details about my family’s eyes are a closely guarded secret.”

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  • Tyto: “Speaking of the royal gift, Faraine I have a question.”

  • Faraine: “Sure, maybe I can answer, or maybe not.”

  • Tyto: “Your Grandmother could see into the future right? Even with her limits.”

  • Faraine: “How do you kill someone, who could see into the future?”

  • Tyto: “Ah yea, that.”

  • Kyaren: “That’s..., that is very good point Tyto!”

  • Faraine: “I have racked my brains about that one for years, even spymaster Wenaltes is not sure how.”

  • Greyside: “The palace can’t publicly acknowledge any limits to the royal gift.”

  • Kyaren: “Maybe, they just found out one of your grandmother’s limits?”

  • Faraine: “That would mean they knew my grandmother somehow then…”

  • Tyto: “You don’t need to speculate about that. Sorry I should not have asked.”

  • Faraine: “No, it is a fair question to ask.”

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the party stands before a wrecked metal gate
  • StoryTeller: "After crossing much deeper into the glowing depths."

  • Greyside: “Rusted metal?”

  • Tyto: “All the moisture, isn’t doing it any of it any good.”

  • Kyaren: “This debris, it’s too complex.”

  • Greyside: inspects the metal closely.

  • Greyside: “Is this from Arjen?”

  • Faraine: “That’s impossible, for them to have their machines this close to Serenias…”

  • Faraine: “I didn’t expect this at all.”

  • Tyto: “There is more inside.”

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  • Faraine: “The war with Arjen ended before I was born, we have a peace treaty with them!”

  • Tyto: “Why leave metal machines here to rust?”

  • Faraine: “I came here for answers. Now I just have more questions!”

  • Kyaren: “Definitely sensing magic here.”

  • Greyside: “Also definitely abandoned, seeing as we can just walk in.”

  • Tyto: “Way to point out the obvious.”

  • Greyside: “I was referring to the alarm plate you stepped on.”

  • Tyto: “What! Why didn’t you say anything?!”

  • Greyside: “It’s fine, this place is falling apart. Complex mechanisms like that need lots of maintenance.”

  • Faraine: “Greyside, would you please be more proactive in your observations.”

  • Greyside: “In that case, I count at least 20ish constructs and 2-3 exits from this room.”

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Kyaren inspects a arachnid construct closely
  • Kyaren: “Intriguing, these structures seem to have been built to concentrate Azralens.”

  • Tyto: “To power the machines.”

  • Tyto: “My gut tells me I am missing something.”

  • Kyaren: “Probably. What strange is the water, it seems to be the same as the water outside.”

  • Tyto: “So all this water is magical?”

  • Kyaren: “Everything has some level of Azralens in it.”

  • Kyaren: “This place is designed, to slowly concentrate it over time.”

  • Tyto: “The pillars and floors are artificial, with enough resources anyone could build this place ..”

  • Kyaren: “Doing it in secret is the real feat.”

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Greyside muses over their discovery, while Faraine questions it exasperated
  • Faraine: “I do not like this, there are all too many legs.”

  • Greyside: “Too many?”

  • Faraine: “I asked my father about Arjen war machines; soldiers would risk their lives reach the pilots.”

  • Faraine: “Many of them would fall, crushed under their spiked wheels.”

  • Greyside: “So these things, were built by the Arjen, yet not designed by them?”

  • Greyside: “All one would have to do is; hire Arjen engineers.”

  • Faraine: “To have the lyli to hire Arjen engineers, design new war machines and then just abandon it all.”

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  • Greyside: “Princess, let’s not make assumptions just yet.”

  • Faraine: gives Greyside a sceptical glance.

  • Greyside: “We found this place on a hunch it’s not definitive, yet.”

  • Faraine: “You think this find, is just a coincidence.?

  • Greyside: "You said it yourself, we are so close; we need to find the trail of the one you are hunting.”

  • Greyside: gestures to the other exits.

  • Faraine: “Everyone, let us go check out the other chambers.”

  • Tyto: “Alright, come on Kyaren, be a bad idea to spilt up here.”

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on the ground lies a long decayed skeleton being gnaed on by rats
  • Faraine: “I am sure the skeletons, are a coincidence?”

  • Greyside: “Of course..."

  • Greyside: "You would be the type to rub it in.”

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