UNSOLVED - The Rift

by **Djehuti** Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:18 pm

[ Description/Information on this mystery will be edited into this post topic in the days to come]

When sending a single scout to the 5 noted locations around the rift, the following scout report is received:

System Message wrote:
Scout Mission to Square [538|834] in Ursor Completely Successful!

The Rift's Camp Visited

As your group approaches this camp with trepidation, the only thought on their minds is 'Who would camp in such a place, and how could they stand the heat?'

Hot gases billow up from the chasm below and a heavy cloud of stinking vapour stains the hot ground yellow.

After throughly investigating the disintgrating canvas tents, your group reports that the camp is quite deserted.

System Message wrote:Scout Mission to Square [530|836] in Ursor Completely Successful!

The Rift's Ribs of the Devil Visited

Your units report that a large number of huge arches of pure granite vault high above their heads, enclosing them in a pillared stone tomb.

The sky above is darkened by the yellow sulphurous clouds that hiss and vent into the surrounding, permeating everything and soaking into the skin.

All your units report, to a man, an oppressive and pervading sense of the unnatural in this place, and many appear to have heard a deep and rhythmic thumping under their feet - like a slow-beating heart, or something terrible trying to escape from the fiery depths below.

Despite their bravery on the field of battle, they do not wish to tarry in this place and wish to head home

System Message wrote:Scout Mission to Square [540|835] in Ursor Completely Successful!

The Rift's Obelisk Visited

Dark sigils writhe and twist, glowing with pulses of orange and red across the sides of the stone obelisk.

Your units report that after observing the obelisk for a while, a sense of impending doom permeated their thoughts and, despite the heat, they felt chilled to the marrow.

The groups' enterprising leader tried to take a copy of the glowing sigils, but discovered that every copy he made was somehow wrong, and he gave up in frustration.

System Message wrote:Scout Mission to Square [533|836] in Ursor Completely Successful!

The Rift's Scratch Visited

Three burning veins of fire slash vertically through the rock below the feet of your group.

These rents in the stone burn deep and hot, and hot magma bubbles from the tears, dripping into the chasm below.

Your group leader swears that as they approached, their skin itched and burned - and not simply from the pulsing heat - and they did not tarry long in this place.

System Message wrote:Scout Mission to Square [537|836] in Ursor Completely Successful!

The Rift's Summoning Place Visited

Five molten fountains of lava burst forth from this platform in a coruscating mire of heat, light and sound.

The plumes groan and roar with the screams of the tortured earth below.

Your units fear to enter the ground enclosed by the pillars, and even if they could stand the waves of heat emanating from the core, a tangible sense of unknown and terrible horror lies within.

Having done all they can at this fearful place, they head home.

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