{"id":2317,"date":"2010-12-22T20:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2010-12-22T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:11:38","slug":"adventure-two-sixty-eighth-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Two, Sixty Eighth Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Byllka Forest<\/em>, Klos 18th, 350AC,\u00a016:00\u00a0 (evening, 40 degrees,\u00a0crescent moon)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower.mp3|autostart=yes]\n<p>The cart heads up to the tower and pauses.\u00a0 As the gate opens, you can see it is made of two thick duralloy doors,\u00a0which seem to swing effortlessly on\u00a0their hinges.\u00a0 The cart enters the tower, and the gates close again.<\/p>\n<p>After a long boring wait of over an hour, the gates open and the masked badder and his group emerge.\u00a0 This time a couple of the warriors are dragging the body of a naked badder by its arms.\u00a0 They bring it over to a 3 meter high post that sits just off the path, and lash it to the post with ropes, so its feet are just barely touching the ground.\u00a0 You notice that the\u00a0badder looks like it has been slashed with claws or\u00a0something similar\u00a0all over its body.\u00a0 Sticky <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">red blood <\/span>is caked\u00a0thoughout its fur, and the badder doesn&#8217;t appear to be breathing.\u00a0 Once it is\u00a0attached to the post, one of the badders takes a square grey stone and sets it into a niche at the top of the\u00a0post.\u00a0 The stone has some sort of rune-like\u00a0symbol made of jagged\u00a0lines.<\/p>\n<p>Then they walk over to your shelter.\u00a0 The masked badder jerks his thumb at the dead badder:\u00a0 &#8220;Yoo see, theese ees from breakeeng keengs law!&#8221;\u00a0 He points at\u00a0your group,\u00a0 &#8220;Yoo stay here!\u00a0 The keeng\u00a0fetch yoo in morning if hee deecides shrak&#8217;l can come een.\u00a0 Watch yourselv, we not bee far!&#8221;\u00a0 He spits on the ground, says a few words of badder &#8220;charka kar&#8221;, and he and the other badder warriors start heading back down the path (downhill away from you and the tower).<\/p>\n<p>Its early evening in late winter, under the giant mushroom caps.\u00a0 Its getting noticably darker.\u00a0 The shelter doesn&#8217;t have any walls, just a railing.\u00a0 And there are no furnishings, just a dirty floor made of split mushroom logs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2323\" title=\"ukrultower2\" src=\"https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byllka Forest, Klos 18th, 350AC,\u00a016:00\u00a0 (evening, 40 degrees,\u00a0crescent moon) [audio:https:\/\/gwevolution.netfarious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ukrultower.mp3|autostart=yes] The cart heads up to the tower and pauses.\u00a0 As the gate opens, you can see it is made of two thick duralloy doors,\u00a0which seem to swing effortlessly on\u00a0their hinges.\u00a0 The cart enters the tower, and the gates close again. 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