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With difficulty (and minor injuries), they smash the three mysterious automatons. | With difficulty (and minor injuries), they smash the three mysterious automatons. | ||
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The snakes prove to be hollow collapsible tubes, the interior of which is coated with the foul impurity polluting the brook. The group rests, heals, collects herbs, and continues on through a long day of hiking higher into the [[Hills of Nimlith]]. [[Elena]] recalls a splendid campsite with a meadow, herb garden, and big trees, and the party sets that as their goal. | |||
Near sunset, the site is spotted, though a tattered canvas tent and prone figure occupy it. Carefully, the party approaches (with mule and dog in tow). A brief investigation concludes the figure is a mapping surveyor of [[Luxor]], who died by a crushing wound to his throat. The surveyor's journal contains a few tantalizing passages: | |||
* "Day 3. Water foul all the way up. Not mineral. Not rot. Glows faint when stirred." | |||
* "Day 5. Fresh fissure above the old wall-line. Cut stone inside: steps. Someone built down there." | |||
* "Day 6. Singing at night from the crack. One voice, then many. Sounds like a roll call." | |||
* The last entry is shaky: "Green eyes in the trees. They walked past me. Didn't look twice." | |||