"This way!" -- Gehenna Isle

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Date Posted: 22:38:42 06/10/03 Tue
Author: Sienna
Subject: "This way!"
In reply to: Gerard of the House of Gerard 's message, ""Great. First fairies, then ghosts, and now midgits..."" on 22:04:45 06/01/03 Sun

The small soldier pointed to the towering building in the center of the city. Gehenna Isle was a bizarre land, its cities lined with twisted towers that seemed to compensate for the dwarven residents. Each sky-scraping building was stranger than the last; the architecture was almost demonic. Yet among the cold, gray buildings was a clear, beautiful blue sky. It was almost ironic.

Sienna shoved the giant double doors apart. They were obviously meant to accommodate something much larger than the tiny Manches, but Gerard gave it little thought. The interior of the menacing citadel was just as imposing as the outside. In the center of the entryway was a giant statue in the image of a great Manches, tendrils poised to tear into some unseen foe. The statue's "bandages" were "torn," exposing its snarling face. Long teeth lined the stone mouth, curled in a fearsome war cry.

"That is the Great Old One. He who made us." Sienna said, lowering his weapon out of respect. His underlings did the same. "Made us all. The Ogema is a direct descendent of the first one birthed in his image. That is why he leads us."

Gerard stared at the statue. "And this...Great Old One...who is he attacking? Surely there is more to this pose than vanity."

"This is a representation of his defiance of the gods of old, who molded him. They were archaic in comparison, which is why he made us. Someday it will all be ours."

"All?"

Sienna turned to Gerard, with a stern look that pierced right through his visor. "All." He whipped around and began to travel the winding spiral stairs. Gerard looked at the tower's endless ascension and groaned. He took the first of countless steps up....

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