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[Morgannah]

Following quietly alongside Torque, Whisper's hand hovers first over the sleek minigrenade launcher strapped to her thigh and then over her custom pistol, seeming to weigh the benefits of both as she glanced up and down the corridor. Finally deciding on the gyrojet with a small smile playing upon her face, she finds herself halting when Ran does.

"Wh-What is it?"

[A Clockwork Lime]

As the motley group of travelers slow their descent into the belly of the beast, Cosmo finally catches up. Still eating one of his burritos, he refrains from a bite long enough to ask, "hey man, can one of you guys, like, turn the A/C down a bit... it's gettin' chilly back here."

[Shadow]

The pass between hot cold is a wall. One step back and it is hot, one forward and it is cold. The hallway itself is triangular shaped, with uneven stones and mortar. Not the smooth interior of modern structures. Every few feet it looks like there used to be torches, now empty Iron brackets dot the wall. The only light is that the comes from the main door.

[Moonstone Spider]

Torque pulls out his flashlight and shines it ahead. In order to illuminate more than the backs of the other's heads, he steps to one side of the group and flashes it down the hallway.

[A Clockwork Lime]

Cosmo winces when Torque pulls out the flashlight and his flare compensation kicks in. "Cripes, man, warn a brother 'fore you go and do that in a dark room."

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon frowns at the ward's disappearance, but he follows anyway while continuing to maintain his spell.

"Let us hope that it is just as easy to reclose the door and ward. This is our best chance, but we do not know what we will find inside. Be ready to shoot another signal burst at the door to close it if you have to, Cosmo. I will take the rear"

Sealed tombs of ancient and powerful villains. I am sure that we would have seen a warning in those glyphs if we knew how to read them fully. I have the sneaking suspicion that this dragon is still alive.

[Tziluthi]

Only slightly phased from stepping through the hot/cold barrier Os carries on as usual until the others start turning on torches. Then, with a mental command, he brings up the low-light and infra-red mods built into his eyes, along with the display for his Alpha, and switches on the torch duct taped to his assault rifle.

[Shadow]

The lighting illuminates a short hallway. It runs about 10 meters, then the left wall vanishes and the hallway opens up into a massive chamber, easily as big as the entire temple.

[BGMFH]

James phases in low-light as necessary, surveying carefully for any small passageways or chambers.

"Ooohkay... big room. Kinda Dark. Not good, so not good." There is an edge of humor in his voice.

[crechebaby]

"Bet you anything," Ran replies, "that if this temple has what we need, it's in there." She stabs her blade in the direction of the large room before looking over toward James.
"What's our move, boss?"

[Shadow]

@ those with vision enhancements,

The room stretches across the length of the temple. In the center is a pool of water. The textures on the walls change as well once you step into the room. No longer are they earthy and broken, they are smooth and made of a strange black substance. They are also covered with symbols. Floor to ceiling, every square inch.

[BGMFH]

"I say photographs and sight inventory in two groups. Note anything on the floor and anything you can recognize well enough to describe on the walls. Then we move outside unless we find another exit or Cosmo starts to decode this stuff before we leave." James looks around. "Cosmo, any problems with that plan?"

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon doesn't enter the room. He remains quiet while maintaining his spell.

And no one keeps their guard up. I wonder what the pool is for.

Ghost Dragon stands just outside of the room and observes the pool, the walls, the floor, and the air itself with astral vision.

Something about this seems odd.

He draws his gun and holds down at his side.

[Shadow]

The pool itself is dim on the astral. Microscopic life exists in it giving it a luminescence on the astral plane.

[Moonstone Spider]

Torque: "Well, if nothing else this should cut down on our water shortage. If it's not full of toxins, I'll check it."
The Medic bends down and pushes his forefinger into the water.

[A Clockwork Lime]

"Nah man," Cosmo replies to James while he's already busy scanning through the huge array of symbols. "But, uh, it'll take a while and stuff."

[Tziluthi]

Os looks at the water.

"You should boil it before you drink it. That way you won't have to add the Bombay trots to your list of troubles."

[kevyn668]

"Torque, don't break the surface, man. Don't you ever watch the trid? That's how they get ya." He grins.

Chase fishes out the micro-cam and hands it to Cosmo. "Here man, can you make some use of this? My hands are kinda full."

[A Clockwork Lime]

While Cosmo is busy scanning through the symbols, he pauses for a moment to look at Chase's camcorder. He lifts a brow just high enough to reach over his rose-colored spectacles before looking up at the 'troll.' "Nah, man, I got it covered."

[Shadow]

As Torque reaches into the water to test it's contents you hear a splash, and a sharp cry. When you look, Torque is laying on his back holding his head. It looks as if he slipped.

Gentle ripples float across the surface of the pool.

[A Rodent of Unus...]

Oblivious to Torque's plight, Cosmo continues on with his blissful ignorance. After finishing a particularly delicious bite of one of his wrapped delights, his mellow voice wafts over the radio channel again.

"Yeah, these all look like coordinates, man... only prob is none of 'em are labeled so it'll, uh, take a while to find the one that leads home. But we definately, yanno, found what we're after and e'erything. Told ya it'd be easy, but noooo... never listen to the, uh, dwarf..."

[Moonstone Spider]

Torque: "Frag it, I hate looking graceless. On the other hand that bump shook a memory loose, I recall that ancient Egyptian's built a temple a lot like this. There should be a small chamber on the first floor they stored scrolls in, maybe our coordinates will be there."
Torque heads down the room ahead of the group moving for a different corridor.
Torque: "Oh yeah, the water's drinkable. Slightly higher in salt than is strictly healthy but unless we drink it all the time for months it won't hurt us. But it's a good idea to boil it."

[A Rodent of Unus...]

"Hellooo..." Cosmo's sing-song voice echoes on the comm channel, "I, like, just said I found 'em all an' stuff."

[Moonstone Spider]

Torque turns around.
Torque: "Yeah, I'm not deaf. I heard you chummer. You get the glory for finding the symbols and decoding them, if you manage to keep your attention on the task long enough. Kindly allow me credit for remembering about the hidden chamber, and finding whatever's in it."
Torque starts moving again.

[A Rodent of Unus...]

"Cripes, man. Take a pill or sumfin'."