Event:1925/06/20 Spelunking an Alien City
We drive around the camp in the morning and start following the tire marks to the north. About 5 to 10 clicks north, Chun Li sees[1][2] a cave with no one around it, but it does have some stone monoliths. Lloyd remarks that the stones are over 10,000 years old and not naturally formed[3]; rather, built architecturally. He comments that he believes that this is another entrance to the city. We hide the truck as best we can, bury the bloodletting equipment, stone knapping equipment, and drums in another location, gather supplies, and head into the cave. The deeper we get, the less natural the cave gets, and we find ourselves in a worked passageway of alien nature. We come to a deep 15' square hole that blocks our way. Looking down it, there doesn't seem to be a bottom. Gurumarra throws a rock down, but it seems to drop forever. Gurumarra notices[1] a panel of some type to the right. Lloyd easily activates the panel and causes a wall to quietly come down and form a bridge. As the group crosses, there is the awful high-pitched sound from last night from below, followed by some banging and sucking noises. Lloyd ushers everyone across quickly and the bridge seems to hold. We continue onward and come to a crossroads. We approached this crossroad from the southeast, and we could go northeast or west. We go northeast.
We walk down a long corridor for about a mile that ends in a yawning chasm. Far in the distance, we see an electric lightbulb and the sound of a generator. From below, we hear a chorus of the shrill whining. Gurumarra drops to his stomach and inches to the edge and looks over the edge. He sees many enormous flying creatures with dangling tentacles, many eyes, many mouths, and amorphous forms[4]. Looking closely[1], he sees a gigantic black city below. We head back the way we came from.
Back at the crossroads, we go to the west this time. After another mile long corridor, we come to a T intersection running north and south. There's a line of electric lights hanging from the ceiling that go either direction. From the north, we can see an electric generator running and powering the lights along with rubble behind the generator that would be difficult to climb.
We go north. Checking out the generator, Lloyd says[5] that it's low on fuel and will need to be filled soon. Gurumarra listens[6] and hears a squeaky noise. Looking over the rubble, he sees a repairman replacing broken bulbs. The repairman sees him too, and Gurumarra hits him with a spear. The rest of us scramble to the top of the rubble pile, and the cultist produces what looks like a brownie kodak camera and presses buttons on both sides. What seems like a bolt of lightning leaps from the "camera" and strikes Gurumarra in the chest for serious electric damage.
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