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Old Ruins



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Cynthia: The ruins that sprawed out across the mountains east of the Sanctuary were a massive complex, appearing, in spite of their frequent exploration, quiet and timeless. The only evidence at first glance that anything about the place had been disturbed was a red ribbon tied to a tree at their main entrance. It wove its way around trees for a while before taking a sharp turn into an offshoot of the ruins proper. A few minutes' walk in, its path came to a wide chamber down into the earth, square in shape with a staircase supported by stone columns inset down its perimeter. The chamber resembled a kind of well, or a hollow, inverted tower. Weak moonlight overhead illuminated the first few flights of stairs. As the staircase wound further down, past a few dozen statues of various gods and into the depths below, the starlight was replaced by balls of light that were scattered throughout the chamber's open interior. All the while the red ribbon spanned back and forth from one pillar to another. In places it would dip down to a lower level, then rise back up, or loop around itself to turn at odd angles. The red web gave the whole space the look of an especially avant garde modern art piece. Cynthia sat on the lowest stretch of the ribbon, suspended a good twenty feet from a pool at the bottom of the chamber. She wore her usual shirt and skirt, plus two silk flags in Broken Covenant and Veritum Unitum colors around her waist like a sash. The flags held two swords - one longsword in a silver scabbard, and one CB rapier - as well as a whole rainbow of food coloring in vials. She took one out and dripped yellow into the water below.