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						 The Eastern Edge of a Volcanic Chamber
   The signs that this chamber once was indeed the heart of a volcano are
 very clear here, as the polished obsidian floor gives way to a broad
 semicircular hole in the ground, some forty feet wide where it touches the
 wall.  The waves of heat rising from it, accompanied by the dull red glow
 and the smell of sulfur, strongly suggest that the volcano isn't as dead as
 first impressions might lead one to believe.  As though rising from the
 red-hot depths, there is a statue of a fire elemental, worked in obsidian
 and inlaid in gold, seeming to grow from the hole and spread outwards as it
 reaches all the way up through the sulfurous air to the shadowed and
 glittering ceiling.  Waves of heat rising through the air make the statue
 seem almost as though it is moving, the golden inlay dancing along its
 length in an imitation of living fire.  
 Obvious exits: n s w nw sw portal
      The corpse of Kawl is lying here.
      The severed foot of Kawl is here.
      A portal back to the Ruins of the High Temple floats here.
 A blue-tinged male griffon is here.
 A robust female griffon is here.
 A vigorous male griffon is here.
 A slender female griffon is here.
 A skittish female griffon is here.
 An aerobatic male griffon is here.
 A heavy male griffon is here.
 
 9pm
 zero
 [HP:  3%] [ME:  3%] [PE: 92%]
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 n
 No way!  You are still fighting!
 
 10pm
 zero
 [HP:  3%] [ME:  3%] [PE: 92%]
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 s
 No way!  You are still fighting!
 
 10pm
 zero
 [HP:  3%] [ME:  3%] [PE: 91%]
 >
 w
 No way!  You are still fighting!
 
 10pm
 zero
 [HP:  3%] [ME:  3%] [PE: 91%]
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 e
 No way!  You are still fighting! 
					
  
						
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