+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Olympia Times Blossom bloom year 7 | | December 22, 2014 | | | | turn 51, 121 players olympia@shadowlandgames.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Questions, comments, to play: http://www.shadowlandgames.com/olympia Olympia PBEM * * * * * * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Player-contributed press =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Our traders feel confident to resume the activities since now there is something postive observed recently. Let's see how soon it gets back to normal. -- Brotherhood of Blue [lk8] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rumors =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Like an utter idiot, she had allowed herself to be crammed into this black, evil place. The dark wet rock of the mine was warping and twisting at the depths these miners were working. She thought longingly of the days she spent on the surface in the oh so glorious light and air. The workers were a gang of grimy, knobby ghosts, slowly removing slabs of poisonous rock - looking the metals that kept the gears of army in motion. The miners studied the tortured rock, mumbling helpful advice to one another - mad goblins ripping out the veins of the earth. The groaning of the earth rattled her guts, lungs, and muscles; her flesh was turning to jelly. How could she have been so naive, so stupid? She was going to die down here in the depths. The ugly darkness here, the grit, the banging, grinding, the sullen heat, the seething damp. The mine-rats lived for this; this was their bliss, their homeland - but she was different, she was not cut out for this life. A shuddering moan vibrated from the rock overhead and black ooze cascaded out and splashed around her legs - she was not going to be able to stand much more of this. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=