Heart beating with trepidation the more she studied of the ruined text, Alyssa read the broken writing on the torn page while Salla's Lantern still illuminated the dark room. So they had been right to guess some sinister power had this place in its hold. "Our Dreaded Master at the peak of the tower..." she murmured quietly to herself. Whoever this Master was they sounded dangerous, and very powerful. A cold icy chill ran down her spine as she read the last decipherable words on the page, "The price for Awakening is the flesh of Sacrifices...". A dark nameless desire for knowledge coiled within her, something that made her pulse run faster as she imagined the perils and other unknown things that would be waiting for them deeper in the depths of the ruins, a restless emotion that drove her forward.<br/><br/>But first they had to open the barrier before them. Rolling up the torn page of scripture and tucking it away into her armor, Alyssa went to add her shoulder to Jules' effort to open the door. "If there's a pole or metal bar around we could use it to lever this door off its hinges, it might make our job a little easier." she said to the other two as she took one side of the rusty barrier.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/253600">USE MUSCLES ALYSSA STONG LIKE MOUNTAIN</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">9</span></div></div></div>