::As she approached the temple she saw its great marble staircase rising upwards and onwards through the dense forests. It had long been abandoned by humanity or any of the other sentient life that would be typical of the place. Nowadays it was housing many rumors of a curse of scaled beasts eager to taste human and elf flesh. Those who entered never come out. Well those were the stories since there were supposedly no survivors or such. But then again where would the stories come from? Steeling her nerves she began the long climb up the steps fires burning in her thighs after this exertion. There were a lot more steps then one dared to think about. Before her was a large iron door which she gently pushed open revealing a large pit leading straight back down. She couldnt tell how deep it was due to the darkness... but it had to be really deep::