With the sand all but brushed away, the team found themselves walking on dry, cracked, desert plain. And in the distance was a massive hole in the ground, stretching several miles wide in every direction, encircled by a manmade ring of raised concrete littered with watchtowers reaching into the sky. The ground around it was almost pitch black as if an explosion had been set off, ruining what little life could have existed beforehand. The hole could in no way have been formed naturally, and from looking in, it was clear that somebody or something had great interest in digging through the planet.
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The rift is a patrolled space. Men, knights of the ruling kingdom, in full plate armor loiter about with lances, swords, and other instruments of the sort. Posted at the top window in every tower is a wizard dressed in traditional Upsidian battle robes. The towers have not aged well, they’ve begun to crack from the ground up. The infrastructure is failing, debris and bone are scattered about the site. Despite the seemingly poor upkeep, this checkpoint is the only line of defense keeping any hostile entities from entering the Upside.
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The rift is a patrolled space. Men, knights of the ruling kingdom, in full plate armor loiter about with lances, swords, and other instruments of the sort. Posted at the top window in every tower is a wizard dressed in traditional Upsidian battle robes. The towers have not aged well, they’ve begun to crack from the ground up. The infrastructure is failing, debris and bone are scattered about the site. Despite the seemingly poor upkeep, this checkpoint is the only line of defense keeping any hostile entities from entering the Upside.