Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-933831-20170116054242

Deep in Atlas, there was a frozen marsh that all the locals knew was to be avoided. It wasn't illegal or anything, but people seemed to regard it as though entering there was to throw away one's life. There was a small outpost just outside the marsh, where at all times, there was a full defensive battalion of soldiers, armed to the teeth.

Rumor has it that a few years ago, a terrorist sect used the marsh as a place to hole up. When Atlas sent in their knights and droids, the watery terrain made them easy pickings for the guerrillas. Over time, the marsh became littered with the dead husks of metal, and Atlas decided to instead send in actual soldiers, capable of maneuvering the terrain and fighting back.

Within a year, the terrorists were all killed, but the cost to the military had been astronomical for a group of this size. Normally, this wouldn't be so bad, forgotten to time. But what was it that these soldiers were expecting here? Was it perhaps the rumor that the terrorists had a treasure that Atlas had never claimed from them. After minor searching, they'd merely dismissed it as a rumor. But would a look through the marsh yield further results? Only the brave, stupid, or both would dare check.

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