The Cost of Doing Business part 3

"Report!" I screamed as I entered the bridge. "Sir, it just , just appeared" and as we looked out the windows the clouds seemed to vanish as quickly as they had come on us,there before us was , well to be sure I still dont know but it seemed to be some sort of giant spire or tower. The air was now calming and an erie sick green glow could be seem coming off the massive statues carved all over the object. It was like it was carved on such a giant scale to show the story the carvings related to every creature for miles around.The carvings and statues were of men and things I know not what manner of creature they were, cavorting in all manner of unholy ways, it was like an instruction manual for Hell, and its mere sight evoked mixed emotions in all the crew. The raw primal emotions came to the fore:greed, hedonism, lust in all its forms , pleasure and pain, images of all these things called to us. I ordered all non essential crew to their berths. and hoped that some sense of discipline would carry us through. As we passed by the tower, the bridge crew and I began to see it in the distance ....a temple of some sort on a distant plateau, it looked like nothing I had ever seen in all my travels through Asia and the Americas, I had heard rumors of some abandonded city in the middle of the Austrailian outback but I never believed it ...till now.

"THATS IT!"

I spun to see our resident loony bird the professor who's gold started all this trouble.

"That is the place you wanna go??? It looks haunted and a half !" I screamed "No, we are going back right now! Pilot set course 180 degrees now!"

"I really wouldn't do that if I were you " his crazy voice now calm and easy..this is when it actually bothered me . "You just now passing the effect of the beacon and while the crew are certainly enjoying its effect I dont think you will survive another pass just now.Your crew would totally surcome to all their basest natures and desires long before you could get them free of its influence, now if you please, I have some one to meet."

Somedays I hate my life......

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