Continuation.

[azumods]

PROLONGED STAY. Most, if not all, of you seem to have recovered from the difficult journey up to Snowpoint City; the time here hasn't been the easiest, between both the weather and Commander Jupiter's presence being made known at the start of the week, but thankfully things seem to have passed over easily enough. ...Well, for the msot part. Some of you have been helping the slugs; some of you have been...ah, "helping" the slugs. Either way, it seems as though the end of the week will approach without too much fanfare; you aren't going far - after all, you still haven't seen Lake Acuity - and the townspeople seem receptive to you staying another week. There's some very dull but mild fussing over you, if anything (are you warm enough, have you been getting enough to eat) and for most of the day everything seems to be fine. The calm breaks sometime late at night, well after sunset; a loud noise can be heard coming from the direction of the temple north of town, a deep, strained groaning followed by what can best be described as a dull roar, accompaned by a heavy crack not unlike the sound of a gunshot in terms of volume; going out to investigate just what happened will lead you to a small group of people doing the same - dully, almost too casually to be comfortable, walking up to the temple doors to find that the ice that had been binding the doors shut has cracked and broken. Notably, it seems to have broken from the inside. Whatever that means, you might not want to explore it in the middle of the night; it doesn't seem that there's any immediate danger, there's nothing threatening the townspeople that you can see, and there's no real tangible change happening to you. It'll likely be difficult to sleep tonight, but maybe some of you can work out what you're doing in the morning with regards to it, if anything... [OOC: Welcome to the end of Week 7! No investigation of the temple will be done tonight, but if a few of you would like to check it out once the new week hits, you're more than welcome to decide who's doing that - no action is required to be taken, it's entirely optional, and we would prefer that it be only a few of you as opposed to the entire group should people choose to go. No NPC response will be given to this post, though you can thread here amongst yourselves if you wish; we'll see you tomorrow at noon with a new log for your further adventures!]