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kingdom’s worth of heavy, solid gold artifacts. The location of this particular vine and
lichen covered pyramid has unfortunately been lost to the world for a long time. It stands
tall, silent and patient, waiting to be rediscovered in its vast, forested cloak of trees. What
little knowledge we have of this ancient ruin comes from a very sad tale, one that begins
back in the year 1945.
An American, Thomas David Abrams, had been a combat soldier in the Second
World War. He had enlisted as a naive, young seventeen-year-old boy, and been given
the rank of private. Through his own actions, and the battlefield deaths of many older and
wiser men, he quickly achieved the rank of first lieutenant. He fought on the snake-infested, jungle islands in the remote South Pacific, such as Guadalcanal, island hopping
towards Imperial Japan. At the end of the Second Great War, tired of the fighting and
the killing of other men, Thomas resigned his commission. He declined the promise of a
peacetime military career, when he returned to the United States.
He began searching for another life and found himself in a smoky little bar, by a
beach in San Diego, when fortune smiled on him. He couldn’t help but overhear two middle-aged Mexican men talking at a table next to his. They were discussing an adventure
where they knew hidden treasure was buried that could make them very wealthy Patrons. They desperately needed a large quantity of supplies, extra workers, and strong
burros to travel into the uninhabited, mountainous terrain on the Guat