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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