Chapter 1 - Awakening

The ceiling is about 8 feet above you, but the hole is directly the center of the stone table, which is 3 feet high. You can easily access the hole by climbing onto the table.

As you look up into the hole, you notice it digs upward about 5'. The hole itself starts as the same stone as your ceiling, then sharply transitions into a very nice, grey stone. Looking up the hole, you can see the room above has a ceiling, with a room above it, and maybe a third room above it? The sunlight is beaming strongly, making it hard to look straight up. The feeling is amazing on your skin. You realize that the small gem lying at your feet, smaller than a person's fist, punched through at least 3 stone ceilings then a 5' stone floor.

Athletics checks

Working together, you all make it up, though Dwoinan, Tetsuwan, and Jorem need to use a bit of strength to break away at the crumbling rock a bit.

Once you get up, you find yourself in a large, almost empty, audience room, shaped like a circle was cut two thirds the way through, about 80ft at it's widest. There is a second balcony level, though you can't see a way up from where you are. You come up near the entrance, by a large set of metal doors, at the peak of the circular end of the room. Opposite at the flat end is a raised platform with long metallic table, though no chairs as far as you can see. There are two doors arches on the flat wall, each a quarter of the way in, and two doors at the widest points of the circular part of the room. You can see some pieces of decayed timber on the arches, but not enough to be called a door. There are shreds of cloth from the balcony level hanging down, faded in color. These were probably banners or flags at some point. Looking up again, you see a high ceiling, and can now make up there are two levels above you. The chamber is otherwise bare.