Story I: The Rift

Pyrrah, after a time, is able to make it next to the western door. It is tilted downward, with the slope of the room, and looks like it will open toward you as opposed to away.

Room Map

Doing her best to remain steady, Pyrrah turns the handle on the western door. As soon as she does, the doorway swings open abruptly, and a pile of dirt and stones pour out. Pyrrah is knocked off of her feet, barely clinging to the door handle as the shower of rock and earth pours down to the cave-in on the eastern side of the room. Several of the corpses become even more buried than before. As they do, you notice a few of the bodies shifting, fingers twitching, dirt rippling around them. Thankfully, it looks like they are stuck - at least for the time being - but certainly aware.

As Pyrrah manages to find her footing once more, still clinging to the door handle, she peers inside. The doorway on the western side reveals a hallway, which now resembles more like a ramp with the way that it is canted upwards at such an angle. On either side of the hallway are wall-crypts. One of them seems to have been burst open, and its rocky interior spilled out (which is likely what was pressing on the other side of the door). There is no sign of a body. At the end of the hallway is another door, this one made entirely of iron.

The handle does not turn, leading you to believe the door to be locked.

You can each see that the open tomb is the one on the right, closest to the door. It is a few feet from it, and likely couldn't be reached just by stretching out with one's hand.

Pyrrah holds tight to the western door handle (the one connecting to the room with the cave-in) for balance and with her other hand she reaches toward the door at the end of the hallway. She appears to concentrate for a moment, moving her fingers with small, subtle motions. Eventually there is an audible click from the door at the end of the hallway, which is now presumably unlocked.

"There," Pyrrah says, "Problem solved." She moves a few feet to the side, just in case rubble will pour out, as predicted, when the door is opened.

The spectral hand is able to turn the handle this time, and as expected, a large amount of debris and dirt comes pouring out of it. The door slams into the wall as it opens so abruptly, causing a large metallic ringing sound to echo throughout the chamber. Within the room is a complete mess. From the distance you're at, as best you can tell, there has been a large cave-in. The ceiling has mostly collapsed, so much so that the ceiling meets the floor toward the far side of the room. Despite this, there appears to be all manner of items amidst the rubble, though difficult to identify from here.