Moving in to examine the walls of this strange place, you all have the same, eerie feeling. It is as if the doors opened to beckon you into the mouth of a metal monster, and yet you can find no way to open the inner door, much less how the outer door opened. The walls are cool to the touch, as one might expect in the cool reaches of the upper peaks, but as you press your hand to it you can feel an almost imperceptible vibration, as if you were in a mouth that was humming joyously at the delicacies it now enjoyed.
Furrowing your brows, you continue the search, when suddenly the light coming from outside is extinguished. Whirling to see what foul magic turned out the sun, you are surprised to see the outer door has slid silently shut. Before you can react to this new puzzle, the floor seems to amplify the vibration you had been feeling and with a clang, the door before you parts, revealing the interior.
The hallway before you is wide, roughly 20' and opens into a large chamber ahead. That chamber has 20' wide hallways running off in each of the cardinal directions, but what is most intriguing is what dominates the center of the otherwise empty room. A mine shaft of some sort stands in the center. On the left and right can be seen what look like rungs of a ladder spaced about 8' apart. They are not set into the walls of the shaft, but are on some sort of a metallic track. The way op us sealed off by the roof, but the way down is open.
In addition to the mine shaft, you also see several normal-sized doors. But the doors are unlike anything you have seen before, being more like the portals that led you in here than a door with handles that you are accustomed to using. Each of these doors have a little panel on the right, and a small slot about 3-inches wide and 1-inch high.
[ +- ] Strange Mine Shaft
[ +- ] Doors Next To Entry
