Chapter Seven: The Stalemate At Loton's Cove

"I have nothing about bad feelings about this. Between the scrying ability of our foe, and the doorman, I do not think we have surprise on our side. But I also think we have come too far to retreat..."

The stick lands on the stony floor of the corridor without incident.

Zangua enters the corridor. Gravel crunches under his feet. There's a stairwell at the end of it, ascending steeply to the west, your left.

Anybody else following Zangua inside?

The corridor is not lit, but there's some natural light coming in from the opening.

Posting may be sporadic next week. Is the party generally down with proceeding through this passage and seeing where it leads?

Hope everybody had a good holiday weekend where applicable, game resumes shortly.

You follow the stairs up some ways, steeply ascending through narrow, twisting passages up through the cold inner stone of the mountain.

Eventually, you emerge into a small chamber about 30' round, with a high domed ceiling with a wide hole in the middle. In the center of this chamber is a wooden platform about 6' square, with a waist-high post at each corner topped by a carved face with wings, curled hair, and large eyes. A circle has been burned into the wood platform, extending almost to the edges, with arrangements of sigils and diagrammatic symbols burned within it.

Opposite the stairs, a short section of a stone column rests on the ground, and upon it sits a boxy paper lantern that emits a pale pink glow.

Investigation never hurts...