Chapter 1: Making Introductions

Alan and Milaki split and go to different doors.

Milaki, as you open up the right hand chamber door, you're meet with a similar scene to the last. Long-destroyed beds and nothing to speak of to collect. However, unlike the other room, this one has a gaping hole in the southern wall where the stones have collapsed under the onslaught of plant life. While structurally not great, it does provide fresh air and keeps the room from having that rot and filth smell of the other chamber.

Alan, you open up the doors to the middle room and see a temple space with six stone pillars bracing a vaulted ceiling. The floor is covered under a thick layer of dust, although several footprints have disturbed the otherwise still space. On the southern end sits a stone altar in an alcove under four narrow windows with a humanoid eye carved into the front. Surrounding the altar are four skeletons in tattered priestly vestments, though two of them look to have been knocked aside.

Claudius, you recognize the symbol as one of those typically used by followers of Savras. The vestments, or what remains of them, match what little you have heard about their attire.

There is nothing immediately apparent as to their cause of death, though it does strike you as odd that they'd all four be ringed around the altar but not touching it at all. Almost as if they sat down to observe and then just never woke up.

Alan, while you investigate the footprints around the room, you don't tell too much. However you do notice that the altar itself isn't set flush against the floor, it's almost as if it is hovering very slightly.

Claudius, you get the feeling that you hadn't noticed before because you were focused on the symbol and bodies and just overlooked the floor itself. Looking closer, it's only a few millimeters off the ground, very easy to miss if you weren't inspecting the floor area.

However, as you go to place your trap on the altar a few things happen. Your hand brushes the smooth stone of the altar's top and the altar itself doesn't appear to shift at all.

Esal, as you stand at the door, you don't hear or see anything that would disturb the peace otherwise.