The Island

The dust andd mud that covered the floor has been disturbed but little else. Looking around the room you see a likness carved into the ceiling in the center of the rool. The face appears elfin but has a wildness that is enhances by two fangs barely visible and animal like ears poking out of here hair. Around th rooms are several large caskets of odd sizes and shapes. Tho top of each depicst a creature with the sides showing that same creature performing various things with the woman above.
As you circle the single smoth floored roomyou find stairs leading down behind the smallest of the stone caskets. The mud on the stairs is also disturbed with foot ptints. A weak breeze bring the sent of earth and a hit of fire from below.

The few clear footprints are a mix of humanoid and skeletal.
Eddisham extends his senses and feels a dark corrupting energy that seems to be covering like an oily film over a much fainter and older sense of natural strength, much like you feel in deep forests. The dark everyone are below but the getting of natural vitality is all around you.

As Shmautz examines the room he recognizes any of the names but takes note of the family names. Shahro, Tromemre, and Gallois. Leaning your forehead against one of the tablets a series of images of a boy advancing through manhood to old age passes through your thought only to be shattered by a dark flash. Smaautz sees a large figure stepping over the ruined bars followed by a cloaked figure with a staff. The robed figure "says" something and the hulking figure continues its destructive descent by ripping the gate to the lower stairs apart. An un known "time" later Smautz "sees" darkness seeping up out of the lower stairwell as coldness seeps into his body and the vision breaks.

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Bracing yourselves you gingerly step over the ruins of the gate and head down the stairs. At the bottom is another door. This one is solid metal though the lock holding it in place is twisted allowing you to push it open. As the light spills into the room beyond you see movement to the side as a massive paw slams thought the little light and into Eddisham.

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Eddisham blinks his eyes as he comes back from his vision. His hand just about to push the door open and he reaches out stopping his companion. Though the door is still in the doorway its shattered lock has doubtlessly allowed your light into the room alerting its current occupant.

Eddisham is a bit suprised that Shmautz shared his vision. That hardly ever happens.

The door is currently shut and there are no signs of anything beyond other than the pervasive chill emanating from somewhere beyond the door.

The simple stone stairway turned, gain back to tht front of the mausoleum then turned again. The simple and sturdy metal bound 4'x8' door is closed but not tightly and not latched so that a simple push can open it. Nothing of note is evident in the stairway of the landing in front of the door. No sound is heard but the disturbed dirt on tht floor indicates recent passage.

The dirt is simply disturbed and you are unable to determine which way they passed, in our out.
The narrow landing and stairwell give no place to hide. Hiding would be possible on the first floor with it's decorations.