Chapter 2: Local Heroes

You make your way back to the room with the zombies. With some more time you are able to figure out that one of the goblin's swords is in fact magical. Once you've finished exploring the room, you follow the hallway to the south.

You walk some 30 feet or so down when the hallway splits and a tunnel shoots off to the east where a staircase leads downwards. It only goes a few feet down before it has caved in, stopping you from exploring further.

The original hallway continues to the south where it ends in a door. Opening the door it leads to a strange room. It is a five-yard-diameter
sphere. Several objects float in the room, spinning lazily in space—a ragged book, a scroll, a bottle of wine, a dead raven surrounded by a halo of floating and writhing maggots, and a twisted iron wand with a forked tip.

Yet perhaps the most unnerving aspect of the room is the walls. They're plated in sheets of strange red metal that ripple every once in a while with silent black electricity that seems to coalesce into strange runes or even words far too often for the effect to be chance.

In fact it turns out the wine isn't all that old, as you can see the label is Whispering Willow (a winery outside of Magnimar) and is a three year old vintage.

The room itself have had some kind of spell permanency cast on it, probably a spell that messes with gravity. In fact, you try tossing in some loose stones and they start floating as well. It seems there is no danger involved.

In fact if any of you are to step inside, you'll find yourself floating harmlessly as well.

Khel tries to subdue the ancient magic, but is unable. You take your leave of the strange room and head back to the statue and the last unexplored corridor. The one with stairs leading upwards. It is tight and cramped and you can only move in a line. The stairs end in a door. You make sure there are no traps on it, before Wess opens it to a strange sight.

The room seems ordinary enough, a small circular room with a pool in the middle. Stranger is the fact that the pool is lined with skulls. Though strangest of all is the inhabitants in the room. Two small demonic looking heads attached to leathery wings. They shriek in anger at you in some infernal language.