Tarna leads the group to the southwest exit and out into the corridor beyond. The corridor twists and turns a couple of times, then opens into a 20' wide hallway going west. Proceeding carefully down the corridor, Tarna leads you to a short flight of two broad steps that lead down into a widening room crowded with a forest of stone pillars. Archways can be seen in its northern, western, and southern walls. Something metallic glints on the floor, among the many stone pillars. Four exits leave the room in the four cardinal directions, each going up a short flight of stairs.
Tarna looks about the room briefly. As she enters, a small black rat is startled and scurries to the north, watching curiously from a safe distance. The glint of metal comes from a single gold piece laid at the base of the central pillar. On the diagonal southeast wall, someone used a torch to scrawl on the wall in the Thorass alphabet. Underneath the words is an arrow pointing toward the southern exit from the room.
The northernmost pillar is adorned with the entwined skeleton of a long-dead snake of some sort, which spirals around the pillar near its smooth junction with the ceiling. Its fangs are open as if to bite its prey.
OOC:
Thorass is also known as Auld Common. It is not the Common tongue, but an older version of such. If you specifically read Thorass, you may read the spoiler. Alternately, you might use a
comprehend languages spell (if you have one), or you can attempt a Linguistics check against a DC 18.
[ +- ] Thorass (or Linguistics DC 18)
"Certain death this way"
