Chapter Five: Bapdis Orjo's Gift of Reconciliation

The remains aren't fresh, but they're not as old as the dirt monster's skull, either. Vhezyen estimates them to be around fifty years old, give or take a decade. The tooth and bone fragments don't give him much to go on, but he doesn't think they're human, either -- probably the bones of a dwarf or some similar humanoid race.

Leth does not hear the stone land.

Moving on to the west room?

Distance swallows up the lit stone before its landing can be observed. This is a very deep pit.

The west chamber almost mirrors the one to the east, but it extends about 10' further to the north and south, with each end widening into a rounded space.

At the north end, a large, shallow bowl rests on the ground, containing and surrounded by fragments of shattered rock. This area, like the other rooms, is lit with a fire bowl set into a nice in the wall. The south end is in darkness -- it, too, has a nice with a fire bowl in it, but the fire is not lit.

A basalt stela leans against the wall in the south area, a three-legged wooden stool standing beside it. The stela is about 5' tall, with semicircular eyes and a downturned mouth carved into the upper part. Below that is a carving of a lumpy, amorphous creature walking to the right alongside a large serpent and a naked, androgynous human form. A strange diagram of intersecting lines and hexagons has been carved into the lower part.

Could the amorphous figure be a xorn, like we found in the other chamber?

It does not look like a xorn. More like Gloop from The Herculoids.

Felor thinks the face on the amorphous creature is the same as the face on the top of the stela, and that they represent one and the same entity. Other than that, he has little to go on as far as interpreting the carvings. The stela looks very old, and the particular style of art is completely unfamiliar to him.

If you're ready to move on, where would the party like to go next? The north (heading downward) and east (heading upward) exits from the first room remain unexplored.