Adventure Thread - Atarin's Delve

Actually, there are empty sconces on the walls, every 10 feet or so.

I was sort of hoping Jabes would post as I don't know how much healing Herja would give you! :) Normally, yes, you get topped off time permitting.

Bart searches the southern annex. It is much like the rest of the main hall, except for a large fresco of a naked, buxom blue woman becoming to the viewer. While rather distracting, Bart thinks he sees a tiny gap, a seam in a door shaped pattern of the wall she's painted on.

Alden carefully looks around but spies nothing out of the ordinary.

Alden gives the secret door a once over, not finding any traps. The door is not locked.

With a push, the door opens.

In addition to rotting furniture, this chamber contains a chest, assorted bones, shards of broken pottery, crude stone weapons, a flute-like instrument and a remarkable three-foot-tall silver statue of a naked woman with the head of a catfish and webbed, claw hands and feet. She is stretching her arms out wide.

The chest is free from traps and also not locked. Inside, Alden finds a thick, leather-bound journal. It is monogrammed with the initials C A in gold lettering. Beneath the journal is a folded blue cloak, quite ruined by time.

A quick thumb through the journal includes:

This is the journal of Lord Crandall Apperson
Sketches of a form like the statue with the words "Makil" beneath it.
On the opposite page the sensuous, human-headed version labeled "The Blue Lady".
Journal entries which details finding of the caves and an unhealthy obsession with the goddess Makil,
Descriptions of a number of bizarre rituals, many of which involve orgies.
Many cult gatherings ended with diving naked off the cliff cave entrance into the waters below
Names of cult members.

The flute is made of a woody, hollow reed with tiny holes too small and close together for human fingers. It is decorated in tiny shells.

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