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by waysoftheearth » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:37 am
waysoftheearth wrote:
Nat puts a cautionary hand upon Ardenbard's shoulder, advising him to heed Lomeluin's advice -- at least for now. There's no telling the extent of this chamber, or what might lay silently in wait just beyond the torch light.
Thus it is that the company proceeds slowly about the great perimeter, turning first left (more or less north, to the Dwarves present).
Soon, beyond the great row of columns, a narrow arch is revealed -- wide enough just for single file -- and within is another stair climbing further up and westward.
Marking the presence of this exit, the company continues until they encounter the huge, flat expanse of the chamber's boundary wall, and here they turn right to follow it as far as the vault does extend. And this is some way indeed, Ardenbard makes it perhaps 200 feet before another wall is spied in the gloom ahead.
And in this one there is a massive Dwarf-decorated arch above a broad stair, again climbing up, ever up. This second one is wide enough for two to climb abreast with comfort. It is as wide as the first stair you did climb.
"Not more stairs, surely?" complains Grim the Dunderling, near the back of the column.
Somewhere, a long way off in the dark comes a sharp metal bang, like hammer on anvil. But only once does it come...
[f=32]
Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]