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by waysoftheearth » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:34 pm
Armando fancies, for just the last moment that everyone held their breath over Josiane's spinning coin, that he might have heard far off echoes carrying down the broad passage... but once the commotion of action begins it is impossible to tell whether they were real or imagined.
Dieter has already started off toward the narrow passage; the others muttering their speculations but fall in behind him none the less...
The narrower passage is about 10ft broad, and hewn roughly from the same alien, red-brown, bubbled rock. It is vaguely pentagonal in cross-section, with a peaked ceiling some 10ft over the center of the passage. The walls reach to about 7ft height.
The gently hissing lanterns cast a yellow light ahead of the company, causing jaunty shadows to bob and dance before them. The passage make a bee-line straight ahead for about two score paces before the passage way begins a gentle descent into the underworld and the old-air becomes blissfully cool compared to the heat above.
After a few minutes of silently marching, Dieter and Desmond/Mondes (in the lead) spy an open arched-entry into a dark, silent chamber 60ft ahead. It's not clear at this distance, but there appears to be some kind of pillar just visible in the chamber.
[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]