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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 6740358" data-attributes="member: 413"><p>Surana is part of the cleaning detail that passes through the guard tower as Bertram finishes exploring it. When it comes time for one person to go clean the quarters of Ilvana and Shoor, Surana convinces the guards she was the one assigned to the task. They look at eachother, shrug and two of them escort her in. </p><p></p><p>The lowest chamber belongs to Shoor. It contains cushions laid out across floor mats, a small carved table with two chairs and a sturdy zurkhwood chest. The room is unoccupied. Lying among the cushions is Klep's Dulcimer (ooc: [MENTION=6788194]Zansy[/MENTION] did you have a flute too or are you just proficient?). It appears Shoor has claimed it as his own and has been fiddling with it.</p><p></p><p>The chest is locked. On the table are some papers with elvish script and a rough map of the outpost showing barricades at the tunnels, the locations of traps and lines from the guard tower and this one intersecting at key places like the passages into the cavern and at the catwalk linking the two towers. You notice there are arrow slits corresponding to these. </p><p></p><p>The room above is also unoccupied. Inside the walls are hung with black mesh resembling a spider's web, extending from a central spot on the ceiling out to the walls, then draped down like curtains. Thick woven mats cover the floor, while a low platform is covered with cushions and pillows to make a broad divan like bed. One side of the chamber contains a small table and two chairs, while the other holds a small, shrine to Lolth, draped in white silk. A heavy chest of black stained zurkhwood sits at the foot of the bed. Upon the small table is a small silver framed mirror.</p><p></p><p>Below the shrine are many holy symbols from a wide variety of deities, mostly from the surface. All are covered some black substance, possibly blood, defiling them. </p><p></p><p>As you go about cleaning you hear some noise from yet another room above. At first it is a wimper, then a cry, then screams. You can't make out the words, but you hear two female elven voices and a male voice laughing and talking and sometimes chanting. Sometimes one of the female voices becomes deep and musical and otherworldly and the sound of it fills you with an urge to flee as far away from here as you can. Then more screams and what are obviously hopeless pleas for mercy. At first you don't recognize it but as you search your mind you realize that the voice belongs to a young elf that has kept to himself the entire time you've been here. You don't even know his name. He was taken out of the pen an hour or so before this work detail started and you didn't think anything of it. </p><p></p><p>As this goes on, the two drow guards that are watching you seem completely unmoved by what you hear. The are so numb to it, they don't even seem to notice. But when they notice you listening to it they start to laugh. One of them says "You like that? You could be next. Or maybe you're little toadstool friend! Ilvana's got some plans for him...maybe tomorrow it'll be in your soup!"</p><p></p><p>You get back to your cleaning...You will not be going to the chamber where the screaming is coming from. No slaves ever go up there (at least not any that return alive).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uller, post: 6740358, member: 413"] Surana is part of the cleaning detail that passes through the guard tower as Bertram finishes exploring it. When it comes time for one person to go clean the quarters of Ilvana and Shoor, Surana convinces the guards she was the one assigned to the task. They look at eachother, shrug and two of them escort her in. The lowest chamber belongs to Shoor. It contains cushions laid out across floor mats, a small carved table with two chairs and a sturdy zurkhwood chest. The room is unoccupied. Lying among the cushions is Klep's Dulcimer (ooc: [MENTION=6788194]Zansy[/MENTION] did you have a flute too or are you just proficient?). It appears Shoor has claimed it as his own and has been fiddling with it. The chest is locked. On the table are some papers with elvish script and a rough map of the outpost showing barricades at the tunnels, the locations of traps and lines from the guard tower and this one intersecting at key places like the passages into the cavern and at the catwalk linking the two towers. You notice there are arrow slits corresponding to these. The room above is also unoccupied. Inside the walls are hung with black mesh resembling a spider's web, extending from a central spot on the ceiling out to the walls, then draped down like curtains. Thick woven mats cover the floor, while a low platform is covered with cushions and pillows to make a broad divan like bed. One side of the chamber contains a small table and two chairs, while the other holds a small, shrine to Lolth, draped in white silk. A heavy chest of black stained zurkhwood sits at the foot of the bed. Upon the small table is a small silver framed mirror. Below the shrine are many holy symbols from a wide variety of deities, mostly from the surface. All are covered some black substance, possibly blood, defiling them. As you go about cleaning you hear some noise from yet another room above. At first it is a wimper, then a cry, then screams. You can't make out the words, but you hear two female elven voices and a male voice laughing and talking and sometimes chanting. Sometimes one of the female voices becomes deep and musical and otherworldly and the sound of it fills you with an urge to flee as far away from here as you can. Then more screams and what are obviously hopeless pleas for mercy. At first you don't recognize it but as you search your mind you realize that the voice belongs to a young elf that has kept to himself the entire time you've been here. You don't even know his name. He was taken out of the pen an hour or so before this work detail started and you didn't think anything of it. As this goes on, the two drow guards that are watching you seem completely unmoved by what you hear. The are so numb to it, they don't even seem to notice. But when they notice you listening to it they start to laugh. One of them says "You like that? You could be next. Or maybe you're little toadstool friend! Ilvana's got some plans for him...maybe tomorrow it'll be in your soup!" You get back to your cleaning...You will not be going to the chamber where the screaming is coming from. No slaves ever go up there (at least not any that return alive). [/QUOTE]
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