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<blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3122346" data-attributes="member: 5675"><p>We rose the next morning, and spent over an hour dashing from shop to shop selling items and spending our ill-gotten gains. We each bought those items we thought were the most important; armour for Torvig, Niccoli and Flynn, a new disguise kit and superb lute were my priorities. Pleased with ourselves, we headed back to the Whispering Cairn, relit the lanterns, and fought our way back up the rope into Alastor’s room.</p><p></p><p>He materialised in the air before us, smiled and thanked us. When asked, he also told us that he had heard footsteps below his chamber the night before. This caused us a concern – clearly the other group had been here and begun to look through rooms we were seeing as our own to loot and ransack.</p><p></p><p>Fading, Alastor disappeared through the heavy stone door, which slid open a moment later. The chamber within was massive, deep and circular. A 40 drop was ringed by a balcony, with 4 chambers set into the ring. In the centre was a platform, again circular, set around a shaft of light and air. At one stage there had been 4 paths leading to the central ring, but two of these had clearly collapsed long ago. We moved into this large room, leaving Morgan to wedge the door shut. This done, he chanted briefly, sending a flurry of grey spirits flying up in the air before him. He breathed in deeply, drawing the ghosts into his lungs and putting colour in his cheeks. </p><p></p><p>A second invocation, and I could have sworn that I saw a skeletal cloaked figure appear behind him, and wrap its arms around him; drawing its cloak protectively around the mage. Happy with his wards, Morgan moved into the chamber behind us. </p><p></p><p>.oOo.</p><p></p><p>Moving around the edges of the chamber, we saw that the deeper rooms around the ring had richly painted bas-reliefs on their back walls. As we drew close to the first such painting (covered with a group of Varti wind dukes), steam began to pour across the images, gradually forming shapes. The steam coalesced into terrible creatures; half spider, half wolf. These creatures dashed and burst against the painted wind dukes in an animated rendition of the war against Chaos.</p><p></p><p>In the second picture, 7 of the wind dukes (one of each bearing the same glyph as shown on the mirror at the entrance of the Cairn) stood before a knot of high-caste Varti, presenting a long staff to them with great ceremony. Again, thick steam ran up from the floor towards the ceiling, this time showing the staff break into seven pieces, and drifting off into the cosmos.</p><p></p><p>The third showed a large group of Varti around a towering figure, identified by the glyph at his feet as ‘Icosiel’. In the steam, the figures around him bowed and saluted him. One of the bowing figures was labelled as ‘Zosiel’; the carved figure from the sarcophagus in the chamber downstairs. </p><p></p><p>The fourth and final image showed a huge battle, whose moving image showed both the high-born Varti Lord Qadeej and Miska, the three-headed wolf-spider Queen of Chaos. As steam poured over the painted wall, the Varti impaled Miska where her demonic torso joined with a massive spider-body. Even in her agony, she managed to blast him with a devastating beam from the rays of one of the two wolf-heads which shared her spider-body. The two vanished into a vast planar rift which opened up to swallow them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eccles, post: 3122346, member: 5675"] We rose the next morning, and spent over an hour dashing from shop to shop selling items and spending our ill-gotten gains. We each bought those items we thought were the most important; armour for Torvig, Niccoli and Flynn, a new disguise kit and superb lute were my priorities. Pleased with ourselves, we headed back to the Whispering Cairn, relit the lanterns, and fought our way back up the rope into Alastor’s room. He materialised in the air before us, smiled and thanked us. When asked, he also told us that he had heard footsteps below his chamber the night before. This caused us a concern – clearly the other group had been here and begun to look through rooms we were seeing as our own to loot and ransack. Fading, Alastor disappeared through the heavy stone door, which slid open a moment later. The chamber within was massive, deep and circular. A 40 drop was ringed by a balcony, with 4 chambers set into the ring. In the centre was a platform, again circular, set around a shaft of light and air. At one stage there had been 4 paths leading to the central ring, but two of these had clearly collapsed long ago. We moved into this large room, leaving Morgan to wedge the door shut. This done, he chanted briefly, sending a flurry of grey spirits flying up in the air before him. He breathed in deeply, drawing the ghosts into his lungs and putting colour in his cheeks. A second invocation, and I could have sworn that I saw a skeletal cloaked figure appear behind him, and wrap its arms around him; drawing its cloak protectively around the mage. Happy with his wards, Morgan moved into the chamber behind us. .oOo. Moving around the edges of the chamber, we saw that the deeper rooms around the ring had richly painted bas-reliefs on their back walls. As we drew close to the first such painting (covered with a group of Varti wind dukes), steam began to pour across the images, gradually forming shapes. The steam coalesced into terrible creatures; half spider, half wolf. These creatures dashed and burst against the painted wind dukes in an animated rendition of the war against Chaos. In the second picture, 7 of the wind dukes (one of each bearing the same glyph as shown on the mirror at the entrance of the Cairn) stood before a knot of high-caste Varti, presenting a long staff to them with great ceremony. Again, thick steam ran up from the floor towards the ceiling, this time showing the staff break into seven pieces, and drifting off into the cosmos. The third showed a large group of Varti around a towering figure, identified by the glyph at his feet as ‘Icosiel’. In the steam, the figures around him bowed and saluted him. One of the bowing figures was labelled as ‘Zosiel’; the carved figure from the sarcophagus in the chamber downstairs. The fourth and final image showed a huge battle, whose moving image showed both the high-born Varti Lord Qadeej and Miska, the three-headed wolf-spider Queen of Chaos. As steam poured over the painted wall, the Varti impaled Miska where her demonic torso joined with a massive spider-body. Even in her agony, she managed to blast him with a devastating beam from the rays of one of the two wolf-heads which shared her spider-body. The two vanished into a vast planar rift which opened up to swallow them. [/QUOTE]
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