In turn, each of you makes his way down the crude rope ladder which your companions have constructed. It is tethered above to the chain which would normally hold the green lantern, the one you first saw when you entered the tomb yesterday. It has now been placed aside in order to tie the rope more securely.
One by one you easily make your way down (OOC: "Taking 10" on your climb checks) the rope ladder into the room below. At first you climb through the acid-scarred tunnel which once held the "elevator" mechanism you saw in the other corridors. On its walls you can see the tracks where thousands of the beetles crawled out from their incarceration below.
Passing through the shaft you emerge in the room below. A large pile of rubble and torn metal lies in a heap below the rope ladder, the remains of the ruined mechanism. After a 20 foot drop from the ceiling, you let go of the rope as you reach the top of the rubble and carefully make your way down over the stones and boulders to the sand-colored tiled floor.
The room itself is much smaller than the one above, roughly square, 15 by 20 feet with a small rounded alcove in its southern wall. The general design of this underground chamber is similar to the one above, although a discerning eye can tell that it has a somewhat rougher appearance, as if its builders did not want to invest the time and effort. Dozens of bas-relief figures similar to the one of the sarcophagus lid in the room above star disapprovingly from the walls here. Many sport crossed arms and stern expressions. A few of the figures' heads are missing and some have huge chunks torn out of them. Others have a weird melted appearance, as if they'd been sprayed by something terribly caustic. A large glyph that looks like a stylized arrow points down a short corridor to the north that leads to a small intersection.
OOC: The map below is "upside down", meaning that north is "down" and south is "up".
