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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antithetist" data-source="post: 5250684" data-attributes="member: 88443">Examination of the inn's exterior and of its upper floors proves entirely fruitless, as do Serris's enquiries on the street. There seems to be no evidence that the place is anything more than it appears to be. Only once Orsik prevails upon one of the barmdais to open up the cellar and most of the party proceed down the steps do things start to come into perspective.  At first it appears much as one would expect - a dank, musty cavern hewn out of the rock, filled with racks and shelves containing bottles and casks of all shapes and sizes. The stone floor is treacherously bumpy and potholed, and rodent shapes dart on the edge of the flickering torchlight. As our heroes poke around, looking for hidden pasageways or tell-tale symbols, they begin to notice patterns in the uneven ridges and planes of the stone underfoot, and eventually the truth dawns on them: they're walking on the foundations - or what remains of them - of a much older building. The ruined temple beneath the inn is evidently more ruined than might have been hoped, and the only danger lurking there now is the very real threat of a sprained ankle if one was to stumble incautiously around the cellar.  One down, one to go...</blockquote>