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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3100633" data-attributes="member: 35788">Upon entering the room, it appears to be a simple entrance room.  There are two doors - one to the right and one straight ahead.  The room is light by small light green crystals which are ont the wall, well within the reach of Byntrou, Bahruul, and Keryth.  The furniture in the room is sparse as only three stools are set out - and each of them are near the position where the hole in the wall appeared.  Inside, the pattern of stripes of color pass down the walls just as they had on the other side of the wall.Markie looks at the party as they enter and continues, "Please, if you would, stand over by one of the other doors.  The stone moving mechanism isn't so much dangerous as it is loud.  As you saw when it was moved earlier it is quite slow - of no threat to anyone."Assuming the party follows Markie's directions as the approach the far right corner of the room the can spot an object hanging on the wall.  It appears to be a torc* that could be worn around the neck, although instead of having large rounded ends they are flattened out so as to be 2 times as wide as the rest of the torc.*Torc:  For those of you unaccostemed to the jewelry of ancient celts especially, a torc is a solidmetal "horseshoe" shaped piece of jewelry that can be as thick as an inch in diameter or more, although most torcs are smaller than that.  They are typically worn around the neck, but can be worn around the arm or wrist as well.  Because one side is open, torcs normally had a solid round mass on each end of the horseshoe shape to keep the torc from sliding off innappropriately.  In Celtic custom, the torc represented a leader of a tribe.  That may or may not translate here ... it is for you to figure out if you are so inclined.  [I assumed you all were familiar with what a torc is, but I thought that I'd put this here just in case.]</blockquote>

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