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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1301437" data-attributes="member: 945">Moving down the stairs once more, the party is greeted by an unusual room.  Along the wall to their left, about a half a dozen open-faced sarcophagi.  In each, female lizardfolk lay, quietly resting.  In from of them, a large bronze-colored statue.  To their right, the entire room houses twenty or more small tables, like nightstands, with raised edges.  In each sits a football-sized egg.  "I'm going to investigate these sleeping lizard people", Rath says, moving cautiously down the stairs.Once his feet hit the ground floor, something catches his eye in front of him.  The statue, a large, featureless, humanoid-shaped structure carrying a large rod animates - his eye piercing through the darkness.  Now clearly visible, an open hole in the floor next to the statue invites thoughts about what might lie below.  The statue turns slowly to the party, pauses ever so slightly, and then moves with some haste - to the hole in the floor!  Dropping out of sight quickly, a loud crash is heard as the creature lands on the level below.  "That can't be good", Bax says.  Meanwhile, Rath pokes at the sleeping female lizardfolk.  "I can't affect them - I believe they are in a temporal stasis."  The party looks at each other curiously, trying to gauge what their next action should be.  Soon, it is decided for them, the moment they hear a savage roar from the floor below.Moving to the stairs on the opposite side of the room, Bax casts Spider Climb, and climbs down the hole the golem dropped through.  Mournax and Ivo lead the charge down the stairs, and make their way into the dark room below.Here, they can just make out the golem standing atop a dais making a motion with the rod, who then turns to face the party.  Shortly, within their field of vision, they can see a lizardman.  It is the king Siluth himself, as represented in the statue, and talked about on the dungeon walls!  Except this incarnation appears very angry, and wields two bronze short swords.  He lets out a roar again, and lunges for the party.</blockquote>

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