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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 3460291" data-attributes="member: 29558">Once More . . .Without touching the alter (or anything else), Gavril and the rest of the party discover the following:The corpse matches the description of Vyl Corruck.  It is wearing some sort of ceremonial robes - black with silver runes of some sort embroidered on the sleeves and chest.The braziers are set in carved-out portions of the wall.  Each is a shallow bowl of beaten bronze one foot across and four inches deep at its deepest, its inner surface stained with soot.  They fit snugly into hollows in the obsidian.  Above each of the braziers, carved into the obsidian walls, is another hollow lined with copper.  The bottom of each of these 'bowls' of copper is actually exposed to the hollow in which the brazier below it sits.  Each of the top 'bowls' has a 'ring around the tub' verdigris mark.  Above each of the top 'bowls' there is a hole in the obsidian wall.  OOC: See the (very crude) drawing below.  Note that the gap at the bottom of the 'Bowl' is a gap in the obsidian, not in the copper bowl resting inside of it.The portal is round, almost 10 feet in diameter, and forged of a single piece of steel.  There is a noticeable seam between the wall and the portal, but it is less than an eighth of an inch wide.The alter is not made of obsidian (like the room itself) but of a single piece of milky white stone (it's surface currently stained with runnels of dried blood).  At each corner, carved from the stone, is a small winged gargoyle squatting on its haunches.  There are some strange runes carved into the side of the alter, matching the runes observed on the hearthstone currently held in the charred hands of Ser Sorden (on the floor).  While the language is strange, the letters are recognizable:Lycren-tha d'Rn'grn-krol cint ravryn,Se'R'brinjer se'tor d'Rn'grn-krol,Kri slafen te kri urkryn,Skaldy, mogrn, te oty uxen plye,Lox lenna blut geryn Lycren,D'cron-vert-krol d'Lyrcren-tha.The knife protruding from Vyl Corruck's abdomen is of fine steel, with a rawhide wrapped wooden hilt.</blockquote>

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