Eyes Of The Lich Queen

[stonegod]

Ari smirks. "That just cuts it. No sign of it. Or of that felled fiend, either. Well, one of those is good news. I'll let the rest of you examine things. Maybe those marks or whatever is in those alcoves will tell you something." The hexer absently rubbed his left hand, as if it was sore.

 

[Velmont]

After Jango have looked at the slab, he adds "Or we might be too late. Ari, can you tell if anyone have come here before us recently?"

 

[stonegod]

"Woth a try, though we've been stomping about this place a bit carelessly. And bare rock doesn't hold tracks well." While others do their business, the hunter examines the area around the slab and the bridge for obvious trails.

OOC: Track check. Tend to forget I have that.

 

[Mista Collins]

Examining the slab further, Rogan searches for an levers or devices that might hint at a secret compartment or something else beyond what the untrained eye can see.

 

[drothgery]

Rather than looking for devices and secret panels, Khalia's looking for anything that will give clues about what this room was supposed to hold.

 

[DEFCON 1]

The group spreads out and begins looking around. Ari's hunter eyes pick up no tracks in the rock, as he pretty much suspected he wouldn't. So he cannot make a concrete determination when anyone else might have been here.

Rogan goes over the basalt slab with a fine-toothed comb, but other than the semispherical depression in its center, there are no other compartments or doors in it.

Jango wanders over to the three niches behind the slab and sees what are in two of them... an amulet and a scepter. The amulet is an Eberron dragonshard attached to a finely wrought platinum chain. The scepter bears an Eberron dragonshard grasped in a golden draconic claw. The third niche is indeed empty.

Brother Donovan and Jina wander over to the sarcophagus at the magma rift's edge and stand to look at it. It looks to be solid, thick stone... the lid probably four inches thick. The draconic imagery carved into it all seems to be of dragons fighting demons.

Khalia attempts to piece together what they have here, and as the others pass on their info, they begin to reach some conclusions. Although there are no tracks to verify anyone has been here before... both the depression in the slab and one of the niches are empty. If Sur'Kil was convinced that the draconic artifact Aridarastrixsauriv, the Dragon's Eye, was stored here in this location for safekeeping, everything should still be here (unless they are fabulously well-hidden). The fact that some things aren't here obviously (like whatever was presumably in the third niche) leads one to believe that if the depression and the third niche held something at some point, but do not anymore... it means someone or some group must have come here before you at some point in history.

As the group stands around and considers their options, Khalia is reminded by herself that they do have the Sending Stone to get in touch with the silver dragon if that is something they want to do.

 

[stonegod]

Ari curses loudly a few times. "Best we send a message to our friend. This looks to be a dead end, unless one of those trinkets do something."

 

[Velmont]

"I wonder why they have been taken, and why the third have been taken." tells Jango, looking at the empty niche.

 

[Mista Collins]

Once it is determined there is nothing more to the giant slab, Rogan turns to the others. "This slab seems just that, a slab. What of the sarcophagus? Any chance of what we seek being in there?"

 

[stonegod]

Once it is determined there is nothing more to the giant slab, Rogan turns to the others. "This slab seems just that, a slab. What of the sarcophagus? Any chance of what we seek being in there?"

"Maybe, but I don't like it. I've never read a tale in the Chronicle that ended with one of those things being empty." The hunter hunkered next to it, just in case. "Unless the Lady has any learned objections?"