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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taboo" data-source="post: 287386" data-attributes="member: 5912">The room was fairly large with a dome in the center. Kierwin, Turk and Thorin tried everything they could think of to look through the dome or find some trigger or mechanism to open it, but finally gave up and decided to examine the walls instead. The dome was just not going to cooperate! It was angled wrong to see through and refused to budge.The elaborate frescos on the walls were amazing. It was obvious that whoever had built this place had labored hard (most likely slaves had labored hard) and the paintings and mosaics were extremely lifelike. As Thorin looked at one of the depictions of a Shepard tending a flock of sheep, he noticed that the Shepard’s staff stood out slightly from the rest of the picture.  He felt around, heard a click and it popped off into his hand.At the same time, Kierwin was checking out a fresco of a religious scene. She noticed something strange, but wasn’t too sure she wanted to go poking around with it. She finally did, and it turned out that it was a small pyramid with some kind of runes on it. They were familiar enough to seem religious, but of no religion that she knew. Nobody else in the party recognized them either. They searched further, finding other scenes depicting other clues to life in this area.  One showed two tribes fighting, one tribe obviously winning and completely annihilating the other.Another showed the natives fighting a bear. The bear’s claws were made from some type of metal. Snap was going to pry the metal out, but decided it was just too thin to mess with. By the time he got it loose, it would have just been destroyed.Another showed the people gathering corn, and tending fields. The room looked like a history of the people, their lives, their wars, their religions.  A couple of the other mosaics held some semi-precious items, such as gems, and they took those.There was one last fresco that held a divine scroll, Snap had helped to find it, but couldn't read it.  Kierwin didn't recognize the deity, but after some heavy duty studying and  praying (not to mention frustration), she finally recognized the spells as Bless, Cure Light Wounds, and Spiritual Weapon. That pretty much took care of the whole room.Now, the question was, how do they get out of here?  After a thorough search, they found what they thought was a door. Girmund could pick locks, but couldn’t find a way to pick this one. Thorin took a look at it, then, thinking about the little staff he’d found, he tried it in the keyhole. “Click” and the door swung open! Now THAT was very satisfying for that dwarf!Turk said “Very good! Now we need a marching order and some light!” We should also have the elves on opposite sides of each other, checking for secret doors and things like that. I have a torch, does anyone else have light and any other ideas?”So, Turk got his torch out, Rowena got behind him, Thorin beside him, and Kierwin behind Thorin. Those four started taking the lead with the rest falling in behind. Minx always followed Rowena so that Rowena was defended and so that Minx and Kierwin were always on opposite sides of the party.  And so, they started their decent into darkness.</blockquote>

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