Dorina leads Matron Ki'Willis to her Quarters through one of the smaller doors in the audience room. Narcelia and Carcelon will have to share a room.
The Quth-Maren split up. Two each stay with Dorina, Velasta, and Velina as bodyguards. Four stay in the audience chamber as guards.
The room the Matron is led to is lavishly furnished. Fine leather couches are placed tastefully, golden lamps hang from the ceiling, and majestic tapestries of purple and gold decorate the walls. Several large armoires decorated with gold filigree stand along the walls. The armoires hold more than a dozen ensembles of drow aristocratic finery.
The room that Narcelia and Carcelon will share is a well-furnished bedroom with a comfortable-looking bed and a second bed that looks like it was hastily moved in here. There is a bureau with a mirror and what looks like an altar with an unlit brazier atop it.
Quertus is led into the inverted tower. Again, he passes through the Mordenkainen's Secure Sanctum spell effect. While passing through, the other wizards utter a password, "B'zadarra" and Quertus mimics them when he passes through. Glistening walls of smooth, black rock tower upward, forming an octagonal room that looks like a squat tower turned inside-out. A single archway leads to the Northeast on the ground level. The wizards begin to levitate upwards. Quertus follows. After ascending some 25 feet, the wizards come to a door. Quertus is given a room next to Filzaur's room.
Quertus's new room has clearly been unoccupied for some time. Dust lies thick on the floor and cobwebs fill every corner and dangle from the ceiling. A simple pallet serves as the only bed and a small chest, reading table, and stool are the only other furnishings.
Solom speaks, "After you have rested, please come to my audience chamber. The three of us (indicating Eilos) have much to talk about."
Zedarr leads Marckarius, Torellan, and Dariel up to a high cavern. After passing through a long corridor, they are led to a central area with half a dozen rooms surrounding it. At least twenty male drow can be seen in the various rooms. "This is the barracks level. All of the warriors that are worth mentioning live here. No undead. You'll share a room with me."
Four large sumptious beds with wooden frames line the walls of this room. A heavy brocade cloth hands from the ceiling, splitting the room into four semi-private bedchambers. A hardwood chest of drawers stands by each bed.
Kilcif is led through another magical field into a huge natural cavern. A ledge, about ten feet off the ground, runs the length of the northeastern wall, and some half-dozen doors are set into the wall beyond the ledge. The cavern's ceiling is about twenty feet high. A tunnel leaves the cavern beyond the last of the doors.
The drow vampires start walking towards the tunnel.
Kiernan says, "This is the warehouse area. Beyond those doors is where trading goods used to be stored when caravans passed through here. A few hundred yards beyond the tunnel is where the commoners and bugbears live.
"But before we get there, Leonon wishes to discuss something with you in privacy, and this is about as private as it gets in Szith Morcane. With nothing of value in the warehouses, nobody comes by here anymore. But the arcane wards are still up to prevent anyone from scrying or hearing screams."
Leonon's face goes through a transformation, his fangs protruding. "I've never liked bugbears. And I'm hungry. Defeat me and the others will let you join the other bugbears."
Leonon snarls at Kilcif (who has already drawn his morning star). Leonon is wearing mithril chainshirt, has a rapier in his belt, and a large mithral shield slung across his back, but has made no attempt to draw his rapier or unsling his shield.
OOC: Kilcif is 5 feet away from Leonon and it is Kilcif's initiative.
