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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4664338" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 14 - Lost in the Dark (Part 1)They passed through the doors with their blades drawn and spells and prayers ready. Taking care to avoid treading on the blood trails they emerged into a long chamber that extended to the south. More blood stained the floor further into the room, one wide stain seemingly the source of the trail that led through the doors. A circle of runes was carved in the floor and dyed with orange powder while beyond the circle was a plain altar block of stone. Atop the altar rested a tarnished jug, and beside it were some half-burned scraps of parchment. The doors that they had been told of led westward and slowly, almost unwillingly, Dulvarna turned towards them. Beyond the portals, a passage led north and south, its floor seemingly worn smooth as though by the passage of many feet or of some war engine.Dulvarna turned north and then followed the passage in a sharp turn to the west. A dark opening yawned on her left and she peered into it warily before passing it by. The passage turned left again just beyond the opening and led them southward to another set of double doors that led west. Dulvarna looked at the doors and then made to move past them but Erlmoor halted her with his deep voice.“Why do we pass these by,” the paladin rumbled. “These must surely lead to one of the items that the spirits bade us seek.”“And if they do,” Lavren spoke up. “What good will they do us. We have learned little that will take us to the kindred of Litiraan and Telkya and I know not why we seek these items if we know not what they do.”“Then what would you have us do?” asked Dulvarna. “We are all but lost in the dark, deep beneath this mountain and as you have said, we have learned little of the fate of the remaining captives. All we know if that they are here.”“We go back and search this place room by room,” said Lavren. “We passed two branches before we came to this place and explored neither. We have seen no gnolls and yet we are venturing deeper and deeper into this dark place of cultists and minotaurs. We go back and we try to find the elves.”“Alright then, we go back” said Dulvarna. She paused for a moment. “But you can explain it to the ghosts when they ask.”</blockquote>

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