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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5213139" data-attributes="member: 51930">With that, the party moved in through the doors and down the steps to the first landing.  There they stopped and looked:At the landing there was a wide archway into a room, with steps going down to reach the floor without railing.  The room beyond was a masterful example of stonework and artisanship.  It was a tomb, its stone walls perfectly smooth, eight of them in a perfect octogram.  The steps went down another flight to the floor.The eight walls each had alcoves in them with tall shapes in the recesses, apparently carved pillars with metal plating.  In front of each of the pillars was a stone sarcophagus, tall enough to be tables for men standing at them, sized for someone possibly just over the height of a man to be placed in them.  In the corners of the room, between each of the alcoves, was an urn made of what looked to be stone or porcelain.The center of the floor has a raised section of stone in it.  The stone is in the shape of an octogon, but its corners are not lined up with the corners of the room.  Instead, they point each to one of the sarcophagai or the pillars beyond them.</blockquote>