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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5316027" data-attributes="member: 51930">Renya shrugs, being a ranger and not a trap-finder.  She does look around as best she can, but finds exactly what everyone else is seeing; any conclusions, it seems, must be yours to make!Renya does light a torch and move forward in the hallway, however.  She puts away one of her long blades to hold the torch.Jack cannot fit his arm in the holes, though Sindri and other medium-sized people could.  For certain there is a space at the end of the holes, though it's only a few inches between the wall of the hallway (where you are, which is an arm's length of stone in thickness) and the area on the other side of the wall.    The Red light is somewhere in the room beyond.    The holes in the hallway, unlike the steps, are at floor level.As Renya gets to the end of the hallway, the room is lit up.  It is an immense room, shaped like a big hammer:  a long room that opens up at the far end.There is a drop almost immediately, and while you cannot see a floor you can see that the area where it would be is filled with thick webs, like gray cotton blankets, from wall to wall only a few feet below the drop at floor level.  Not merely one single layer, the webs are thick enough to block all view of the area below.From the edge of the hallway where you stand, there are five pillars with flat surfaces at the same height as the hallway, standing up from the thick webs like trees in an ocean of fog.  You believe you could jump from pillar to pillar to get further into the room, and that this is what they were designed to do.At the far side of the room is a massive pillar, like the ones meant to jump across, but wide enough for all of you to fit on with room to spare; it is a platform, easily fifteen feet to a side, and like the pillars is sticking out of the cobwebs.  You can see that its surface is covered with carved images, but before you can make them out they are covered by the cobwebs below.The stone of the room is black and polished, and the surface is ribbed in an almost organic way, though clearly carved by some curious hand.  The ribs are vertical, rising up from below the webs.On the platform is a dais, and on the dais is a pedestal.  On the pedestal is a glowing red gem the size of a melon.  It is this gem that creates the light that you saw when the room was dark.</blockquote>

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