The door slams shut on the roars and growls of the trolls below, the thick stone cutting off their sounds completely. You find yourselves in a massive octogonal chamber. Illumination seems to spring from everywhere...the ceiling, the walls, the floor, bathing the room in a milky radiance that gives the place a dim and eerie glow.
The floor of the place, upon which you stand, is about 15' below the main entrances to the room. Short, broad steps lead up to those polished brass portals. The ceiling vaults to a hieght of some forty feet above your heads. The stone of the chamber is of polished grey stone with whorls of glittering mica, and a swirling, eddying, softly glowing mist covers the floor.
In the center of the area is a great peirced square of bronze, ten feet to a side, set in a circular pit some five feet in depth. In the ceiling above the pit is a twenty foot diamet shaft leading upwards into darkness, mimicing the circular pit below it. Just to the south of the pit is a large slab of alabaster, eight feet long by two feet wide, and four feet in hieght. Atop it sets a pair of knives and a large bowl, all crafted of fine crystal. Flanking the pit are two crystal braziers, suspended from silver tripods on silver chains. Each gives off a faint, sickly smelling perfumed smoke.
The doors to the north is different from the others. More massive than the others and crafted of bronze instead of brass, these doors are chained, barred and locked, and silvery runes burn and writhe upon the portals' surface.
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