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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vendetta" data-source="post: 3734006" data-attributes="member: 14961">The group begins to carefully descend the stairs.  Dark flagstone makes up the steps themselves, with molds and other smallish types of algae and growth coming up between the cracks and seams like grout.  The steps get steadily more slick as the group travels down and the amount of moisture increases.  Strangely though, the temperature seems to increase by a degree or two rather than getting colder as one might think.  There is no clue for you as to how far the stairs might go as the old stone stairs twist and turn everywhich way like a snake trail. "Nae should be much more now," Krueger says in a hushed sort of yell that only a dwarf can effectivly pull off, "we now well below tha floor above us."  Dwarves have an uncanny ability to "know" where they are underground that other races just don't understand.  With that said, you turn the next corner and see, some 20 feet in front of you, the stairs finally end and open into a hallway.  At the end of that hallway is what appears to be an open doorway, perhaps with the door actually removed.  You are facing east (according to Krueger) and the doorway turns to the south. Unable to see much at all inside the room, simply because your sight line is broken by the walls themselves, you do make out that the wall you can see seems to have some kind of large bookcase or some such thing on it, noting that the stone of the "bookcase" is much, much different (being what appears to be solid slabs of stone) than the stacked stone making up the walls around you.You step up to the room and peer in.  The room before you appears to be a catacomb.  The walls all the way around the room are covered from floor to ceiling with, not bookcases, but sarcophaguses.  Some are broken open revealing the bones of the long dead.  Many are clothed in what appears to be very fine clothing, and more than a few are wearing different kinds of armor.  In the middle of the rooms, more sarcophaguses are stacked on top of each other forming a kind of a wall despite the lack of the actual earthwork.  Each of the sarcophaguses open from the side, rather than the traditional removable top slab, mostly likely for this exact system of storage once used so very long ago.  You see only one other exit as you step into the room.</blockquote>

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