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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5818206" data-attributes="member: 11751">Lars, you slosh through the waist deep water and gaze into the cells as you make your way across the long prison and head for the adjoining chamber.  The corpses are bloated and putrid and small crabs crawl upon them searching for loose bits of meat.  Upon inspection they appear to be Elves, but despite being dead and in various stages of decomposition, something about them is fundamentally wrong: misshaped ears, strangely shaped skulls, sometimes webbed feet or slitted noses.  The skin on some of them are blackish-green and slimy and various bodies have reddish-yellow eyes.  You enter the adjoining chamber by slipping through the open iron door.  In its day it probably made a formidable obstacle to anyone attempting to escape the prison.  Today it is a rusted husk of a door that looks as if it will crumble to red dust at the slightest touch.  The room you now stand looks as if it served as a hallway and stair access.  One spiral stair case is completely caved in with broken masonry and stones, but you can also see that a broad stone stairwell also leads down to lower levels - all deep under water now.  The water is significantly warmer near the stairs down.</blockquote>