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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lars Frehse" data-source="post: 751999" data-attributes="member: 1674">The tomb of Marilvaz the scribe"Since there had been a secret door in this pit, I would like to check out the other one as well", Torn announced, and shortly after, he was in the first pit, searching the walls for hallowed spaces. It didn't take long until he called up to them:"Found it!".In this pit, the secret door opened up to a corridor. It ended after a turn in front of a spiral staircase which lead into an irregular shaped room with mirrors coverin every wall. Niklas noticed that every bit of furniture in it, two couches, two tables and six chairs were all exactly mirrored along an imaginary line that went diagonally through the room. He wondered whether there was any item that was breaking the symmetrie, but as he looked around and saw his image reflected on one of the mirrors to his left, he felt an odd tugging feeling. Within the timespan of a blink of the eye, he was sucked into the mirror, disappearing and leaving his clothes and equipment behind, which crashed to the floor.For a moment, noone dared looking up. After all, if Niklas had been sucked into one of the mirrors, the same fate could happen to one of them as well. Then, Torn looked up and looked to the mirror through which the monk had disappeared, and nothing happened. He turned around once, looking at each wall, and in each of them, he saw himself being reflected a thousandfold, because every mirror not only reflecting the interior of the room, but countless other mirrors as well.  "I think it is safe now", he said."Where could he have gone?", Trepat said, looking around now as well.Torn, who had just opened the door to the left of the mirror through which Niklas had been sucked closed the door again:"He is not in here. There is only a corridor behind this door."."I think I've solved it", Jan said. As Trepat and Torn turned around, neither one of them bothering to hide the surprise at their companion who hadn't overcome many intellectual challenges in the past, he started to lecture:" This room has the form of two overlapping rectangles, right? The overlapping part, if visualized, would have the form of a perfect square."Now, there are two corners of the room, which are not directly mirrored, because the imagined mirroring line disappears in the wall. Those parts of the room, if looked at seperately, are triangles, which again, if put together would form yet another perfect square, of exactly the same size as the first square!".He looked around in triumph. At last he had shown that he was as good at solving puzzles as anyone of them."And what does that have to do with our monk getting sucked through that mirror or with how we can get him back?", Torn asked."Err, I don't know. I have just noticed the geometrical form of the room and thought back to the time when the monks taught us aspiring knights just that", Jan answered, the look of triumph in his face now substituted with confusion.Trepat rolled his eyes up to the ceiling:"In the next village, I will get you a fingertrap to keep you busy in situations like that!".Before Jan had time to figure out the implications of Trepat's last comment, Torn said:"I will try to shatter the mirror that is the duplicate of the one through which Niklas has disappeared." When none of his friends objected, Trepat agreed, and Jan was still trying to finish his thought about the geometrical form of the room, he went ahead and smashed the mirror.It shattered and it's fragments fell to the floor, and in the wall behind it, there was a small niche, but still there was no sign of their lost friend. He turned around and went over to the mirror through which Niklas had been sucked.If this was a portal, then shattering could mean that they would be cut off forever from their friend. And if his soul was trapped in there, shattering the mirror could shatter his soul... For a moment, Torn halted, staring at and through his reflection in the mirror. Then, without thinking again, he raised his axe and smashed the mirror.Again, it shattered, and again there was a niche behind it. This time, however, three things were different from the other mirror. First of all, in the niche, there was yet another tome. Secondly, Niklas fell naked to the floor among the shards of the mirror. The third difference, however, immediatley focused all the attention in the room on it: a well built, young and attractive woman fell to the ground as well.As Niklas picked himself up, she said:"Thank you, noble heroes! At last I am free!".Jan was the first to react:"Have you been trapped in that mirror?".She was about to answer and Niklas interrupted her:"Yes, we have both been trapped in there." Then he got up and after picking up his own robe he handed her his spare robe with which she covered herself. Now, that speaking was easier again, Torn asked her:"How long have you been in there?""What year is it?""151 AV.".She paused for a moment:"Oh, that is indeed longer than I had thought... Looks like I had been trapped in the mirror for twenty years!".She then told them that her name was Mia, and that she had entered the tomb with some companions in order to get the tomes and spells hidden in there. She was merely a rogue and not trained in the art of spellcasting, but the sheer value of the books had made the risk worthwhile for her. The Chardun priest among the adventurers had explained to them, that Marilvaz actually wanted people to try and get the knowledge therein. The traps and riddles within were to make sure that only those who were whorthy of it would get it. After all, Chardun only rewarded those who overcame great obstacles and acted ruthlessly to achieve success.It certainly made sense, and since she said that she didn't want to spend any more time in the tomb, they lead her to the exit. On the way, however, they picked up all the books and put them into their bag of holding for future use. Outside, Mia again thanked the heroes for her rescue and after Jan had given her some food and a couple of coins, she gave him a quick kiss and turned away to climb down the hill, leaving Jan behind with a sheepish grin and a crimson head.Back in the dungeon they went into the mirrored room and through the door to the right. What they saw in their made Jan blush again, and while his brother did the same, Trepat and Torn were unable to wipe a smirk from their face: here the walls were covered with very detailed and realistic erotic murals showing members of all the divine races in every manner of intimacy. Furthermore, there were several life-sized marble statues, which were perfectly carved and like the murals on the wall, they were forever held in the throes of eternal passion.</blockquote>

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