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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lars Frehse" data-source="post: 769465" data-attributes="member: 1674">The tomb of Marilvaz the sage- part 4 of 4No one of them was able to decipher the writing on the wall. However, since it's mere letters were looking wicked, it seemed plausible that it was the language of hell. This was most likely the ritual. Jan looked around, seeing if there was anything with an evil aura, and as he looked at the sarcophagus, his fears were confirmed. Indeed, there was a pulsating aura of darkest evil shining through the massive stone.He told his friends about it who decided to copy the ritual on the wall and then leave as swiftly as possible. Before that, however, they took a look at the mirrors.Each of them enabled them to look at one of the other rooms. There were fourteen mirrors and fourteen rooms and corridors, and above and below each mirror a pair of words was inscribed."Maybe the words hold a clue to the ritual", Torn said.Niklas took a look, too:"Or maybe they are the key to a spell if put together."Trepat shook his head:"I don't think that there would be another puzzle, after there had been one in the graveyard. But these words are complete nonsense." He pointed at the one that stood over the miror that showed the temple in which they had been attacked by the allips. "I mean, what is "Warwoople" supposed to be? An elaborate hoax maybe? Or perhaps...".Torn interrupted him:"Look at the mirror!".Trepat turned around and now he saw it too: Through the collums in the hall, he could see the shapes of the allips again. He furrowed his brow:"When did they come back?"."The moment you said Warwoople", Torn answered.Now Niklas walked up to the mirror, looked at the word below the mirror and said:" Parkaul.".Immediately, the allips disappeared. He said Warwoople again and the allips reappeared. Now they took a closer look at the two rooms which they hadn't entered: A greenhouse and a room full of skeletons. They used the words to deactivate the rooms and then they picked up the tomes therein.Now all that was left for them to do was to copy the writings on the wall word by word, which turned out to be a tedious task, since the writing was completely unknown to every one of them, and they had to copy it letter for letter, doublechecking to make sure that every single stroke or dot was identical to the ones on the wall.Each of them took a part of the wall to copy and they worked in silence, only speaking to each other when they weren't able to make out a letter properly or when they discovered a mistake in the work of someone else. Still, this was as exhausting as any hard labor they knew- especially since soon their eyes were hurting from the strain and they needed all their concentration to keep the unknown letters from blurring into each other.Hours passed, as suddenly the silence was disturbed by footsteps and human voices. They turned around, half expecting to see a group of intruders coming up the spiral staircase, as they saw that in fact the voices were coming from the mirror that gave them a view on the entranceway. There they say nine humans in leather armor who were accompanied by a mansized writhing mass of darkness. Trepat noticed that the writhing darkness was in fact hundreds of black snakes which were writhing and moving around each other, giving the multitude the superficial look of one solid object.The strange group entered the tomb without hesitating in the entrance cave, and Ben pointed at their leader:" That one is definetly a druid of Mormo.".The group reached the first fork in the way, and there the leader split the group: three of his followers would turn left, three right and two would stay with him. Then he said something to the writhing mass of snakes, and that too split in three- one "heap" stayed with the leader and the other two parts went with one of the groups each.Meanwhile, the friends started to frantically debate a plan regarding what to do In the end they came up with this: Torn and Trepat would wait in the corridor behind the secret door in the  first pit. There, they would shoot their arrows, which Trepat had charged with electricity, at whoever opened it and then run for it. Niklas and Ben stayed back in the room with the magical mirrors, where they would activate all the rooms through which the Mormo worshippers came, while Jan would wait in the gaming room in case they needed immediate help- he was definetly too slow for the hit and run tactics they wanted to apply.Even though the friends were outnumbered, they had one vital ally, and they would use that one for their greatest advantage- their ally was the tomb of Marilvaz the sage itself.</blockquote>

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