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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1904594" data-attributes="member: 1891">OOC: Neither, actually. The "old" one pulls towards the siphon room, but since you don't know where the siphon itself is that's not too informative. The "new" one has a faint tug towards the large, very broken portal arch in the room you're currently in. Neither show any interest in the buried thing below you.Matching the three runes around the door-panel to their counterparts on the new runekey arm, Artemis opens the door to the siphon chamber.Directly in front of you is another slender bridge, this one unbroken, that crosses a very large room. The bridge has an arch to it -- at its midpoint, its forty feet from the floor; at the ends, thirty-five or so -- and its railings are carved in the shape of swords and spears. At the far side is the start of a passage that slopes sedately upwards, curving out of side.The far side of the room is perhaps a hundred feet away -- and the chamber is at least two hundred feet from end to end. On the far wall is a massive relief carving of hundreds of upright spears, with Netherese runes ten feet tall carved in the center of the image. These carvings glow, illuminating the whole room.The bridge is closer to one end of the room than the other, and the end nearest the span has another series of ten foot high runes carved on its wall. Below this is a heavy stone archway -- not the familiar pinkish-purple, but an almost phosphorsecent green -- fully ten feet high and eighty or ninety feet wide.This arch looks almost exactly like the one shown in the triptych the Follies found in the mosaic room.The bridge is covered in a thick coat of dust, but this has been marred by myriad scuffs, tracks and other disturbances. The floor is similarly covered -- but what else is down there is much more eye-catching.Eight regiments of clay statues, seven feet tall, are lined up in formation facing the green archway. Some are shattered or otherwise damaged, but many are in perfect condition. They are carved to represent lightly armored warriors, each carrying a ten-foot spear and a kite shield. Their armor consist mainly of bracers and greaves, with small breastplates and helmets -- the breastplates are covered in spikes, and the helmets are horned.Scattered around the statues is the debris of the destruction of some of their number: shards of pottery, clay dust, etc. The dust around them is also disturbed, much like on the bridge -- but the statues themselves are relatively dust-free. It is clear that they have been climbed on, wiped off, or otherwise interacted with.At the far end of the room furthest from the bridge, the corners are angled, and there is another (smaller) green arch in both corners.At the room's midpoint on either side, large marble spheres are set into the wall about three feet off the ground. The one on the opposite side of the room is covered in dust; the one below you is clean and shiny. Many small tracks lead up to this sphere, and even from here it's a safe guess that they belong to the spelleaters.It looks like there are carvings on the near wall (where the door is) as well, but from here you can't tell what they are. They do offer enough handholds for an easy climb to the floor, though.OOC: From the doorway, the old arm pulls straight across the room to the passage on the opposite side. The new one tugs gently back towards the broken portal in the room behind you.</blockquote>

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