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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 3098519" data-attributes="member: 7006">Taviss and Ari advance on the crystaline structure in the center of the room.  As he moves forward, the ranger scans the black floor for any sign of any sort... and when he reaches the center of the room, begins to move around it still looking.Ari comes upon the crystals and is able to answer Jango's question for him.  This entire structure is not a single dragonshard.  In fact, it's mainly not a dragonshard at all, but rather the same obsidian-like stone that the floor and walls are made up of.  However... Ari definitely does see small dragonshards embedded in the various bits and arms of the structure... most of them the same size as the three he grabbed from the crate up top or a bit smaller.  In fact, upon careful examination (without touching), Ari can see the three places in the structure where he guesses the three dragonshards in his pack were chiseled out of.Jango walks around the room and believes his initial thought was correct... there is no indication that Captain Erqua and the other two pirates have been through here in the last fifteen minutes.  When Ari mentions the three places where he thinks the 'shards they grabbed from the upper room were taken from, Jango confirms with himself that if that was the case, this couldn't be a room that had just been opened in the last fifteen minutes.  The mining of the 'shards would have occured much earlier.Khalia goes through her memory about the uses of Khyber dragonshards in magical binding, and comes to a couple conclusions.  One, they are primarily found underground near places of extreme heat... either volcanic areas or places where magma flows... which would explain why it's so hot and these shards are here.  And two, the fact that the room was built and carved and polished but yet these 'shards were not also removed at the same time (and in fact seem to be the centerpiece of this whole room to begin with)... leads her to believe that these dragonshards must have been left here for a reason.Her thoughts on this seem to be confirmed when Taviss shouts out that he finds numerous blood stains on the ground near a number of the metal gates.  In fact, upon more careful examination Taviss also finds that three of the gates have been scraped up a bit and the rust has numerous vertical lines cutting through it, an indication that the gates have either been raised or lowered some time recently.</blockquote>

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