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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Watermark12" data-source="post: 2031083" data-attributes="member: 28140">Examining the roomJarten looks about him, taking in the whole of the room, as his vision returns. Aieron and Grimbold stoop to examine the closest of the skeletons, lying near the feet of one of the statues. It seems to be the long-dead corpse of a human male. It wears rotten studded leather armor and a torn grey cloak. A rusted dagger and short sword remain in their decaying scabbards. In a large sack tied to its belt, there are several gold pieces [61 once counted], a flask containing a viscous yellow substance [identifiable as alchemist's fire], and a small coin that glows continually as if a light spell had been cast upon it. It also has 50 feet of rope and a grappling hook, still in usable condition. Therren looks closely at the mosaic on the walls, taking in its details. On the western wall (the one that has just slammed down, sealing the player characters in), the mosaic shows a wide, life-sized doorway in the middle of the room, with life-sized human figures walking out of it and passing to either side. The figures are dressed simply but colorfully, and all carry something carefully in front of them—a basket of fruit, a platter of meat, a tray of polished stones, a nice wooden box, a sealed bag, or some other offering. Along the north and south walls, these life-sized supplicants appear to continue to move in a procession to the east. The mirrors cover the faces of the two figures that are farthest east, closest to their destination. The mosaic covering the eastern wall depicts three regal figures seated on thrones—two men and a woman. The woman sits in the middle on a throne of glass. She has long golden hair and wears a beautiful diaphanous white gown and a golden circlet. The man to the south sits upon a wooden throne. He has a dark complexion and wears a purple coat of velvet over a white shirt and pants. The man to the north sits upon an iron throne, a staff laid across his knees. He wears a red shirt and black pants, and sports a brown beard that matches his long, curly hair. Darian and Thar cross over the few steps to the raised eastern portion of the room. Darian stops to look over the bookshelf and its contents. The simple, free-standing bookcase along the southern wall holds four shelves. Each shelf is full of various clay pots and glass jars, all sealed and stoppered. A handful of them have labels in Common that read, “basil,” “batwings,” “eye of newt,” “arsenic,” “jellied liver of cat,” "pillory powder," and so on. Thar continues on, and makes his way in the direction of the room's second skeleton, but he pauses to look at the mirror on the southern wall. Hanging just a few feet from the eastern wall, the mirror is an oval about 8 inches tall and 6 inches wide. It occupies the space on the wall covering the head of one of the mosaic figures, and so hangs right at eye level.  As his eyes lock onto his own reflection in the mirror, Thar's muscles suddenly go rigid, his gaze transfixed by the glass pane! [Will Save: 7+4=11]. Unable to speak or look away, the half-orc stands motionless, completely paralyzed! OOC: Actions please?</blockquote>

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