(YBA) Kalath in the dungeons of Tutul

[Wicht]

Synopsis
Having found his way from the sewers underneath the city of the Bard into the lair of the cult of Tutul, Kalathhas slain several cultist, rescued a pair of virgins and confronted a cow. Currently he is has killed two cultist propentates and is moving past the point they were guarding.

Kalath opens the door and looks into a dimly lit room, painted a bronze color and highlighted in red. There are several torches on the wall, smoking and a faint smell of incense lingers in the air. This room is currently empty, but Kalath can hear noises through a door on the east wall. It sounds like something is being moved.

Kalath notices some heavy robes hanging from hooks on the walls of the room he is in.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath goes over to the robes and sees if he can get one on.

He then continues through the door on the east wall.

 

[Wicht]

Kalath easily finds a robe that covers him and then opening the door he passes through. On the other side is a room lit by four braziers, one at each corner. There are three robed figures, a little taller than the others reaarranging straps and knifes on the floor and doing touch up work to an intricate star pattern painted onto the floor. The stone walls of the room have been painted black. Kalath also notices that the floor contains small channels all connecting in the center of the room and spiralling out to the walls.

Curiously, there is a bail of hay against the northern wall of the room.

One of the robed figures turns and looks momentarily at Kalath before getting on with its work.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath decides that dealing with what are most likley the "most high propentates" and the star can wait a bit, and heads back out into the long hallway and takes the second door on the west wall.

 

[Wicht]

Backtracking through the outer room, the empty hallway and the hallway in which he killed the two cultists, Kalath enters again into the long north-south hallway and takes the other door. This opens up onto another long hall heading west. There seems to be another door at the far end on the western wall.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath heads to the door and goes through.

 

[Wicht]

The doorway opens on a hall going north. There is a door on the far northern wall and a door directly across from where Kalath is standing. On the wall just to Kalath's left is the painting of a squid with bat wings and horns.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath first investigates the squid-bat picture, seeing if it hides secret doors or anything similar, and goes straight through the door directly across from him if he finds nothing.

 

[Wicht]

The painting seems to conceal nothing.

Whoever built this place must have liked hallways for the door opens revealing yet one more hallway. This one runs west. There is a door on the north wall immediately to Kalath's right and there is another on the north wall at the other end of the hallway. Otherwise the hallway is empty.

 

[graydoom]

Kalath takes the door immediately to his right.