One Leaves

Having recovered the mask–The Face Of Baphomet, and the book — The Book Of Wrath Unveiled, the five from Fallcrest take a short rest in the corridor outside the Hall Of Mirrors. Only the knife and the bell remain to be found. Kurgan leaves for town to recover from the cumulative effects of the wounds he took so far. The rest forage on in search of the remaining quest items.

They find two areas where human skeletons dangled, fastened to the walls by rusted iron manacles. The feeling of ages of neglect and dry decomposition hung throughout the complex. No sight or sound of anything living met them, only the lit torches on sconces all along the corridors and the magic glow globes illuminating the rooms hinted at habitation. One room held nothing but two sacrificial altars — the implements on it (daggers and torturers tools) rusted and deformed. Between the facing altars and spanning the rest of the room, a deep dark pit took up the whole space. The glow globes above gave not enough light to see its depth. They continued to search, walking corridor upon corridor, investigating room upon room.

They come upon a particular room where traces of old black blood streaked the floor — as if someone or something dragged a body through. The tracks point to a bone altar in one of the rooms. Behind it, a pair of imposing stone demon statues stood frozen in mid-roar. They find a circle of runes on the floor here, the runes the spirits spoke of where to place one of the items in when all are collected. An exit here opens into a corridor where strangely, a wave-like lapping can be heard. They follow the sound to another door down this passage. Yshven cautiously enter followed quickly by Quorbin, the rest ready out in the corridor.

~ by mmphil on April 4, 2009.