conversations.from: system
conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TooManySecrets: THE MEATGRINDER  
   Tyreus  -  Stick the Lizard  
  Across the tumultuous sea you come to the rocky outgrowth on which the pyramid is perched. The building is like nothing you've ever seen before, made out of pure white stones the size of small houses. Each block is perfectly square and form a jagged slope to the top of the pyramid. Steps run from the rocky beach to the top of the pyramid where you can see some sort of antechamber.
  
  You make your way up the steps, curiously free of moisture despite the misty sea air, and enter.
  
     LEVEL 0   
   
   
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  You are in the antechamber of the pyramid. Ahead of you are two closed doors, with a large keyhole in the center of it. There is the upper half of a skeleton between the two doors seemingly crushed by it. Near the skeleton's hand is a large bronze key.
  
  The walls of the antechamber are decorated by a mural. You can pick out scenes of battle, or something similar, but the details have been lost to time and decay.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tyreus: Stick gingerly picks up the key and tries the door, Wormy close to his side.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TooManySecrets: You put the bronze key into the door and turn it. There's a small click and then a deeper click from within the pyramid. The double doors slowly start to move in opposite directions. Within the murky darkness you see a flight of stairs going downwards.
  
  It does appear that whoever the skeleton was, he (or she) was crushed in the doors. You can see most of the lower half of the skeleton on the top of the stairs.
  
  It is dark down the stairs. You can only see about 10 feet down the stairway and all the rest is darkness.
  
  
   
   
  '''X&gt;&gt;X'''
  '''X&gt;$X'''
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conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tyreus: Stick casts dancing lights and sends them down the corridor, staggered enough to provide illumination all the way down. Then him and wormy climb along the ceiling to the bottom. The lights follow and light up any new areas.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  I'll probably spend as much time as possible on the ceiling or walls unless otherwise noted. (spiderwalk ability)
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TooManySecrets: [OOC: Sorry for lateness, for some reason my subscription didn't update. FYI, read the main thread because I'm going to be gone for vacation for a bit] 
  
  You make your way carefully down the stairs - or rather, the walls - and come to the bottom of the stairs.
  
   
   
  '''X&gt;&gt;&gt;X'''
  '''X&gt;&gt;&gt;X'''
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  You appear to be in a room of some sort. Like the room up above, this one has a mural depicting some scene. While the elements haven't touched the mural, some thing  has. Crude red, white, and black paint has been spread in weird patterns over all the walls.
  
  Directly in front of you is a stone block which seems to serve as a crude altar. There are blackened bones of various length and burnt-down black candles on it.
  
  In each corner of the room are small urns. They too have been painted over with the same crude paint.
  
  At the other end of the room is what looks like a hallway.
  
  All around you is a disgusting smell. It reminds you of a farmyard.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tyreus: Stick and wormy continue at their cautios pace down the hallway.
  
  [OOC: Sorry for the short post but I'm leaving for camping right now and I wont post until tuesday... Just a heads up, only a small break.]