<span style="font-weight: bold">Alizome</span><br/><br/>In the confusion, Alizome is easily able to slip away from the blinded Blackscales, and down the passageway to the Altar Chamber (area A9). The Priestess, resplendent in bright feathers and ornately worked leathers, stands chanting before the altar, at the point of a triangle made by her two acolytes… a single remaining Blackscale of not great rank staggers about the room, struggling to tidy the mess hurried preparations have caused. Suddenly, her eyes sweep across you. “A more<span style="font-style: italic">suitable</span>sacrifice has arrive,” she smiles, and there’s teeth in it. “Seize him!”<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Xarces</span><br/><br/>You hear the chanting before you round the corner - a draconic invocation to the spirit of the great Kha’shazul, to whom this temple is raised, loyalest servant of the great Rha’shaak… and you stumble, the Priestess’s eyes sweeping unseeingly across Alizome to settle with eager, hungry certainty on you. “A more<span style="font-style: italic">suitable</span>sacrifice has arrive,” she smiles, and there’s teeth in it. “Seize him!”<br/><br/>The disgraced, cleaning Blackscale’s eyes swivel, and with a roar he charges you, leaping forward and wrapping his powerful claws about his arms...<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Synys</span><br/><br/>Synys lashes out at one of the blackscale adepts, but, perhaps hampered by the bulk of the stomach, neither of her blows lands...