Heading west Xaria finds herself soon moving down was seemed to be an organic corridor that seemed to pulsate and throb like a muscle with every muscle. The corridor was supported by bones and sinew binding it all together. Soon however this began to open up into some kind of messy looking stone room forty feet wide and thirty feet long. The room had an altar upon the western wall containing a scroll saying "read first", a packet leaf containing three rations for food, a gauntlet, a small oak box, and a red silk sash inlaid with gold. Beside the altar were two statues each in the form of a monster. The left hand one was of a giant minotaur and the other was a lizardman. Besides them was a portcullis each leading northwest and southwest. It was clear that there were plenty of choices to be made in this room as well and all of them she would have to make.<br/><br/>Seeing as how she wouldn't be able to open the doors yet there was no harm in checking the scroll as suggested. The scroll reads as follows.<em>"You must accept a challenge from one of two champions if you are to be granted your own desires. For the lizard folk you must take up what material they would value over all. To challenge the minotaurs you must bring with you the colors of war. The third object is to be used in a time of true crisis but be warned that there is a price to use it. The rations are yours, challenger of the mazes and use them wisely and sparingly for these luxuries are few and far between"</em>It was now time to make some choices...