Jin looks at the images on the walls and then recites the riddle once more.<br/><br/><em>"Go back to the tormentor or through the arch, and the second great hall you’ll discover.<br/>Shun green if you can, but night’s good color is for those of great valor.<br/>If shades of red stand for blood the wise will not need sacrifice aught but a loop of magical metal—you’re well along your march.<br/>Two pits along the way will be found to lead to a fortuitous fall, so check the wall.<br/>These keys and those are most important of all, and beware of trembling hands and what will maul.<br/>If you find the false you find the true and into the columned hall you’ll come, and there the throne that’s key and keyed.<br/>The iron men of visage grim do more than meets the viewer’s eye.<br/>You’ve left and left and found my Tomb and now your soul will die.</em><br/><strong><br/>"We've been assssssssuming everything we've read hasssssss been in order, but now I am not so sssssssure.  And we ssssssstill don't have a magical loop of metal.  I admit, I'm ssssstumped for now."</strong><br/><br/>He scowled while hissing air through his reptilian teeth.  He was feeling on edge, like he was missing something obvious and was expecting it to come bite them.  Plus, it didn't help that Cassia was looking rather delicious looking even though he wasn't even all that hungry.  And he liked Wendy too much to consider a snack-sized meal.  Such were the impulses of assuming a foreign shape, he didn't want to waste its combat potential though by changing back however.  Time to concentrate, time to figure out where to go from here.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=66827.msg3496116#msg3496116">Quote from: BigBuckBob on 18-08-2010, 22:46:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The path eventually leads to a wall with a short crawl way, that ends at a golden sphere. A simple probe of that sphere would reveal it to be passable, and once passed it, the group would find themselves in the second great hall.<br/> <br/>The floor of this long, wide hall is inlaid with tiles, and the walls and ceiling are painted with figures of animals and strange signs and glyphs. Humans and humanlike creatures hold painted spheres, each a different color from the next.<br/><br/>The figures and their corresponding spheres appear<br/>as follows on the west wall, from north to south:<br/>GOLD sphere held above head by a naga.<br/>ORANGE sphere held waist high by a mummy. <br/>PURPLE sphere held at feet by a minotaur.<br/>BRONZE sphere held waist high by a nymph. <br/>GRAY sphere held at shoulder by an owlbear.<br/>BRIGHT BLUE sphere held at feet by a sahuagin.<br/>WHITE sphere held above head by a red slaad.<br/>TURQUOISE sphere held at shoulder by a satyr.<br/>SCARLET sphere held waist high by a mind flayer.<br/>PALE GREEN sphere held at feet by a medusa.<br/><br/>These are along the opposite wall:<br/>PALE BLUE sphere held at shoulder by a werewolf.<br/>SILVER sphere held at feet by a four-armed gargoyle. <br/>GREEN sphere held high above head by a half-orc.<br/>YELLOW sphere held at shoulder by a falconheaded creature.<br/>PINK sphere held high above head by a yuan-ti.<br/>BLACK sphere held at feet by a hydra.<br/>PALE VIOLET sphere held at shoulder by a kuo-toa.<br/>RED sphere held waist high by a skeleton. <br/>BUFF sphere held at feet by a white- bearded human wizard.<br/>INDIGO sphere held high above head by a batwinged woman.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>