The passage ahead from the guard room lead to what appeared to be a bedroom with some 10 beds set along the walls. Five on each side. Beds empty but looking like they had been recently used. There was small chests at each bed's end, though locked. Not looking particularily well made but still.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Whether or not your character wants to engage in looting those chests is up to Marric/Maria and Lissu, but giving a word on that as necessary, I'll move on. There were 4 rooms in the map before the larger chamber that split into 4 side passages, 3 of which were marked with an 'X' on the map, and a back tunnel at the other side of the room leading to the spiral and the arrow.</div></div><br/>The door past that room lead to what appeared to be a more natural cavern. Small pond to the side with warm water within it, steaming slowly, and buckets lifted up on hooks along the other wall, holes in the buckets bottoms. It looked like a bath and a shower, using what natural elements were already present there. The room had a hot, steamy feel to it. Passing it, the last room in the row opened.<br/><br/>What might have once been a waiting room or something of the sort, with comfortable large benches of stone still partially covered by pillows were not crushed by stone collapsed from the roof, crushing the benches partly or hiding some fully. Six benches, three on both sides, and four of them were broken for most part, two in relatively good shape.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">And here it begins to enter the harder phase.</div></div><br/>The last door there opened to what was a stunning view. Enormous stone chamber carved wider from perhaps once natural chamber. There was a 20 feet wide 'balcony' area up where the steps ended, the room at least 80 feet wide sideways, and looking like it stretched some good 200 feet towards the back. With a 20 feet 'balcony' going all around, the central area left a 160 by 40 feet area, some 30 feet below the balcony area.<br/><br/>The railing area had braziers set some 40 feet away from one another, at each corner and one near the door that he had entered from. There were doors ahead from the lower area, seeming to lead to the left and right of the chamber, to the sides, beneath the balcony areas. The back of the room had a dual-doorway, secured by an iron bar, up at the balcony level. The side doors below, and the large doors at the back and front on the elevated levels. The 200 feet long sides each had staircase descending 5 feet down at every 5 feet ahead.<br/><br/>At the far end of the bottom area there appeared to be a large, elevated stone platform, and an altar upon which a young woman was stripped naked and bound by her ankles and wrists.<br/><br/>Behind her, the scaled man chanting something holding his both hands high up in the air. At least 150 feet away from where Marric and Lissu were, but finally in their sight.<br/><br/>Thing was, there were at least a dozen cultists in robes chanting before the snake-man there. This was not the chamber Marric had seen in a vision before, but similar, with blood spilled along the altar already, the man pausing to speak after the chant.<br/><br/>"Brothers and Sisters! Today we sacrifice another virgin to the glory of the Shard! Soaking the shard with blood of the innocent, we annoint this power of the divine to bring forth that which we desire! End of this forsaken, corrupt land! The recreation of a paradise, a paradise in which we are perfect and pure! No longer shall we have to shamble as wretches before the corrupt, the cruel, no, now we strike back, and take the Power of Gods to shape the world to fit our vision! One more!" The crowd shouted zealously in turn. "One more!"<br/><br/>Grinning, the scaled man reached aside to pick up a sharpened dagger from the altar besides the bound woman.