<strong>Location:</strong>Feasting Hall<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>E'rryboddy Present<br/><br/>"Fucking shitpipes," Ferril groaned at Chorgath's accusation, rubbing his temples with a orichalcum gauntlet.  He is more than happy to allow Sanger to take point and deflect knife-pointed inquiries, though.<br/><br/>Ruby and Cerulean both one-armed hug the Dawn back, thankful.  "We knew, when we saw the key," Ruby says quietly, her voice wavering only once as her eyes brim with tears.  She refuses to blink them away.  "Lady Anjushri kept it hidden away, always.  If he has it, then..."<br/><br/>"You're weird," Cerulean informs Sanger, wiping at her eyes and forcing smile.  "Get to the antechamber when you find her.  Don't die."<br/><br/>Their attention lingers on the Dawn as he turns to go for only a moment-- then, it's all business as they turn back to the new arrivals.  "The others were supposed to be making the door frame we can use the key in," Ruby announces, already leading the way back to the antechamber at a swift stride.  "We need to get there before they figure out what we're trying to do..."<br/><br/>As they get started, Ferril briefs Chorgath, Void, and Samaro about the known facts (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=185349.msg9331141#msg9331141) of the two people he knows to be here-- Elmala, the Changing Moon Witch, and Fox's Overwhelming Terror, a deathknight of unknown but suspected Caste.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Enroute, Perception+Awareness (Hearing) diff 5 yields...</div><div class="spoiler_body">There's a commotion ahead on the route to the antechamber.  Shouts, snatches of outcries, clattering and clambering of what sounds like furnitures, and the clash of metal on metal. </div></div><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Within the Temple<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Sanger, anyone else following him to seek Iori<br/><br/>It's not a short walk to Iori's quarters, but at a run and with the aid of his hearthstone, Sanger can make it.  What he sees when he gets there is not promising.<br/><br/>About twenty feet from the entrance to Iori's quarters, there are definite signs of a battle.  There are three arcs on the walls, ceiling, and floor of blackened stone, as if scorched by an intense fire; there's also a pool of shimmering reddish-orange liquid on the ground and a handful of spatters of the same on the walls and elsewhere on the floor, the color and glow suggestive of embers left in a fireplace.<br/><br/>There are a few footprints in the pool of ichor-- big feet, and barefoot.  The footprints (and a dripping trail of the red-orange liquid) lead off down the hallway, down a winding hallway, turn into a room, and-- interestingly-- through a freshly-made hole in the sandstone wall, eight feet tall and four feet wide, that leads into another small chamber.  And then through another hole, about the same size...