<strong>The Neck of Uter</strong><br/><br/>Entering the next chamber and leaving the entrance hall behind, the sense of peace and safety was left behind along with it, replaced the suspense that accompanied the possibility of danger lurking behind every corner. Ironically enough the next room was corner-free, being in the shape of a disk with curving walls and flat floor and ceiling, cut out of the stone. The room was just high enough to stand up straight in and measured about fifteen feet in radius from the pillar that occupied its center to the walls, which were decorated with more relief carvings of tentacles having their way with women and the occasional futanari.<br/><br/>Facing the entrance to the chamber, a palm-sized gemstone was set conveniently at arm's height in the pillar, which itself resembled a natural stalagmite left over undisturbed from the initial construction of the room. The gem looked like tiger's eye, golden brown with a silky lustre and a dark band running vertically down its middle. Set in the pillar as it was, it was basically a button waiting to be pressed.<br/><br/>The round walls held no other obvious exits from the room other than than entrance. The carvings of tentacle sex on the walls were similar to the ones in the previous room in style. But a trained or experienced eye might notice that while the first chamber's erotic art was worshipful but essentially random, the compositions here were deliberately arranged.<br/><br/><em>(To investigate the carvings further would require a check from a skill that can be justified as either 1) being related to artistic and/or literary analysis, or 2) being related to professional prostitution experience)</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>(Everyone: your Perception check has been used up; please pre-roll a new Perception check in your next post).</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Giselle Perception Results (for Chulanowa, other players please keep OOC knowledge separate from IC)</div><div class="spoiler_body">Giselle got a gut feeling that something was off about the pillar in the middle of the room. She couldn't pinpoint what exactly, but she was sure the pillar was more than meets the eye.<br/><br/><em>(Retrying Perception won't work anymore. To investigate further would require a different skill related to dungeon delving, like Knowledge (Dungeoneering) for example.</em><br/></div></div>