Aria nodded and looted the bodies on the ledge as she regenerated. While looking around the upper chamber, she noticed it had one high seat like a cross between a throne and a podium, with a lower one by it, and several benches along the other walls of the room...she realized, after a moment, it reminded her of nothing so much as a courtroom.<br/><br/>Staring down into the pairs of doors in the floor on the western side of that chamber, right where two of the slain angels were (they had almost fallen back in it when slain by her) , Aria noticed that the southwest portal did indeed lead back into the chamber where they'd found Anya being submerged. the one on the right, from what she could glimpse of it so far, seemed the only pleasant-looking chamber in the place. She saw a glimpse of a divan with silk cushions spread generously over a frame that might've been crafted of real gold. A palm tree, of all things, blocked most of her view into the chamber. It radiated magic, and she suspected the whole thing was an illusion (Kass with her better knowledge of magic would, while using her divination, be able to confirm the school of magic it radiated as that of illusion), being as it seemed to lack for sun, water and earth.<br/><br/>The tiefling also poked her head back into the eastern chamber to double check that Anya was still okay and invisible. She informed her, "We're about to look in the remaining, northeast corner of the pyramid...taking you there would require holding you and flying you up over the rubble into the upper chamber to dip back down into a 'door' in its floor which leads to the northeast chamber - sort of like the one above us in this chamber," she pointed up. "Since carrying you presents far extra danger both to yourself and to us, as we experienced outdoors just a while ago, and we might be carrying you right into another fight, just stay here for a bit. Like I said before, don't worry about getting lost, I can see you while invisible. If something skulks by you, just stay quiet and in a place it won't bump into you."<br/><br/>With that, she motioned to Kass that she was about to peek into the northeastern chamber via the floor-door, being as it was already open. Noticing that the vertical shaft created by the opened 'doors' was ten feet deep, the tiefling hovered in it, deftly inverting herself so that she could peek down into the room - hopefully without being seen by anyone within who wasn't almost directly beneath. She hoped every sentient being left in the place had already been flushed out by their last battle.<br/><br/>The tiefling saw more palm trees, flowering vines which wrapped around columns, and lush potted ferns - all radiating the same magic. She was glad that all the golden furniture she saw - the ferns' pots, more leisurely seating, and a few low-slung tables or beaded hammocks - seemed real enough. She glimpsed a temptingly cool looking fountain near the room's center, with its edges of tiled lapis lazuli and turquoise, rendering the blue water seeming even bluer.<br/><br/>From further away in the room, out of her own sight, came a scritching, clicking sound, deep in pitch; animalistic sounds, and chitinous - much like those the massive scorpion had made, a fact she quickly relayed to Kass.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Aria take 10 on Hide, using cover of the 'vertical doorway' (the northwestern of the four floor-doors in the upper chamber, the one the sphere rose out of ) while looking into the room.<br/><br/>magic posesssons:<br/>(weapons/armor Large)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Justicators</span><br/>4 greatswords, 4 suits mithral full plate<br/>4 rings<br/>4 handy haversacks containing:<br/>2 rings<br/>bracers<br/>brazier<br/>stone idol<br/>diamond<br/>bell<br/>4 sets of shackles<br/>drums<br/>pearl<br/>eye lenses<br/>2 staves<br/>5 wands<br/>120,000 gp in nonmagical gems and rare texts<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Exodus</span><br/>adamantine sword, mithral full plate (Large)