Aria began healing herself as well, then went about looting the kytons, and the pile of ash which remained of Belias (for which she was actually glad - it was far easier to shake ash of an oversized suit of armor than to take it off an actual body), as well as using the monocole on the doors' other sets of runes so that she'd know how to open them, then resumed her blink.<br/><br/>The ones the kytons had been having trouble with, she also was unable to open - when she tried, the telekinetic magic activated, but simply caused another awful grating sound.<br/><br/>"Oh well, if the design of this place is as symmetric as we've seen so far, we could go back through that central chamber to get to the fourth corner of the pyramid..." she thought aloud, and also gestured to the set of doors in the ceiling, "Or those..." she bounced giddily on her feet, once again put in a euphoric but no less focused state by Kass's musical magic.<br/><br/>She elected for the former, remembering that Karsus had thought that priest he'd traveled with had been consigned back to the first floor after being declared 'innocent' by the silvery being.<br/><br/>Aria literally crossed her fingers as she triggered the door-runes for the central chamber - and mercifully, they slid open functionally enough.<br/><br/>The central chamber was almost unrecognizable. The central circles of runes were still dark - and deep cracks had practically shattered the floor of the chamber. Aria realized that since it dipped ten feet down from the corner chamber's floors, it would likely be only ten feet thick from the bottom of the pyramid, rather than twenty. She couldn't see any sand from the desert floor through the cracks, but suspected that if she were to peer straight down into one she might.<br/><br/>The powerful magic aura from the runes was gone, she saw - either the dispelling had been permanent rather than a temporary suppression (such as when the spell is cast upon magic weapons or armor), or the fall had done the permanent breaking. The only magic aura she saw was, she realized from where Zeromus's body had been - and now, instead, merely a crab figurine which seemed carved of pure diamond.<br/><br/>And only some arcs of the rune circles could be seen: a vast quantity of stone slabs and shards had fallen upon it all; Aria was surprised the figurine hadn't been covered or crushed; perhaps Zeromus's body had flashed away like Hashmal's and Belias's after the fall, or even because of it. The rubble piled so high in some places that it nearly offset the curious way the chamber's actual floor was ten feet lower than its doors.<br/><br/>Aria realized that the very ceiling of the chamber had caved in from the fall. Looking up, they could see the chamber above: it was almost pyramid-shaped, appearing to encompass all four outer walls of the second floor, and go nearly to the tip of the entire structure. Horizontally, its floors extended out of sight beyond the upper edges of their current chamber - Aria realized it was likely the same chamber all those ceiling-doors led into. Vertically, it had a small flat ceiling where the sloping pyramid walls converged, which hosted a single door-block similar to but smaller than the ones they'd been seeing in the ceilings of the great first-floor chambers.<br/><br/>The four sloping walls of that high chamber hosted more yet more illuminating lines, hieroglyphics, and murals, of humans standing in judgment before angel-like but stern-faced and none-too-compassionate-looking beings.<br/><br/>And one such being stood upon the rubble in the chamber's very center, fully three-dimensional, alive, and ten feet tall, but lean and human of face, wearing rune-etched full plate of mithral. His features were impossibly regal, and might've been handsome if there weren't something overly imposing, paternal, or even intimidating about them. Long ash-white-blonde hair cascaded over the shoulders of the armor, nearly meeting angel-wings the armor had been designed to accommodate. One gauntleted hand held a great sword probably meant to be wielded in two; the other hand was just reaching for the figurine when<br/><br/>The being uttered words of supremely self-confident authority, somehow affecting body language as if he looked down on Kass and Aria despite the elevated doorway they stood in. "Declare yourselves, Prime-walkers," he spoke - the voice wasn't quite angry or threatening, but rather suggested the speaker felt that what he declared simply was or shortly would be. "How survived you this fall, or came you in after?"<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Aria also heals herself with lesser vigor x2 (17 dmg I think - woulda been nearly 100 without the Inspire Heroics)<br/><br/>Yeah, the healing will take about what, 11-12 minutes for Kass (1 hp per round and she had a bit over 100 dmg?), so the previous uses of IC / IH would elapse. Nice to have 'em again! (Nice to get so many bardic music uses at this level!)<br/><br/>The central chamber was originally a 50' cube. Its ceiling is collapsed, exposing another vertical 10' before opening into a second chamber above it, which is 30' high and has the shape of a truncated pyramid.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/><br/><br/>                                                             X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X<br/>                                                             X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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