<br/>The crew members' startled faces became more of a subdued, familiar and vaguely fearful deference. Bowing their heads, several uttered, "Darkness enfold the betrayers, silence enfold us," then resumed scurrying about their work.<br/><br/>"Nicely played," Aria whispered back after nodding in agreement with Kass's plan. She took the bodies into the nearest prop room they'd passed through and raided them, finding a number of things of magic (including the hairbands one man had pulled down to apparently fight blindfolded) and one key around each neck. "Three doors, three keys, here's hoping..." she muttered, then hid the bodies as best she could by toppling a pile of fabric over them and closing the door.<br/><br/>When she came out, the 'reaper' had wandered onto the stage, and from the wing she could see the player lording over the mostly-'dead' 'knights' and 'dryad' on stage, those who remained lamenting their woes in song while the 'reaper' silently skulk-danced about and slashed the scythe over the head bodies in turn.<br/><br/>Aria tried at the center door the key of the blindfolded man (the one she figured had been standing in front of it, between the other two); it didn't work, but then the caped man's did.<br/><br/>Swinging the door open, she gasped. it led into a fair-sized chamber, despite her earlier blink-movement accidentally dumping her immediately outdoors. "Either an illusion to dump the unwary outside, or a portal.." she muttered: but if it were an illusion, it would likely have been a more unassuming-looking theater room.<br/><br/>This was some dark gray-walled chamber, the far wall thirty feet back from the door, about the same distance as the stage's back was from her side of the door.  It hardly looked like another theater room, though; rather more stately or ceremonial. Kass again seemed quite right about the Sharran allegiances, for banners with the dark moon symbol of that goddess hung upon the facing wall, flanking sets of double doors she could glimpse to the left and right on the far wall, to which black carpets of the same width led.<br/><br/>The strangest thing of all, though, was that the chamber was in a perfectly monochrome black and white. She thought it might've been her darkvision, for it looked just as things did when she had only that to see by. Yet Kass would also see a room of black and white, though more dimly: only by what light seemed to filter through the doorway itself - no light sources were visible in the black-and-white chamber beyond.<br/><br/>Etched into the far wall, near the ceiling and between the dark-moon-disc banners which flanked the sets of double doors, was an inscription.<br/><br/><em>There is no good without evil. <br/>No love without hate. <br/>No innocence without lust. <br/>I am darkness.</em><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>lol, great bluff! very appropriate, and amusing<br/>magic stuff:<br/>skull guy:<br/>chain shirt<br/>cloak<br/>2 rings (1 matches the sirines')<br/>4 wands<br/>the skull<br/><br/>doormen:2 pair bracers<br/>2 amulets<br/>2 belts<br/>2 blindfolds which match the sirines'<br/><br/><br/>nonmagic:<br/>100 shuriken<br/>2 light crossbows, 40 bolts<br/>hand crossbow, 10 bolts<br/>3 daggers<br/>4 kamas, 4 sais<br/>3 keys (one on each)