Cat Eyed Jewels ((Dungeon // Closed))

Location: The Grand Hall.
Date: November 27th.

Participants:

Razie
Jacob
Thoven
Naiyu
Adeptis
Quinn
Dominic/Talon
Vladimir
Lulu
Dr Mundo

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The group that has escaped the wrath of the Devourer finds themselves walking a straight path down a pitch black hallway, the walls smeared with faint streaks of blood. The thick smell of death permeates the air and the very ground they walk on. Half-way there, the group will see the line of spikes protruding from the smooth stone and scraps of flesh and fraying material dangling on the tips. For some reason the trap had not yet reset itself -- could another have come across this path recently?

If the group chooses to move on, there is a faint shimmer that spans the opening of a supposed exit -- it covers the expanse like a solid spiderweb, glimmering with lightning streaks of an ancient magic that twist in spastic motion all over the golden-white door. Through it, the group can see the blur of image but the motion of the magic makes it difficult to make out.

On the ground there are completely round indents with symbols etched into the center. Gaping jaws lined with teeth on one, to an intricately carved picture of an eight limbed beast on another. The designs appeared to have been done with great caution and only one will unlock the door.

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The party who had destroyed the beaked monster would find a door not unlike the one they had come in from. The door is old and hanging on its hinges though it still requires a fair amount of force to pull free. The opening is small, large enough for perhaps an average sized man but only in width. He would have to bend and crawl through to reach the other side.

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The room both parties will find themselves in is large, a grand hall that gleams golden with pure alabaster pillars holding up nothing but the solidified ceiling above them. Lining the sides of the great room are magnificent statues molded into shapes that resemble a feline of sorts, though they would not be any sort of beast the group would recognize. Perhaps the glorious leaders of the once prosperous civilization of Shurima kept them once as pets and in passing, have had their like immortalized with them forever beneath the sands. The statues seemed to be carved from black rock, their eyes gleaming with ruby red fervor, posed to pounce with their teeth gleaming ivory.

Just beyond at the very end of the room lay a truly massive glass container of some kind. It was cracked and parts of it covered in a familiar black grime but even that did nothing to hide the splendors it held within. Mountains of gold rested like a lover against the cool, transparent surface and so too did piles of precious rock and stone decorate those fragile four walls. Garnets, emeralds and rubies nestled together like brethren while diamonds skittered off the edges and the starry blue-silvers of the lapis lazuli winked at others on the dusty floor.

But judging by the large hold in the glass casing, it appeared that someone had attempted to smash their way through using brute force... someone or something. If one looked closer, they would see that the glass had been marked by wicked claws and flakes of rusty brown. An even closer look would show within a treasure that was perhaps far more precious than any other -- the faint glimpse of a thin point, old and grey, poking out like a lightning rod. No doubt it was an artifact that was meant to be kept hidden.

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Statues of cat-like beasts and pillars line the way to a glass casing of gold and other precious materials including glimmers of artifacts sticking out. There are scratch marks all around the case and spots of blood. But the artifacts could be important and the gold... well, there is plenty to go around.