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As Lianna approaches the trap door (in the ceiling) she notices movement from beneath the grating at her feet. Looking closer she sees what appears to be a heavy double cross bow that was invisible until the trap was sprung. It could probably be removed from where it hangs if taken apart and pieced out.

Opyeen walks over to the trap door and notices a light green glow coming from within. Cautiously sticking his head through the door.......

You are near one wall of a semi circular room, perhaps 80 feet across. The other side of the room contains a waist high circular plinth, which is the source of the glow, and a motionless figure.
The figure is a human woman. She is facing you, one hand outstretched. That hand wears a gleaming metal gauntlet. She is very beautiful, with dark glistening eyes and long dark hair. She does not appear to see you, or anything, but is as still as a statue.
She wears a long, flowing gown, not armor, and has no second gauntlet to match the first. Her bare left hand clutches a slim, foot long rod of bronze, with small horned globes at each end. There is a black ribbon around her neck and the front of her gown is some sort of stiff material, ornamented with fine wire and abalone and ivory inlays. Her expression is serious, perhaps angry, as she stares unseeing into the darkness. The chamber is still and silent.
Looking a bot more closely you see a circle drawn upon the plinth circumscribing seven rather large gems.

Sturm watched Oypeen peer quietly into whatever is above the trapdoor.

Rykken cranes his neck trying to peer into the opening. "What do you see? What do you see? Who's going first?"

Lianna waits patiently for Oypeen to tell her what he see's.

{Updated the map showing all of you in the room, if you'd prefer to remain outside I'll move you back }

Standing just inside the room the companions notice that the green glow, while emanating from the small dais and the gems upon it, seems to stop within10 feet of the left and right walls and within 10 feet of the trap door. {I can't figure out a way to put that on the map so you'll have to imagine it. }

((Ok so the trap door was above us. See now I sort of get it, but how did Oypeen stick his head through a trapdoor 10' overhead? Is Oypeen a giraffe now?))

Lianna stays near Oypeen as she surveys the mystery figure. "She's either one very detailed statue, held by magic, or she's just a really good mime." Lianna will keep the walls and try and approach the plinth, keeping an eye out for any obvious traps.

OYpeen is startled when he slowly begins to float upward until his head is peeking through the trap door. He gasps audibly and nearly soils his trousers as he is suddenly sucked into the room and planted on his feet just outside a mysterious glowing area.

"IS it just me, or does that very useful glow free space along the perimeter of the room look very trappish?"

"Well see" replies Lianna as she clearly and very slowly makes her way through the same area Oypeen describes.

Lianna starts her way along the wall towards the plinth being careful not to step into the area covered by the glow. As her companions watch in tense anticipation she slowly makes it all the way to the far wall without incident. Being closer she can clearly see the gems upon the plinth and the circle drawn through them.

Sturm is confused as to where everyone is at or how they got there.. must be the after effects of that Ale..


((I guess I'm in the room? Was there a ladder in the wall leading up to the trapdoor?? So many questions, so little intelligence ))