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They find two secret doors to a secret viewing chamber and the old priest’s quarters. There is a giant obsidian humanoid face on the wall, but is has been carved and aged over time. The priest’s quarters have a door that continues into the ret of the temple complex
Alzar orders them to take the women and boat back to Mantru. They are turned over to the tribe, where they will be reassimilated. Alzar and crew spend a few days here. He regens for healing, while the others benefit from a few Cure Light Wounds by the local cleric. On the fourth day, they return to the temple and move on
There is a passage behind the priest’s quarters and they continue. It heads down and ends at a crude wall of stones completely closing off the passage. It looks recently built. They don’t have shovels or anything with them, since those were returned to the Sea Ghost a while ago. Alzar doesn’t want to waste a couple of hours going back to mantra, borrowing digging tools which may not be that advanced, and then coming back. He grabs his axe, and Carum his spear and magic weapons are handed to Aleigha and Estaish – a Warhammer and a staff. They begin to hack, smash, and pry the stones and earthwork. It takes 90 minutes, but eventually, they have made a hole big enough for one person to crawl through.
They walk around the passage, and suddenly the floor drops out and everybody falls into a watery chamber below. It’s about 5 feet deep in here. There are harmless cave fish in here. There is an open door here and more water outside of the room. Alzar grabs the two brooms of flying and him and Carum fly up through the hole and down the passage above to a door and get of f the brooms and put them away. The door opens into a private altar room with a square stone pedestal, with intricate inlaid bejeweled bowls and a crumbling bamboo flute. A search turns up na intricate carved stone box with an unusual statuette of gold and coral. It looks like an amphibious humanoid that has a smooth head, large eyes and a tentacle mouth. The torso is humanlike, and has two arms that end in webbed, clawed hands. From the waist down, the body divides into three long tentacles.
Three intricate inlaid bejeweled bowls 500 gold each.
2000 gold kopru statuette
They search again to verify there are no secret doors and head back down.
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