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As they continue, the cave bends and there are two twos, virtually side by side, in the cave wall. Alzar takes the right one. They enter one room in an octagonal chamber. This room is littered littered with red towels, and soap. There are beautiful marble floors, gold fixtures, and there are several benches in here. There is a door deeper into the octagonal chamber.
A search of the room turns up a hidden old key under a bench, found by an animal skeleton that is able to go under it and look.
They move to the next room, shaped identically to the first. Inside is a large pool of water, clear. There are murals of water nymphs on the walls. There are a few more towels here and there. There are also delicately carved vials of bath oils, and the water gives off steam. Perhaps it is heated by a room below, or a natural steam geyser. A search shows what appears to be a diamond at the base of the pool. Alzar sends in an animal skeleton, and it moves. And blinks. There is obviously a creature down there of some sort. Alzar skips it. There is a door to continue. It is a false door. One of the thieves found a secret door to the center of the octagon. This square room is the center of the octagon. This has a small pink marble pedestal about three feet tall. There is a small silver object on it that gleams in the light. As they approach, it begins to laugh harshly and shrilly. Alzar orders Megala to fly in and grab it, and when it does, the laughing stops. The pendent stops shining. It looks like a dull tin pendant, not silver, and not valuable at Alzar. Alzar destroys it. The thieves find a secret door and it is locked. The key from before fits into it.
This is the same size as the other outer rooms. As they do, the room begins to glow softly. Suspended from the ceiling is a glowing magical bastard sword, made of silver. Alzar orders everybody back, and sends in Lastion to grab the sword. As the ghoul gets near, a ghost appears, solidifies as a knight, and grabs the sword, ready to plunge it into the ghoul. Alzar orders everyone to attack it.
After four rounds, a thief is deed and the knight is still kicking, when it disappears and revealed to be an illusion. The thief awakens. The swords glow continues, and they take it as a light source.
They finish going down the cave and arrive at an open worship alcove. There is a raised platform with a carved statue of a woman. It is smiling down at a child at her feet. There is a small opening, larger than a coin, at the base. Alzar makes an INT check and realizes that it is the shape of those disks. He inserts one, and an opening is revealed with a scroll. Here is the scroll:
I came and what did my eyes behold?
A maiden fair with hair of gold
Her face aglow by which the sun is shamed
My steed a dragon her innocence did tame
Her heart a gem with many facets
The leave behind the cave section of the castle by xiting through the door that Alzar skipped earlier. A search had found nothing.
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