QuestForTheNozarShaDagger part 9

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"There was the Door to which I found no Key;

There was the Veil through which I might not see;

Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE

There was -- and then no more of THEE and ME.

Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn

In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;

Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal'd

And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.

Then of the THEE in ME who works behind

The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find

A Lamp amid theDarkness; and I heard,

As from Without -- 'THE ME WITHIN THEE BLIND!

Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn

I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn;

And Lip to Lip it murmur'd -- 'While you live

Drink! -- for, once dead, you never shall return."

We begin with in the room we ran into when the fountain creature arose and chased us out of the first room.

There are four torches in this room and Ezra gathers them for light. Afalar moves to the doors of the room and looks for traps and tries to determine the best way for us to go.

Afalar opens the door directly across from the entrance. Inside is a large room with a large pile of skulls stacked up into the middle. There are four or more doors leading into the room, all are possible to open by pushing from the other side into the room but no handle to open it from the inside.

After some searching we determine that only one door at a time can open in this room. So Sjer and Jaru? stay in the outer room, and Zali, Afalar, and Ezra come back into the room.

We then decide to try some other door. Behind the door to the left of the entrance door lies a hallway of jail cells where the smell of death and decay lies heavy in Zali's nostrils. Ezra closes the door and says, " There is nothing here for us."

Behind the last door just to tht eright of the entrance in the room to the Northwest lies a large glass-topped table. On the table is a brass tupe and a small iron box. Ezra hooks the tube and box with his axe. He puts the tube in his belt and slides the box over to Afalar.

Afalar tries to open it a couple of times and then passes it back to Ezra to take s apiton and a hammer to it. Some 20 minutes later the box bursts open and many small black keys spill out.

We decide to explore the southwest area which turns out to be a bout 30 cells with dead prisoners mouldering in cuffs and shacles. Sjer checks out the cells but only enters one. He finds a type of wire in a persons boot. The wire is unrusted even though thte persons foot must have decomposed around it.

We then tackel the Southwestern area which was supposedly closed off by Valacor, the persone who wrote the scroll.

As we head to the southwest a mental conversation begins with Sjer and Basho, a giant flying golden furred creature resembling a bat which apparently has been