The smooth tunnel abruptly widens, spilling the group into an expansive, subterranean cathedral carved directly into the bedrock of the Whispering Chasm.
Towering statues of faceless wardens line the walls, their stone palms outstretched to hold aloft a ceiling of suspended, luminescent fungi that bathe the hall in a sickly, pulsating azure glow.
Derick Force
The air here is far colder than the upper tunnels, and it tastes metallic.
Garth
Derick, look at the floor. The dust is disturbed in a perfect circle around that central dais. Something was pacing here recently.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
Lower your voices. The architecture of this chamber is designed to amplify sound. Every word spoken is a beacon to whatever guards these archives.
Kellan
The seal is weak. If we are to reach the inner sanctum, we must move across the dais without triggering the floor plates.
+ Scene Quest Added
Cross the floor plates without triggering the cathedral's traps
“I step across the floor plates in the Hooded Figure's path”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)
Derick Force shifts his weight, his movements fluid and calculated as he finds the stable stone segments between the pressure plates.
Derick Force
The stone is colder than the rest of the floor, almost as if it draws heat from anything that touches it.
He reaches the dais in a heartbeat, his footwork so precise that not a single click of a mechanism sounds against the silence of the cathedral.
Kellan
Incredible. I have studied these patterns for years, yet you crossed them as if you were walking on air.
Garth
Do not look so surprised. Derick has a way of turning the impossible into a simple stroll.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
Quiet. The path is open, but look at the base of the dais. The light from the ceiling reveals a seam that was hidden until your weight triggered the subtle alignment of the stones.
Quest Complete
Cross the floor plates without triggering the cathedral's traps