On Wednesday, September 3, 2025 8:08 AM bss via Emerald Flame wrote:
[I was thinking this was more mundane, so we'll go with what we know. =) Starting a timer to see if there's any more business, otherwise I think someone should pick between going further down the corridor, or exploring the length of the chasm more (but that would involve getting down there and hoofing it).]
[Further down the corridor it is!] You all continue deeper into the tilting structure, your steps and incidental chatter the only sounds you can hear. The damage of the rift seems to have not affected this area as much, the stone of the walls around you seeming affected only by the centuries that have passed since this was constructed. The passages you started down from the cathedral both yielded small rooms. One, a dead end, seems to have been, based on the remaining debris and dried out furniture, some sort of living quarters. Nothing of note is there when you scour the room, so, moving on to the other small room at the opposite side of the T intersection, you find another area untouched for a very long time. Another corridor continues on beyond this room, again another open passage made of stone, but more interestingly is the remnants of what seems to be a library or study. Much of the structures of the room are ruined, as in the last, but the shelves built into the stone contain some pages and covers of tomes that have survived the disintegration brought about by time. The covers and portions of readable pages are in an ancient Elven language, long out of use but something Dax can discern enough of to pick up bits and pieces. The text suggests worship of a "seed" that had been maintained here, the cathedral itself used in reverence of an entity or idea in the seed. The snippets of texts vary, but centralize mostly on clerical records and treatises on the procedures of proper worship of the seed. Its spiritual nature seems to be that of "renewal" or a "purge", but it is wrapped in layers of fable. [Pausing here for further actions/questions.] -- bss (Brian S. Stephan) | https://bss.zone/ | GPG: 0x80895FCB