And in they go....

As soon as the Rangers have entered the stairwell, with Taya and Rikki scouting ahead, dim lights appear in the ceiling, reminiscent of the Mostali tomb back at the Rhino Gorge, but a lot less intense. Coming on a few metres in front of the Rangers the light is insufficient to see details by but enough to get their bearings, and once those at the rear of the group pass through the door, the lights turn off a few metres behind them.

With Tarnessh at the fore, followed immediately by Hoskar, the group descends, the Condor brave's detection charm flowing out with a barely audible ping.

It doesn't have time to register...

From behind comes a grating, earth shuddering noise as an immense slab of rock begins to slowly descend, blocking off the doorway to the Tower.

Whether Ohanzee would have tried to dive out will have to go un-decided, because at the sound and the sight of the stone closing the young brave'smind flashed back to the door at the Mostali tomb and then on to the door closing on the Basmoli tomb. By the time these scenes had played out in his mind it was too late so he shrugs "Better go find how it opens!"

He turns to Ohanzee, "what did you step on Short Round?" He thinks briefly of diving for it, but realises he's too far away. "Lets hope there's no snakes down here."

Henal hearing the sound looks to see the door closing. Realising that it is too far for him and Rikki to reach safely he checks his torch and looks around the passage to see if anything is visible with the extra light.

Are there any spirits present? he asks Rikki

In reply to Melock (msg # 3):

"Your footprints Raven, so maybe you should watch where you step!" Ohanzee replies with a chuckle.

"What's wrong with snake, they make good eating?"

He grimaces, "I doubt the ones that live down here would, I have a bad feeling about this." He carefully walks over to the wall on the left of the passage way and has a look to see if there are any markings or pictures on it. "There might be some way of opening it from in here." He turns to the big female Stormbull, "Any chance of you being able to bash your way through?"

The stairs descend far further than any of the Rangers expected causing the temperature to cool considerably, though not to the extent that any one fears the appearance of ghosts or spirits...

Above their heads the dim lighting panels follow their passage into the depths, looking like a glowing snake and drawing suspicious mumblings from the four Storm Bull warriors, who over the last minute had introduced themselves to the Rangers.

Big Bertha...Mad Max...One Punch Gari...And the Noodler. A tough looking bunch to say the least.

The stairs end, with Taya and Rikki reporting that there's a long corridor branching off to the left and right. Whichever Ranger pokes their head out first, notices that the dusty floor is scuffed by the passage of many feet, heading to the Left, but coming from the right.

Hoskar casts a charm of detection which shows that the corridor in both directions is clear, though something to the right shows up, perhaps in another chamber.

"Indigo Hue went this way." Tarnessh said, pointing at the footprint. "Looks like he might have been followed though." He added.

"Hopefully its him." Melock has a closer look at the footprints, trying to work out if its lots of different people or the same person lots of times. He then chooses 1 footprint and puts his foot next to it to see if they where bigger than him, well bigger feet anyway.

It's too hard to tell exactly, but Melock is sure that what ever scuffed up the dust was no bigger than the braves examining it and that there was a dozen of them at least.

And the lone foot print pointed out by Tarnessh is most certainly that of Indigo Hue.

"Did he only go that way, or did he go right first and then back to the left?" Ohanzee asks those at the front a little frustrated that he can't see for himself.

Kobal pushes through to stand in the open, soon joined by the Storm Bulls who stand around glaring up both directions of the passage.

A passage that looks very familiar to those of the Rangers who had seen the Mostali tomb. Certainly made by the same race, but larger and grander, though at the same time functional with no fancy work.

He looks to the right. "Well, if they all went left, maybe we should go right and see where they have been?" He turns and looks the other way, "But if we want to find Indigo we should go left. I think we need to find where they've been first. It may let us know who we are dealing with."