The remains of the razerblast and her armor lie scattered about the corridor, and a scorch mark mars the floor and wall near where she died. Despite the loud explosion however, no Temple denizens appear to investigate. The loud clanging to the south continues.
Findarion's spell bends the light around him strangely, and his form merges into the wall behind him. He is effectively invisible, as long as he stands near the wall. Picking his way north, Findarion makes his way around the corner to a corridor heading east. The hallway is dark, with niches lining both sides of the hall. Within each niche stands a shadowy figure, perhaps intended to be a dwarf, carved from stone.
Looking down, Findarion catches a slight reflection of light near the ground. A taut wire stretches across the hallway between the two western-most niches, about five feet from where he stands.
While Findarion heads north back up the corridor, the rest of the group moves on south. As they approach the stairs, the room below comes into view.
Noise, light, and heat issue from the massive chamber. Runnels of lava flow from holes in the west wall into bronze troughs. Heat shimmers; smoke and steam rise toward the domed ceiling, escaping through vents. Another staircase rises on the far end of the room, leading to a crossing corridor.
Inside the room, a massive red-skinned form stands near four large forges, towering over the other occupants of the room and seemingly unaffected by the heat radiating from the nearby lava. Several fire-bearded and bronze-skinned dwarfs work the forges, hammering molten iron and steel. They are clearly of the same race as Greaek. At the far end of the chamber a massive flame-colored snake also works a forge, its huge body coiled so its limbs can reach high enough to work the metal. The towering red-skinned form and several other human-sized figures watch over the workers, and do not look up at the group near the top of the stairs.
Looking right, the group sees another set of stairs extends west and a corridor beyond bends to the north. In the other direction, a long passage to the east is broken at regular intervals by doors spaced about fifteen feet apart along the north and south walls. Many of the doors are secured from the outside with hasp-and-pin mechanisms.
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Anyone can make an arcana check to see if you know what the large red-skinned figure or the snake are.
Findarion is concentrating on Silent Image - you should make a stealth check with advantage. There's not much hope of hiding the explosion of the razerblast, but you all think maybe the din coming from the room to the south covered up the noise?
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