Session 167 – Now you see them…
6/17/25 Day 43 The staircase stretched down and away from us at a steep angle. I was concerned at first that the stairs might be trapped and collapse into a slide of some sort, but it didn’t make sense for someone to disable the glyph but leave another trap intact right in front of it. At the bottom of the stairs was a door. Laz checked it, then opened it without difficulty. The first thing we (well, I) noticed was a large brazier in the center of the room. There was a tall, white flame burning that gave off no heat. Above the brazier was a large hourglass. When I say large, I mean approximately dwarf sized. While there was sand in the hourglass, it was all stuck at the top – as if it had been blocked off at the waist. On either side of the room were two large statutes, perhaps two or two and a half dwarves high. The statues were of armored men mounted on war horses. There was one door at the opposite end of the room, and t...