Led by Nicola's unspoken vision, the Biscuits came upon a ruined temple. Ruined was a relative term, of course, since the rest of the city around it was merely smoking ash and charred rubble.

Rheaphlyndar took point and examined each step. The ruins around them were curiously quiet, although Jaron sensed a foreboding evil all around them.

After reaching the platform, Rheaph worked his way towards the central statue. It had the body of a man, with the head and feet of an oversized vulture. A snake was twined around the left arm, and the right was skeletal bone.

Indeed, four large glyphs were crafted into the tiled floor of the structure. After a bit of examination, Wed pronounced them to be of the four elements.

The party thought about this while the sun crawled across the sky. A cockatrice attacked from a nearby hole, and after it was destroyed Gimar set to flooding the underground. Finally, the party decided that no trap would swallow them. At least not immediately.

Even still, all cleared the platform while Nicola made query to the statue from the steps. Failing that, she moved forward and asked again.

The statue moved, gliding silently across the tile, and revealing a steep staircase down into the darkness.

The small room revealed a horrific door and the statuary head of a medusa. Wed translated the runes to be something like "Quench my thirst" and, after trying a combination of fluids, finally settled on blood.

Though not all in party were too keen on it, eventually everybody sacrificed a few drops of blood and the door opened.

Beyond was a great hall, filled with statues. Lifelike statues. Gimar estimated that they could each have been living at one time.

The biscuits concocted a plan to keep themselves from looking up, at any cost. They tied ropes around their necks and heads, then tied their own heads down.

Then they shuffled around the room, checking out the various statues.

After checking out many of the statues, Gimar and party decided to rescue one of them. Selecting an appropriately garbed dwarf, Gimar used the power of his ancient battleaxe to bring life from stone.

The young dwarf was led back to the entranceway, which he immediately recognized. He was then led out into the fading sunlight of the day, and a look of shock was prominent on his features.

Nicola recognized some of the buildings mentioned from her dream, but said nothing.

Gimar stayed up half the night with Shalin, filling him in on what had happened in the world in the last hundred years or so. Shalin listened as an apprentice would.

There were no encounters during the night.

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