Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20131213224841/@comment-3293219-20131216140953

"This seems too easy..." Eilonwyn muttered.

"There are few if any signs of life here..." Corelas muttered, peering ahead, looking for any surprises.

"I keep seeing footprints." Nish pointed to the floor and began to examine the prints on the ground.

"Big, flat feet..." Corelas deduced, hovering over them. "These caves might have been inhabited by goblins..."

"Goblins? As in... big green things?"

"Man sized 'green things' but yes, Goblins are known to live in caves like this." Corelas thought about scouting ahead but splitting up sounded like a bad idea at this point.

They went further into the cave, all of them desperate to get out of here, before Eilo's fears came true. As if it was an answered prayer, a large, impressive stone door could be seen infront of them. The door had the diamond shape of the Knights of the nine carved into it and another carving of a crusader clashing swords with some warrior.

Corelas was quick to identify it, "Ah, a tomb of a crusader!" His tone had raised with his spirits.

"What's the carving?" Nish had little interest in it but wanted to know anyway.

"Looks like the Knight's battle with Umaril the unfeathered... I'm not sure if that's Pelinal Whitestrake or the Divine Crusader... perhaps it's both, symbolic maybe?" Corelas gave up, he'd have time to deduce it, once this was all over.

"Great, how do we get in?" Nish was quick to ask, noticing a lack of switches nearby.

Everyone looked around, not seeing a way through, the 'door' was begining to seem more like a wall at this point. The only thing that made it look like a door, was the large crevice between the two warriors.

They then noticed several things around them, a switch mechanism and a fountain of sorts.

Corelas ventured over to the switch mechanism, quickly realising that it was a relic from the Mythic dawn's presence here.

"Looks like the mechanism has been stripped out..." Corelas noted, looking up at the stone monstrosity before them. "It looks like this is all that remains of the mechanism."

Nish wasn't paying attention, he had already begun to inspect the fountain. Immediately, he noticed blood at the center of it, someone had tried to use their blood to open the door. ''Is that how it works, or were they way off? Who's blood was it? Where are they now? ''He as about to mention the blood from across the room but decided against it, he didn't want Eilonwyn to drink it.

"Erm... Corelas?"

Corelas immediately went over to the fountain, as he looked up, Nish frowned and shook his head.

"Of course." Corelas muttered, realising what Nish was thinking.

"I don't get it, is it blood we need?" Nish asked, peering into the bowl.

"I haven't a clue..." Corelas admitted, peering in.

The blood was still fresh, whoever did this, did it recently.

"Was it the goblins?" Nish asked, peering around.

"I doubt that goblins would have the intelligence to think of this... besides, the goblin tracks ended some time ago." Corelas reached into the bowl and swabbed a bit of the blood with his fingers.

"It's... hard to tell what kind of blood this is." He muttered, taking a sample of it and storing it in his robes.

"Is it man or mer?" Nish muttered, trying to tell by smelling it.

"I couldn't tell without an alchemist, we had an alchemist who could identify blood with a test. Such a test isn't possible with such limited resources and knowledge of alchemy."

Nish rolled his eyes and looked back over, Ferrin had retreated into a quiet stare and Eilonwyn still looked kind of shaken. He couldn't think about it now though, he had to stay strong and get them through this.

"Wasn't there another entrance?" Nish asked, looking up at the thalmor with a look of inspiration.

"By the entrance? Yes but it probably just lead you to another door like this one, you're more than welcome to give it a try, by all means." Corelas gestured to the way back.

"Might just do that... get Eilo away from the blood." Nish sighed. He went over to her, forcing a smile.

"Want to go for a walk? Corelas is probably going to get a bit cranky..." He gestured back as the altmer tried to deduce the purpose of the fountain.