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premium black-box items on the list. No need <strong>to</strong> crowd, the barmaids will <strong>be</strong><br />

happy <strong>to</strong> take your orders. And someone tie up that dwarf... I know exactly<br />

how <strong>to</strong> deal with him when he wakes."<br />

Mikon <strong>do</strong>ubles over and vomits noisily.<br />

As several adventurers pull out some lengths <strong>of</strong> rope and manacles,<br />

Scii-tavakis continues her tale, if a bit more unsteady than earlier. Holding<br />

your mug by the rim and giving it a little shake, you attract the attention <strong>of</strong><br />

Shara herself, who sighs as she fills it <strong>to</strong> the rim with that bubbling obsidian<br />

brew. This vintage is a bit sweeter than you remem<strong>be</strong>red.<br />

"With- with care the Nameless One entered the darkened hall, the ancient<br />

ways had <strong>be</strong>en hewn by a master. But while the brick was newer than the<br />

city <strong>be</strong>fore, the path was caked with the dust <strong>of</strong> time, spans <strong>of</strong> time and seas<br />

and mountains <strong>of</strong> dust deep and high enough <strong>to</strong> bury the Pristine Tower<br />

itself..."<br />

Chapter 38<br />

The chill air <strong>of</strong> this cham<strong>be</strong>r pricked my skin. It wasn't merely the way the<br />

massive crypt seemed <strong>to</strong> draw the heat from my flesh, sucking the warmth<br />

from my bones. Nor was it merely the blue tiles that cracked like ice under<br />

my step. It was something the soulless chill <strong>of</strong> things <strong>be</strong>st left forgotten,<br />

ancient secrets buried away <strong>be</strong><strong>cause</strong> they were <strong>to</strong>o grim or mad <strong>to</strong> <strong>be</strong>hold.<br />

Across the way and through the arch was a central cham<strong>be</strong>r with a blocky<br />

gray sarcophagus at its heart. This was a <strong>to</strong>mb, for who or what I felt like I<br />

should've known.<br />

I gulped upon seeing the skele<strong>to</strong>n at the side <strong>of</strong> the entrance. Apparently<br />

very few make it very far.<br />

Each sound I made echoed through the vast cham<strong>be</strong>r, rippling the air in<br />

razor-edged crescen<strong>do</strong>s that signaled how utterly huge this place was. It was<br />

as if a worm had hollowed out a space in the core <strong>of</strong> Sigil itself, and left it<br />

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