The Hidden Heart of the Hidden Temple (Stone)
You find yourself in what your Adventurer sense tells you is the exact center of the temple.
Your Adventurer sense also allows you to notice a big door set in the north wall. The door is decorated with a carved stone hemisphere.
There's also a small spiral staircase leading downward in one corner of the room. Oh, and the hallway you came in through. That's also still a thing.
| Go through the door |
You open the door, and find out very quickly that the door was the only thing holding a massive round boulder in place.
It begins to roll toward you, gradually picking up speed as you lead it on a merry chase through a twisting (and apparently almost entirely downhill) labyrinth of passageways and staircases.
Finally, you manage to escape into the surrounding woods, and the boulder rolls out the front door after you, landing with a plop in a nearby puddle.
"Ahem," says a booming voice from inside the temple. "Sorry about that. You weren't supposed to open that door. Say, I don't suppose you could... put that boulder back, could you?"
You grumblingly acquiesce, and spend the next hour rolling the boulder back up the maze of passageways and back into place. At least it's a good workout.
| Go down the stairs |
Without the Nostril of the Serpent in inventory:
You head down the stairs.
With the Nostril of the Serpent in inventory:
As you head down the stairs, the Nostril of the Serpent begins to vibrate and glow. When you reach the bottom, it leaps out of your hands and floats to the center of the room, where it clicks into place in a metal framework above a strange altar.
If Nostril has been previously expended:
You head down the stairs into the control room.
| Go back the way you came |
You head back down the hallway you came in, but you apparently don't follow in your own footsteps precisely enough, because you step on a pressure plate. A grinding sound ensues, followed by hundreds of whoosh sounds as countless poisoned darts begin to fly at you from countless tiny holes in the hallway's walls.
Rather than trying to count something I've already described as countless, you instead dance, hop, and leap your way down the hallway, managing to avoid all of the darts.
Well, not quite all of them. As you walk away from the temple, full of swagger and pride, you notice the butt of a dart sticking out of the butt of your body. You pull out the dart, but not before the poison takes hold...
 | You acquire an effect: Somewhat Poisoned (duration: 5 Adventures) |
Occurs at The Hidden Temple.
