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Before you is a horizontal tunnel about 7 meters in diameter. It continues both forward and back with rare doors on each side. Opening them reveals small rooms with old desks and bunks. You check each room at first while walking through the tunnel, but as they turn out to be empty of any valuables, one after another, you feel like you're wasting your time. Still, a voice inside your head the voice of the players whispers to check EVERYTHING, and it's not like you're in a hurry, so you keep investigating the rooms. Also marking the way you came from with chalk.
Some rooms contain short notes in what seems to be in Assurian. You take them with you whenever you find them. You note there are some humanoid skeletons in the tunnels, though they are fairly rare. Overall this seems like... what you've heard of the under-city of Marsogne, actually. It's a wonder that a part of it is this far away. It must be truly massive.
After a while, you happen upon a larger room. It seems to be some sort of... ruined plaza? There are some working stations for craftsmen, doors and staircases built into the walls, deactivated furnaces, workshops. Everything seems to be looted, cleared out by someone else, though you haven't checked the rooms. The high ceiling is modestly decorated with scenes of what you assume are kings and demigods battling monsters.
The way splits into 3 tunnels here.
Before long, you feel something noxious in the air, something that makes you cough. This seems to make someone aware of your presence. A giant snake exhaling green fumes is slithering your way from one of the tunnels. It's a basilisk.
"We should get out RIGHT NOW." Adrien says, stumbling back into a run. "We're NOT equipped to deal with this!"
>Frankly, you agree. Basilisk venom is known to kill quickly and is notoriously hard to treat by common medicine. Even by inhaling a bit of its fumes you've probably signed yourself up for a mild to moderate poisoning in half an hour. Best to run.
>Stand your ground. Try to rally Adrien for the battle. Ignite an oil flask and throw it at the beast. Use the javelins you looted to impale it, though you do wonder whether they'll damage it at all in the state they're in...
>Something else?
