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Mel worked through the tower methodically, skirting around blue robed skeletons and picking through crumpled shelves. She worked her way toward the bottom first, treading down a battered and broken silver staircase that terminated in rubble and what appeared to be the top of the worm complex beneath it, or at least the shattered remains, the top of the worm complex was cracked in several places and tilted downward, large portions of it must have collapsed. It must have slammed through the base of the bird tower…somehow, collapsing the lower section and replacing it, then the damage of the impact caused that section of the worm complex to partially collapse as well. She shuddered at the thought, people had probably died down there in the dark.
As if to punctuate the thought a distant thud beneath her began, steady beat as though fists on stone. But that had to be impossible, the corpses were stripped to the bone by the elements, there couldn’t be survivors after all this time. Nonetheless the thudding continued. Mel swallowed and worked her way through the room to a few cabinets in the back, trying to ignore the thuds. After a moment they shifted, seemingly following her. Even if someone was alive down there, how would she even reach them? There had to be heaps of stone rubble in the way.
She shook it off. It had to be some trick or oddity, some old stone still settling after all these years. She opened the cabinet in the back, wincing as the rusted hinges simply shattered at her pull, the rest of the cabinet sagging downward. Under thick layers of dust were what might have been carefully arranged but strange looking rocks, each one a hollow tube of rough stone. She set a couple carefully into her satchel and moved on.
<span class="mu-s">Obtained Fulgurite</span>
