Siff Duthar's abandoned research facility

Located down the left passage of the subterranean tunnels under the Evening Nip in Zadash, this long-abandoned research facility had once belonged to a necromancer by the name of Siff Duthar.

River Entrance
The entrance to the ancients ruins is in the Subterranean river under Zadash. The entrance is behind a cave in on the north side of the riverbank where a shift in texture and a mild rock slide begins. It opens into the center of a spiral staircase.

Spiral Staircase
It's about, roughly, eight or ten feet wide as it continues 40 feet downward and 60 feet upward. In the staircase there are wrought iron cages that are built into the wall, containing a small crystal-like stone that is purple in color that is giving off a light source.

Downstairs
At the bottom of the staircase there is a small intermediate chamber that's 15 feet long and five feet wide. On the other side of the chamber the is a thin hallway continuing onwards. There is no light in this chamber.

Hallway
The hallway is about four or five feet wide that goes downward for about 25 feet. On each side of the wall there are nine or ten holes all of them at different angles. The floor is scattered with pressure plates that slowly resets. When stepping on a plate, a metal bolt will fire out one of the holes. Down the hallway there is another chamber.

Octagonal Chamber
This chamber is 60 feet wide and is an octagonal chamber that rises up 30 feet with a domed ceiling with abstract designs and symbols of the eight schools of magic written in each pie-slots of the octagon. In the center of the dome, there is a blue, thick ten foot wide pillar that descends about ten feet from the ceiling, about 15 feet of the ground. It's square that at the very base of it has a slight curvature or dome to it and ominously held aloft.

On the ground in the center of this room is a triangular one foot high raised platform stand. On the platform there are a series of half an inch thick symbols carved in to it and there is a half inch wide hole. A rod can be placed with in the hole.

There is no visible exit in this chamber. When a rod is put in the hole and the right spells are cast within the chamber the arcane energy will attach itself to the very top of this metallic rod and a false wall on the opposite end rotates open, leading to a hallway on the opposite side. When the wrong spells are cast the ceiling will shift and the large square pillar in the ceiling, opens up and a creature comes descending down from the center.



Research Chamber
The chamber is divided into three sections. The center main chamber looks like there is some sort of inert arcane teleportation circle in the center. There's a symbol drawn there with runes around, that has been scarred and closed. In the center there are load-bearing pillars to the right and left, and cold braziers behind the pillars against the walls: little domed pieces of stone that once contained flame for light. There are two tables with chairs, and a bookcase. The tables, by the way, that are right next to the bookshelf, have writing utensils, quills on the side, one has an inkwell. Underneath one of the tables, there is one book with two candelabra on top. The bookshelf is mostly empty. Most of the bookshelf is plain empty with broken pieces, and tattered bits of paper, and no books present on the shelf at the moment.

Above the bookshelf, there is a very wide heavy longsword blade placed ornamentally on the wall. The hilt of it is gold and curls up to the side. It is all these tiny runes inscribed along the edge. The central edge is thick, it's about that wide at the side and slowly tapers to the edge, it looks dangerous.

To the right and left it looks there's two smaller chambers immediately, and then it goes further in. The two side chambers are pill-shaped. They're rounded at each side, and they're enclosed, but open into the center chamber. At each of these rounded edges, there are cage-like contraptions: iron domes that are very tight-knit, dark iron rusted metal. In the iron cages, there are clay urns, sitting in the center with burnt and tattered clothing at the sides of it.

Behind the bookcase
Behind the bookcase is a small 5 foot by 5 foot chamber, where a number of pots and small cases can sit. It functions as a small burial chamber of some kind. In the center, there is a large urn, about a foot and a half wide, squat, a dull grey color.

Baroque Chamber
This chamber is 80 feet long and the ceiling is 30 feet up. The back wall of the room is partly collapse inward, and the room is slightly tilted to one side. It's a Baroque-style grand chamber, with intricate designs and a beautiful interior. The floor itself is solid marble squares that are off-color to each other and give almost a checkered pattern to it. The walls are carved to be beautifully intricate with half-pillars carved out of them, and places that are inset where art pieces can sit. There are shelves in places were art can sit. In the middle of the camber there are two load-bearing pillars that mark the center and lead up to the ceiling.

There are two upside down acorn-style alcoves that are mirroring each other on each side of the chamber. They're about a foot tall and they have a red clay urn inside. Dangling above from the ceiling there is a set of chains that are hanging from the ceiling that appear to be affixed to a red clay urn. These urns contain ashes and can spawn will-o’-wisps until it is destroyed. The lower half of each urn, is a metal-lined bottom, on the inside of the metal there are very faint carvings matching the symbols of the octagonal chamber. If you heat the symbols parts will light up.

There is also a relief very thinly carved into the ground in the center of the chamber, right before the wall collapse covers the floor built into the marble. It resembles a robed figure that leads with two heads. Male on one side and female on the other, but the same features, similar hairstyle. No coloration to it, but a white marble relief on the ground. The torsos merge and extend on the two sides, and they both sort of look up with the emotionless face. And where the eyes are they are vacant, circular holes a quarter of an inch deep. If a coin is inserted in the holes the relief opens in half and uncovers a pit beneath the floor.

In this chamber a half foot long rod can be found. This rod is straight towards the bottom for a foot and then is in a tight coil to the very top where there is a small metallic knob at the very top.



The Pit
The pit is 30 feet down, and on the floor there lay a pile of charred bones that remain within long-rotting clothing.