Continuing from this:
Meanwhile back topside there has been another apparent earthquake. This time a broad circular stairway (and nothing else) sticks up 40' out of the surrounding ruins. The stairs are piled high with skeletons (not the animated kind) and disintegrating armor and rusty, broken swords.
As you clear the stairway a few things become apparent. As you climb the stairway you see landings leading to areas, if you step onto one of those landings, both the landing and you become invisible to those at ground level around the stairway. Only when entering the stairway do these other areas become visible. If you climb the stairway more than 40' you become invisible to those outside the stairway at ground level.
When you are standing in the stairway, it extends upward and downward an indefinite distance, further than you can see.
What do you do? One option is of course to do nothing. Another is to explore upward on the stairway or downward. What do you choose to do?
If you climb the stairway, there are 29 steps for each 20' in height that you climb and at each 20' mark there is a circular landing that surrounds the stairway, at some landing there are four, sometimes six, and sometimes eight doors leading away from the landing.
You decide to climb to see how far up the stairway goes. 3000 steps later you reach the top which has a landing that opens directly to the outdoors, you are standing in the middle of ruins that look much more extensive than those at the bottom of the stairway where you entered. This level where the ruins are is the 100th level up and you passed 99 levels to get here. Things were eerily silent on the way up. Something is off, but you can't tell what.
What do you do? Are you going out into the ruins to look around?
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